Jay Thatcher

Lead Designer for Clinical Applications at Ascension Healthcare.

I work with great people from the Healthcare, Energy and Publishing Industries specializing in marketing strategy and implementation of marketing campaigns.

As Consultant Graphic Designer, I focus on user experience (UX) and user interface (UI) design for healthcare web applications. I work along side business analysts (BA), subject matter experts (SMEs), and the business owner to gather requirements.

I collaborate with the web development team to understand the strengths and weaknesses of different approaches. Then I design solutions that meet the needs of the business and the day-to-day users of the application.

Once approved, I provide responsive design, working along side the web application development team in a Visual Studio, .net, agile environment to deliver the web application product.

Other responsibilities are to provide high quality, brand-centered designs and creative direction to various departments like marketing, business operations, and architecture as needed. Parallon is part of a Fortune 100 company, Healthcare Corporation of America (HCA).

I design responsive websites, logos, and print collateral at MagneticVerb. I oversee creative direction, marketing strategy, and marketing campaigns for our clients which also includes email marketing, web application UI, magazine design, catalog design, trade show displays, product packaging, ads, sales materials, photo shoot art direction, and video production.

Provided user interface for applications; web and flash design; and designed print advertising and marketing collateral.

Team Leader working under Creative Director to produce marketing materials during a name change transition. I art directed photoshoots, oversaw the photography budget, designed point of purchase materials, in-store marketing, catalogs, and other direct mail pieces, working with team of designers and copywriters.

ATD's first employee. Designed packaging, advertising, brochures, marketing pieces, point of purchase materials, catalogs, magazines...for toy companies, entertainment companies, publishers,...

Worked on packaging design and marketing materials.