UI/ UX Design
The Chart Guys
A new web presence for a community-focused trading training company.
Resume
Experience
2021-present
Art Director & Senior Designer
Freelance
- Consulted directly with clients on determining the best design solutions for their needs and developed successful and lasting relationships with them.
- Effectively collaborated with cross-functional teams and managed projects of varied scales for diverse industries and purposes.
- Successfully developed and presented creative design solutions, meeting business and branding goals, while exceeding delivery expectations.
2014-2021
Art Director & Lead Designer
PowerUp Productions
- Independently created design solutions, from concept to execution, exceeding business and branding goals.
- Successfully managed multiple simultaneous projects, adapting to changing requirements while exceeding delivery expectations.
- Presented design concepts and solutions to a wide variety of audiences and stakeholders.
- Collaborated and managed projects with a team of professionals in varied roles and backgrounds.
- Created high-quality deliverables in a variety of mediums, including digital (logos, branding, websites, social media, apps, landing pages, email), print (stationery, flyers, publications, posters), and video (editing, motion graphics).
- Designed a highly effective approach for complex projects that streamlined procedures and improved outcomes.
- Co-developed a discovery process for new projects that could be efficiently tailored to the different scopes and budgets of prospective clients which resulted in increased revenue for the company.
2010-2014
Media & Communications Coordinator and Climate Action Team Member
The Environmental Center at Fort Lewis College
- Co-designed, planned, facilitated, and coordinated logistics for the first Campus Sustainability Summit at Fort Lewis College, which successfully created opportunities to foster conversations about sustainability on campus in the years to come.
- Co-planned, facilitated, and designed materials for the first clean commute event on campus in collaboration with city officials which increased awareness of the alternative modes of transportation available to students, faculty, and staff.
- Worked on several campus sustainability efforts; which included campaigning and designing graphic materials for the Real Food Challenge program, which encouraged campus community and administration support, and resulted successfully in the official endorsement of the program.
- Managed communications and marketing outlets such as social media, online calendars, website, and blog for the non-profit organization.
- Coordinated the production of the organization's publications, including a bi-weekly newsletter, press releases, articles published in the college's magazine, and graphic materials.
- Managed the production of a weekly radio show on a local community radio station.
- Audited, reorganized, and redesigned the organization's website utilizing web strategies to increase traffic and effectiveness in delivery of information.
- Trained co-workers on technical skills, such as updating the blog and website.
- Implemented procedures to increase efficiency of web-based systems utilized by organization.
- Photographed events and acted as copy editor and copywriter on many projects.
- Managed the brand identity assets and designed all digital and print collateral needed for the organization's marketing efforts.
- Managed and trained a team of work-study and volunteer staff.
- Created the branding and graphic design assets for several successful fundraising events and programs.
Education
Bachelor of Arts in Graphic Design
Fort Lewis College
2014
Summa Cum Laude
Certifications
Certified Scrum Master
Scrum Alliance
2022
Web Design
SENAC
2005
Leadership & Management
AIGA
In progress
Design Ops
AIGA
In progress
Visual Design
General Assembly
In progress
UX Design
HECMontrealX via edX
In progress
Skills
- Agile Methodologies
- Brand Design
- Brand Management
- Graphic Design
- Web Design
- HTML & CSS
- Front-End Web Development
- Photography
- Project Management
- Scrum
- Social Media
- UI & UX Design
- User Centered Design & Design Thinking
- Video Editing/ Post Production
- Basic Motion Graphics
- Fluent in Spanish & Portuguese
Tools
- Adobe Creative Suite/ Cloud
- Adobe Photoshop
- Adobe Illustrator
- Adobe XD
- Figma
- Adobe InDesign
- Adobe Lightroom
- Final Cut Pro
- Adobe Premiere
- Adobe After Effects
- Adobe Animate
- Google Workspace
- Wordpress
- Visual Studio Code
- Miro
- Canva
- InVision
- Sketch
My Design Philosophy
I grew up in a developing country, which helped me to become strikingly aware of the many social justice and environmental issues around the world that need attention. I'm passionate about continuously learning and endeavoring to be part of the solution of what makes the world a better place.
Designers often find themselves between policymakers and citizens; between producers and consumers; between humans and the planet—helping to shape the foundation of our societies, how we interact with each other, and how we interact with our natural environment.
This position is both one of responsibility and of power. Designers can potentially be the driving force to help create a more diverse, equitable, inclusive, and sustainable society or they can work against change by reinforcing current practices that cause many of those issues in the first place. Their creative problem-solving skills can truly be an asset to resolving many of the important issues humanity is facing.
As Mike Monteiro poignantly puts it, "ethics cannot be a side hustle." There's a principle of sustainability that says that healthy systems have limits. I believe this principle should be applied to the field of design as well. I too have found that I welcome the "freedom of a tight brief" from Ogilvy's maxim. Constraints drive creativity.
I believe in the power that design has to create a better world. This is why I design.
