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Graphic designer with 5+ years of experience in a marketing and advertising environment. Highly organized with a keen ability to manage a multitude of projects and translate proposals into effective designs in a deadline-driven environment.

Work​
experience​

Prime Systems, Inc.   |  Carol Stream, IL

Marketing Specialist

  • Lead effort to restructure product lines to make them easier to understand and sell.

  • Introduced SEO and keyword research concepts to written content.

 

Ebsco Industries  |  Waukegan, IL

Graphic Designer

 

  • Responsible for all incoming design requests from the sales department including sell/spec sheets, instructions and catalogs.

  • Successfully managed communications and logistics for over thirty trade shows every year.

  • Planned and completed numerous photoshoots each involving over two dozen products, in multiple scenes and configurations, all in a normal eight-hour workday with minimal support.

  • Led effort to compile 25 years of media into a modern data asset management system.

 

 

Inventables  |  Chicago, IL

Fulfillment Operations Manager

 

  • Promoted from Inventory Specialist to Operations Manager because of commitment to quality.

  • Implemented a new QC process that led to a five-fold decrease in sales returns.

  • Gained Hazmat certification - brought company up to hazmat compliance for shipping hazardous materials.

 

 

Michaels Arts & Crafts  |  Tinley Park, IL

Customer Experience Manager

 

  • Promoted from Sales Associate to Supervisor to Customer Experience Manager in under a year for my exemplary service skills.

  • Selected for transfer to raise the customer service scores of the store with the lowest scores in the district - raised it to the highest in the district.

 

 

Joliet Pattern Inc.  |  Crest Hill, IL

Graphic Designer

 

  • Graphic design and pre-press work for companies such as Kraft Foods and Absolut Vodka.

  • Account Lead for the Dairy Queen Custom Design Program

  • Photographed finished products.

Skills

  • Adobe Photoshop

  • Adobe Illustrator

  • Adobe InDesign

  • Microsoft Office Suite

Additional Skills:

  • Photoshoot Direction

  • Event Planning

  • Trade Show Coordination

  • Product Photography

  • Copywriting

Education
School of the Art Institute of Chicago

​Graduated 2007

Bachelor of Fine Arts

  • Major in Print Graphic Design

  • Minor in Animation

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