Resume

Work Experience

Present    Marketing Graphic Designer - GS&P

Designer for the Corporate services department, responsibilities include:

  • Critical thinking of best way to communicate to clients within specific design standards.
  • Designing multiple promotional pieces for various client pursuits
  • Coordination of printing and delivery of the pieces to the client.
  • Assisting other designers with various tasks within their assigned markets.
  • Photography of both potential job sites and finished job sites.

2 years    Communications Design Specialist - Long Hollow 

Responsiblities included:

  • Various graphic design duties and creative thinking for eight different ministries within a 5,500-member church
  • Developed marketing and promotional materials­—including print and digital—that contributed to a membership growth of 36% over two years
  • Traveled overseas to document the church’s mission work in various parts of the world, through both photos and videos, to aid in the sponsorship and care of hundreds of orphans
  • Worked with the production team to produce creative illustrations and set displays for Sunday morning services

1.5 years    Design Editor - Western Kentucky University

Responsiblities included:

  • Leading the design strategy of a 400+ page publication with 4,700 copies produced
  • Collaborating with a team of 8 editorial board members to come up with a design standard for an 11-designer team to follow consistently throughout the book
  • Creating special package sections and the cover of the book
  • Developing a creative strategy for the distribution of the book
  • Creating a marketing campaign to attract employees for the next generation of publication staff

4 months    Design Intern - LifeWay

Responsiblities included:

  • Designing Vacation Bible School publications and publicity pieces
  • Collaborating with a team of designers to develop ideas that would grab the attention of children
  • Consolidation of digital files to improve efficency for the Children’s Ministry Publishing design team