EMPLOYMENT

• 10/2007–Present: (Lead) Web Graphic Artist, Levenger

  Levenger is a high-end, multi-channel retail company specializing in luxury leather and reading products.
  • Performed art direction duties by leading new designers in learning the company brand and maintaining design consistency.
  • Directed overhaul of thousands of substandard online images, resulting in improved customer shoppability and sales.
  • Developed new content management system that streamlined image and graphics design process, saving weeks of production time.
  • Established and documented new standards for maintaining color consistency while maintaining textures and details at all resolutions for all product photography, resulting in truer representation of our products.
  • Created new online visual merchandising image standards that showcased the products from multiple angles while demonstrating functionality. This resulted in giving the online shopper more information to make a better buying decision.
  • Created multiple HTML sales emails and consistently email-branded web features and banners, resulting in higher sales.
  • Coordinated with catalog designers, merchandising, marketing, photographers and copywriters to launch online catalogs concurrently with print catalog in-home delivery dates.
  • Developed image templates and approved color, font and stock-art libraries.
  • Trained and supported content management team and new designers.
  • Designed and maintained new and existing HTML/CSS product pages, pop-ups, landing pages, and static pages.
  • Developed storyboards for upcoming Flash projects.
  • lllustrated in-house graphics and product graphics.

• 09/2007–10/2007: (Temp) Graphic Artist, Watson Pharmaceuticals

  • Designed illustrated sales materials, flyers and catalogs for B2B pharmaceutical products.
  • Organized and directed digital photography and retouching of pharmaceutical products for online store.

• 11/2004–09/2007: Project Manager/Lead Installer, Level One Inc.

  • Led store management, store employees and temporary labor during large scale interior demolitions, resets, remodels and installations.
  • Conducted store remodels, fixture installations, store-in-store environments, floor layout analysis, new store sets, concept shops, phasing graphic plans and signage installations.
  • Acted as a liaison between store management, contractors, electricians and CAD designers to ensure project deadlines, accuracy and presentation.
  • Managed individual store projects such as large-scale sign installations and fixture resets nationwide.
  • Handled complete signage packages for new store openings, including large department signs, window and wall graphics, aisle markers etc.
  • Installed interactive electronic kiosks with overhead signage for AOL in over 30 big-box electronics stores nationally.
  • Installed and initialized software on desktops, monitors, speakers and plasma TV’s on AOL kiosks.
  • Set trade show displays and graphics.

• 5/2004–11/2004: Regional Merchandise Manager, ActionLink

  • Supervised over 60 independent contractors in Florida, Alabama, Puerto Rico and Mississippi.
  • Acted as liaison between vendors, managers and employees working within project stores, resulting in their steady cooperation and assistance in completing projects.
  • Conducted installs, surveys and remodels of paid vendor merchandising projects within stores such as Staples, CompUSA, Walmart, Home Depot, Best Buy, Office Max and Books A Million.
  • Coordinated with home HR office in interviewing and hiring new contractors to replace those that had left due to long-term management vacancy.
  • Trained, scheduled and mentored new hires.

• 2/2002–5/2004: Planogram Designer, CompUSA Headquarters, Dallas TX

  • Partnered with head designers and CAD artists to evaluate and edit store floor plans, ensuring shoppability of all merchandise departments and fixturing.
  • Coordinated with corporate Merchandising team and assistants to establish and design product allocation plans based on sell-through history, increasing sales by ensuring proper shelf and floor location of specific products.
  • Revised all previously neglected plan-o-grams (merchandise floor plans) in assigned product departments, resulting in better store compliance with current merchandising standards in close to 300 stores.
  • Compiled, designed and organized detailed merchandising instructions, illustrations and photography for all employees via intranet.
  • Installed fixturing, signage and product sets in new stores and remodeled stores nationwide.

• 06/2001–2/2002: Department Manager, The Home Depot, Plano TX

  • Supervised 7-8 full and part-time employees in flooring and special-order flooring materials department.
  • Accounted for more than a few metric tons of flooring supplies in forgotten locations in the department that were bloating and distorting inventory numbers.
  • Re-organized and reset entire neglected department by rearranging shelves for easier customer access and accomplishing 100% sign coverage.
  • Organized "Clinics" and "How-To's" as a service to our customers who wanted to learn do-it-yourself flooring projects.
  • Coordinated with inventory management to order enough product to reach 100% in-stock capacity.

• 8/2000–5/2001: Lead Artist, The Parent’s Journal, Philo CA

  • Took over main design duties of an advertisement-based 4-color parenting magazine.
  • Led a branding overhaul of the magazine by setting font, color, image and page template standards.
  • Directed photography sessions and selected stock-art and photography to be used on front cover and within magazine.
  • Designed layout of front page, back page, editorials, classifieds, contributor articles, masthead and calendar.
  • Designed ads for new, paying advertising clients.
  • Re-designed poorly designed ads for existing advertising clients.
  • Created relationships with paying advertisers by keeping direct phone contact with them to ensure client satisfaction.

• 12/1999–7/2000: Designer, The Home Depot Northeast Division, Canton MA

  • Worked within dynamic team of art directors, advertising managers, designers and copywriters in the production of 4-color retail catalogs.
  • Partnered directly with Merchants to establish catalog sales plan and assemble SKUs to be featured in catalog.
  • Designed multiple layouts for tools, gardening, plumbing and paint departments for multiple catalogs and other print vehicles on continual deadline schedules.
  • Won in-house award for Ralph Lauren paint spread design.

• 7/1994–12/1999: Multiple positions, The Home Depot, Quincy MA

  • Sign artist and display builder.
  • Lead sales clerk in Electrical Lighting department.
  • Assistant manager in Décor and Special Order Flooring department.
  • Dècor consultant.

EDUCATION

• Museum School of Fine Arts, Boston MA
• Clark University, Braintree MA
• Richland College, Dallas TX