Senior Graphic Designer and Motion Artist with 20+ years of experience spanning web animation, rich-media advertising, brand identity, and digital marketing. Proven track record delivering high-engagement creative across display, social, and .COM channels for a Fortune 50 retailer. Expert in Adobe Creative Suite, video editing, HTML5/Canvas animation, and AI-assisted design workflows. Known for pixel-perfect execution, on-time delivery, working in teams and cross-functional collaboration.
Core Competencies
• Presentation & Deck Design • Rich-Media Advertising • Brand Identity & Systems • Social Media Campaigns • Design Presentation • Visual Communication • Storyboarding & Concepting • Motion Graphics • Video Editing • Web Animation • 3D Conceptualization • Typography • SEO Implementation • Video Editing • AI-Assisted Design • Prompt Engineering • Brand Standards Compliance
The Home Depot —senior digital designer Atlanta, GA (2014-2026)
• graphic design • design presentation • social media campaigns • visual communication
• storyboarding • web animation • video editing • brand page construction for .COM
Served as lead designer for company-wide seasonal event animations deployed
across every online advertising channel, including display, social, and .COM.Influenced stakeholder decisions by delivering compelling design proposal presentations
through PowerPoint decks, securing approval for multiple high-budget creative projects.Engineered high-engagement rich-media ads using Innervate, Celtra, SpongeCell,
and Clipcentric, consistently meeting 100% on-time delivery across all campaigns.Built and maintained brand pages on The Home Depot’s .COM using Contentful
CMS, implementing SEO best practices to maximize organic reach.Designed and presented social media campaign decks to stakeholders and project
managers; campaigns ran on Pinterest, Meta, and Reddit, driving upper-funnel
impressions and acquisition.Partnered with premium ad vendors including Undertone and AdColony to execute
complex, multi-format advertising campaigns.Accelerated project kickoff phases by delivering high-fidelity preliminary sketches,
reducing conceptual revision cycles and saving design hours per project.Integrated AI-driven workflows (Stable Diffusion, ControlNet) and Procreate to
cut concept generation time while maintaining high artistic standards.Taught internal Adobe Creative Suite training courses, building motion and design capability across the team.
Recruited and onboarded three designers from a previous studio; two remain with the company today.
THE HOME DEPOT
FIFA 2026
When The Home Depot began planning around FIFA 2026, I was asked to explore how the brand could show up in a global moment that sits well outside its usual home-improvement territory. I developed a number of distinct advertisement concepts and presented them to stakeholders, each taking a different angle on the intersection of the tournament and the brand: from bold, stadium-scale graphics to quieter product-led executions with partner brands like Behr. Presenting multiple directions side by side gave decision-makers a real choice to react to, and made the conversation about strategy rather than taste.
A large part of my role has been translating an idea into something a room full of clients can say yes to. I've built and delivered dozens of PowerPoint decks that walk project managers and brand partners through design and execution, and I built the advertising content those decks promised. Designing across Meta, Pinterest, and Reddit, my team pitching the concept, building the creative, and seeing the campaign through to launch. Owning both the presentation and the production means nothing gets lost in translation between the pitch and the finished ad.
Vendor partnerships bring their own challenge: honoring another company's brand standards while keeping the work unmistakably Home Depot. For partners, I design campaign creative that respected each brand's identity system while fitting the retail context it appeared in. Knowing where the boundaries are and where there's room to explore inside them is what makes that kind of collaboration work.
Using Contentful, I built and maintained brand pages on The Home Depot's .COM, working through nested layers of modules to assemble pages that stay on-brand while meeting the platform's structural requirements. Beyond the initial build, these pages need ongoing upkeep: refreshing seasonal creative, updating product assortments, and implementing SEO best practices so the pages continue to earn organic reach. It's detail-driven work where brand standards and back-end structure have to agree with each other.
Before a single frame gets animated, the idea has to be legible on paper. I storyboard concepts as high-fidelity preliminary sketches; establishing camera, staging, lighting, and the beats of the motion, so everyone can see the finished piece before the production hours are spent. This front-loading cuts revision cycles significantly and turns abstract feedback into specific, actionable notes. It's the same instinct behind all my work: make the thinking visible first, then execute.
Online advertising is where the bulk of my day-to-day design work has lived. Over 12 years at The Home Depot I built display and rich-media creative across every standard IAB size, for seasonal events, category promotions, and partner-brand campaigns, each concept expanded into a full set of build-out sizes so a single idea could run everywhere it needed to. The still frames below only tell part of the story. These are animations: they were built to move, to hold attention for a few seconds in a crowded feed, and to hand the viewer a reason to click.
The above are three express variations and video background options
User Experience within advertising and rich media
COX Media Group —digital designer Atlanta, GA (2008-2014)
graphic design • web animation
Designed and animated over 2000+ banners, rich media advertisements, splash pages and even in-browser games for COX Media Group, including multiple build-out sizes for each design; trained using effective workflows for creating, reviewing, and completing graphic design services for clients who advertise with TV stations, radio stations and newspapers owned by COX.
• Maintained visual consistency and brand compliance across all creative deliverables.
• Delivered for a high-volume advertising studio.
Smith Western Co. —graphic designer
graphic design • concepting • illustration —Tacoma, WA (2006-2008)
In my first post-graduate role I designed a variety of illustrations and vintage-style artwork for Smith Western Co. in Tacoma, WA. My work featured on diverse gift shop products, including mugs, boxes, sculptures, apparel and accessories. Smith Western Co. is a family owned business which deals in manufacturing gifts and artwork for popular landmarks across the country. For instance, national parks, Vegas hotels, local attractions and large chain retail. I created artwork and blueprint concepts for 600+ gift products.
— Achieved Employee of the year in 2007
Freelance –graphic design
TECHNICAL SKILLS
Adobe Suite: Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects, Premiere, InDesign, Animate (HTML5/Canvas)
Design & Collaboration: Figma, Canva, ZBrush, Blender, Procreate
AI & Emerging Tools: Claude Design, Claude Code, ComfyUI, Stable Diffusion, ControlNet, AnimateDiffusion
Rich Media Platforms: Innervate (RevJet), Celtra, SpongeCell, Clipcentric
CMS & Marketing: Contentful (SEO & brand page build-out), SharePoint
Social Advertising: Meta (Facebook/Instagram), Pinterest, Reddit
Ad Network Partners: Undertone, AdColony
Productivity: Personal systems software written using Claude, Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams)