A highly creative and multitalented Visual Designer and Production Artist with extensive experience in advertising, marketing, design, experiential events, packaging, and digital/social. Exceptionally collaborative, with strong interpersonal skills; able to make creative visions come to life.

Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, After Effects, Animate, Figma, ClickUp, CVENT, HubSpot, PowerPoint, Keynote, Google Slides, Wordpress, Squarespace

Graphics | Motion & Animation | Production Studio | Website Creation | Blog | Social Media |
Email | Broadcast Shoot, Casting & Editing | Logo Creation | Print | Outdoor | Collateral & Direct Mail | Retail POS | Retouching & Rendering | Product & Packaging | Press Checks | Photography Studio & On-site

Skills

Ad Council, AFLAC, Air France, American Red Cross, Arby’s, Bertelsmann Music Group (BMG), Bill Bradley Presidential Campaign, BLIMPIE, BMW Motorcycles, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Charles Schwab, Chivas Regal, Clairol, Coldwell Banker, Continental Airlines, DKNY, Evian, ExxonMobil, GlaxoSmithKline, Heineken, Independence, Community Bank, Infusium 23, JetBlue, Kraft, Moissanite Gems, Nestle, New York Knicks, Novartis, Oppenheimer, Parmalat, Philip Morris, PlayStation, Pure Storage, Reckitt Benckiser, Roche, Sanofi-Aventis, Schering-Plough, Sirius, Uniqlo, Verizon B2B, VMWare, Volvo, Yahoo! Brand & Yahoo! Fantasy Sports, Zerit/Videx Pharmaceuticals

Brands

Experience

2024-Present | Sony Interactive Entertainment | Visual Designer (Contracted) | San Mateo   

  • Develop and produce sales materials and creative collateral for the SIE Network Advertising Group

2022-2023 | PureStorage | Sr. Visual Designer |  Santa Clara   

  • Develop brand assets, campaigns, and guidelines, ensuring company assets meet compliance

  • Create motion graphics for social, website, and animated billboards

  • Create website assets all across PureStorage.com

  • Re-design the blog, and create a blog and social imagery

  • Develop themes and graphics for large internal trade and sales conference events,
    International road shows, and smaller meet-and-greets

  • Create team-building assets such as logos, swag, and internal marketing messaging

  • Create infographics and charts for sales, marketing, engineering, and developers

2019-2022 | Trace3 (Formerly Groupware Technology) | Visual Designer |  San Jose   

  • Concept and execute designs for a variety of branding, events, marketing campaigns, product launches, B2B sales, and internal programs

  • Create print/OOH, collateral, digital/social, PowerPoint, technical diagrams, interactive PDFs, infographics, motion graphics, videos, logos, and icons

  • Manage company WordPress site and social media accounts with updated assets, content, functionality, and branding

  • Build and manage image asset library, ensuring brand standards across all deliverables

  • Create digital experiences across social channels to grow our brand awareness for current and potential customers

  • CRM DemandGen and Meeting Maker campaigns for use by sales teams to engage with new and existing customers on products and services

  • Corporate merchandise for company events, employees, partners, and customers, to increase brand recognition and visibility

2018-2019 | PlayStation-Sony Interactive Entertainment | Visual Designer | San Mateo   

  • Created and produced design materials for Sony PlayStation hardware and software product packaging, consumer services, industry, corporate, and campus events & services

  • Corporate events included E3, Gamestop Managers Conference, and PSX

  • Retail in-store and online materials included GameStop, Walmart and Target

  • PlayStation Retail and PlayStation Store included Industry Events, Online and Print Materials

  • Product Packaging included: PlayStation VR/Software Bundle Boxes, Packaging Localization, Peripherals Packaging (Controllers, Headsets), Hardware Design Exploration, Software/IP Titles

  • Corporate and Campus Events creative and design included Diversity & Inclusion Week, Pride Week, Women In Tech, Black History Month, Software/Game Launches, Japan/US Dev Summit

  • Facilitated projects end to end: from concept, design, production, and in-situ

  • Oversaw company logo and design audits for compliance, increased efficiencies, and global standards

  • Managed print press production supplier to ensure brand and output consistency

2016-2018 | Yahoo! (Oath) | Visual Designer | Sunnyvale   

  • Art direction and visual production for social and mobile advertising for Yahoo brands including, Fantasy Sports (Football, Basketball, Baseball, Hockey, Soccer, NASCAR, Golf), Mail, Finance, Search and News, and GINSU (Graphical units)

  • Developed event materials in support of Yahoo brands including CES, Oath, TechCrunch, Engadget, and Yahoo News, awareness, services, and social outreach and diversity

2015-2016 | Creative Circle | Sr. Graphic Designer (Contracted) |  San Francisco

2005-2015 | Havas Worldwide | Sr. Graphic Designer |  New York

2002-2005 | Freelance | Graphic Designer/Production Artist | New York

1995–2002 | Kaplan Thaler Group (Publicis) | Jr. Art Director

Education

University of Hawaii at Manoa - 1988–1992
BFA / Graphic Design / Fine Art / Art History

School of Visual Arts & Fashion Institute of Technology - New York - 1998
Continuing Education / Art Direction & Web Design

School of Visual Arts - New York - 1999
Continuing Education / Art Direction & Web Design