Experience
Truckstop - Product Designer
August 2021 - September 2024
In March of 2021, RMIS was acquired by Truckstop.com. After some shuffling around, I was welcomed into the UX department to officially handle the user experience for the compliance arm (RMIS services). I expanded my skillset and was able to positively influence improvements and initiatives for RMIS. Creating UX mocks was a regular part of duties while working closely with the RMIS development teams with the occasional opportunity to assist them with CSS for these projects. I'd take part in regular peer reviews for UX work and collaborate with other members of the UX team in order to standardize initiatives that touched upon various parts of the company. While doing all of this, I was still branding RMIS sites and assisting developers with visual changes for current clients.
RMIS - Art & Marketing Director
December 2017 - August 2021
I was originally hired by RMIS due to having experience across a multitude of mediums, responsive frameworks, and writing copy. My first major project was updating over three hundred sites manually to work with the responsive framework that had been selected and modify CSS that was acting contradictorily to this goal. From there, standardization of page elements began along with updates to sites so that they were branded to match the look of each client, along with using this approach for all new clients. The changes were night and day, especially for landing pages after each update. I split my time between the brandings, coding updates for new pages & quality of life improvements, print material, tradeshow booth set up, video & photo/image editing, social media updates, and handling our monthly internal newsletters. I worked closely with development and sales along with all three of the customer service departments and the owner as needed.
Broadvoice - Lead Designer
June 2012 - July 2017
My position at Broadvoice had me working on a multitude of projects near simultaneously on a regular basis for and with representatives across all departments within the company, with work consisting of the creation of responsively designed landing pages and websites through html, css, and some javascript via uploads through SVN, Github, and Hubspot, responsive email campaigns, advertisement creation for the web and social media (Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter), layout and design for PowerPoint presentations, spreadsheets, flyers, postcards, sales sheets, internal and external documents, contracts, retractable banners, shirts, hoodies, tablecloths, and large signage for tradeshows via InDesign, Illustrator and Photoshop, video and audio editing for commercials, photo manipulation and editing, painting, illustration, and vector icon and logo creation (SVG for web).
The Creative Group - Contracted Artist
September 2011 - June 2012
I did work as an artist for hire through The Creative Group, a staffing agency specializing in art-related jobs varying from short to long term assignments.
Neko Planet, LLC. - Freelance Artist
August 2009 - May 2011
I was commissioned for a multitude of shirt and hoodie designs by Neko Planet varying in style from cute to steampunk-ish to cthulhian (totaling 17), logos for each series of clothing and their company logo, and to design and code their web site to be integrated in with shopping cart software. I also handled the creation of ads for web and print, including large banners.
AM2 - Creative Director
September 2010 - March 2011
I was doing pro-bono work for a start-up non-profit convention. I worked with the head of the convention to set artistic standards and create advertising material, mascots, and a logo while overseeing art assets and print material created by myself and other artists.
Online Management Systems, LLC. - Lead Artist
January 2007 - August 2010
My position at the OMS R&D Sector had me juggling a multitude of projects simultaneously, varying from illustration and digital painting in Photoshop and Illustrator for web and print, creating educational interactive animations and ads in Flash, menus and animated advertisements, animating in After Effects for television commercials and DVDs, video/audio editing in Premiere and Soundbooth, DVD authoring in Encore, photo purchasing and manipulation for web and print projects, to hand-coding html and CSS for eLearning sites. I also assisted others in the department with their projects and worked with others to accomplish larger tasks.
Education
California State University Channel Islands
Bachelors in Art & Minor in Business Management
2002 - 2005
I graduated with a Bachelor of Arts, Cum Laude, with an emphasis in Illustration and a Minor in Business Management. My studies primarily consisted of exploring both the traditional and digital sides of illustration, painting, and animation. I also created and edited video projects during my studies. During my education at Channel Islands, I worked in Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, After Effects, Premiere, Flash, Maya, Final Cut, and Quark Express. One of my digital paintings was used for the front of a post card to promote an international art exhibit at the university and another was used to promote their Certificate in Digital Media Art.
