Kathleen Darby
Senior Motion Graphics Designer & Creative Strategist at Bamboo- Claim this Profile
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Sam Westover
Kathleen is an amazing artist, illustrator, designer, and animator, always with an eye towards creating a good story and a smooth user experience. I was incredibly lucky to have been able to work side-by-side with her for two years at Skill-Up. Kathleen and I made up the entire creative team for the first year, and she was wonderful partner on many projects. Her amazing work ethic was always evident, in the high-quality videos that she produced, often on very tight deadlines, her leadership and guidance in always improving our standards and practices, and her continual mentorship of others on the creative team. She is incredibly detail-oriented, creating visual guides for multiple creative processes to make them easy to read and understand by everyone at the company. She is also very knowledgeable of the Adobe creative suite, and was always willing to give advice, feedback, and encouragement to others. Much of what I know of After Effects, Illustrator, and basic design and animation concepts, are a direct result of her tutelage. Her work and her work-ethic have been a continual source of inspiration to me. She will be a wonderful addition to any creative team she joins, and I hope to someday have the chance to work with her again.
Sam Westover
Kathleen is an amazing artist, illustrator, designer, and animator, always with an eye towards creating a good story and a smooth user experience. I was incredibly lucky to have been able to work side-by-side with her for two years at Skill-Up. Kathleen and I made up the entire creative team for the first year, and she was wonderful partner on many projects. Her amazing work ethic was always evident, in the high-quality videos that she produced, often on very tight deadlines, her leadership and guidance in always improving our standards and practices, and her continual mentorship of others on the creative team. She is incredibly detail-oriented, creating visual guides for multiple creative processes to make them easy to read and understand by everyone at the company. She is also very knowledgeable of the Adobe creative suite, and was always willing to give advice, feedback, and encouragement to others. Much of what I know of After Effects, Illustrator, and basic design and animation concepts, are a direct result of her tutelage. Her work and her work-ethic have been a continual source of inspiration to me. She will be a wonderful addition to any creative team she joins, and I hope to someday have the chance to work with her again.
Sam Westover
Kathleen is an amazing artist, illustrator, designer, and animator, always with an eye towards creating a good story and a smooth user experience. I was incredibly lucky to have been able to work side-by-side with her for two years at Skill-Up. Kathleen and I made up the entire creative team for the first year, and she was wonderful partner on many projects. Her amazing work ethic was always evident, in the high-quality videos that she produced, often on very tight deadlines, her leadership and guidance in always improving our standards and practices, and her continual mentorship of others on the creative team. She is incredibly detail-oriented, creating visual guides for multiple creative processes to make them easy to read and understand by everyone at the company. She is also very knowledgeable of the Adobe creative suite, and was always willing to give advice, feedback, and encouragement to others. Much of what I know of After Effects, Illustrator, and basic design and animation concepts, are a direct result of her tutelage. Her work and her work-ethic have been a continual source of inspiration to me. She will be a wonderful addition to any creative team she joins, and I hope to someday have the chance to work with her again.
Sam Westover
Kathleen is an amazing artist, illustrator, designer, and animator, always with an eye towards creating a good story and a smooth user experience. I was incredibly lucky to have been able to work side-by-side with her for two years at Skill-Up. Kathleen and I made up the entire creative team for the first year, and she was wonderful partner on many projects. Her amazing work ethic was always evident, in the high-quality videos that she produced, often on very tight deadlines, her leadership and guidance in always improving our standards and practices, and her continual mentorship of others on the creative team. She is incredibly detail-oriented, creating visual guides for multiple creative processes to make them easy to read and understand by everyone at the company. She is also very knowledgeable of the Adobe creative suite, and was always willing to give advice, feedback, and encouragement to others. Much of what I know of After Effects, Illustrator, and basic design and animation concepts, are a direct result of her tutelage. Her work and her work-ethic have been a continual source of inspiration to me. She will be a wonderful addition to any creative team she joins, and I hope to someday have the chance to work with her again.
