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ConocoPhillipsSenior Graphic Designer
Oct. 2022Houston, Texas, United StatesResponsible for conceptualizing and implementing design solutions for marketing strategies. Create design solutions for various graphics applications, including collateral materials, catalog publications, brand identity, and packaging, from concept to completion. • Collaborate with a team of six designers, an average of 200 monthly projects. • Improve the company's brand designs by working closely with three teams across business functions: Liquefied Natural Gas, Human Resources, and Corporate Events.
• Increase quality assurance for visual branding elements—layout, colors, typography, grid—following branding guidelines and best practices.
Phillips 66Senior Graphic Designer/Art Director
Sep. 2020 - Oct. 2022Houston, Texas, United States · On-siteEnsured seamless support across multiple segments by actively collaborating with both the design team and copywriters. • Developed award-winning Human Capital, Year in Review, and Sustainability Reports for print and online use, increasing online engagement by 14%.
• Developed and implemented brand strategies that aligned with the company's mission.
• Created and implemented large-scale campaigns meeting measurable business objectives by delivering concepts and assets to the team and project owners.
• Responsible for organizing and managing a team of designers and copywriters to deliver marketing and merchandising strategies across multiple channels. The channels included video, digital, websites, social media, and print.
• Ability to accept critical feedback, conceptualize and iterate quickly on new ideas, and strong communication skills.
• Able to quickly develop new ideas that are innovative and marketable. Has a high emotional intelligence and can collaborate with others and resolve conflicts effectively. Able to stay focused under pressure and maintain a positive attitude.
• Utilized critical thinking and problem-solving skills to develop innovative solutions. Applied knowledge and experience to assess and refine ideas. Collaborated with team members to ensure smooth implementation and success of initiatives.
SchlumbergerArt Director
Jul. 2013 - Apr. 2020Houston, texasCollaborated with the design team and copywriters to support multiple segments and product lines. Crafted the company-wide branding guidelines and executed digital materials for the marketing department. • Created user experience and streamlined an outdated system from 18K to 5K pages, increasing users from 200K to 350K per month, and securing $4M in annual revenue.
• Improved quality by delivering 13 award-winning design solutions for 9 product lines while prioritizing existing tasks and design planning expectations.
• Excellent interpersonal skills, demonstrated by communicating with 70 marketing individuals within the organization.
• Art directed and collaborated with a team of 4 graphic designers, and 3 copywriters to streamline workflows that ranged an average of 100 projects per month.
• Spearheaded and provided creative direction to photographers (both in-house and on-location) on an average of 20 remote locations and studio photo shoots per year.
• Led a team of 6 people and organized a 9-month project to change the company's brand identity, and corporate guidelines look and feel.
• Designed wireframes for the company's brand identity and corporate guidelines website, which included 5 companies, each with 24 pages of content for identities.
• Reviewed over 25K digital assets on media bank and cleaned over 35% of its digital items, ranging from photography, marketing collateral, and video assets.
• Brainstormed and designed marketing collateral that included packaging and multimedia for 6 global tradeshow events per year.
• Volunteered with the Houston food bank, The American Institute of Graphic Design (AIGA), and helped raise $400k for the United Way campaign.
Cosentino North AmericaArt Director
Oct. 2008 - Jun. 2013Stafford, TexasLed a group of three designers to develop UI | UX design, website development, packaging design, marketing collateral design, retail displays, and advertising of company-wide design projects. • Collaborated with a team of three designers and two copywriters on an average of 180 projects per month while prototyping ten website wireframes per month. • Worked closely with three teams across business functions, such as analysts, project managers, and information architects, to improve the company's brand designs.
• Increased quality assurance for visual branding elements—layout, colors, typography, grid—follow branding guidelines and best practices across seven brands and 360 products.
• Brainstormed engagement strategies and innovative approaches to unite companies and customers for five national home improvement chains with a $2M yearly budget.
• Managed large $250K budget projects and tight schedules to meet client needs across the
US market.
Morris ArchitectsSr. Graphic Designer
Oct. 2001 - Sep. 2008Houston, Texas AreaResponsible for conceptualization and implementation of design solutions for marketing strategies. Create design solutions, from concept to completion, in a wide range of graphics applications including collateral materials, environmental graphics, catalog publications, brand identity, packaging, video titling and multimedia interfaces and tools. A partial list of clients include:
• American Institute of Architecture
• Heights Church of Christ
• Houston Chapter of IFMA
• Houston Downtown Management District
• Lakewood Church
• Memorial® Hermann Hospital
• St. Luke’s® Episcopal Hospital
• The Houston Community College System
• The Methodist® Hospital System®
• The University of Houston M.D. Anderson Library
The Douglas|GroupGraphic Designer
Nov. 1999 - Aug. 2001Houston, Texas AreaResponsible for creating and executing a variety of marketing materials including but not limited to the point of sale, direct mail, print and web ads, trade show graphics, brochures, and logos. Involved in public and private sector graphic projects, responsible for design development and execution of a variety of print designs. A partial list of clients include:
• Continental® airlines corporate office and world headquarters
• Fall Creek community
• Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
• JPMorgan Chase & Co
• Louisiana State University
• Penn State University
• Smithsonian
• The City of New Orleans
• The Exhibit at The Floyd and Kathleen Cailloux at Gladney Visitor Center
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