Adobe Photoshop with Blake M.

Hallstar

Lead Designer for The Hallstar Company. Responsibilities include designing flyers, brochures, trade show booths, office collateral, promo videos, corporate headshots and presentations. By being a member of the Marketing Communications department, other priorities include: establishing a consistent brand across all mediums, building relationships with our partners and maintaining budgets for orders and supplies.

Grant Thornton

Conceptualizing and executing internal and external communications in InDesign, Photoshop, and Illustrator. Designing new corporate icons for digital, print, and web banners. Internal corporate headshots for Grant Thornton’s website and advertising. Talking head and motion graphic videos in Premiere and After Effects.

BOGA

Photographed and formatted various product for men's high-end fashion company. Used Photoshop for product color correction, cropping and formatting. Used InDesign to create Spring/Summer lookbook for clients and shoppers. Also designed and formatted social media pieces for websites, Facebook, Pintrest, etc

Entertainment Cruises

Designed holiday backgrounds for social media, calendars, and promotional pieces. Photography of ships, events and mascot. Shot and edited Seadog training videos for future new employees

Various Chicago Theaters

Designed show themes for posters, logos, programs, social media, and websites. Theaters include: Second City, iO, Annoyance, The Chicago Improv Festival, Stage 773, and Improv Nerd.

Millward Brown

As a member of Media Technologies, collaborated with Client Service, Project Management and Programming departments to create media for user test surveys. Designed storyboards, product photography shelf sets, animated gifs, video reels, internal presentations, and corporate headshots. Instructed team members with the use of After Effects and basic Flash development. Key Achievements: Created CFO video presentations for international board meetings Worked with lead programmer to transition from Flash to HTML5 company-wide Four time recipient of the Honor of Achievement Award for highest productivity

Bowling Green State University

Creative Circle

Kantar Operations

Native Proficiency