Work history
Protocol Labs/Artisan | Digital designer | 2022 – 2024
Designed webpages, logos, presentations, digital/social media graphics, and marketing assets.
Created design systems and branding for blockchain events and sub-brands.
Applied storytelling while creating a creative solutions that follow a hierarchy and maintaining Protocol Labs brand.
Freelance Visual/digital designer | 2018 – Present
Collaborated with UX designers and senior designer by taking wireframes to create high fidelity mockups using Sketch
Applied consistent branding using typography, color, and graphics while improving user experience.
Designed presentations, whitepapers, infographics, illustrations, and digital graphics.
Worked closely with co-founders, doctors, dietitians, and developers for the production of packaging, brochures, collateral, icons, and presentations graphics.
Redesigned company logo, and implemented design system and style guide
Created illustrations and graphics for Enara app
Clients: Evernote, Benepass, Verkada, Udacity, Enara Health, and Ubiquiti
Compass | Senior graphic designer | 2018 – 2019
Collaborated with maketing associates for the creation of social media web/graphics, brochures, collateral, infographics, presentations, and ads
Created branding systems and logos for high-touch agents
Produced and extended icon library
Participated in weekly critiques and mentored younger designers
Prepared files for print
Creative Circle | Freelance senior visual/graphic designer | 2014 – present
Designed logos, icons, presentations, whitepapers, e-books, brochures, trade show booths, posters, mailers, packaging and signage
Created, wireframes, prototypes, and low/hi-fidelity mockups
Implemented user-centered design for websites and forms.
Researched, strategized and launched UX improvements
Produced web assets, and presentation decks, and style guides for vendors
Supported senior web developer for UI, graphics, assets and icons
Created illustrations and infographics
Edited collateral, email ads, and websites
Assignments with: Unison, Twist Marketing, Applied Underwriters, Jack Morton, Anthem Worldwide, and Apcera
Iron Creative | Graphic designer/production artist | 2016
Designed brochures, icons, logos and infographics
Resized ads, banners, and images, color correction, and editing copy
Prepared presentations and created illustrations
clients: Salesforce, Salesforce SMB, Genentech
Skills
Adobe CC (XD, Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign), Sketch, Principle, InVision, Figma, Zeplin, Balsamiq, UX/UI, wireframing, user research/testing, Keynote, PowerPoint, MS Word, Excel, typography, layout, color theory, and illustration. Understanding of HTML and CSS. Additional skills in lettering, calligraphy, photography, studio lighting, pre-press, social media, and production.
Education
California State University Long Beach
BFA in graphic design
San Jose State University
Courses studied: Graphic design, art, art history and psychology
Cañada College
Courses studied: User interface/user experience design
Semester course that covered the fundamentals of user-centered interface design concepts and practices for web, mobile devices, and other applications. I learned how users interact with an interface and be introduced to the concepts of usability, created personas, user testing, interface associations and aesthetics, and the user experience.
UCSC Silicon Valley Extension
Courses studied: Mobile interface design
6-week course with UX/product design educator, Eric Dorf, where I learned the core principles for creating effective user interfaces for mobile devices, lean Mobile UX, low/high fidelity mobile concepts, industry practices and techniques for popular platforms, gesture experiences and tactile interfaces, and prototyping software.