Dede Sonntag

After leaving Nav, I partnered with a former co-worker and started this freelance business.
We create complete marketing solutions for several companies such as the Arizona Biltmore, a Waldorf Astoria Hotel, JW Marriott, and others.
Please visit GoRivetMarketing.com for our full portfolio.

Marketing Graphic Designer:
Working in conjunction with marketing, design and product teams, I am responsible for conceptualizing, creating and executing interface designs for product, websites, templates, print materials and applications. Adobe Creative suite, Sketch and InVision app.
Email campaign designer (responsive emails), photo shoots direction/editing, video campaign director and team coordinator
Art director:
As an acting Art Director, I have lead the design efforts for a complete rebranding and created the master style guide.
Project Manager:
Mobile first campaign across all platforms and team management on Jira.
Product UI team lead:
Organization of tasks, meetings and follow up on results.
Acting Social Media management assistant, acting company morale-boosting activities organizer, acting customer inspiration series coordinator and company values ambassador.
For visuals, please visit nav.com and nav.com/company/team/

At iMedia I was responsible for creating all graphics and branded visuals, such as photo galleries, powerpoint presentations for marketing events (300+ attendees), website graphics and print materials.
Lead designer and coder for responsive emails, managing one junior designer.
I also acted as event stage designer (lights/color scheme, screens, music).

Web design, graphics, email layouts, HTML, CSS, Adobe Creative Suite. UI/UX, wireframes, mockups, Agile, SCRUM. Style guide, magazine design. Acting brand manager.

At Shurwest, I was in charge of creating the company's website as well as all external websites, branding, marketing materials, brochures, etc, for clients. Design and execution of e-mail marketing campaigns. Maintenance of Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter and YouTube pages for company and clients. Creation of Wordpress blogs and video player pages. Studio portrait shoots of advisers and employees. Video studio makeup. Manager of one junior designer.

As a Portuguese translator, I was able to join a group of 3 Brazilian school principals in Cleveland Heights and carry simultaneous translations during their conferences with American Principals and teachers.
In 2009 I was also the sole translator for a group of 20 Brazilian entrepreneurs who visited the GoJo factory in Ohio. The visited included cocktail parties, factory tours, lectures and business meetings.
Over the years, I have also translated several documents, magazine articles and performed medical transcriptions.

Internetcodeplay is my freelance business. As a web professional I have designed and coded several websites, as well as created marketing materials for companies such as Foundations in Health, Arizona Advanced Physical Therapy, Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, etc.

Hired to enhance the web marketing department of 21st Century Learning, one of the company's clients, I was responsible for e-mail campaigns from concept to execution. Our team boosted the leads over 200% over the course of 3 months. Suggested and implemented SEO features to current websites. Designed and coded 2 new websites for sister companies. PHP update and troubleshooting.

*Web Design * Marketing materials * Product photography
*SEO * PHP login system
*eBay Ads * Newspaper ad layouts