Experience

Simplicity Consulting

• United States
• Business Consulting and Services
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Creative Director Microsoft Events - Sponsorships & Featured Partners

  • Sep 2023 - Present

  Design Creation: Develop visually appealing and impactful designs, including logos, branding materials, marketing collateral, social media graphics, website layouts, infographics, and print materials. Translate conceptual ideas into creative and engaging visual representations. Visual Content Creation: Create engaging visual content for various digital platforms, including social media channels, websites, blogs, and email campaigns. Develop graphics that optimize user experience and… Show more Design Creation: Develop visually appealing and impactful designs, including logos, branding materials, marketing collateral, social media graphics, website layouts, infographics, and print materials. Translate conceptual ideas into creative and engaging visual representations. Visual Content Creation: Create engaging visual content for various digital platforms, including social media channels, websites, blogs, and email campaigns. Develop graphics that optimize user experience and drive user engagement. Quality Assurance: Ensure design consistency, accuracy, and adherence to brand guidelines throughout the design process. Conduct thorough quality checks on final designs to ensure they meet the required specifications and are error-free.

• Microsoft Consultant: Communications and Marketing Consultant

  • Feb 2021 - Oct 2023

  Bellevue, Washington, United States Designed and implemented corporate brand styles for local sites as well as products. Developed unique visual identity system for site based teams. Worked with business groups to cohesively tell the brand story for individual campaign initiatives. Managed and built infographics, whitepapers, PowerPoint presentations, SharePoint pages, email and social media campaigns.



Coloring Outside The Lines Inc.

• Senior Marketing Specialist

  • Jan 2007 - Present

  Fargo, ND At Coloring Outside the Lines, I create and implement client brand identities. Deliverables extend across multitude of projects from brand development, digital marketing, print design, and website development. The clients I have served range from local business to national companies including, Microsoft, Dynamic Communities, Quisitive, OnActuate, SPS Commerce, eOne Solutions and Saddleback Church.



Xtreme Consulting Group, Inc.

• United States
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 1 - 100 Employee

• User Experience Designer

  • Oct 2008 - May 2014

  Fargo, ND As a contractor for Microsoft, I designed and managed multiple internal and external Microsoft Dynamics websites. Working with our development team, we established and implemented web standards for the Microsoft Dynamics business group.



First Assembly

• Graphic Administrator

  • Jan 2007 - Oct 2008

  Created strong brand identity, as well as multiple secondary brands for ministries. Implemented brand into full gamut of marketing niches.Designed and created environmental graphics for youth center; coordinated advertising campaigns; designed company web site.



Area Woman Publishing

• Creative Director

  • Apr 2005 - Jan 2007

  Led creative direction of the bimonthly magazine of 80+ pages and designed the publication, including cover, stories & advertisements, while working directly with clients, writers & editors to meet their needs. Developed solid style sheet, new identity & web site. Tasks: page layout, ad design, digital photo cleaning, logo and print design for clients, web site design & maintenance.