I’m an experienced and empathetic team leader with demonstrated history of working as a graphic designer, brand manager, and marketing professional in various in-house marketing teams. I have a balance of a creative and strategic mindset with passion for building and supporting strong teams. I have 13 years of experience managing a variety of design projects as a freelancer and working within in-house design and marketing teams. I am strategy and process driven, detail-oriented, creative, collaborative, with the ability to work independently.

Oakwood Homes, Denver, CO

Creative + Brand Manager • August 2020 – Present

  • Leads creative development and provides art direction for all of Oakwood’s marketing campaigns, collateral, digital ads, social media graphics, video content, email design, and email marketing campaign strategies.

  • Works and collaborates cross-functionally with all departments to brainstorm, strategize, write, and present creative briefs to internal stakeholders. Assists marketing and design team on execution of campaign graphics and launch support.

  • Manages a team of graphic designers, providing support and feedback, review of design work, guidance, and development.’

  • Oversees brand guidelines, monitors brand materials to ensure all pieces adhere to standards set for all of Oakwood’s family of brands, and implementation of brand strategy for marketing and brand campaigns.

  • Project management, including: ensuring project requests have the required and relevant information from internal clients, delegating projects and tasks to appropriate team members, project timelines, proofing, and approvals. 

  • Copywriting, proofing, and content development as needed.

  • Vendor relations and management.

Senior Graphic Designer • July 2019 – August 2020

  • Worked closely with team leadership to lead creative direction for design requests, including: branding & identity for Oakwood’s communities and internal and national marketing campaigns.

  • Assist Brand Manager on design of sales offices.

  • Management of in-house design team’s projects and timelines.

Graphic Designer • April 2017 – July 2019

  • Responsible for design of marketing and sales collateral, including: environmental graphics, signage, print ads, brochures, digital ads, social graphics, and email design and assist with email campaign strategy.

porchlight real estate group, Denver, CO

Graphic Designer • April 2015 – November 2016

  • Designed logos, signage, flyers, posters, postcards, print ads, and collateral.

  • Assisted team with social media content and posted using Hootsuite.

  • Filmed and edited videos to showcase homes going to market.

Aimco, Denver, CO

Contract Graphic Designer • October 2012 – October 2013

  • Designed signage, floorplans, community maps,  and collateral.

Select rewards, centennial, CO

Production Designer • August 2011 – August 2015

  • Flowed copy into books, proofed, and provided print-ready files to printers.

Rocky mountain college of art + design, lakewood, CO

Design Intern • August 2010 – August 2011

  • Designed marketing collateral, postcards, event posters and booklets.

Education: Rocky Mountain College of Art + Design  •  2007–2011
Bachelor of Fine Arts, Communication Design

Skills + Abilities
Adobe Creative Cloud

  • InDesign

  • InCopy

  • Illustrator

  • Photoshop

  • Premiere Pro

Other Software

  • Creatopy (HTML-5 Ads)

  • HubSpot

  • MyEMMA

  • Constant Contact

Other 

  • Clear communication

  • Project + time management

  • Detail-oriented