Senior Multimedia Designer

BRAND GARDENER

PRINT MAESTRO

DIGITAL folklorist

• Planned and maintained campaign schedules, content calendars, launch dates, and seasonal communications across print, digital, email, social media, video, web, events, and direct mail.

• Created a wide range of print and digital materials, including annual and impact reports, brochures, social graphics, videos, presentations, webpages, landing pages, email campaigns, signage, event materials, environmental graphics, and branded merchandise.

• Translated complex program information, eligibility requirements, application processes, and outcomes into clear, approachable, and visually engaging communications for students, adult learners, families, counselors, donors, employers, and community partners.

• Designed infographics, charts, and data visualizations for impact reports, donor communications, presentations, and program materials, making organizational outcomes easier to understand and share.

• Contributed to a website rebrand and UX improvements in WordPress Elementor, helping increase engagement by approximately 7–10%.

• Developed reusable templates, campaign toolkits, and scalable brand systems adopted across departments, improving visual consistency and enabling staff to create materials more efficiently.

• Helped evolve and document the organization’s visual brand through updated photography direction, color applications, templates, graphic elements, and brand guidelines.

• Produced and edited video and motion content using Adobe Premiere Pro and After Effects, contributing to an approximately 10% increase in engagement and leads.

• Art-directed photo and video shoots, developed shot lists and visual direction, contributed to scripts, and edited final content for social media and digital campaigns.

• Used humor, storytelling, and human-centered creative concepts to make complex or traditionally dry topics—including college persistence, financial aid, job training, and student support—more relatable and engaging.

• Created a social media video reassuring Scholars that real people were available to support them throughout college. Art-directed the photo and video shoot, contributed to the script, and edited the final piece in Adobe Premiere Pro.

• Supported event and outreach initiatives with promotional campaigns, presentations, signage, printed collateral, digital graphics, photography, and on-site visual materials.

• Created communications for school counselors, principals, training partners, employers, volunteers, donors, and community organizations, adapting content and design to meet the needs of each audience.

• Produced Spanish-language and multilingual materials while maintaining accuracy, readability, and brand consistency across versions.

• Applied ADA and WCAG accessibility standards across print and digital materials, including color contrast, typography, document structure, captions, readability, and accessible PDF preparation.

• Collaborated with outside vendors and internal stakeholders to prepare production-ready files, review proofs, manage revisions, and ensure materials were delivered accurately and on schedule.

Collaborators include:

AltCap, Paterini & Associates, Inc., Green RX packaging, Gloss RX, YesterNow Vintage, Dave’s Shutters and Blinds, Dazium Design, HumaNature Salon, Kansas City Kansas Police Department, KCUR, Kemper Museum Gift Shop, UMKC’s Hand Print Press, U.S. Regional Arts Organizations, Mary Kennedy Associates, Sonja Stoskopf & Associates, Leslie Zimmer, and Rebecca Blunk (former director of the New England Foundation for the Arts).

Production Manager
DMH Advertising
04.23 – 11.23

LOGISTICS CONDUCTOR

GRAPHIC FIRST RESPONDER

CLIENT CHAMPION

• Responsible for proofing, preparing press-ready files, packaging final art files and delivery to vendors, proofing, and press checking each project. Central to quality control, worked on technical aspects of jobs, and managed logistics. Responsible for executing final editorial and creative feedback from clients.

• Ensured art files were named properly and in proper folders, checked that all graphic assets were accounted for, and that specs, estimates, and receipts from the clients and the print vendors were saved properly.

• Worked with clients on marketing, presentations, documents, and brochures using extensive templates with master pages, character styles, object styles, and meticulous brand requirements in InDesign, Illustrator, PowerPoint, and Word. Below is a magazine I designed for Rockhurst High School.

• Provided design and production work for various projects such as logos, manuals, menus, business cards, and more.

• Graphic design work included large format prints for trade shows, static and motion web ads, and social media posts.

• Edited photos: color correction, removal of imperfections, adding environments and backgrounds.

• Created case studies and presentation decks in Keynote and PowerPoint for potential clients.

Contract Designer
ZIV
08.22 – 03.23

IDEA BARISTA

DIGITAL SHOPKEEPER

MOTION MAGICIAN

• Collaborated with clients like Bruder Health to maximize web impact using Figma, WordPress, and Shopify. Below is an example of a how-to video I created for Bruder.

• Made UX improvements to websites using Figma. Created icons and other UX graphic components.

• Created sizzle reels to introduce clients to Instagram and TikTok.

• Produced major commercial video work using Adobe Premiere Pro.

• Created layout and templates for a journal book.

Senior Graphic Designer
Unbound
11.14 – 03.21

BRAND SHERIFF

NERD HERDER

PUBLICATION Mahomes

• Managed the graphic design team, fostered collaboration, and coordinated professional development opportunities. Delegated projects and tasks, established priorities, balanced team capacity, and ensured stakeholder needs were met across departments.

