Professional Experience
Amazon
Visual Design, Payment Products,
AUG 2020 — PRESENT
As a Visual Designer at Amazon, I support the visual customer experience for Amazon's consumer-facing payment products. I work on establishing visual strategies across all payment products. I also work to build brand guidelines and personas for payment products to craft a cohesive customer experience from beginning to end.
Bonanza
Product & Design,
SEP 2016 — JUL 2020
As a designer at Bonanza, I contributed to strategic decisions and proposed ideas for improving products, marketing, and internal processes at Bonanza. I designed landing pages, emails, and other conversion-focused layouts, as well as user interfaces and user flows for key site features. As the main designer for Bonanza, I implemented improvements to our design process and looked for ways to enhance company culture.
My duties also encompassed creating digital illustrations ranging from icons on social media posts to customized character suites for landing pages. Additionally, I was responsible for all written content at Bonanza. I communicated with sellers through our blog, created informative help articles, wrote email copy, and created a copy style guide for others to use in the future. I also managed our graphic designer, providing copy edits for guest blog features and social media posts.
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Content Marketing,
FEB 2015 — SEP 2016
Prior to joining the product team at Bonanza, I was a content specialist and marketing manager on our communications team. Responsiblities include:
- Content marketing and copywriting
- Development of marketing initiatives
- Advertising collateral design
- Public relations management
- Social media management
The Inverness Hotel
Marketing & Public Relations,
JUN 2014 — JAN 2015
- Social media management
- Blog production and management
- Press release production and distribution
- External marketing collateral leisure services
- Internal marketing collateral to promote culture and core values
A Vintage Affair Events
Event Design & Day-of Coordination, JAN 2012 — JAN 2015
- Assisted with day-of coordination and event styling
- Created and inspired unique and individual wedding elements
- Acted as "right-hand" for planner and assist with any and all possible needs
Montage Hotels & Resorts
Catering & Day-of Coordination, Summer Intern 2013
- Updated nearly a dozen banquet menus in New Market Delphi
- Developed an efficient way to track records of prior events
- Created an Estimate of Expense Template for client proposals
- Assisted with Requests for Proposals and scheduled client site inspections
Education
School of Visual Concepts
UI and Visual Design,
2016 — 2018
University of Denver
Bachelor of Science in Business Administration, 2010—2014
- Major: Hospitality Management
- Focus: Sales & Marketing
- Minor: Leadership Studies
Software
Adobe Suite
Photoshop, Illustrator, Lightroom, InDesign
Google Suite
Google Docs, Google Sheets, Google Slides
Microsoft Suite
Certified in Word, Excel, Powerpoint
Basic HTML / CSS
WYSIWYG and Source Editor, Squarespace, Wordpress, and Wix
Prototyping
Figma, InVision, Zeplin