SAVVY DESKTOP PUBLISHING & DESIGN, LLC
SAVOY BROWN - CREDENTIALS
Marketer & Graphic Designer
Marketer & Designer with 10 years of marketing experience using imaginative marketing approaches and 25 years in commercial arts across various mediums. Unique collaborative and interpersonal skills. Thoughtful team-player with top-level written and verbal communication. Experienced in creating and successfully implementing new marketing campaigns and product designs to compete with market leaders. Noted for accelerating production through strict discipline and dedication.
American Safety Institute
Marketing Director: 2018 - 2019
- Under a one year contract - provided direction, leadership and coordination of marketing efforts.
- Created daily social media marketing campaigns
- Provided content marketing in coherence with current SEO & SEM standards.
- Created daily social media and blog posts using Hootsuite, Social Sprout and WordPress.
- Performed competitor research and developed marketing budgets.
- Built brand awareness and positioning.
SAVVY DESKTOP PUBLISHING & DESIGN, LLC
Owner/Operator: 2015 - Current
- From a home office while under multiple contracts, was entrusted to create over 850 projects.
- Client list included: HD Supply, (now Core & Main),Duperon Corporation and Homes & Land.
- Marketing collateral included, but not limited to, magazine advertisements, brochures, flyers, e-mail campaigns, trade show displays and web ads.
- Cultivated relationships with clients and customized marketing and design strategies to meet their individual needs.
PRUITT, HUMPHRESS, POWERS & MUNROE
Project Manager of Marketing and Art Direction: 2011 - 2015
- Client list included multi-million level national industrial equipment manufactures within the water industry.
- With PHPM marketing procedures, successfully met progress to revenue goals and boosted client’s annual revenue during recruitment.
- Successfully designed trade show booths, magazine advertisements, brochures, flyers and e-mail campaigns in multiple languages for primary and ancillary materials.
- Managed video & photography shoots and facilitated their productions.
- Primary producer of interactive corporate presentations
NATIONAL HIGH MAGNETIC FIELD LABORATORY
Senior Art Director: 2007 - 2011
- Enlisted by the Public Affairs Group to create a new publication, the Flux magazine.
- Nominated as lead designer for the Public Affairs Group,
- which resulted in the Employee of the Month Award.
- Advanced the design of Annual Reports, Mag Lab Reports, brochures, web design, event & laboratory posters and trade show-like displays.
- Creation of new brand identity throughout the laboratory.
- Supported the Biochemistry Laboratory with design and graphics.
TALLAHASSEE DEMOCRAT
Senior Graphic Designer: 2005 - 2007
- Lead designer for the Special Sections department and standalone publications - Style Magazine, Xtra, Active Living, Real Estate Weekly, Home & Design, Golden Review and more.
- Collaboration with sales executives and editors to accurately transfer visual concepts and ensure they are to client’s specifications.
- Directed professional photo shoots to ensure preplanned visual concepts are met for brand identification.
- Recipient of a perfect performance review.
HARCOURT
Project Manager & Graphics/Writer Liaison: 1997 - 2005
- Built, per provided specifications, publications for Harcourt, McGraw Hill, Scott Foresman, Houghton Mifflin, Pearson, Steck-Vaughn.
- Promoted to Graphics-Writer Liaison to collaborate with executives, level editors and graphical teams.
- Acquisition of design studios that complemented textbooks which varied in style and content.
- Coordinated projects according to time deadlines and project budgets.
Homes & Land
Shift Leader: 1993 - 1997
- Diligently learned all aspects of image enhancement, page production, proofing and pre-press operations.
- Promotions back-to-back - Team Leader and Shift Lead.
- Monitored and a set production schedule and delegated work to multiple team leads.
- Coordinated workload of 75 employees.
- Facilitated communication between departments by leading daily meetings for workload hand-off to the next shift.