Professional Experience
2013 - 2019

Senior Graphic Designer
Consigli Construction Co., Inc., Milford, MA

 

Design and Management of projects from concept to implementation; providing creative solutions that meet marketing strategies. Responsible for creation of brand identity materials, collateral materials, email marketing, print and online advertisements, packaging, brochures, logo design, illustrations, publication design, job site signage, event planning, event signage, trade show materials & promotional materials.

 
  • Team Player & Leader. Ability to collaborate with executive team, department heads, project leads, proposal team, IT staff, clients and vendor. Able to synthesize management and marketing needs into marketing and design solutions on time and under budget. 
  • Technical Creative Lead. Research latest technology and tools and partnering with IT team.
  • Project Creative Lead. Prepared creative and design mock-ups for in-house client review. Creation of visual design, white board animation, presentations and illustrations, infographics, site signage, etc.
  • Mentoring: Designed and taught Lunch & Learn Tutorials for all users of Adobe CC, training associates in best-practices for software usage, image management, workflow for a wide variety of printing technologies.
  • Charity Event Planning and Management: Increased charitable golf tournament net profits fivefold, from 42K net income in 2014 to 240K new income in 2018. Created an innovative growth program for the Consigli Foundation Annual Golf Tournament that redesigned tournament marketing, website, pricing structure and event planning.

2004 - 2013

Creative Director/Graphic Designer/Owner
Graphic Design Services Firm

 

Graphic Designer/Illustrator serving clients nationally with Design Services, Illustration, Web Design Services, Prepress Services and Marketing Consulting across a variety of industries.

 

Clients include:
American Superconductor Corporation (AMSC), Devens, MA
Affinity Marketing Group, Natick, MA
Affinity Group, Inc., Ventura, CA
Symantec Corp., San Francisco, CA
Tres Amigas Corp., Santa Fe, NM
InterContinental/Waterplace Real Estate Development, Providence, RI
GolfServ, Inc., Chicago, IL
TransQue Solutions, Canton, MI

1997 -2004

Creative Services Manager/Senior Art Director
Trans National Communications/Sportsoft Golf, Boston

 

Managed the design department for the direct marketing/affinity marketing division of Trans National Communications; a travel, marketing and communications firm located in Boston.

Responsibilities and accomplishments included:
 

Design management and creation of all marketing materials for the various divisions within Trans National. These included: The Affinity Marketing/Lifestyle division's direct mail campaigns, sports marketing and all corporate design needs. Managed a staff of full-time artists and freelancers.

Managed in-house design and production services for two high-quality, bi-monthly lifestyle/sports magazines. This included research, recommendation and purchasing all hardware and networking needs; as well as the interviewing and acquisition of the design and production personnel.

Creative Services and Electronic Prepress Manager
Bay State Press, Framingham, MA

Creative Director, Full Service Advertising Agency
Norfolk Partners, Ltd., Boston

Education
 

Nasson College, Springvale, ME

Washington University, St. Louis, MO
Bachelor of Fine Arts Program - Graphic Design

Museum School of Fine Arts, Boston MA
Fine Arts Program

Art Institute of Boston - Post graduate courses

Software Skills
  QuarkXpress
  Adobe Photoshop CC
  Adobe Illustrator CC
  Adobe InDesign CC
  Adobe Acrobat CC
  Adobe Dreamweaver CC
  Adobe Flash CCC
  Adobe Premiere
  MS Office - PowerPoint, Word, Excel
  VideoScribe - Whiteboard animation software
Technical Skills
 

Extensive experience with both Windows and Macs working in DTP and
prepress environments. I am equally comfortable in either environment and have extensive experience with the needs and particularities of each environment in relation to desktop publishing and prepress needs.

Over 15 years of networking experience, interfacing with IT departments, working with IT for hardware, software and networking issues and needs. This includes keeping abreast of the latest advances in hardware and software development and their impact in the creative workplace.