believeitsreal
EDUCATION :
The Illinois Institute of Art-Chicago
Bachelor of Fine Arts,
VISUAL COMMUNICATIONS, 2008

Madison Area Technical College
GRAPHIC DESIGN (STUDIED), 2005


SKILLS :

Identity, Collateral, Publication,
Information, and Web design.

SOFTWARE :

InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, Dreamweaver,
Flash, Bridge, Acrobat and QuarkXPress.

EXPERIENCE:

FULLTIME
WALTON ISAACSON, CHICAGO, IL
DESIGNER Current


FREELANCE
TORQUE LTD, CHICAGO, IL
DESIGNER 2009-2010
Daily, I was responsible for design on all levels from concept through production. Responsibilities include, concept development and design for web, print, point of sale, direct mail and environmental. Clients have included Pine Mountain, BOMA/ Chicago, JF Mckinney, Follett Books and Priester Aviation.

CREATIVE REPUBLIC, CHICAGO, IL
DESIGNER 2009
Designed and produced experiential branding and marketing for clients such as; Harpo Studio’s, United Airlines, Harrah’s Entertainment, American Kidney Fund and Creative Reaction. Responsibilities included, concept development and design for web, print and presentation.

BATES-MERON, CHICAGO, IL
DESIGNER 2009
Responsible for production on the American Academy of Cosmetic Surgery’s 2008 annual report.

CHICAGO CREATIVE PARTNERSHIP, CHICAGO, IL
DESIGNER 2009
Provided design assistance to the creative director on the Chicago Sky’s advertising campaign.

CHICAGO BOOTH SCHOOL OF BUSINESS, CHICAGO, IL
GRAPHIC DESIGNER 2008
Provided design assistance to the creative director on a verity of print pieces.

MUSIC DIRECT, CHICAGO, IL
DESIGNER 2008
Designed and produced Music Direct's 2009 annual catalog. Responsible for redesigning and producing a 65 page spread in the album section of the catalog.

LEARNING-ABLED, OAK BROOK, IL
DESIGNER 2009
Responsible for creating and producing concepts and providing art direction for print and web collateral.

LISA P. MAXWELL, CHICAGO, IL
DESIGNER 2008
Provided design assistance to creative director and senior designers on conceptualizing and designing a logo identity for Bill Jacobs a Chicago car dealer.

TURNER ADVERTISING, CHICAGO, IL
DESIGNER 2008
Provided design assistance to art director and senior designer. Designed and produced web banners for the Legacy.com Leadership campaign.
Performed production work for client presentation.

NATIONAL KIDNEY FOUNDATION, CHICAGO, IL
DESIGNER 2008
Designed brochure for the 2008 Kidney Camp. Created HTML e-mail for the annual Middle Market Open fundraiser. Concepted and created
collateral design for NKFI Kidney Cars 2008 campaign.

INTERN

KEROSENE CREATIVE, CHICAGO, IL
DESIGN INTERN 2008
Provided design assistance to senior designers on all web campaigns. Performed image research, information research, concepting and production work. Designed and produced web banners for the
Sex And The City movie campaign.

SALES

APPLE STORE, CHICAGO, IL
MAC SPECIALIST 2008
Enthusiastically provided complete sales solutions to customers.