Curry Resume

Lisa Curry

Contact: lcurry@gmail.com

SUMMARY:
Twelve year creative marketing and advertising veteran, skilled in working a fast-paced, deadline driven environment, is ready to move on to a highly creative leadership position. Proven abilities ranslate in both an agency and high-level in-house marketing/creative groups with consistent, award-winning, brand identity, trade show and campaign skills.

EXPERIENCE:

Metavante Image Solutions (formerly Advanced Financial Solutions)
2001 - 2007
Art Director/Sr. Graphic Developer

Graphic design and creative direction for B2B advertising, trade shows, collateral and product promotions, with proven project and brand management implementation.

Consistently award-winning in-house design, including a major rebranding campaign after corporate buy-out and a trade show campaign of over sixty shows a year.
Management of promotional theme development and implementation of all aspects of corporate advertising and marketing from concept to printing.
Growth of department and advertising options, sparking huge leaps in sales growth and new client leads, while maintaining existing yearly budgets.
Converted agency outsourced work to in-house while keeping high expectations of creativity, growing sales leads, actual sales, and trade show attendance for every quarter.
Rebranding of three separate companies combined into one unifying division
Co-op fund administration for advertising with no funds lost to roll-off since taking over management of the account.

Curry Design
2001 - Present
Contract/Consulting

Freelance design and consulting for wide variety of industries and individual entrepreneurs, from start-ups to billion dollar corporations.

All aspects of project management from brand development and management, contracting, and organizing printing.

Teleflora LLC (formerly American Floral Services)
1995 - 2001
Graphic Artist

Graphic and web design in a corporate, cooperative team environment.

Skilled at working under tight deadlines to produce a wide variety of collateral, ads, trade show, POP, and educational creative.
Career growth from junior designer to overseeing and managing brand development and standards for three corporate sub-divisions.
Creating/writing newsletters for international subdivisions and affiliates for communication and educational purposes.

EDUCATION:

Art Institute Online
Art Institute of PA - Pittsburgh, PA
Expected degree: B.S. in Design
Graphic Design- Graphic design and marketing.

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS/ACTIVITIES:

The One Club
NAPP (National Association of Photoshop Professionals)
Oklahoma City Ad Club, Tenth District AAF
OKC Ad Club Board of Directors, 2005
AFS/Metavante Events Committee
AOL Creative Arts, Careers & Work channel chat host
AFS/Teleflora corporate activities committee

ADDITIONAL QUALIFICATIONS:

Award-winning designs from American Advertising Federation and League of Communications Professionals.
Annual record-setting growth of sales and trade show leads due to marketing and advertising efforts.
Basic web design, html, css, javascript, flash to help support products.
Photography for projects including events, headshots, outdoor, architecture.
Trade show planning and coordination, booth design, planning and design of supporting marketing materials with an eye for sales growth and brand recognition.
Solid campaign development and implementation of all aspects of corporate design and advertising.
Highly organized, respected project manager, working with sales, executives, writing staff and other internal departments and outside vendors as projects require with clear and precise communication skills.
Specializing in digital illustration, branding campaigns and direct mail.
Organized and managed heavy project load and tight deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
Advanced proficiency with all Microsoft Office programs, Photoshop, InDesign, Acrobat, Illustrator, QuarkXPress, Dreamweaver.
Proficiency with both PC and Mac platforms.