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