Work
Red Hat July 2012 - present
Associate Creative Director and Senior Manager, Motion Design - March 2021 - present
Has successfully led a team of five motion graphics designers for three years with curiosity, empathy, meeting team needs, and career growth at the center of management style.
Helps define team’s strategy and goals
Resource management and capacity planning for project intake
Performance & development:
Actively mentor and find opportunities for team members to develop
Quarterly evaluations, annual performance reviews and talent calibrations
Bonus allocation, salary adjustments, talent modeling to organizational standard
Graduate of year-long management training course
Works collaboratively across Marketing department, business units, and external vendors on campaigns, initiatives, and special projects
Concept, look and feel development, feedback for peers and juniors
Pitching ideas, seeing them through to delivery, and learning from the results
Director and maintainer of animation brand standards and assets for a global Fortune 500 company
Previous roles at Red Hat:
Associate Creative Director and Manager, Motion Design - June 2020 - March 2021
Art Director, Motion Design - July 2017 - June 2020
Senior Motion Graphics Designer - April 2015 - July 2017
Motion Graphics Designer - July 2012 - April 2015
Centerline Digital
June 2010 - July 2012
Motion Graphics Designer
Responsible for full delivery of animation workflow: storyboarding, art asset development (2D, illustration, 3D) for motion graphics in live action customer testimonials, fully animated technical explainers, event videos, and promotional animations
Clients were IBM, Lowe’s Home Improvement, and others
Morehead Planetarium and Science Center
August 2008 - June 2010
Multimedia Designer
Generalist digital designer for K-12 science education:
Front end web design and development, HTML, CSS, PHP
Illustration and animation for immersive presentations
2D and 3D asset development for animated fulldome planetarium shows
Exhibit and interaction pre-visualization
Education
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill - 2004 - 2008
B.A. in Journalism & Mass Communication with a Multimedia Studies focus
Skills
Adobe Creative Suite (Illustrator, Photoshop, After Effects, Premiere Pro, Audition, Media Encoder), Cinema 4D, Redshift, Octane, Blender.
Awards & Press
(note that all of these awards are shared)
The Open Patient accepted into Brand Film Festival - won for branded program
2017 Triangle Advertising Award, winner of silver award for branded content
GDUSA 2022 In-house Design Awards for Red Hat’s brand campaign: Connected industries
2019 MarCom Awards - won platinum in category of Branding Refresh for The Open Brand Project
"How to make amazing podcast artwork” for Red Hat’s Command Line Heroes season 2
2014 MarCom Awards - won platinum for Red Hat Summit + its intro video, North America Partner Conference intro video