• Led creative sprint planning, project intake, and workflow prioritization for concurrent campaigns and departmental requests. Developed content calendars, production schedules, launch timelines, and seasonal campaign plans, coordinating deadlines, approvals, assets, and distribution across print, digital, email, social media, events, and direct mail.

• Planned creative support for organizational events, including promotional timelines, environmental graphics, signage, presentations, printed materials, digital communications, photography, and on-site visual needs. Partnered with stakeholders to define deliverables, establish drop dates, and ensure all materials were completed accurately and on schedule.

• Managed and expanded the brand through regular critiques and reviews of ongoing creative work. Continually evolved the visual system by developing new icons, vector patterns, photography treatments, and supporting graphic elements.

• Created accessible, user-friendly brand guidelines, reference materials, and posters for in-house teams and international offices. Supported multilingual production and collaborated with staff in multiple countries to maintain brand consistency.

• Completed a large-scale brand audit and implemented significant visual updates to the logo, color palette, typography, and supporting assets.

• Developed integrated 360-degree concepts and campaigns across marketing materials, websites, commercials, advertising, social media, direct mail, brochures, trade show exhibits, presentations, and publications.

• Art-directed and designed several publications each year, including the flagship magazine, along with hundreds of marketing materials, direct-mail pieces, email campaigns, social media graphics, advertisements, landing pages, trade show banners, posters, and print ads.

• Provided creative themes, campaign direction, photography guidelines, shot lists, and editorial feedback to reporters and contributors in seven countries.

• Championed ADA compliance and accessible design practices for readers with visual impairments. Produced Spanish-language and other multilingual layouts while maintaining consistency across versions.

• Designed and launched an online publication that expanded upon the flagship magazine through video, audio, and interactive content. Managed content production and publishing using Sitecore Experience Accelerator.

• Implemented and managed a digital asset management system containing more than 30,000 assets. Established file-naming conventions, metadata, and tagging practices, and collaborated with international staff to upload, organize, and maintain content.

• Designed a multi-thousand-square-foot visitor experience featuring floor-to-ceiling 18-by-20-foot wall graphics, dimensional installations made from found materials, interactive features, soundscapes, curated artifacts, and educational activities. Designed and installed many of the graphics and environmental elements, including lighting and sound components.

• Served as the in-house photographer for events, professional headshots, and passport photos. Managed the photography studio and equipment and coordinated headshot scheduling for approximately 300 employees

• Art-directed video projects in the field, creating storyboards, mood boards, shot concepts, and visual direction for videographers.

• Designed lead-generation HTML email campaigns and corresponding landing pages featuring recipes, activities, videos, wallpapers, and other interactive content designed to increase engagement and conversion.

• Art-directed and designed branded merchandise for online stores, including apparel, mugs, travel cups, pens, journals, and stickers.

• Created hundreds of secure, user-friendly, fillable PDF forms for digital and mailed distribution using Adobe InDesign and Acrobat Pro.

• Mastered the art of organizing themed food days.

Branding & Design Coordinator
Mid-America Arts Alliance 03.07 – 11.14

BRAND MOTHER

EXHIBITION Wizard

HYPE INSTIGATOR

• Rebranded the organization with a new logo and identity, featuring brand guidelines, logo versions, and a complete identity package including new stationery, business tools like PowerPoint presentations, environmental graphics, exterior signage, wayfinding, and marketing/communications materials. 

• Created brochures, educational activities, text panels, labels, and installation furniture for several traveling exhibitions each year. Created accessible design alternatives, often in Spanish.

• Designed collateral, advertising, large environmental graphics and stage sets, and merchandise for the summer First Friday concert series.

• Created monthly, visually engaging program impact reports for the development team across multiple states.

• Created graphics, invitations, signage, and a board report with impressive infographics twice a year.  

• Responsible for direct mail, social media posts, print ads, and any other materials needed for marketing and communications. 

• In-house photographer for art events and concerts, and was responsible for taking and editing headshots. 

• Designed and managed the organization’s website using CSS and Dreamweaver. Later managed and designed the website with proprietary software similar to WordPress. 

• Expert at unjamming paper in the office printer, even “PC Load Letter” messages.

GRAPHIC DESIGN COORDINATOR ][ Mid-America Arts Alliance 07.09 - 01.13

• see above for job responsibilities.

GRAPHIC DESIGNER ][ Mid-America Arts Alliance 03.07 – 07.09

• see above for job responsibilities.

Production Artist
Herff-Jones
01.06 – 06.06

yearbook Speedster

early riser

overtime queen

• Produced and reviewed hundreds of yearbook pages during high-volume production cycles.

• Proofread, checked pages for mistakes and inappropriate material.

• Highly demanding work with long hours during seasonal rush.