Shawn Walker

Experience

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  Bernhardt Furniture

  Jan 1995 - Sept 1997

  Advertising Manager

  Hired to bring all responsibilities of graphic design in-house. This included design of brochures, sales sheets, and campaigns. Created conceptual and layout of all company catalogs, collateral, and retail ads. Responsible for planning, coordinating, and designing biannual dealer promotional flyer program. Successfully worked with external photography studios for set-up and photography of room scenes and individual product shots. Oversaw all invoices and billing for department and responsible for working through any discrepancies. Show less

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  Gateway Design Advertising

  Sept 1997 - Jan 2010

  Creative Director, Owner

  Responsible for building clientele from ground up that resulted in continual business through the years with two major companies. Created graphic design for brochures, catalogs, price books, national advertising, logos, ads, and brand development. Successfully managed creative team of designers through design and implementation of creative ideas across print and web platforms. Developed marketing and advertising campaigns to support the business objectives of clients. Exceeded customer expectations by meeting deadlines for over 50 projects per month. Developed wireframes for websites and front-end programming in HTML and CSS. