Projects:

Infographics
Data Visualization
Style Guides
Design Systems
Digital Design
Presentation Graphics

Tools: 

Adobe Illustrator
Figma
Adobe PhotoShop
CSS Style Sheets
PowerPoint

EXPERIENCE

Visual Designer, contract and freelance, providing design services for organizations from startup scale to global corporations, 11/2001 to Present

Featured Projects:

• Red Sky Partners/Visgo Therapeutics
Refine graphic standards and business identities for life science and professional service companies; Design product information sheets, containing complex information, with concise layouts; Create many graphic elements and infographics for life science companies

• American Superconductor (AMSC)
Design, layout, and publish quarterly financial reports, data sheets, and sales sheets for print and web, for alternative energy corporation

• Towers Watson
Build icon toolkits for use in web applications; Provide specifications to developers on how to use iconography (sizes, related UX patterns); Edit, produce, and create new icons for use in mobile device applications and desktop software

• Straumann USA
Designed web pages and web graphics for corporate website, straumann.us; Conferenced regularly with web development team at company headquarters located in Switzerland to improve functionality of CQ5 CMS based website; Designed HTML newsletters, highlighting dentistry and periodontal product features and specifications; Executed email marketing blasts and managed email database through Constant Contact tools

• Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Evan Rosen Laboratory, evanrosenlab.net
Designed laboratory website for Principal Investigator of endocrinology medical teaching laboratory; Developed site using a Content Management System (CMS), with functionality including RSS feed of laboratory’s published articles from the National Institute of Health, PubMed site, and a photo gallery; Per client feedback, site has met the initial requirements of attracting new researchers to the laboratory, facilitating shared knowledge with other laboratories, and increasing visibility to new patients

• Monster.com
Collaborated and participated in project kickoffs and meetings, with web development, copywriters, project managers, and internal clients as dedicated designer for Enterprise Marketing segment; Designed web microsites, html email, presentation graphics, brochures, and product sheets, consistent with the Monster brand


Graphic Designer, Boston Scientific, (contract/defined term employee) 07/2009 – 12/2010	

•  Contributed as a member of several project teams – symbol development, publications, localization. Participation during meetings contributed towards improved design standards and processes.

•  Applied government and corporate approved design standards, including ISO (International Standards Organization) guidelines to packaging and publications for primary user group – doctors and staff – to easily and quickly find instructions on how to use medical devices and to find other important product information.

•  Collaborated with Senior Technical Editor in designing an icon symbolizing medical devices that contain pharmaceutical products intended to be used as an international standard for medical device packaging.   


EDUCATION

B.A., L.A.S., Creative Writing with concentration in Graphic Design
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL (UIUC)

Additional Coursework: 
Interaction Design, Massachusetts College of Art (Mass/Art), Boston, MACertificates, Certificates in User Interface Design and Infographics, Interaction Design Foundation (IxDF), online