Capabilities & skills:

Expert with Adobe Creative Suite CS3 to CC: InDesign, Illustrator and Photoshop

Proficient in: Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint

Design Strengths: Logos, Corporate Branding, Product Development, Print Collateral, Packaging Design, Typography, Informational Architecture, Infographics, Brand Standards, Instructions For Use and Annual Reports. As well as User Experience/User Interface (UX/UI), Social Media Campaigns, Website Designs, Internal Playbooks, Corporate Presentations, and Corporate Sales Guides.

Illustration Work: Includes painting and hand drawn styling in oil, acrylic, watercolor, pen and ink and charcoal. Computer Graphics include “flat” and “semi-flat” graphics and iconography, as well as 3D rendering in Illustrator and Photoshop including Vector Gradient Meshes.

Additional Skills: Creating hard mockups, painting and book binding.

experience:

April 2011 - Present:
Graphic Designer & Illustrator:  Shields Design Studio
Currently working with SDS as designer and illustrator for multiple accounts including: Mount Ida, Sacred Heart, Plymouth Public Schools, Massachusetts Office of Travel and Tourism, Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries, Mass. Division of Fisheries and Wildlife, Mass. Film Office, New England Coffee, Dunkin’ Donuts, Genzyme, GI Dynamics, Terumo BCT, ACOM Healthcare, Lahey Hospital, Winchester Hospital, and Beth Israel Deaconess-Plymouth Hospice (formerly Jordan Hospital).

December 2010 - April 2011:
Intern: Shields Design Studio
Worked with the team as SDS and Suffolk University to complete 60+ houses, unpaid for academic credit.

2000 - 2009:
McLaughlin Chevrolet.
Worked cleaning, delivery, office work, office maintenance, inventory and secretary work for summers and winter breaks through high school and college.

education:

Graduated Cum Laude in May of 2010 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree in Graphic Design from the New England School of Art and Design at Suffolk University, Boston, MA.

Dean’s List at Suffolk University: Fall Semester 2007
and Spring Semester 2008.

Ranked First in Class: Fall Semester 2008.

Studied Abroad: Florence, Italy. 2007 and again in 2008 with Suffolk University and Palazzo Ruchelli for Italian Journal (watercoloring) of Italian Renaissance.