About Me
Reliable, flexible, and personable designer, able to bring creative, unique, and fresh perspectives to any organization. Effective at manipulating visual images to create engaging stories for ads and social media. Adept in communicating and collaborating with other like minded professionals. Keen eye for tweaking design workflows to enhance work efficiencies. Passionate about researching different trends to best suit projects, customer requirements, and engage potential clientele. Inspired by minimalistic and clean designs using positive and negative space.
Designer - Freelance, Remote (TX), 2022 - Present
Create gifs and animated emotes for multi platform digital media. Manage multiple projects and deliverables on time while maintaining and exceeding client expectations. Creatively design compelling storyboards to reflect client request for final design approval and implementation. Provide rough cut multi-camera sequences, and integrate motion graphics, photos, and music using Adobe Illustrator, After Effects and Audition.
Graphic Designer - Constant Pressure LLC, Remote (TX), Oct 2020 - Sept 2022
Envisioned, planned, designed, and produced graphics across multiple channels. Enhanced workflow for faster consulting with clients. Utilized complex linking system with Adobe creative suite to create templates and layouts for merchandising using Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign for print, web and clothing. Collaborated with team to outline marketing and branding strategies for social media. Used Analytics to pinpoint reactions from target audiences to improve marketing outreach and awareness.
Motion Designer - Ringling College of Art & Design, Sarasota FL, 2016 - May 2020
Developed original storyboards and ideas in sequences, and executed final animations in Stop Motion, After Effects, Premier, and Cinema 4D. Produced cell animation using Photoshop and Aftereffects for “The Pale Blue Dot”. (See Demo Reel). Worked on Award winning montage for Paris 2024 Branding, using Olympic video footage, Illustrator, Premier, and After Effects. (See Demo Reel).
Editor - Art Network, Ringling College of Art & Design, Sarasota, FL, 2016 - 2019
Critically analyzed and edited audio and video files of Ringling’s special events, art shows, and recruiter presentations for public broadcasting. Managed multiple projects, edited and converted video files for necessary internal/external digital communication platforms. Worked with Canon and DXLR Cameras during productions.
Skills
Proficient with: Adobe After Effects, Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Audition, Premier, Cinema 4D, DragonFrame, Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Acrobat, Keynotes
Management and Customer Experience
RINGLING CAMPUS BOOKSTORE, Assistant Store Manager, Sarasota, FL, July 2017-July 2020
ART NETWORK, Ringling College of Art and Design, Sarasota, FL, Jan 2017-Jan 2019
SUSAN PALMER FITNESS CENTER, Ringling College of Art and Design, Sarasota, FL, May 2017-Oct 2017
RINGLING GALLERIES, Ringling College of Art and Design, Sarasota, FL, May 2017-Aug 2017
STARBUCKS CO, Barista, Trainer and Shift Supervisor, Missouri City, TX, Sep 6th 2011-June 30th 2016
KROGER, Starbucks Department, Missouri City, TX, April 2011 - Nov 2012 & Aug 2015-June 2016
Awards
Staff Pick on Vimeo - Pale Blue Dot video on Vimeo, 2018
Motion Design Faculty Award - Best of Ringling, Ringling College of Art and Design, Sarasota, Florida 2018
Branding / Identity Winner - MODE Fest 2019, Motion Design Education Summit, Wellington, New Zealand 2019
Education
Ringling College of Art and Design - Sarasota FL Bachelors of Fine Arts, Motion Design Major Minor in Creative Writing -May 2020
Downloadable version of Resume