Résumé

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Experience

Owner

  • Freelance Practice
  • Atlanta, GA
  • 7/04–Present
  • Freelance design and web development practice

Senior Web Visual Designer

  • Kanopi Studios
  • Remote
  • 6/22–Present
  • Execute visual design of websites and design systems for corporate and non-profit clients
  • Engage in research, strategy, and client presentation
  • Mentor junior designers

Senior Web Designer

  • Emory University
  • Atlanta, GA
  • 11/17–6/22
  • Established and maintained university-wide web brand standards and design systems
  • Coordinated with schools, divisions, and external vendors in execution of enterprise-level web projects

Creative Director

  • Beyond Indigo
  • Remote
  • 10/14–10/16
  • Part of a team of Directors guiding strategy, internal structure, and budgeting
  • Led a team of staff and contract designers, developers, and quality assurance specialists
  • Directed and designed all company branding and marketing
  • Maintained standards documentation and produced client education materials

Art Director

  • Beyond Indigo
  • Contract remote
  • 5/04–10/14
  • Designed and developed websites for veterinary, equine, and funeral sectors
  • Oversaw design of in-house marketing
  • Defined company standards for design and front-end code

Art Director

  • Richmond.com / RDC Integrated Marketing
  • Richmond, VA
  • 5/98–11/03
  • Led the team responsible for design and front-end development of a large, local news and city guide website
  • Designed in-house marketing, in addition to online advertising for clients
  • Generated original editorial artwork, including illustration and photography
  • Directed a pool of freelance photographers and illustrators
  • Coordinated editorial population from partner resources
  • Art directed and designed integrated marketing campaigns for agency division

Web Designer

  • Style Weekly
  • Richmond, VA
  • 5/97–5/98
  • Designed, developed, and maintained the online presence of an influential, free weekly magazine and its sibling publications
  • Populated websites with editorial content from the print editions
  • Designed in-house and client advertising

Graphic Designer

  • Virginia Commonwealth University
  • Richmond, VA
  • ’96–’98
  • Designed communications for the Department of Student Affairs

Web Administrator

  • Capitol Technigraphics
  • Springfield, VA
  • ’95–’96
  • Designed and developed print and online marketing materials

Layout Designer

  • Occoquan Photo
  • Occoquan, VA
  • ’95
  • Performed digital layout of classified ad publications

Education

Virginia Commonwealth University

  • BFA, Communication Arts + Design
  • ’95–’99
  • Cum laude

Recognition

  • Digital Judge, 2020 UCDA Design Awards
  • Typeface designs featured in:
    • IndieFonts: A Compendium of Digital Type from Independent Foundries
      by Richard Kegler, James Grieshaber, and Tamye Riggs
      (P-Type Publications, 2002)
    • Typology: Type Design from the Victorian Era to the Digital Age
      by Steven Heller and Louise Fili
      (Chronicle Books, 1999)