Summary
Award-winning administrative design professinoal experienced with corporate identity through logos, digital and print collaterals, advertising, book design, and UX/UI design. Special emphasis on conceptual design and communication goals, high attention to detail, and design thinking to strategize targeted communications. Comfortable with project management and business development.
Skills
Excellent skills in AdobeCC InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, and Mac OSX. Capable with HTML5, CSS3, and Adobe After Effects. Familiar with PHP, some JavaScript, Processing, and CartoDB. MORE…
Experience
7/20 – present Branch Chief Creative Services
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Atlanta, GA
Supervising a team of 50+ personnel coordinating government agency-wide creative activities providing creative support and prpduction services including emerging media such as data visualization and UX/UI. Serving as senior visual communications expert, demonstrating a mastery use of software, and computer and technical skills, and methodologies in developing effective communication products. Ensuring client’s strategic plan, mission, vision, and values are communicated to teams and integrating into teams’ strategies, goals, objectives, work plans and products, and services. Applying knowledge of design principles, methods, applications, and current technologies to provide clear direction and guidance on critical and complex direct graphic design and publications expertise in development of a variety of visual information materials for digital and print products. Providing leadership in developing priorities, strategies, and practices for effective communication over multidisciplinary teams of graphic designers and other creative professionals such as prhotography, project management, and medical illustrators. Responsible for strategically forming and guiding design teams, such as data vizualization and UX, and negotiating work load, professional development — training and developing training plans for team members to stay abreast with current trends and methods — and compensation. Responsible for organizing and directing activities and creating assignments for staff, articulating goals and objectives, monitoring work progress, and defining work procedures to meet existing guidelines and regulatory standards. Utilizing research, learned/applied a wide range of qualitative and quantitative methods to identify, assess, analyze and improve teams capabilities and effectiveness, efficiency, design products, and ensured overall communications effectiveness. Coaching teams in the selection and application of appropriate problem-solving methods and techniques, providing advice on work methods, practices and procedures, and assisting team and individual members in identifying parameters of viable, evidenced-based solutions. Managing, developing, planning, and delivering large-scale, complex visual communications campaigns and materials that incorporate marketing strategies and research. Conducting formal presentations, written and oral, to stakeholders on: project updates; promoted services offered; and showcased teams capabilities and capacities. Ensuring quality control methods and standards are applied to products, including commercial quality standards, accurate translation of complex concepts and assuring compliance with Americans with Disabilities Act (508 compliance) in digital and print assets. Representing design team, clients, and stakeholders at meetings to convey programmatic directions, present technical information, and conveyed policy directions applicable to critical visual communication programs. Utilizing flexible management skills, responsible for strategically forming and guiding design teams to apply creativity in establishing banding guidelines, layouts, and graphic designs for digital and print for a wide variety of targeted audiences. In collaboration with management staff, consulting and advising subject matter experts, and/or project officers (aka stakeholders), planned, organized, and developed visual presentation material on a variety of projects.
7/20 – present Board of Directors Board Member
AIGA | the profesional association for design New York, NY
A full summary of responsibilities can be read at the AIGA Board of Directors web page.
8/16 – 8/20 Assistant Professor
Sam Houston State University Huntsville, TX
Performed teaching and teaching-related duties of communication design courses, developed teaching materials, prepared & gave examinations, and graded design projects. Responsible for student recruitment, course development, and student engagement. Instruction in branding, interactive, UX/UI design, and motion graphics.
8/15 – 5/16 Instructor
Texas State University San Marcos, TX
Performed teaching and teaching-related duties of communication design courses, developed teaching materials, prepared & gave examinations, and graded design projects. Instruction in branding, typography, sr. portfolio, interactive, and UX/UI design.
1/16 – 5/16 Adjunct Professor (online)
Austin Peay State University Clarksville, TN
Performing teaching and teaching-related duties of communication design web design online course, developed teaching materials, prepared assignments, and will be grading design projects. Instruction in interactive, and UX/UI design.
7/13 – 5/15 Grad Teaching Ass’t
Texas State University San Marcos, TX
Performed teaching and teaching-related duties of communication design courses, developed teaching materials, prepared & gave examinations, and graded design projects. Instruction in branding, logo design, typography, interactive, and UX/UI design.
2/14 – 2/15 Chief Creative Officer
SioTeX Corporation San Marcos, TX
Responsible for the overall look and feel of marketing, media, and branding. Special emphasis on conceptual design and communication goals.
8/12 – 8/14 Grad Student Designer
Texas State University San Marcos, TX
Responsible for applying creativity in production of layouts, graphic designs, promotions for print and web, and maintain social media outlets.
8/12 – 5/13 Grad Instructional Ass’t
Texas State University San Marcos, TX
Assist faculty or other staff members in the university by performing teaching or teaching-related duties, such as, developing teaching materials, preparing & administering examinations and grading.
1/04 – 5/14 Sr. Graphic Designer
Chimaera Design San Antonio, TX
7/09 – 9/10 Graphic Designer/Prodt. Artist contract labor
Blue Clover San Antonio, TX
7/08 – 11/08 Graphic Designer/Art Director contract labor
Wickley Interactive San Antonio, TX
10/07 – 05/08 Art Director
Market Vision Latino Marketing Agency San Antonio, TX
5/07 – 9/07 Graphic Designer/Pre-Press
Multicopy Printing Company, Inc. San Antonio, TX
6/06 – 5/07 Graphic Design Intern
The Bradford Lawton Design Group San Antonio, TX
7/05 – 12/05 Graphic Design Specialist Temp/Part-time
Zachry Construction Corporation San Antonio, TX
U.S. Army *DD-214
available upon request
Education
Texas State University
MFA-Communication Design
Thesis: Do Good Work: Building a Collaborative Network for Graphic Designers & Nonprofit Organizations
Texas State University
International Perspectives in Design, Japan
Texas State University
International Perspectives in Typography, Germany
Texas State University
BFA-Communication Design
Texas State University
Photography and Art History, Italy
San Antonio College
AA-Art
San Antonio College
AAS-Graphic Arts-Print
2020 IBM Enterprise Design Thinking Team Essentials for Artificial Intelligence (AI)
2020 IBM Enterprise Design Thinking Co-Creator
2020 IBM Enterprise Design Thinking Practitioner
2020 508 Accessibility
ACUE Effective Teaching Practices Fellow
SHSU Online Teaching Certification
