Design Experience

Contract Graphic Designer, Parking Today Media, Austin, TX (present, remote)

Execute monthly magazine layout and design of Parking Today; management of all prepress/file upload duties; digital ad design; branding; website maintenance; programmatics; slide decks; event collaterals. Included complete redesign of magazine.

Contract Graphic Designer, Social Selling News, Austin, TX  (3 years, remote)

Create monthly magazine layout and design of Social Selling News; create graphic illustration each issue for cover art; upload of digital book to fliphtml5.com; prep story and photo files for website.

Design Director, Today’s Woman magazine, TBain & Co., Louisville, KY (1 year, remote)

Perform monthly magazine layout and design; digital design; media kit design; checking client ads for accuracy and file integrity; upload of digital magazine to Issuu.com and magazine website; copyediting; maintaining Wordpress website.

Editorial Design Director, Today’s Media, LLC, Louisville, KY (4 years)

Execute editorial and cover layout and design of one monthly and two quarterly magazines; copyediting; responsible for story and photo assigning for Today’s Family magazine; upload of digital books to Issuu.com.

Senior Graphic Designer, Zion Publications, LLC, Louisville, KY (16 years)

Create editorial and cover layout and design of one monthly and two quarterly magazines; advertising design and media kit design; checking client ads for accuracy and file integrity; creating logos and supporting materials for events; copyediting stories; handling prepress/file upload duties.

City Editor, The Evening News, Jeffersonville, IN (9 months)
Daily afternoon community newspaper

Daily layout and design of front page, section fronts, and inside pages and copyediting under a tight, daily press deadline.

Lifestyle Page Designer and Copyeditor, Anderson Independent Mail
45,000+ circulation daily newspaper, Anderson, SC (3 years)

Daily newspaper layout and design of Lifestyle (features) section fronts and inside pages; layout of news and sports pages on election nights or during big sporting events.

SOFTWARE SKILLS

Proficient in Adobe Creative Suite (InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator); Dropbox; Wordpress; Insite online proofing platform; Canva; some Adobe Premiere Pro. Proficient on Mac and PC.

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Arts in Journalism, News-Editorial sequence
University of South Carolina, Columbia, S.C.