Skills

CREATIVE DIRECTION | STRATEGY | PRESENTATIONS | BRANDING | GRAPHIC DESIGN | MOTION GRAPHICS | MARKETING CAMPAIGNS | MANAGEMENT | MENTORSHIP

Expert with Adobe Creative Cloud, Figma, PowerPoint, Keynote, Canva, Procreate and Microsoft Office. Proficient with project management tools like AirTable and Asana. Familiar with AI tools, VizRT, and Wordpress.

experience

Art Director, Global Corporate Brand | A+E Global Media | 2022 - Present
With high attention to detail, I establish and enforce brand standards, lead teams and oversee both agencies and freelancers to deliver strategic creative solutions across 360 marketing campaigns, digital sales tools, corporate templates and presentations, high-stakes pitch decks for executive leadership, design for consumer key art and FAST channels, trade events, internal communications and websites.

Interim Creative Director
While remaining a hands-on designer, I updated A+E’s corporate brand guidelines and created a scalable presentation design system for C-suite and cross-functional teams to support visual consistency and rapid iteration, cutting previous creative development timelines in half.

Global Sales Website Redesign
Oversaw the creative development process for the redesigned content sales website, transforming it from a traditional catalogue into a functional sales tool, and developed a consistent, scalable visual design system for quickly executing benchmarked key art across 3 key sales categories site-wide.

GEMA-Nominated Campaign
Managed the full creative lifecycle for a global campaign and event experience at MIPCOM, spearheading strategy, theme, and creative execution across time zones and language barriers, resulting in a GEMA-nominated activation that strengthened key media relationships globally.

Art Director | CBS News | 2021 - 2022
Responsible for art direction, motion graphics, special event design and distribution of national graphics packages for CBS News, CBS Mornings, and the CBS Evening News, playing a key role in the set design for Saturday Sessions featuring musicians including Jon Batiste, Natalie Hemby, and Norah Jones.

Paramount Mentoring Program
Mentored young professionals over 6-month intervals to advise on career development with more than 80% of my mentees obtaining new roles or promotions within 6-months of the program’s completion.

Design Director | CBS Chicago | 2018 - 2021
Managed an in-house team of 5 designers handling all scheduling, budgets, and project management. Successfully streamlined workplace efficiencies by establishing new workflows and toolkits, updated and enforced brand standards, pitched and executed assets for clients, and wrote and produced promos, multimedia marketing campaigns and explainer animations culminating in award-winning executions.

Investigators Rebrand
While art-directing an Emmy award-winning rebrand from concept to completion, I implemented a more efficient, templated motion graphics workflow that resulted in higher productivity and more premium execution on the creative output.

CBS Local Weather Design
For a nationwide roll out of new, modernized weather graphics at CBS owned and operated stations in over 12 U.S. cities, I led the design direction by utilizing new technology for the first time to streamline the launch process and provide seamless integration between stations.

Digital Content Production
Developed unified profile imagery for on-camera talent and branded motion graphic templates with comprehensive user guides to triple digital content production for organic social media, allowing 120% growth year-over-year for the CBS Chicago account on Instagram alone.

Graphic Designer | CBS Chicago | 2015 - 2018 (Promoted)
Under tight breaking news deadlines, I designed live broadcast graphics and branded station franchises, animated custom motion graphics for reporter packages, collaborated with producers on station promos and social media campaigns, retouched talent photos, and composed layouts for ads.