American Gramaphone Records Omaha, NE 2008 - 2017
Sr. Graphic Designer & Webmaster
Multi-Company role servicing Soundtrack, Mannheim Steamroller, Dot & Lines and Ambience Medical on all graphic design, illustrations, tour, websites, digital campaigns, and analytics. Including third party distribution of assets to Amazon, Walmart, Target, Lowes, Orchard, and Magic Entertainment.
• Tasked with leading product development of visual material for albums, specialty products, apparel, tours, and marketing materials.
• Facilitate with third party manufacturing relationships for product development
• Designed websites, ecommerce, and online presence for B2B and B2C distribution.
• Marketing and digital campaign execution for ecommerce sales
• Maintained SEO, hosting, and databases to ensure site performance.
• Illustrated album art for more than 15+ albums, including the highly acclaimed Christmas Song, achieved platinum sales status for RIAA.
• Illustrations and product design for a three-book series that contained more than 40 illustrations, “The Wolf and the War lander”.
• Demonstrate exceptional ability to present design concepts to executive leadership.
• Responsible for managing organization’s IT infrastructure and digital assets.
Presently in Certification course with Google on UI/UX
Presently in Certification course with Google on Project Management
X in a Box Certification, Pixar Story Xperimental
Continued Education at Academy of Art, San Francisco, California
• Advanced Adobe Creative Suite in (Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign)
• Basic Adobe Creative Suite in (After Effects, Premiere, Animate, XD)
• Graphic Design (Typography, Digital Artistry, Vector Graphics, Brand Identity)
• AI technology adaption to tools using Midjourney, Luma, Chat GPT and more
• Print and Digital Media
• Fine Art, Illustrator, Sketching and Storyboarding
• Concept and Product Development
• Color Theory, Typography and Branding
• User Experience (UI/UX) Proficient – Presently in Google Certification
• WordPress Design & Development
• E-commerce Solutions (WooCommerce, Shopify, Amazon)
• Advanced Page Builder Proficiency (Oxygen, Elementor, Divi)
• JavaScript / PHP / MySQL / HTML5 / CSS3 Proficiency, Some API Integrations knowledge
• SEO Optimization and Google analytics
• B2B & B2C
• Windows and Mac proficient
• Level 3 technical support