capabilities & skills:

Personal Strengths:

  • Print oriented yet digital savvy

  • Strong collaborator who believes in the power of a team

  • Creative, motivated and organized

Expert with Adobe Creative Suite CS3 to CC: InDesign, Illustrator and Photoshop
Expert with Workiva/wDesk: with Presentations, Workbooks and Documents

Proficient in: Adobe XD, Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint, Google Docs,

Introduction/Dabbled in: Adobe Premier Pro, Tableau

Design Abilities:

  • Branding: Logos | Corporate Branding | Print Collateral | Brand Standards | Typography | Color Theory/Psychology

  • Reporting: Annual & Monthly Reports | Infographics | Information Architecture | Data Merging (INDD) | Corporate Sales Guides | User Experience/User Interface (UX/UI) | Dashboard Designs | Data Analytics

  • Books: Magazines | Internal Playbooks | Corporate Presentations | Book Page Layouts | Pre-press | Print Production | Pantone

  • Product Development: Packaging Design | Instructions For Use (IFU’s) | Packing Inserts

  • Large scale: Booth Graphics | Signage | Environmental & Wayfinding Design

Illustration Work:

  • Painting in oil, acrylic, watercolor, pen and ink and charcoal

  • Drawing (realistic vs cartooning)

  • Computer Graphics include “flat” and “semi-flat” graphics and iconography

  • 3D rendering in Illustrator and Photoshop including (traditional) Vector Gradient Meshes.

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

experience:

CITIZENS BANK
November 2018 - Present:
Graphic Designer | Visualization Specialist:

  • Reporting: Designed a new Enterprise Technology & Security (Business Services) Monthly Business Report (MBR) for the Chief Executive Officer and the Board of Directors and continued monthly maintenance and data population from multiple departments consecutively since March of 2019.

  • wDesk: Merged MBR, originally in InDesign, into wDesk in 2020 and created multiple other new wDesk reports that included programming to utilize one main data center workbook that would automatically populate multiple reports simultaneously to create consistency under tight deadlines both for the Technology & Security team but also Finance, Risk and CyberSecurity. Continuing to be a resident program expert within the Enterprise Department and extended teams.

  • Tableau: Have worked with different business lines to understand their needs and their data to help create user friendly dashboards. I have also learned to use the formatting tools within Tableau so that I could better assist the design translation to their dashboards where data can be updated in real time in an online format. 

  • Graphic Design: Have helped multiple internal teams across the Enterprise create presentations, logos, banners, share point sites, dashboards, internal catalogues, corporate books and pamphlets, wDesk and Tableau brand standards with Color Palate, fonts and chart designs to be distributed amongst the Tableau Developers to create consistency of design.

SHIELDS DESIGN STUDIO
April 2011 - October 2018:
Graphic Designer & Illustrator: 

  • Meet with clients to understand scope and direction of each of the clients projects and their goals while working within specific needs, requirements, timeframes and budgets (extending to vendors, printers, photographers and copy writers). 

  • Created a wide range of assets including logos and corporate collateral (business cards, letterheads, etc.), brand standards, websites, catalogs, magazines, brochures, pamphlets, flyers, guidebooks, coffee table books, environmental design, booth graphics and forms. Primarily worked as a print designer but did have limited work with website coding, and e-blasts. 

  • Worked independently and with a team to create concepts across multiple platforms, through to presentations and then carrying them through to final pre-flight/pre-press files for printing or launching of their various required materials.

  • Worked to finalize, pre-flight and package file for pre-press, including creating custom die-lines and mechanicals when necessary. 

  • Accounts included: Mount Ida, Sacred Heart, Plymouth Public Schools, Massachusetts Office of Travel and Tourism, Plymouth County Convention and Visitors Bureau and the Town of Plymouth, Southeastern Massachusetts Convention and Visitors Bureau, 1620 Winery, MEGRYCO inc., (Pointe 1620 and Rolling Mill), Bank Newport,  PACTV, 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), Cranberry Hospice.

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.

2014-2018:
HILLTOP INN NEWORT: Worked on an “as needed” basis for check in’s/outs, serving breakfast and extra hands for larger functions. 

Spring and Fall Semesters 2009:
SUFFOLK UNIVERSITY: In-house design:  Logos and Merchandising for students and faculty.

2004 - 2009:
MCLAUGHLIN CHEVROLET: Misc/Intern
Worked cleaning, delivery, office work, office maintenance, inventory and secretary work for summers and winter breaks through high school and college.

education & achievements:

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.

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

Scituate High School. Graduated 2006. Scituate Massachusetts.

  • Credo Champion Award: Citizens Bank 2019

  • Dean’s List: Suffolk University: Spring Semester 2008

  • Ranked First in Class: Suffolk University: Fall Semester 2008

  • Dean’s List: Suffolk University: Fall Semester 2007

  • Award for Graphic Design: Scituate High School 2006