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Graphic Designer
Regional Transportation Commission of Southern Nevada
Las Vegas, NV
Oct 2024 - Present (1 year 9 months)
Duties and Responsibilities
• Develops, implements, and coordinates a wide variety of creative and complex graphic artwork,
primarily in digital formats, for public information and promotional materials.
• Plans, designs, lays out, and creates visual elements for brochures, maps, posters, reports, and other
marketing and public information materials, requiring research and interpretation of subject matter, from
concept to delivery of material.
• Recommends methods of visual presentations including theme, style, and format.
• Designs, coordinates, and art directs the construction of exhibits, displays, and models.
• Designs page layouts for multi-color, multi-page publications, booklets, and reports.
• Consults with coworkers and other department staff requesting artwork to discuss preferences,
methods of production, budgetary, scheduling, and production requirements.
• Organizes and lays out the content of publications, selects type styles, and makes editorial suggestions
to improve and clarify the headline/body copy.
• Prepares, updates, converts files into various formats, and distributes files to clients, vendors, and
outside agencies as directed.
• Coordinates design projects with vendors such as outside designers, photographers, illustrators, and
service bureaus.
• Prepares printing and/or production specifications and final artwork in digital format for vendors;
expedites deliveries of project orders.
• Estimates production costs and determines design, colors, and graphics in accordance with expenditure
and scheduling limitations.
• Researches and keeps current on new materials, methods, and techniques of production and equipment
as related to graphic design printing, presentations, computer graphic hardware and software.
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Freelance Graphic Designer
Self employed
Las Vegas, NV
Apr 2018 - Present (8 years 3 months)
Co-owner of Pixel Therapy Studio. Freelance Senior Graphic Designer for the local Las Vegas live event
venue called The Space and charity show Mondays Dark. Create social media graphics for live events,
concerts, Mondays Dark shows. Create on site signage and on screen graphics. Other design work as needed.
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Graphic Designer
Diamond Resorts International
Nov 2014 - Apr 2017 (2 years 5 months)
Worked in the Creative Services department where we created on-property collateral for 330+ international luxury resorts. Responsible for signage, rack cards, billboards, booklets, ads, etc. Photo retouching, typography and logo design. Changes to HTML and CSS coding for email blasts and web pages.
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Graphic Designer
Palms Casino Resort
Nov 2012 - Nov 2014 (2 years)
Collaborated with the VP of Marketing and the HR department to create signage, posters, flyers and other back-of-house collateral for Team Member information. Writing articles and photography for weekly newsletter. Collateral for all concerts at The Pearl Concert Theater.
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Graphic Artist
Caesars Entertainment
Aug 2010 - Sep 2012 (2 years 1 month)
Part of a team of designers, production artists and art directors in the design studio at corporate headquarters. Projects included national ads, billboards, duratrans. Maintained strict adherence to brand standards for all Caesars owned properties in North America. Transferred electronic files to vendors for printing and international production.
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Graphic Artist
SK+G
Mar 2008 - Aug 2010 (2 years 5 months)
Instrumental in the Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa and The Water Club Hotel & Spa brand team. Corrected copy and image positioning, sizing and color. Revised and created collateral materials for both venues. Assisted in overflow work for Galaxy Macau Casino in China. Excelled as the only Keynote presentation specialist within the entire company.