Credentials
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UX Design Principles for AR & VR
NYU Tandon School of Engineering: Graduate SchoolAug, 2020- Nov, 2024 -
Cinema 4D Basecamp
School of MotionOct, 2019- Nov, 2024 -
UI Animation Fundamentals
UX in MotionSep, 2019- Nov, 2024 -
IBM Introduction to Artificial Intelligence (AI)
CourseraAug, 2019- Nov, 2024 -
Rigging Academy 2.0
School of MotionMar, 2019- Nov, 2024 -
Microsoft Teams
Skill-Up TechnologiesJan, 2019- Nov, 2024 -
Advanced Adobe Illustrator
Lynda.comJan, 2017- Nov, 2024 -
After Effects CC Essential Training
Lynda.comNov, 2015- Nov, 2024 -
Facebook Certified Creative Strategy Professional
FacebookFeb, 2021- Nov, 2024
Experience
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Bamboo
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United States
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Advertising Services
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1 - 100 Employee
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Senior Motion Graphics Designer & Creative Strategist
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Jul 2022 - Present
Creates high-quality motion graphics animations and videos across channels. Work closely with the growth marketing team to understand testing objectives and create custom creative videos exceeding performance marketing KPIs. Uses past creative performance data to provide actionable creative strategy Spear-headed modular creative testing strategies enabling channel creative testingImplements Creative Strategy for Direct Response marketing campaigns.Presents Creative Strategy QBRs surfacing creative insights & opportunities.Supports Paid Media with ample amounts of creative assets for various channels. Show less
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Motion Graphic Designer II
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Jul 2021 - Jul 2022
Thinks strategically to identify areas of testing opportunities that enable creative insights. Collaborates effectively with AdOps, clients, Producers, and Designers to create content. Deliver quality 2D & 3D animated social media videos and concepts. Animates and iterates on thousands of social media video assets to reduce creative fatigue.Sketches, ideates, iterates, and generates new creative video concepts using data insights. Identifies, streamlines, and manages production pipelines to meet key business objectives. Show less
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Motion Graphic Designer
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Jun 2020 - Jul 2021
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Amazon
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United States
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Software Development
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700 & Above Employee
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Media and Motion Designer
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Feb 2020 - Jun 2020
Animated and illustrated 2000+ training process overview videos to drive retention across 100,000+ Amazon facility trainees and managers. Animated and illustrated 2000+ training process overview videos to drive retention across 100,000+ Amazon facility trainees and managers.
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Microsoft
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United States
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Software Development
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700 & Above Employee
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Motion Graphic Designer (contract with Skill-Up Technologies)
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Mar 2018 - Feb 2020
Produced all animation and creative content for the #1 course on Coursera–Introduction to Artificial Intelligence in collaboration with a team of SMEs & instructional designers.Created additional animation materials for a multi-course Data Science Professional Certificate, which drove 600,000+ student enrollment. Led production of motion graphics animations illustrating complex internal process flows that were rolled out to all 20,000+ Microsoft managers worldwide. Wire-framed UI educational web portals & designed executive leadership decks. Show less
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Visual Designer & Icon Illustrator
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Sep 2017 - Feb 2018
Designed process flowcharts and visuals illustrating device product research & stories.Contributed to executive quarterly pitch decks and UX prototypes.
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University of Oregon
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United States
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Higher Education
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700 & Above Employee
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Graphic Designer for Central Marketing Communications
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Aug 2016 - Feb 2017
Executed design, layout, and final art production of digital and print communication projects: The university student application, mail-outs, brochures, newsletters, advertising, illustrations, banners, infographics, event collateral, and large scale prints. Executed design, layout, and final art production of digital and print communication projects: The university student application, mail-outs, brochures, newsletters, advertising, illustrations, banners, infographics, event collateral, and large scale prints.
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Mountain Valley Marketing
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Advertising Services
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Lead Illustrator
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Oct 2016 - Jan 2017
• Created illustrations and graphics for print and web use • Managed social media accounts, statistics, and client reports • Created illustrations and graphics for print and web use • Managed social media accounts, statistics, and client reports
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University of Oregon
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United States
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Higher Education
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700 & Above Employee
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Graphic Designer & Curatorial Assistant
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Oct 2015 - Jun 2016
Designed gallery digital & print collateral, and consulted with exhibiting artists.Adapted exhibiting artist’s videos to the gallery’s 3-wall immersive projection
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Graphic Designer
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Jun 2015 - Sep 2015
Created the University Housing Style Guide, collateral design systems, social media strategy, T-shirt illustrations and mock-ups, typesetting, and updated publications according to the new University of Oregon brand.
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Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art
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Eugene, Oregon Area
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Stop-Motion Animation Camp Instructor
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Jul 2015 - Jul 2015
Created a curriculum to teach the fundamentals of animation to a diverse age range of students. Facilitated students storyboard, create, and film original animated shorts using zoetropes, thaumatropes, claymation, and flip books. Created a curriculum to teach the fundamentals of animation to a diverse age range of students. Facilitated students storyboard, create, and film original animated shorts using zoetropes, thaumatropes, claymation, and flip books.
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University of Oregon
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United States
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Higher Education
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700 & Above Employee
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Graphic Designer UO Housing
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Feb 2012 - Sep 2014
• Re-developed the University Housing Style Guide according to new University of Oregon brand guidelines • Designed branded marketing collateral including but not limited to: typeset documents, posters, presentations, illustrations, layouts, mock ups, environmental signage and logos for print and web • Participated in all aspects of the print process from client consulting, ideation, design, pre-press file preparation, to offset and digital press checks, proofing, and archiving collateral • Collaborated to create rentwise.uoregon.edu, an interactive web app • Created recycling & composting environmental signage that reduced student waste Show less
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Education
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University of Oregon
Bachelor of Fine Arts - BFA, Art and Technology -
University of Oregon
Bachelor’s Degree, Digital Arts -
NW Film Center
Summer Classes, Animation -
Da Vinci Middle School
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Madison High School
High School, 3.92 GPA