Marketing Designer III (Senior Designer equivalent)

Navy Federal Credit Union - Vienna, VA; 01/2024 - present

• Worked directly with strategists, writers, and other designers to develop and execute campaigns for one of the credit union’s biggest products using an agile workflow

• Strategize and concept designs based on target audience and campaign goals

Graphic Designer

PenFed Credit Union - Tysons, VA; 05/2018 - 06/2023

• Set art direction on CD and savings ad campaigns which brought in 2 billion dollars in deposits in 3 months.

• Led project to modernize email marketing to PenFed’s 2.9 million members, ensuring device responsiveness and consistent branding. Responsible for redesign & coding, implementation, and training the rest of the design team on the new system.

• Proactively identified the need for and created a quality control program for our email campaigns.

• In 2020, received American In-House Design award for complete overhaul of credit card art, from brief to asset delivery, for 31 established credit cards. Artwork has now been in use for 4 years and was featured in the magazine, Graphics Design USA.

• Trained and mentored new and junior team members on our processes and in technical skills.

Senior Graphic Designer

Team Velocity Marketing - Herndon, VA; 10/2016 - 04/2018

• Led branding and design for our largest client, ensuring quality and consistency across all audience touch points

• Created a comprehensive brand system, detailing the strategic use of design elements to align with the brand tone & feel across omni channel marketing

• Collaborated with the creative director in the development of art direction presentations for client pitches.

Graphic Designer

Newmark Grubb Knight Frank - Washington, DC; 02/2016 - 08/2016

• Primary graphic designer for a 7-person commercial real estate team.

• Worked with outside vendors on high-quality print jobs.

Graphic Designer

Splendid Portraits - Falls Church, VA; 08/2015 -11/2015

• Created B2B presentations

• Assisted photographers on location and worked in the production department.

Social Media Copy Writer

The Social Stage - Renton, WA; 07/2014 -09/2015

• Created graphics for social media and wrote search engine optimized (SEO) posts for clients.