About Me
I’m a graphic designer from Seattle with experience in print, digital, identity, and environmental design. I have worked for a variety of organizations and agencies, large and small—I’m currently at Microsoft on the Windows Experiences team as a consultant from The Creative Group. I’m a team player who values relationships, and I get excited work on projects that allow me to problem solve, be hands-on, learn new things, and have fun while doing it.
A few other passions of mine include; photography and video, drones, music, boardgames, and coffee.
I currently live in Shoreline, where my wife and I can be found wrangling our 2 year old daughter.
Work Experience
Contract Visual Designer
Microsoft Teams (Dec 20’ – Current)
• Helping create social media posts and landing pages — to promote the switch from Skype for Business to Teams
• Design and Illustration work
Microsoft Windows, Developers, and Experiences (8 months)
• Internal identity and collateral work for entire org; design of team logo and colors, PPT and email templates, posters and swag, intranet Sharepoint site, etc
• Presentation design support for Windows product design team
• Windows 95 – 25th Anniversary video (concept, motion, and production work).
Microsoft Dynamics 365 – Industry and Customer Success (2 months)
• Digital and print projects
• Helping build and refine the organization’s brand identity and internal collateral
Microsoft Office 365 Brand Studio (2.5 years)
• Email and web layout, branding, iconography development, gif animation
• Helped bring all Office 365 marketing emails on-brand (created 400+ emails that reached millions of users around the world)
• Helped concept sub-brand for Microsoft 365’s Make the Shift campaign, and executed collateral for digital and event use
• Created custom iconography used across all Office 365 marketing avenues
Trifilm Productions
• Presentation deck designs for partner project with Tableau
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Graphic Designer (FTE)
Effective Design Studio — Graphic designer — Aug ‘15 – March ‘17
• Created logos, websites, and environmental graphics, for a variety of commercial real-estate clients
North Seattle Church — Graphic Designer & Communications Director — Jan ‘14–June ‘15
• Designed and re-built website on the Squarespace platform — including all graphics, media database, and interactive forms.
• Refined and implemented existing brand across all digital and print materials
• Created a variety logos and sub-brands for various departments and events
Golden Guru — Web and Graphic Designer — Jan ‘13– Jan ’14
• Sole graphic designer on a team of developers: Created UI designs for multiple pharmaceutical research websites
• Worked with CEO of a pharmaceutical research company to create presentations and motion graphics for use in capital fundraising
• Book cover designs
Seattle Pacific University — Graphic Designer — Oct ‘03–June ‘05 (internship), Jan ‘07– Jan ’13
• Worked with university’s Advancement team on fundraising projects including print, video, and event materials.
• Milestones included helping raise $50M for school’s endowment fund, and helping establish branding for SPU’s Downtown Business Breakfast
• Worked with many departments creating logos, posters, banners, booklets, videos, photography, and more.
• Worked with various print shops, choosing papers, inks, folding, dies, etc, and attended press-checks
Tools
Adobe Creative Suite (highly skilled with Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator, Premiere, and After Effects), Microsoft Office Apps, HTML/CSS, Figma, InVision, Mailchimp, Squarespace, WordPress, Workfront, Basecamp.
Education
B.A. in Visual Communication — Seattle Pacific University, 2005