Graphic Designer
PORTFOLIO
Here is my portfolio, it includes my experience, work history and projects. For the past 10 years I have worked as graphic designer. I graduated from Bryant and Stratton College downtown Milwaukee with a GPA of 3.96 and was on the Dean's List every Semester. During my first year there I won a scholarship for my design for the Graduation Cover Contest. At the end of my second year, I held an internship with ESPN 540 Radio where I created their very first Wisconsin Sports Awards Logo and printed program. From college I continued my experience doing freelance work here and there and landing a job with Hometown News Group creating, formatting and production of the Good Morning Advertiser in Whitewater. Since then I've held a variety of jobs and continued my design career in the freelance world.
Freelance
Graphic Designer/Artist
I do some Freelance design work on the side. I have created many graphics from logos, to posters, brochures and Wedding invites and other printed and online materials. One of my best clients is Crawfish Junction, a local thriving and growing delicious Bar/Restaurant.
Lake Mills Area Community Foundation
Administrative Assistant/Graphic Designer
The Lake Mills Area Community Foundation is a local non-profit the benefits the people in and around the community of Lake Mills. They give out grants to projects and other non-profit groups such as: LM EMS, L.D. Fargo Library, Jefferson County Humane Society, Christmas Neighbors, The Food Pantry, the Arts Alliance of Greater Lake Mills and many more.
Duties Include: Creation of all flyers, brochures, ads, and forms. Maintain website, social media, point of contact emails and newsletters. My position here at LMACF continues to grow as I learn more about how non-profits work behind the scenes and how our General fund continues to bring in more donations than before. I have also started getting the foundation out there in the community and setting up informational kiosks at community events. Visit the website I created: www.lmacf.org
Lake Mills United Methodist Church
Office Administrator/Graphic Designer
The people of the United Methodist church are diverse, unique and generous. They are some of the most caring people I know. As a church they help support the community and hove various group meetings and activities for the youth. Every they choose a local, notional and world-wide non-profits to contribute to. The church also hosts a Teddy Bear Preschool program for children age three.
Duties Include: maintaining the office, website, socials and building use scheduling. I am able to use my creative design side often and I put together the weekly bulletin, powerpoint and e-blast. I create any flyers, posters, sign-ups and so on for whatever events may come up. I support the Pastor, our Youth Directors and Church Leaders. Visit the website I created: www.lakemillsumc.org
Jefferson County Daily Union Newspaper
Graphic Designer/Production Team/Classifieds
The Daily Union is a daily publication that goes out Monday through Friday. The newspaper has a circulation of over 15,000 all over Jefferson County. At the time, the publication was handle by Hometown Newsgroup which also included advertisers, website publications and newspapers in the surrounding areas reaching out to Sun Prairie.
Duties Included: Creation and updating ads for local business and some national business. I was in charge of creating the sales sheets our sales staff used to sell ad space, any flyers that the Daily Union sent out, and creating and setting up the classified pages. I have also created web ads for the website, help in production for some of the magazines such as Discover Magazine and the production of the Unions Extra newspaper. During my years there I have won some awards for my ads at the Wisconsin Newspaper Association.
First Place - Best Circulation Promo,
Second Place - Best Newspaper Promo,
Second Place - Best Use of Color,
Third Place - Best Use of Color,
Honorable Mention - Bill Payne Award.