PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Marketing Manager/Creative Lead– 2022 – Present
Company name omitted due to privacy reasons, Exton, PA

  • Successfully manage, coordinate and design all graphic design projects for several in-house brands. From simple print designs, brochures, distributor guides, sales sheets to complex animations, video design and websites.
  • Work closely with directors, sales and business development to collaborate on better brand awareness to create highly persuasive sales and marketing material
  • Successfully manage multiple projects including print design, digital design, website design, email campaigns, social media
  • Consistently meet deadlines and project requirements
  • Effectively build, motivate, and direct production teams as needed
  • Coordinate consultants and vendors to meet all project requirements
  • Expertly convert concepts to benefits to achieve better brand awareness

Senior Graphic Designer – 2007 – 2022
Company name omitted due to privacy reasons, Broomall, PA

  • Successfully manage and coordinate graphic design projects from concept through production/completion
  • Successfully manage multiple projects including print design, digital design, website design, email campaigns, social media
  • Work closely with clients to create vision, conceive design concepts and client expectations
  • Consistently meet deadlines and requirements
  • Effectively build, motivate, and direct production teams as needed
  • Coordinate consultants and vendors to meet all project requirements
  • Create and conduct highly persuasive sales and marketing material
  • Expertly convert concepts to benefits to achieve client objectives
  • Established trusting relationships with clients for repeat design work for the past ten plus years
  • Art direction to internal and external graphic designers
  • Manage social media accounts and Google business page

Advertising Coordinator/Graphic Designer – 2005 – 2007
Company name omitted due to privacy reasons, Spring City, PA

  • Successfully manage and coordinate all advertisements for four monthly magazines and corresponding websites
  • Pre-flight all client supplied advertisements for proper print production
  • Work closely with creative director, marketing and editorial departments for magazine theme and ad placement
  • Conceptualize and design effective front cover design and in-house advertisements
  • Provide proper print and ad specs to all advertisers
  • Thoroughly proof blue-lines and match-prints of all magazines
  • Build and maintain trusting relationships with key advertisers
  • Successfully provide quality work based on advertisers expectations
  • Effectively communicate magazine theme through magazine cover design and ad placement

Production Manager/Graphic Designer – 2001 – 2005
Company name omitted due to privacy reasons, Morganville, NJ

  • Provided valuable freelance production coordination of seven coupon magazines
  • Preformed bi-weekly press checks to ensure high quality printing, proper registration and color consistency throughout production
  • Effectively communicate with press operators all corrections needed to maintain accurate color, tight registration and any print defects
  • Remote freelance design of coupon ads
  • Freelance led into a full-time position as production manager and graphic designer
  • Daily meetings with advertisers to discuss advertising needs, ad sizes and budget
  • Weekly meetings with vendor to coordinate bi-weekly production and mailing deadlines
  • Successfully coordinated and provided highest quality control of seven coupon magazines
  • Built and maintained long lasting, trusting relationships with advertisers, vendors, designers and the owner

Marketing Coordinator – 2001 – 2003
Company name omitted due to privacy reasons, King of Prussia, PA

Printing Press Operator – 1994 – 2001
Company name omitted due to privacy reasons, Morgantown, PA

EDUCATION

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