Functional Skills

Communications
Customer Service
Project Management
Product Data Management
Visual Design
Market Research

Software Skills

G Suite
Adobe Photoshop
Microsoft Office
Adobe InDesign
Adobe Illustrator
Miro

Sector Experience

Consumer Goods
Manufacturing
Retail
Fortune 500

Experience

Self-Employed Design
Designer
8/2022 - Present
Book design, color design, and surface design and development.

Nike Design
Color Designer, Men's Performance Apparel
3/2023 - 11/2023
(Temporary Contract via Magnit) Coloring Men's Fitness and Running Essentials product line, building and maintaining seasonal color tools - including compelling and easy to interpret presentation decks, making color application decisions based on creative and business briefs, gathering imagery / research for concept inspiration, trend and competitive analysis, creating displays for seasonal concept presentations, resolving outfitting/ palette issues that arise from reviews. Documenting and implementing feedback from cross functional teams. Keeping final line art and cross functional decks current and accurate, staying on top of complex calendar. Sourcing vendors for and creating printed assets for department wide design intent display.

Nike Design
Print Color Designer
8/2021 - 1/2022
(Temporary Contract via Magnit) Recolored prints, each with 1 - 10 colorways, using seasonal palettes and design briefs. Designed repeating prints, contributed to seasonal trend research and concepting. Color separated and cleaned up prints considering print execution and material, created technical schematics for final production hand of, created mockups of prints on product, adjusted art scale and color, created and maintained print swatch palette for use with PLM system, owned final production assets, served as point person between cross functional teams, managing complex calendar.

Edition One Books Customer Service
Pre-Press Lead / Project Manager
7/2015 - 1/2021
Led pre-press team in in customer service, client problem solving, file preparation, and book design at custom book production company. Managed order data, files, and communication thereof between clients and production team. Streamlined prepress file review and order processing procedure. Created and tracked timelines of many simultaneous projects. Managed all steps of high value, complex projects with outside vendors. Approved quality and color accuracy. Provided feedback to vendors. Trained staf.

Trove Wallpaper Design
Production Manager / Production Designer—August
5/2012 - 1/2015
Created custom colorways and layouts, technical schemat ics, developed new materials and products. material testing and sourcing, managed production schedule, attended trade shows.

Trove Wallpaper Design
Production Assistant—September
8/2012 - 1/2014
Quality control, inventory management, managing day to day production and shipping of large format printed Wallcoverings.