Graphic Designer
I am a creative and adaptable Senior Graphic Designer with 20 years of experience designing across all media for print, web, and mobile design. I am skilled at designing intuitive and impactful digital brand experiences, driving significant revenue streams, and delivering high-quality design solutions. Adept at leading creative teams, collaborating with clients, and developing pixel-perfect graphic assets.
Master of Fine Arts degree with a concentraion in Graphic Design.
Grew company and client revenues through effective art direction and implementation of best practices across all UX/UI projects. Ensured achievement of overall success by coordinating with global teams for seamless planning and coordination of web and mobile app designs between project managers, product owners, stakeholders, and design teams. Drove revenue growth by delivering exceptional art direction, high-quality, pixel-perfect design, and rigorous quality assurance on all web and mobile app designs in alignment with company guidelines and specific style guides. Developed UX/UI prototypes by communicating with client and acquiring approval on design prototypes. Designed high-quality responsive websites and mobile apps by leveraging strong design expertise.
● Improved design, aesthetics, user experience, and functionality of responsive websites and mobile apps by designing and illustrating icons and digital illustrations, selecting usable and visually appealing font for typography, for a multitude of projects using Adobe XD and Figma.
● Generated over $1,000,000 in company revenues by scoping requirements for over 20 high-revenue projects.
● Conducted over 200 online meetings per quarter with product owners, stakeholders, and developer teams to provide progress updates and confirm project completion throughout program increments and sprints.
● Achieved significant time and cost savings for Capgemini and client by implementing design thinking processes.
● Accelerated design process of mockups and prototypes for more than 20 UX/UI design projects, spanning mobile applications and responsive websites.
● Met and exceeded client expectations by determining scope of sprints and project increments for both Capgemini and client design/development teams.
Utilized design thinking techniques and incorporated company guidelines and organizational processes to ensure consistent revenue growth. Conducted daily meetings with clients, stakeholders, and project managers using WebEx, Same Time, Slack, Trello, and email. Achieved high level of quality in product such as ensuring timeliness, completeness, correctness, and overall quality of content in collaboration with clients, stakeholders, project managers, product owners, social media directors, editors, writers, and designers. Leveraged exceptional design thinking skills, expertise, knowledge, skills, and communication skills across all media. Designed 50+ PowerPoint presentations for various clients.
● Facilitated meetings with client and stakeholder teams frequently throughout the design process.
● Completed 25+ multi-page eBooks and eGuides with hyperlinks and user-centric navigation.
● Completed UX/UI projects from inception to completion within time, budget, and scope constraints.
● Designed style guides and utilized design guidelines to produce projects across all disciplines.
● Enhanced revenues by delivering high-quality pixel-perfect design projects for print, web, and motion graphics such as branding, style guides, icons, responsive websites, mobile applications, social media design, infographics using Adobe InDesign to complete eBooks, eGuides, and White Papers, and PowerPoint for multi-slide presentations.
Established and implemented college policies and procedures. Augmented enrollment and revenues by motivating faculty and encouraging experiential learning and professional development. Guaranteed better job placement for students by improving final portfolios. Drove overall success by conducting community outreach and establishing internship sites and employment opportunities. Created advisory board committee and coordinated with members to remain current on industry trends and best practices, resulting in better student retention and significant college revenue.
● Improved enrollment, attendance, and retention by devising creative strategies.
● Produced a multitude of projects across all media to serve as examples for students.
● Taught design courses for every aspect of graphic, web, mobile design, and animation from beginning students through senior level final portfolio courses. Including Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Animate, and Adobe XD.
● Developed high-quality academic programs to meet program, department, and college objectives.
● Saved college time and expenses by collecting and assessing data for student learning outcomes.
● Attained optimal student outcomes by updating course curriculum, real-world projects, and final student portfolios.
● Designed new program curriculum in compliance with industry-current industry standards and best practices.
● Achieved higher college revenues by engaging students in classroom environment and delivering new projects.
● Produced a multitude of Microsoft Word documents and PowerPoint presentations.
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