Graphic Designer & Illustrator

An artist with over 15 years of experience in graphic design. Creative, dependable, quick, results-driven, and dedicated team member with a sense of humor.

Professional Skills

Print Design, Packaging Design, Concept Development, Digital Illustration, Image Retouching, CMS Auto-Publishing, Web Design, Presentation Design, Logo Design, Project Management, XML/DITA XML, HTML & CSS, JavaScript Essentials

Professional Tools

Adobe InDesign, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Acrobat Pro, Adobe Animate, Adobe Premiere Pro, Adobe After Effects, Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Excel, Oxygen Text Editing, BLUE Software, Vasont CMS Software, Figma

Professional Experience

Freelance

2022 - Present
Graphic Designer/3-D Artist
  • Produce graphic design projects and illustrations for various clients such as Tiger Baron Foundation and Fine Foods Trading
  • Develop various marketing materials, including presentations, displays, logo designs, Photoshop retouchings and renderings
  • Design packaging labels for print production
  • Create wood, cold cast bronze, and plaster sculptures and 3-D paintings

Ascensia Diabetes Care

Parsippany, NJ
2015 – 2022
Global manufacturer of Contour blood glucose monitoring systems
Sr. Graphic Designer/Auto-publishing Specialist
  • Convert DITA XML text files to InDesign print-ready product
  • Generate and maintain Content Management System (CMS) image library
  • Develop InDesign templates for CMS auto-publishing
  • Route art projects using the BLUE digital project review tool
  • Create illustrations for product user guide

Freelance

2013 - 2015
Graphic Designer/Illustrator
  • Produced graphic design projects and illustrations for various clients and agencies, including Kollins Communications, Otsuka America Pharmaceutical Inc., and Fine Foods Trading
  • Prepared advertisements, presentations, and logos
  • Designed website concepts, digital ads, and email campaigns
  • Produced lifestyle images and graphic elements for video and web projects
  • Created Digital illustrations

Sharp Electronics,

Mahwah, NJ
2009 - 2013
Manufacturer of consumer electronics and business products
Sr. Graphic Designer Specialist
  • Executed numerous marketing projects, handling the entire design process from initial concept to final output
  • Enhanced the company’s brand and product visibility at retail by developing and supporting the brand guidelines
  • Created collateral design materials, including brochures, banners, flyers, and sell sheets
  • Prepared web-ready imaging, digital ads, and templates
  • Generated product lifestyle images for the corporate image library
  • Produced point-of-purchase materials, package design, and product manuals

Freelance

2007 - 2009
Graphic Designer/Illustrator
  • Generated graphic design projects for companies and agencies such as Pfizer, BD, Boehringer Ingelheim, Oticon, Advanstar, Sudler & Hennessey, ANCO Fine Cheese, and Rust-Oleum
  • Developed various marketing materials, including advertisements, brochures, magazines, PowerPoint presentations, and logo designs
  • Produced packaging, labels, point-of-purchase displays, and planograms
  • Generated high-resolution image retouchings
  • Created digital illustrations

MPD Design & Printing

(Division of ELCAM), Summit, NJ
2006
Design, Commercial Printing and Fulfillment
Sr. Graphic Designer
  • Generated marketing material to enhance the company profile
  • Conceptualized and produced graphic design projects working directly with customers
  • Designed annual reports, catalogs, newsletters, booklets, and postcards
  • Developed corporate identity and logos

The Biber Partnership AIA,

Summit, NJ
2001 - 2006
Full service Architecture Planning Interior Design firm
Sr. Graphic Designer
  • Designed marketing brochures, competition boards, postcards, presentations, and covers to support the company’s marketing and sales activities
  • Conceptualized and designed the company website
  • Produced architectural renderings and photography retouchings
  • Prepared artwork for print production, including prepress, bills, and shipments

GLAXOSMITHKLINE

(Block Drug), Jersey City, NJ
1999 - 2001
Pharmaceutical company
Graphic Designer
  • Designed brochures, sell sheets, coupons, binder covers, logos, and letterheads for the company’s sales department
  • Produced product photography for advertisements using professional studio equipment
  • Created digital illustrations for presentations and other types of collateral design materials

Additional Experience AND INTERESTS

  • Create wood, bronze, plaster sculptures, and 3-D paintings
  • Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA) volunteer for over 5 years
  • Fluent in Russian and Estonian languages
  • Created computer illustrations for textbooks
  • Created watercolor and ink illustrations for children’s books
  • Designed learning materials and educational games
  • Constructed a monumental sculpture representing Hygieia, the Greek goddess, for the Health Museum in Tallinn, Estonia

Education

  • Master's Degree in fine arts from The Estonian Academy of Arts