About

Full Time | Chicago, IL | Oct 2022 - Present

• Support the nine (9) special interest entities under the DEI Center through design development and implementation, photography, and video editing.

• Collaborate with ABA Marketing and Design to update and maintain brand standards across all DEI Center platforms.

• Manage DEI Center website, social media accounts, and internal presence by updating language, graphics, and events.

Full Time | Glen Ellyn, IL | Oct 2018 - Oct 2022

• Coordinate across organizations to provide and maintain designs and standards for the nationally advertised exhibition, Frida Kahlo: Timeless, presented at the Cleve Carney Museum of Art.

• Conceptualize, format, and design graphics for brochures, banners, posters, print advertisements, and other essential collateral for touring, resident, and special events.

• Manage, design, and develop a large collection of visual projects simultaneously, while analyzing and meeting organization needs..

• Consulting with internal management and external partners to maintain institutional integrity and consistent brand standards.

• Prepare and order print materials from internal and external printing houses.

• Actively catalog and maintain digital archive of design collateral.

• Cultivate, preserve, and retain group sales records and reports.

April 2016 - Present

• Managing, writing, and executing on design briefs/independent contracts with customers.

• Conceptualized original brand logo and standards for independent translation service.

• Provided supporting collateral for local theater ensemble.

• Created new and original logo for a local Christmas tree farm. Kept in contact with the client online and made branding from scratch.

• Designed full suites and individual collateral for several weddings.

Full Time | Naperville, IL | May 2018 - Oct 2018

• Provide excellent customer service by presenting clients with custom frame design solutions and advising on design solutions that fit a specific budget.

• Manage various building and mounting projects along with face-to-face customer service and sales.

• Honed skills in precision mat and glass cutting, frame building, and document mounting.

• Assemble final frames together in accordance with given specifications.

• Communicate with customers and troubleshoot if any problems arise.

Part Time | Naperville, IL | Sept 2014 - Aug 2018

• Contributed to a clean and safe gallery space and assisted patrons with their concerns.

• Assisted with installation and tear-down events, aided staff and artists to measure, organize, and present artwork.

• Created printed design works including: signs, forms, and fliers to best illustrate gallery installations.

Part Time | Monroe, MI | June 2017 -Aug 2017

• Designed promotional materials, while maintaining previously established design guidelines.

• Conceived and produced original informational animated video detailing historic and modern uses of library system.

• Fabricated and collaborated on art that aided in community engagement, including life-size puppetry and the interactive little library book house.