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Founder and Creative Director

Creative & Design

Skilled at maximizing brand awareness using social media using Wordpress, Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Instagram, deviantArt, Pinterest, Etsy, and Google+.

- Created www.dotproblems.com, a humor and satire site focusing on pop and geek culture.
- Write and illustrate all content on site.
- Provide public relations by organizing trade convention and art show attendance. This includes all pre-attendance media promotion. 
- Responsible for licensing and sale of artwork.
- Regular contributor to Eat/Geek/Play a website devoted to nerd culture, food and games. 
- Frequent guest sketch artist at Nerdcore concerts.
- Artist Alley exhibitor at WonderCon.
- Special guest at the Long Beach Comic-Con/Long Beach Comic Expo.
- Art gallery showings curated by Tiki Machine, LLC and A Little Known Shop.
- Writer/Producer of the YouTube web series "ROOMIES" and the short film "Ante Up".

- Preflight management- Efficiently edit and approve artwork in terms of dimensions and technical specifications for production.
- Interfaced with clients to incorporate feedback.
- Created and managed templates for new products in PrintNow’s web to print solution.
- Troubleshoot customer submitted graphic design files.
- Coordinate printing issues with lead seamstress and production.
- Managed graphics design team consisting of employees and freelance team members

Production Coordinator

- Responsible for the day-to-day management of the online business.
- Provided organizational, sales, administrative and customer support.
- Provided Quality Assurance by reviewing new course content for issues and adherence to company guidelines.
- Designed advertisements and marketing materials for associate partners.
- Oversaw production of printed collateral for partners.
- Developed new technologies with VP of Technology to streamline support issues. These included a new support panel for rapid customer response and course completion management tools.

eLearning Manager

- Provided art direction, mentorship, and coaching to direct reports on specific projects ensuring high quality design concepts. 
- Managed multiple internal and external project timelines with exceptional attention to detail and met tight deadlines.
- Interacted regularly with creative partners and other agency departments as needed for completion of assigned projects. 
- Delivered conceptual development of projects, including brainstorms, comps, layouts, development and refinement of products’ look-and-feel.
- Created unique corporate logos for a diverse array of companies.
- Responsible for Quality Assurance of final printed materials.

Art Director

- Created and executed project test strategy and test plans.
- Collaborated with developers, product managers, operations, and other members of the team in testing requirements and release planning.
- Designed, wrote, and executed integration, regression and system test plans and matrices for the application.
- Managed product defects and their resolution.
- Documented, communicated, and escalated defects discovered during the project life cycle, working directly with the developers and project managers to ensure appropriate follow-through to resolution.

Quality Assurance Analyst

- Created game art, including 3D low polygon modeling, mapping, animation; 2D character concepts for an MMORPG; and texture maps. Tools used included Photoshop and 3DS Max.
- Worked with the project team by providing the original concepts and creative input through delivery.

Senior Artist

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