Experience

Scholastic

• United States
• Book and Periodical Publishing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Digital Art Director for Scholastic Reading Events

  • Jun 2023 - Nov 2023

• Senior Digital Art Director (Digital /E-commerce) for Book Clubs

  • Jan 2017 - Jun 2023

• Digital Art Director for Storia

  • Apr 2012 - Jan 2017

  New York, New York



Independent Designer/ Freelance

• United Kingdom
• Graphic Design

• Visual Designer/Art Director

  • Feb 2012 - Apr 2012

  New York, New York Worked on various projects including magazine layouts, branding, identity, and visual design. Clients included knot.com, buybuybaby and others



Gilt Groupe

• United States
• Consumer Goods

• Graphic & Visual Designer at Gilt Taste

  • May 2011 - Jan 2012

  New York, New York Designing, developing and maintaining the quality of the site by collaborating with UX designers. Since the beta launch of the site, I also worked closely with editorial, marketing, and PR team to design online catalogs, printed brochures, recipe cards, and promotional collaterals from design concept to print production



Freelance Designer

• United States
• Design Services

• Independent Freelance Designer

  • May 2010 - May 2011

  Worked on various projects including packaging, branding, identity, visual and book design. Clients included Matsumoto Inc., Eco Vita, Miss BabySunshine & others



Matsumoto Incorporated

• Graphic/Senior Graphic Designer

  • Aug 2004 - Apr 2010

  New York, New York Conceptualizing, designing and assisting the Art Director. The projects included publication, branding, packaging, identity, visual and book design. Responsibility also included over seeing production, and pre-press on site, and client correspondences



4 Kids Production

• Entertainment Providers
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Assistant Graphic Designer

  • Sep 2003 - May 2004

  Designing promotional logos and banners for websites and FOXBOX TV animation. DVD and VHS Package/Cover design for licensed animation



T-square design

• United Kingdom
• Civil Engineering

• Freelance Graphic Designer

  • Dec 2002 - Sep 2003

  Assisting the head designer specializing in visual design for e-commerce. Work involved corporate branding, web design and editorial design for brochures and promotional packets



CWC-International

• United States
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Assistant Creative Agent

  • Jan 2001 - Jan 2002

  Designing, product management and coordination for promotional packages, promoting illustrators and translating English­-Japanese documents



The Grow Network

• Education Administration Programs
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Freelance Graphic Designer

  • Jun 2001 - Jun 2001

  Editorial design and layouts. Assisted the head designers to meet deadlines



Chapbooks.com

• United Kingdom

• Graphic Designer

  • May 2000 - Aug 2000

  Book layout editing and image restoration using Photoshop and Quark Xpress



ITOCHU International Inc

• United States
• International Trade and Development
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Administrative Assistant

  • Jan 1998 - Jan 2000

  Clerical work, creating invoices and translating English­-Japanese documents



Texnai Inc

• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Graphic Design Intern

  • May 1998 - Aug 1998

  Assisted on image restorations and organized text layouts for educational CD-ROMs