WORK EXPERIENCE

Graphic Designer

FastSigns | Tinley Park, IL

Aug 2023 - present

  • Designed signage and other promotional materials for companies such as Amazon, Republic Services,
    Great Northern Lumber, as well as local small businesses

  • Utilized design and customer service skills to ideate design needs of clients and ensure products
    were delivered accurately and efficiently

  • Operated and maintained large printing presses, lamination machines, Mimaki plotting machinery, etc.

  • Coordinated multiple projects at once in a fast-paced environment

Freelance Graphic Designer

Self-employed/Client-based | Chicago, IL

Sep 2019 - Aug 2023

  • Designed promotional print materials such as posters, pamphlets and t-shirt graphics for clients such as the University of Cincinnati, Indiana University, and small businesses

  • Collaborated with clients to ideate design needs and maintain brand guidelines

  • Formulated and attended several design check-in meetings to ensure client’s needs were met accurately and efficiently

Graphic Design Intern

Indiana University Arts & Humanities Council | Bloomington, IN

Feb 2022 - Jan 2023

  • Designed promotional print materials as well as social media/web posts for multiple events and gallery exhibitions such as Granfalloon, Books Booze & Brains, IUPAI and many others

  • Coordinated multiple projects at once in a fast-paced environment

  • Engaged and brainstormed with social media manager, council directors and clients to produce activities and promotional material for festivals and other events that significantly increased attendance to said events

NOTABLE PROJECTS

Brand Identity Project

  • Collaborated with marketing students and an additional graphic design student to design brand identity for a mock subscription service including packaging design and brand guideline handbook

Graphic Coding Project

  • Utilized HTML and JavaScript through P5.js platform to creatively code a project that included motion and sound which was then embedded into a website (click here to access website)

Indiana University’s College of Arts & Sciences ‘Themester’ Poster

  • Designed a poster for IU’s College of Arts and Sciences semester long event ‘Themester’ as a class project — out of 20 student submissions, my poster was chosen amongst 4 other students’ posters to represent theme (click here to access Themester website)

  • Underwent interview for the creation of the poster

  • Received pay for poster having been chosen — poster was distributed across campus as well as sold/distributed at events where College of Arts & Sciences was promoting itself

EDUCATION

Indiana University | Bloomington, IN

Bachelor of Fine Arts

Graphic Design

August 2018 - December 2022

  • 2019 - 2022 College of Arts & Sciences Executive Dean’s List Recipient

  • 2019 - 2022 AIGA Student Group Member

  • 2018 - 2022 Hudson & Holland Scholarship Recipient

SKILLS

  • Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, After Effects, Premier, Fresco

  • Microsoft Office Suite

  • Some HTML/CSS/JavaScript knowledge

  • Typography

  • Print Design

  • Brand Guidelines

  • Problem solving

  • Teamwork

  • Social media

  • Multi-project Coordination