Education

AAAS VCT: Graphic Design

Shoreline Community College, 2017
With Honors

BA Visual Arts Teaching

Central Washington University, 2005
Magna Cum Laude

 

PROFESSIONAL Experience

Marketing Coordinator | Kidder Mathews | Seattle, WA

2022

  • Prepare marketing materials for commercial real estate including packets to present information to clients and potential buyers, social media graphics, flyers and eflyers

  • Create labeled maps, aerials and floor plans

  • Facilitate presentation of information through email, websites and print

  • Print and bind offering memoranda, tour books and information packets

Freelance Graphic Designer | Various clients

2016–Present

  • Designed artwork for Listen and Talk including: annual report, auction catalog, social media posts, web graphics and handbooks

  • Created packaging artwork and catalogs for Fanaco Fasteners

  • Produced artwork for social media, print, website and internal communications for Consumer Cellular

  • Laid out posters, postcards, stickers and other web and print art for various clients

production designer | Lantern Press, Seattle, WA

November 2019–March 2020

  • Worked on projects for a variety of customers, including Warner Brothers, Tillamook, Holland America Lines, MoPop, Seattle Asian Art Museum, Western National Parks Association and Eastern National

  • Formatted and edited artworks in preparation for production

  • Resized and reconfigured artworks for print on products with dimensions and/or orientation that differ from the original artwork

  • Created product mockups for prospective customers

  • Modified artworks by adding logos and creating contours to contain artworks with open compositions

  • Made kiss cut dielines for die-cut stickers

Graphic Designer | Fanaco Fasteners, REdmond, WA

March 2017–October 2019

  • Created packaging artwork for new products and update existing artwork

  • Communicated with factories in China, Taiwan and Turkey about artwork

  • Determined and communicated quality standards for printing and shipping

  • Redesigned packaging and catalog artwork

  • Increased cohesion and organization of artwork files and decreased file sizes

Design Director | Ebbtide Newspaper at Shoreline Community College

August 2016–June 2017

  • Developed the newspaper’s flag, column logos and other visual themes

  • Laid out fifteen issues of the newspaper over the course of an academic year

  • Researched, wrote and edited articles and created graphics in each issue

Art Teacher | Various Institutions

August 2006–June 2015

  • Wrote and taught curricula about art, design, yearbook and art history for students from preschool to high school

  • Taught studio art lessons at the Frye Art Museum and acted as interim Manager of Student and Teacher Programs

  • Advised yearbook staff and editors at McKnight Middle School as they created an 88 page full-color yearbook

  • Chaired Arts Department at O’Dea High School

 

CERTIFICATIONS

 

skills

  • Adobe Illustrator

  • Adobe Photoshop

  • Adobe InDesign

  • Adobe Acrobat

  • MS Word

  • MS Excel

  • MS PowerPoint

  • Squarespace

  • Layout

  • Illustration

  • Packaging

  • Photo Retouching

  • Brand Guidelines

  • Mock-ups

  • Catalogs

  • Photography 

 

volunteer

rain city rock camp

2016–Present

Winner of the 2018 Silent But Deadly Award, which is awarded annually to a volunteer “who is not always loud and in the limelight, but really gets it done quietly or without much fanfare.”

  • Board of Directors

  • Design

  • Camp Counselor

OSPREY CAMP

1996–Present

  • Edit copy for web and print

  • Create learning tools

  • Photography

  • Train high school students to work with children in an outdoor education setting

CATCHAFIRE

2018–Present

  • Designed flyers and social media graphics for NAMI NJ (National Alliance on Mental Illness, New Jersey chapter)

  • Provided design support for logos and templates for Teachers Toolbox

  • Designed Infographic for BRAWS

  • Designed Annual Report for Open Door Preschool

  • Designed Annual Reports, Strategic Plan and Child Protection and Safeguarding Policy for Pepo La Tumaini

  • Redesigned logo and brochure for NAMI NJ SAMHAJ (National Alliance on Mental Illness, New Jersey chapter, South Asian Mental Health Awareness in Jersey group)

  • Designed brochure for NAMI NJ AACT-NOW (National Alliance on Mental Illness, New Jersey chapter, African American Community Together NOW)

  • Created infographic for Heading Home

  • Finished infographic started by another designer for the American Cancer Society