Graphic and Form Designer - LifeBridge Health - Baltimore
(2022-01)
- Designs and creates institutional forms and graphics utilized by health information management, procurement, and various other departments requiring specific elements to transmit and store vital information.
- Serves as a valuable resource to the Marketing department for the production and design of projects needing branding updates, page layouts, signage, brochures, rack cards, flyers, collateral creation, and versioning control—employing stakeholder collaboration to dictate brand and entity consistency throughout LifeBridge Health—along with handling ad-hoc requests from internal and external customers.
- Implemented a project repository platform (ReqDirect [Xerox work management system]) to manage, update, and track the inventory of materials both on-site and with vendors.
Graphic Designer/Brand Manager/Consultant - The YaZo Group - Altoona
(2015-01 - 2022-12)
- Partnered with business development and strategy personnel to identify and develop print and digital collateral, including but not limited to advertising, social media profiles, website development, signage, flyers, sell-sheets, e-books, stationery, brochures, booklets, and packaging.
- Established and maintained digital and print collateral to ensure brand consistency, sharing brand standards with stakeholders, and produced style guides based on brand guidelines for both print and digital applications.
Design & Production Consultant - Cardinal Health
(2014-01 - 2020-12)
- Revamped outdated healthcare product packaging to align with current brand standards while adhering to strict regulatory guidelines and ensuring adherence to timelines.
Graphic Designer - GKV Advertising
- Collaborated with creative directors, production managers, and sales staff to execute advertising campaigns for clients including the Maryland Lottery, McCormick, Health Alliance, and Molina Healthcare, among others, while adhering to brand standards.
Graphic Designer - Stanley Black & Decker
- Collaborated with the creative director, brand managers, and product engineers to produce packaging and print collateral for Stanley Black & Decker.
- Maintained adherence to strict brand guidelines while effectively managing time and tracking production records accurately.
- Created and modified brand design assets within Adobe InDesign, Illustrator, and Photoshop.
Graphic Designer - Becton Dickinson - Sparks MD
- Reformatted outdated booklets and labels from QuarkXPress to Adobe InDesign while ensuring compliance with brand standards under tight specifications and deadlines.
Graphic Designer - The Harborside Group - Towson
(2013-01 - 2014-12)
- Designed and produced print and digital collateral to develop and employ mutual fund sales support materials for existing and potential investors.
Production Designer - T. Rowe Price - Owings Mills
(1999-01 - 2013-12)
- Executed production and design of print collateral, including annual reports, newsletters, flyers, postcards, signage, and posters. Assisted design staff in the production and creation of print collateral for internal and external clients.
- Served as lead artist for quarterly financial newsletters and stock prospectuses, managing a team of proofreaders, production, and print managers, along with department supervisors for status updates, process implementation, and improvement.
- Collaborated with creative and production staff in the rebranding and production of financial summaries to adhere to corporate branding standards while working with both external and internal clients—managing production, vendors, and collaborations across a large organization. Acted as a subject matter expert in print production to assist in onboarding new employees.
Graphic Designer/Owner - Millstone Design - Woodstock
(1997-01)
- Specializing in graphic design and production of print and digital collateral for business owners, non-profits, community organizations, and personal contacts, which included annual reports, direct mail, product brochures, sell-sheets, candidate employment portfolios, advertisements, posters, flyers, t-shirt designs, banners, newsletters, wireframing for website development, and logo creation and implementation.
