About Me

I am a Graphic Designer at Phoenix Printing. I have experience in digital media, traditional art, magazine layout, newspaper design, and marketing materials. As a designer, I want inspire others with my creativity and positive attitude.

Skills

  • 3+ years of magazine work (design and layout)

  • Customer-Service Oriented

  • Dedicated and Focused

  • Reliable

  • Experienced in administrative office work

  • Highly Efficient

  • Strong Work Ethic

Work Experience

Graphic Designer, Phoenix Printing Group, Augusta, GA - (August 2023 – Current)

Responsibilities include creation of visual designs for printing and digital products, modifying, editing, or recreating client print files, managing the timelines and workflow of assignments, communicating updates, feedback, and issues with managers and the creative team, and maintaining the brand's consistency across all designs and printed materials.

Graphic Designer, BUCK Cancer Foundation, Part-time Volunteer - (September 2022 – August 2023)

Create and design various materials for print and digital collateral, brochures, signs, annual reports, advertisements, and other communication materials, ensure projects are completed with high quality and on schedule, create materials digitally with computer software programs, and establish creative direction and brand guidelines for the company

Artist Entertainer, Wine and Design, Augusta, GA - (August 2022 – Current)

Facilitate a casual and relaxed art experience, guide an audience through an acrylic painting class, create and develop paintings to be taught, prepare canvases for classes.

Education

University of South Carolina Aiken - Bachelors in Technology Fine Arts (Graphic Design), Minor in Psychology - November 2020

  • GPA 3.78 - Magna Cum Laude

  • University of South Carolina Aiken Honors Program Participant

  • Dean’s List Recipient, Fall 2017, Spring 2018, Fall 2018

  • President’s List Recipient, Spring 2019, Fall 2020, Spring 2020

  • Pi Gamma Mu Member

  • Palmetto Fellows Scholarship Recipient

  • Chancellor’s Medal Recipient

  • Aiken Rotary Club December 2020 Student of the Month

Digital Marketing and E-Commerce Professional Certificate

  • Google Certified Digital Marketing Course

  • Issued August 2022

  • Credential Link : https://coursera.org/

Past Work Experience

Page Designer/Adobe InDesign Specialist, Aiken Standard, Aiken, SC - (September 2022 – Current)

Responsibilities include daily page design, including 1A, news, sports, and feature pages, design graphics and sales pieces as needed, design special sections as well as weekly and monthly special sections, help with commercial print jobs as needed, work with team and pressmen to get sections out as needed on the press, contributing story ideas and editorial ideas, other tasks as assigned by management.

Recruiting Coordinator, MAU Workforce Solutions, Augusta, GA - (Jun. 2021 – Sept. 2022)

Responsible for meeting hiring goals by filling open positions with qualified candidates. This entails sourcing and screening candidates, coordinating the interview process, facilitating offers, employment negotiations, processing and sending reports, editing PowerPoints, processing external and internal referrals, and other duties as requested.

Graphic Design Internship, Aiken Center for the Arts, Aiken, SC - (Jul. 2020 – Dec. 2020)

Designed take-home activity kits available for purchase in the gift shop. Responsible for box selection, logo design, instructions, including an instructional video available on the website, and other collateral materials.

Barista (Part-Time), Starbucks, Whiskey Rd, Aiken, SC (January 2021 - May 2021)

Provide customers with prompt service, quality beverages and products, and maintain clean store environment.

Student Assistant (Part-Time), Nursing - USC Aiken, Aiken, SC - (Sept. 2017-Dec. 2020)

Responsibilities included assisting faculty and students, filing documents, sorting and distributing mail, assisting administration, and other duties as requested.

Cashier (Part-Time), The Fresh Market, Aiken, SC - (Jun. 2018-Feb. 2021)

Responsibilities include handling money and credit transactions, running cash register, serving customers in various departments, and other duties as requested.


Cashier (Full-Time), Harvard's Wine and Beverage, Aiken, SC (May 2021-July 2021)

Responsibilities included handling money and credit transactions, running cash register, helping stock shelves, give recommendations to customers, process restaurant orders, and other duties as requested.

Additional Skills

• Recruitment (sourcing, interviewing, and placing)
• Proficient in Microsoft Office
• Experience with Adobe Creative Cloud
• Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop, Acrobat
• Handling money and credit card transactions
• Answering phones, taking messages, sending emails
• 3+ years in customer service
• 3+ years of cashier work experience