Experience
October 21 / October 25
Morgan Street Holdings / GMS · Seattle, Washington
Graphic Designer
Support the sales strategy and goals exclusively for the Starbucks business by designing new and innovative drink-ware products and packaging for regional markets worldwide. Collaborate with the Product Teams on conception and execution of a wide variety of drink-ware products and accessories. In-depth understanding of the Starbucks brand identity and ability to work within the stylistic/aesthetic parameters. Responsible for developing, contributing, and carefully maintaining creative forms of integration to reduce long-term workloads and provide creative tools to other internal company partners while still balancing a contribution to daily work.
Jan 15 / October 21
Groot Design · Seattle, Washington
Sole Proprietor
Creative direction, client relations, creative strategy and design for print, digital and big brands. Available to orchestrate design proposals and project estimates for client needs.
Clients include: NWP Consulting, Carl Solway Gallery, Coho Creative, Hudson Jones Gallery, Kim Klosterman Jewelry, M80Inc, N'60 Marketing, Upstream 360, Ziemer Ophthalmology.
Feb 12 / Dec 14
Traction, LLC · Cincinnati, Ohio
Owner
Responsible for managing a team of 7 designers, mentoring, billing, estimating, proposals, HR, payroll, creative direction, client relations, design strategy and design.
Clients included: ArtsWave, Cincinnati Marathon, Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Cincinnati USA Regional Chamber of Commerce, Disabled American Veterans, Florence Freedom, FOTOFOCUS, Game Day Communications, GoPro, Joliet Slammers, The Kroger Company, P&G, The Scotts Miracle-Gro Co., U. S. Playing Card, United Way of Greater Cincinnati.
May 08 / Feb 12
4hiredesign · Covington, KY
Sole Proprietor
Responsible for billing, estimating, creative direction, client relations, proposals, design strategy and design.
Clients included: The Cincinnati Art Museum, The J. B. Speed Art Museum, Artworks, Klosterman Bakery, RMH Foods, Sunny Delight Beverages, VeryFine Juices, New York Style Brand Snacks, Armour Snacks, Genesis Health Care Systems, Wright Motorsports, Kimberly Klosterman Jewelry and The Kroger Company.
May 06 / Apr 08
Libby Perszyk Kathman, Inc. (LPK) · Cincinnati, Ohio
Design Director
Responsible for leading design and design teams in the creation, conceptualization, and implementation of all projects. Interface directly with clients. Participate in consumer testing. Produce concepts for projects that include supervising and directing supporting junior designers with project objectives, project vision, written thematic narrative and storyboards, graphic design, concepts related to 3D design, interactive design, and other creative touch points. Work with leading brands and their brand management to ensure that project deliverables meet the brief, go out on time, on budget, and support project goals.
Clients included: Flash (Mr. Clean U.K.), Oral-B, Lexmark, Hershey, Pringles (Global), Pampers, Gillette, USBank, Swiffer (Global), Bounty, AVOC, Design Management Institute.
July 97 / May 06
Deskey Associates, Inc · Cincinnati, Ohio
Design Director
Promote brand equities & monitor integrity of work produced in-line with clients' expectation. Interface directly with clients. Participate in consumer testing. Produce work that augments, protects, and champions the brands character. Ensure work is within the parameters of current technical constraints. Encourage, challenge, model, inspire, and enable brand team members through effective and positive actions and communication, as well as, provide feedback critique constructively. Maintain thorough job histories, issue and track purchase orders, archive digital assets. Responsible for managing and mentoring a changing team of designers (anywhere form 2 to 5 colleagues with varying skill levels), estimating, creative direction and design. Partake in and share lead for discussion and development of corporate standard operating procedures.
Clients included: 3M, Bernzomatic, Bush Brothers, Capitol One, The Lois & Richard Rosenthal Center for Contemporary Art, DeWalt Power Tools, Diageo, Georgia Pacific, Gore, Johnson & Johnson, Kroger, Lenox Tools, P&G, Sunbeam, U. S. Airways Federal Credit Union.
May 95 / May 97
University of Notre Dame · Notre Dame, Indiana
Graduate Teaching Assistant, Graphic Design, Department of Art, Art History & Design
Introduction to Graphic Design, Digital Image Making.
Professional work: Design Elements, EasyStreet Direct Mail Marketing Software, San Francisco State University, University ofNotre Dame, Valvoline, University of Washington.
Aug 93 / May 95
University of Kentucky · Lexington, Kentucky
Assistant Professor, Graphic Design, School of Fine Arts
Instruction and advising in all levels of Graphic Design – BA and BFA, for a group of twenty to thirty students. Chair of Graphic Design Curriculum Committee. Responsible for instructing a class of twenty to thirty undergraduate students in graphic design using latest design software that included, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop and Quark Express. Ability to encourage, challenge, model, inspire, and enable the students in my care. Development of curriculum as well as grading and reporting to the chair and the senior faculty. Documentation of all concepts taught.
Professional work: University of Kentucky, Costain Coal Company, Design Elements.
Sep 86 / Jul 93
Design Elements, Inc. · Lexington, Kentucky
Graphic Designer
Promote brand equities & monitor integrity of work produced in-line with clients' expectation. Produce highly creative work that augments, protects, and champions the brands character. Interface directly with clients. Regularly monitor and assess printing of client materials on press. Document tasks and time usage, maintain thorough job histories, issue and track purchase orders, archiving digital assets.
Clients included: Bluegrass Art Cast, Cardinal Hill Rehabilitation Hospital, Clark Material Handling Company, Devoe Paints, Hospice of the Bluegrass, IBM Austin, IBM Boca Raton, IBM Corporation NY, IBM Lexington, IBM Raleigh, Jobe’s (Weatherly Consumer Products), Lexmark, Porter Paint Company, ProLift (Louisville Lift Truck), Square D Company, United Way of the Bluegrass, Valvoline Oil Company, The Young Presidents’ Organization.
Jun 85 / Jun 86
IBM · Charlotte, North Carolina
Graphic Designer
Site communication graphics and departmental graphics. Assisted the staff graphic designers and industrial designers.
Education
Aug 95 / May 97
University of Notre Dame, School of Art, Art History & Design · Notre Dame, Indiana
Master of Fine Arts, Graphic Design
Jun 86
Yale University · Brissago, Switzerland
Summer Program in Graphic Design
Sep 79 / May 85
Indiana University, School of Fine Arts · Bloomington, Indiana
Bachelor of Fine Arts, Graphic Design