Experience Summary
Total Interactive Design Management Experience: 9+ years
- Manage the complete creative process and led the in-house design team in delivering effective digital media campaigns, including
large-scale website development, targeted messaging, and online advertising. - Manage each project’s scope: strategic positioning and planning, business requirements, timelines, and budgets—as well as post-delivery
recommendations and enhancements
Work Experience
Learning Curve Oak Brook, IllinoisDigital Media Design and Production Manager - August 2004 to present
- Developed user experience strategy and interface design for
- web-based applications
- Established information architecture and usability
- Led the team creatively with an understanding of technical limitations
- Project-managed design timeline in application development
- Established the corporate identity, designed print collateral and redesignof the company's corporate website
- Designed and maintained business-to-business website, ensuring highest level of graphics and HTML standards
- Generated site flows and wireframe mock-ups keeping projects is scope and on time
- Collaborated with sales and marketing departments to define key goals and best business practices for online content
- Provided expert analysis and input during team projects that involved design and development
- Served as in-house expert on all published corporate electronic media including art direction of corporate multi-media CD-Rom
Visual Design Architect - August 2000 to April 2001
- Developed user experience strategy and interface design for
- web-based applications
- Established information architecture and usability
- Led the team creatively with an understanding of technical limitations
- Project-managed design timeline in application development
- Established the corporate identity, designed print collateral and redesignof the company's corporate website
Senior Designer - J uly 1999 to August 2000
- Established brand image for clients, created effective advertising, targeted
- markets and utilized the most effective media to promote their brand
- Designed complete print and interactive media, servicing business-to-business and business-to-consumer
Digital Imaging Specialist - September 1996 to July 1999
- Directed workflow, teaching new skills as well as department standards.
- Asserted my artistic abilities for such clients as Godiva, Mark Shale, Motorola, Ulta3 and Sears
- Collaborated with Designers, Photo Coordinators and Art Directors to
- construct dynamic visual advertisements from conception to press
Internship - January to July 1995
- Assisted in the running of the studio, arranged sets and lighting equipment.
- Worked with photographers and stylist, on projects ranging from tabletop product shots to modeling sessions
freelance photography
Steinkamp & Ballogg architectural photography, 1996Pettersen Associates Inc. commercial photography, 1996