Education

BFA in Graphic Design

May 2013, Piedmont College Demorest, GA

Certificates

Google UX Design Specialization

December 2021 Coursera

Experience

April 2022-Present

Graphic Designer Renaissance Learning

Creating illustrations for K-12 formative assessments. Creating icons, empty state images, and other UI elements for the UX team.

July 2018-April 2022

Graphic Designer Illuminate Education

Creating illustrations for K-12 formative assessments. Creating icons, empty state images, and other UI elements for the UX team.

November 2017-July 2018

Graphic Designer Key Data Systems

Creating illustrations for K-12 formative assessments. Creating and editing PDFs for use by customers and the Sales/Marketing teams.

October 2013-November 2017

Graphic Designer Progress Testing

Creating illustrations for K-12 formative assessments. Creating materials for the Marketing team to use at trade shows and other company events. Managing a team of graphic designers and graphic design interns.

Spring 2012

Art Director Trillium Art & Literature Journal, Piedmont College

Running a team of designers, photographers, production artists, and working with yhe co art director to produce a quality publication that contains the college’s best literature and art submissions.

2011–2013

Graphic Design Lab Assistant Department of Art, Piedmont College

Maintaining the large format printers, troubleshooting, and keeping the Mac computers running smoothly.

2011–2013

Student Worker Mason-Scharfenstein Museum of Art,Piedmont College

Installing exhibitions, designing posters and postcards. Also creating banners for the Facebook page for museum events.

2011–2012

Student Worker Institutional Advancement Piedmont College

Working with in-house graphic designer designing posters and laying out brochures.

2011

Graphic Designer Trillium Art & Literature Journal, Piedmont College

Designing page layouts for the publication.

Internships

 

Summer 2013  DORMA  Ennepetal, Germany

Designing layouts, starting their icon library, and learning about product design.

Summer 2011 ECU Laupus Library Greenville, NC

Working with a designer to create poster and other materials for the ECU Laupus Medical Library.

Skills & Interests

 

Adobe Creative Suite & Creative Cloud

InDesign

Acrobat Pro

Illustrator

Photoshop

XD

Dreamweaver

Animate

Premiere

After Effects

Figma

HTML / CSS

Microsoft Office Suite

Google Suite

Notion

JIRA

Illustration

Visual Design

Typography

Information Architecture

Wireframing

Usability Testing

Rapid Prototyping

Storyboarding

Logo design

Branding

Wayfinding

Photography

Large-format printing

Printmaking Processes

Marketing and branding

Social media

Photo editing