Summary

Ten years experience delivering agency-quality creative services that market and promote the corporate brand through interactive and print mediums for a variety of businesses large and small.

Professional Experience

Senior Interactive Designer

Coinstar, Inc. Bellevue, WA | 7/2007 – Present

  • Develop and create response-driven integrated campaigns for product marketing and public relations teams.
  • Produce all interactive elements including websites, emails, ads, DVDs and auto-running CDs.
  • Formulate and create kiosk UI prototypes for concept presentation and user testing.
  • Direct designers and developers by defining production efforts of all interactive projects.
  • Manage and moderate monthly corporate website stakeholder meetings to maintain our sites current and up to date.
  • Create and produce video presentations for yearly sales conference.

Interactive Designer

Coinstar, Inc. Bellevue, WA | 6/2003 – 6/2007

  • Created a new visual treatment and set forth a new iconographic system to provide a consistent user experience throughout the national and international coin counting and prepaid product kiosks network in over 12,000 locations.
  • Lead and managed the production efforts that allowed kiosks to separate form from content by modifying over 800 existing HTML pages to call in new proper formatted CSS files.
  • Designed seasonal HTML email campaigns for the product marketing teams by providing specifically designed templates.
  • Designed and lead production efforts for the new national and international network of corporate websites.
  • Art Directed a $30,000 model and product photo shoot to create a brand driven inventory of stylized imagery for use on the corporate website and marketing print materials.

Graphic Designer

Coinstar, Inc. Bellevue, WA | 4/2002 – 6/2003

  • Designed, produced and attended press checks for national and international kiosk signage and corporate marketing materials.
  • Created a “download center” website for internal and external partners to download print ready promotional artwork for use in their retail establishments.
  • Lead the transition efforts for national and regional promotions running on kiosks to run using Flash files.

Web Designer

Sierra Entertainment Bellevue, WA | 2/2000 – 8/2001

  • Created websites aimed at showcasing various software product lines and providing existing customers with additional downloadable content.
  • Redesigned strategic genealogy data partner website, simplifying the online purchase process and improving general site navigation.
  • Served as liaison between web team and art department, establishing a workflow for optimizing graphics to cut production time for the web team.
  • Designed seasonal HTML e-mail promotions aimed at registered customers to provide them offers on bundled software products.

Content Designer/Artist

Sierra Entertainment Bellevue, WA | 10/1998 – 1/2000

  • Spearheaded the creation of interface graphics for proprietary web-page creation software.
  • Categorized, assigned and managed the creation of content graphics for web-page software.
  • Created user interface designs based on wire frames for executive budgeting presentations.

Designer

Io Interactive San Juan, PR | 1/1998 – 4/1998

  • In charge of designing, formatting and placing various animated sponsor ads within an interactive CD-ROM for the Puerto Rico Tourism Company

Education

Syracuse University

Syracuse, N.Y. | BFA - Advertising Design 1997

School of Visual Concepts

Seattle, WA | On-going training in a variety of classes 1998-2008

Awards

2007 Totem Award

Public Relations Society of America – Best Integrated Consumer Marketing Campaign

2006 American Inhouse Design Award

Graphic Design USA Magazine – Interactive Quarterly Marketing CD

2006 Honorable Mention

MarCom Design Awards – Interactive Holiday Press Kit

Languages & Software

Languages:

HTML, CSS, XHTM, familiarity with action script, JavaScript Fluent in English & Spanish
Provide proofing and translation for Spanish language marketing efforts ensuring proper language localization is met.

Software:

Expert use of Photoshop CS3, Illustrator CS3, Flash CS3 and Dreamweaver CS3 - Proficient with HomeSite, After effects CS3, Premier CS3, Omnigraffle, Complete Microsoft Office Suite

Associations

American Institute of Graphics Arts (AIGA)

Active member since 2002

References

Available upon request


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