Résumé

• A one-man studio (for now), working on client User Experiences, User Interfaces, Research and Iconography.
• Creating logos and branding for clients.
• Front-end development for client websites.

Various UX and UI design, graphic design, animation, branding, illustration and User Experience projects around Chicagoland and virtually across America.

• UX/UI & Visual Design: JSX Mail, Queue Marketing Communications, starshot.tech.
• Front End Development: Chicago Mercantile Exchange, Merchandise Mart, Motorola, Banco Popular, Aisle Rocket Studios, Blue Chip, Compliance11, Vodori, Northern Trust Bank, 3CD, Trilogy Interactive, & Big Game Software.
• Front End Development & UI Design: Quill.com, HubbardOne, Midwest Corporate Credit, Foresite Materials, Franktrankina.com.
• Illustration: Skratch Labs, Spec Furniture, IMS, Potbelly Sandwiches, Celtic Marketing, Wellright.com, Tootsie Roll (Dubble Bubble), Aon, S2 B2B, Glenview Park District, DesPlaines Park District, Historic Wagner Farms, & Patch Products.

• Designed a custom portfolio site that is in aligned to their new colors and branding with added custom graphics and hero image illustrations.
• Ongoing monthly tasks creating logos, spot illustrations, ad designs, hero graphics, animations and iconography for their website and socials.

• The specific duties of this role are company confidential and cannot be disclosed.

• Served as the sole UX/UI and Visual Designer for a shared-services private equity portfolio, leading design for B2B/B2C sites and startups, later focusing on insurance properties (e.g., Prudent Pet Insurance®, Newins).
• Drove UX improvements across portfolio sites using user testing, A/B tests, Google Analytics, qualitative/quantitative data, and competitor analysis, enhancing engagement and conversions.
• Led branding and UX design for Prudent Pet Insurance®, including CMS site, logo, colors, fonts, iconography, and insurance selection interface; grew organic traffic to 15k+ monthly visitors in 15 months via user-friendly design and marketing support.
• Redesigned Movematcher.com, updating style guides, CMS site, and quote page UX/UI, aligning design with business goals and promotional needs.
• Collaborated with integrated marketing, leadership, SEO, and dev teams to deliver data-driven designs, boosting keyword rankings and business growth.

• Completed a 6-month program to advance front-end skills (HTML, CSS, Sass, Javascript, React), collaborating on UX-focused projects.

• Redesigned eCommerce UX for client sites, improving navigation and product views.
• Delivered UI assets (icons, branding, print) to support cohesive digital experiences.

• Led UX/UI design for a touch kiosk across five exercise machines, enhancing usability within strict branding. Aligned interface with hardware features, collaborating with industrial design teams.
• Mentored junior UX designers on process and critiques.

• Led multi-platform website navigation redesign that launched with a UX led robust full site styleguide update and platform update that increased sales revenue from $3M to $13M per day.
• Designed A/B test prototypes and style guide updates, filling gaps for a seamless launch.
• Worked with research team to create user personas for use amongst the Grainger User Experience team.
• Illustrated wayfaring icons and illustrations for the site, worked on system iconography and app icon designs.

• Ongoing resource creating 28 custom vector caricatures of the members and new members of the team.

• Coded and prototyped UX designs with HTML/CSS/Javascript, learning foundational UX methods.

• Created splash pages for micro sites for the lawfirm's legal initiatives.

• Front End developer for iPad based experience using HTML, CSS and jQuery.

• Ongoing web design and Front End Development for the company's site. Designed an end to end web experience for the company and hand coded and sliced the graphics for the web.

• Ongoing resource for Motorola's PowerPoint, Logo Design, and Front End Development needs.

• Ongoing resource for various small FE Development projects: mainly splash pages and micro sites.

• Worked on converting their presentation designs from InDesign to PowerPoint and adding animations and effects on multiple presentations.

• Ongoing resource for various small FE Development projects: mainly splash pages and micro sites for eCommerce based projects for Sears and Kmart.com.

• Ongoing resource as an Illustrator for various ad and icon needs.

• Worked with client through design process to arrive at a site that achieved the messaging and company goals.
• Hand coded the site, prepared and sliced graphics for web, checked for bugs and display errors in IE7, 8, FF, Safari and Chrome.

• Built a working website based on client's design and direction to replace an old Flash based site.
• Hand coded the site, prepared and sliced graphics for web, checked for bugs and display errors in IE7-8, Firefox, Safari and Chrome. Worked with HTML5 video for the site landing page.

• Working with marketing to create a site based on their current print collateral.
• Editing and fixing design bugs in multiple browsers using CSS/HTML.
• Was an ongoing resource for bugs and new additions/site updates.

• User Experience Designer for the start-up. Created wires, initial flows and initial UI designs.

• Working within a team of Web Production artists/web developers to create templates, sites, and re-skins of existing sites that are cross browser compatible (including IE6, IE7).
• Editing and fixing design bugs in multiple browsers using CSS/HTML within aspx/propriety product framework.
• Working with Account Managers and programmers to style dynamic content in large scale sites fix browser issues until, up to, and after live launch.
• Creating design proposals for landing and interior pages for clients within Photoshop based on client's direction and style guides.

• Sliced/coded designs for programmers using hand-coded CSS/HTML.
• Created animated flash banner ads and site headers using Photoshop and Flash.
• Created icons and illustrations for usage in ads, web sites, as well as interior proprietary icons.

