Resume

Upshot

Senior Art Director
April 2018 – Present
  • Create social content for Tazo, Evolution Fresh, The Fresh Market, LALA, Van’s Foods and more
  • Collaborate with photographers & videographers to produce social content
  • Develop always-on, cross-platform social strategies for clients
  • Create and design brand identities

IBM ix (formerly Resource Ammirati)

Senior Designer
July 2014 – April 2018
  • Concepted and designed Purina Cat Chow’s 2018 national campaign
  • Oversaw junior designers working on Purina Cat Chow’s email and social programs
  • Art directed AOR winning creative for RaceTrac convenience stores
  • Implemented new Microsoft brand standards and redesigned Yammer and MS Project websites

FCB Chicago

Senior Art Director
July 2013 – July 2014
  • Responsible for digital, mobile, and print aspects for several healthcare accounts
  • Created websites, brochures, video content, and print advertising
  • Designed content for HIV-positive Tumblr community

Weber Shandwick

Art Director
October 2012 – July 2013
  • Concepted & generated multi-platform social media content for brands like Motorola, Kraft, Mondelez, USPS, Amway, Mars, ALDI, Got Milk
  • Idea generation & presentation design for new business pitches

Walgreens eCommerce

Digital Designer
July 2012 – October 2012
  • Designed pharmacy landing pages, monthly eHealth newsletters and web banners

Havas Chicago

Digital Designer/Junior Art Director
May 2011 – July 2012
  • Concepted & art directed entire Claire’s BFF Day social media campaign
  • Created weekly emails and website updates for Sprint
  • Designed digital game launch campaigns for PlayStation titles like Mass Effect 3, Twisted Metal and Book of Spells
  • Worked on generating ideas for new business opportunities for Disney, Citibank, and Redbox

Tris3ct

Freelance Junior Art Director
March 2011
  • Concepted holiday campaign & POP displays for Sharpie

Education

Columbia College Chicago

May 2010

  • BFA in Advertising Art Direction
  • Minor in Fiction Writing

What I can Do

  • Social media content strategist and creator
  • Design for digital spaces on the web and beyond
  • Podcast recording, editing, and publishing
  • Writing and publishing blog content on WordPress
  • Master Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator
  • Dangerous with a crochet hook