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Senior Designer

Matt Maldre

Chicago, IL
spudart.org
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  • About

    Award-winning graphic designer and web strategist with extensive experience in both print and online projects from concept to final product. Diverse field of experience having worked for a Fortune 500 media company as well as a small entrepreneurial business. Strengths include innovative design, remarkable illustration, web management and strategy, programming and conceptual talents.

  • Education
    • BFA Art, Design
      Illinois Wesleyan University
      1993 - 1997
      • Cumulative G.P.A. 3.5/4.0, Graduated with exhibition honors; Dean’s Honor List 5 semesters, Hester Merwin Ayers Award for Exceptional Achievement in Art, Annual McLean County Exhibitions • WESN radio DJ, Kappa Pi founding father, Greenhouse coffeehouse co-manager, Student Senate, Art building renegades, Design Lab Technician, Sculpture Lab Technician
  • Experience
    • Marketing Manager
      Tribune Content Agency
      May 2014 - Present (12 years 1 month)
      • Supervise development of all B2B, internal marketing, syndication, licensing and brand marketing and sales support collateral and programs, including redesign of new robust and content-rich marketing website (www.TribuneContentAgency.com)
      • Assisted in conception, development, and launch of expansive TCA Video Network, a program that delivers professionally edited video content from hundreds of sources and generates new revenue verticals for publishers around the world
    • Senior Web Marketing Strategist
      Tribune Content Agency
      Chicago, IL
      May 2008 - May 2014 (6 years)
      B2B syndication:
      • Build and manage tribunecontentagency.com. Doing the coding, designwork, updates to site. Monitoring and reporting analytics.
      • Develop SEO strategies and tactics for our marketing sites.
      • Create email marketing to all 3,000 editors across the country. Design and write emails, put them into our email marketing system, manage the lists, track the analytics. (Basically we want editors to buy more of our syndicated content. That's the main goal of all our B2b syndication)
      • Manage thought leadership program with our blog, posting and responding to our social media channels on twitter and linkedin. Occasionally writing blog posts. Encouraging coworkers to write. Illustrating the blog posts with visuals or designing infographics.
      • Manage the backend servers that host our marketing websites.
      • Create and maintain our brand identity for Tribune Content Agency (logo, business cards, letterhead, email footers, price sheets, powerpoint templates, and twitter backgrounds)
      • Website architecture planning for new sites and moving old sites.
      • Job management and trafficking details
      • Manage part-time intern (who writes some of our blog posts)

      Client work:
      • Occasionally art direct our content marketing pieces for outside customers
      • Manage technical aspects, like embedding video inside PDF reports

      B2C:
      • Design eBook covers
      • Manage online ad campaigns for eBooks in Google AdSense and Facebook
    • Senior Designer
      Tribune Content Agency
      Chicago, IL
      Apr 2006 - May 2008 (2 years 1 month)
      Designed newspaper pages for a roster of 26 newspapers across the country.
    • Designer
      Tribune Content Agency
      Apr 2000 - Dec 2005 (5 years 8 months)
      • Developed concepts on all projects—consumer and trade promotion, incentives, meetings and special events, product launches, brand identity, contests, and sweepstakes
      • Directed art and graphic look of all printed materials and ad specialities
      • Centralized internal infrastructure and archival systems
      • Clients included: General Electric, ACCO Brands, Swingline, Wilson Jones, Kensington, Office Depot, Day-Timer, Ace Hardware, TrueValue, Lucent Technologies, Continental Grain
    • Art Director
      Sales Solutions
      Glen Ellyn, IL
      May 1997 - Apr 2000 (2 years 11 months)
      • Developed concepts on all projects—consumer and trade promotion, incentives, meetings and special events, product launches, brand identity, contests, and sweepstakes
      • Directed art and graphic look of all printed materials and ad specialities
      • Centralized internal infrastructure and archival systems
      • Clients included: General Electric, ACCO Brands, Swingline, Wilson Jones, Kensington, Office Depot, Day-Timer, Ace Hardware, TrueValue, Lucent Technologies, Continental Grain
    • Intern
      Media Options
      Chicago, IL
      Jun 1996 - Aug 1996 (2 months)
  • Awards

    HootSuite Certified Professional, 2014; Tribune Media Services Annual Company-wide Diamond Awards: Brilliant team, 2002, 2005, 2007, 2009; Rookie of the Year, 2001; Illinois 24/7 book, from the series of The New York Times bestseller America 24/7: Seven photographs published, 2004; Graphic Design USA annual, 2003, 2004, and 2005; The Hester Merwin Ayers Award for Exceptional Achievement in Art, 1997; Annual McLean County Exhibitions, 1995, 1996, and 1997: 1st place photography, 1996

  • Affiliations

    AIGA, American Institute of Graphic Arts, Chicago Artist's Coalition, Chicago Croquet Squirearchy of Gentlefolk, Park Community Church, 14th floor automatic pencil sharpening club

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    • Graphic Design
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