• Illustrated cartoons to tell the story of day to day operations at Potbelly stores to be used as training material in large training booklet for new employees/managers.
• Created two activity sheets for younger customers to color on in store.
• Created a full color working map of the Washington, DC Potbelly store locations as well as points of interest for customers to use to tour DC.

• Designed various ads and signage for investment/banking clients.
• Made edits/design revisions to marketing pieces within Photoshop, InDesign, and Quark.
• Created spot illustration for marketing booklets and advertisement pieces.

• Sliced Photoshop images for the web sites/pages/templates within Yahoo GUI.
• Coded cross-browser compliant CSS/HTML code (especially for Internet Explorer 5).

• Creating poster layouts in InDesign and Quark that had high levels of technical data, including charts and grids that were built in Illustrator.
• Creating poster designs from scratch and following to completion, including various layout and copy edits.

• Refurbishing and cleaning up older presentations to fit new marketing design standards.
• Creating PowerPoint templates to be used internationally by the company marketing department.
• Designing PowerPoint presentations to showcase new products following marketing style guide.
• Icon illustration for print and presentation usage.

• Creating static web pages that follow company branding to showcase monthly offers.
• Collaborating with writers and editors to create web ads and product showcases.
• Designing web pages, graphics, and ads using Adobe CS and Dreamweaver.

• Wrote and Illustrated over 120 comics that were narrowed down to 60 vector two color comics for Dubble Bubble gum. The final comics are wrapped around the chewing gum pieces.

• Created numerous caricatures for a family event at Nestle, drawing kids, families, and adults.

• Converted Photoshop based designs to web using HTML/CSS to build websites/web pages.
• Worked with javascript and PHP programmers to add dynamic functionality to designs.

• Designed posters and postcards for the inter-campus mailings, bulletins, signs for the campus students, visitors, as well as to the University Alumni.
• Produced an early draft of the 2008 graduate catalog in InDesign.

• Updated content to Aldi website using Red Dot file system management.
• Added images and prices to products using HTML.

• Created packaging for Washburn's line of Disney® guitars and accessories based on style guide and existing art created by Disney® to fit Washburn's existing templates.
• Accounts included Hannah Montana®, Camp Rock®, Cheetah Girls®, Tinkerbell®, and Princess® guitars and accessories.

• Converted Illustrator files into working InDesign documents.
• Created paragraph styles and character style libraries in InDesign for designs.
• Re-sized Plan B portfolio to smaller size and converted design to French.

• Design mock websites for to be used in PowerPoint presentations for their clients.

• Developed and published websites for the Merchandise Mart shows and properties.
• Added, edited, and published content on sites, using HTML, CSS, images and text.
• Worked with Account Executives and other designers within a team to complete projects.

• Worked on designing/completing a small ad campaign for POP supermarket aisle advertisements.
• Worked on packaging/static clings for Gortons™ Seafood.

• Revisions to mailer advertisement in Quark.
• Revised advertisements in Photoshop.

• Create slides/tabular information for PowerPoint presentations/make revisions to slides.
• Design Postcard for trade show for client brand that preserved graphic elements and look.

• Revised and cleaned up booklet proposal design and copy in InDesign.
• Create order form that was a web ready PDF/fax document.

• Updated client mailer on Quark; including copy revisions and layout changes.
• Toned, tweaked, and polished product images for mailer in Photoshop. Prepared file for print in Quark.

• Illustrated food items/shake ingredients that had youth appeal for kid's activity sheet.
• Designed activity sheet using Adobe Illustrator.

• Create ads for B2B magazine.
• Revise ads for magazine publication.

• Revised outdated pages on Banco Popular's corporate site with a more attractive design.
• Created graphics, headers, and uploaded content to “bancolovesdreams.com” using HTML/CSS.
• Designed direct mail print pieces and booklets using InDesign.

• Founded and created Graphics department.
• Managed and directed a staff of eight student artists/designers.
• Created graphics for daily publish including: maps, charts, graphs, editorial illustration, web icons, and layouts for feature articles.

• Created page layouts for the cover, interior and editorial pages.
• Created cover designs for the Weekender section of the newspaper that appeared every Thursday.
• Created the Logos and icons and section headers for the paper.

• Created a daily comic strip for publication in the student run newspaper.
• Created a weekly comic called “The Thursday Treat” that ran during the Spring and Fall Semester of 2006 within the “Flavor” entertainment section.
• Worked with columnists to create editorial comics to appear along with their opinion pieces a twice to three times a week.
• Worked with comedy writers creating comics to go along with their entertainment articles for the “Weekender” Section of the paper that appeared every Thursday.

• Worked within art department as lead artist.
• Created designs for tee shirts, mugs, mouse pads, buttons, and signage.
• Prepared designs for screen printing, printing and proofing design printouts before they were burnt into the screens.
• Increased sign business by applying vinyl graphics seamlessly to magnets and signage.

• Created promotional coloring books and point of purchase displays for the company marketing department.
• Created full color map of the Solar System for a pamphlet promotion with local grocery stores.
• Designed and redesigned game box packaging as well as game boxes for specific stores.
• Designed packaging for product shipment boxes.
• Designed and mounted items for marketing department product displays.

• Produced signage for business including: cutting sign faces, preparing vehicles, cutting, masking and applying vinyl graphics, installing signage, and refurbishing/re-applying changes to previous signs.
• Designed signs and illustrated graphics for signage.

• Created a daily comic strip for publication in the student run newspaper.
• Worked with editorial writers to create comics for opinion pieces a twice to three times a week.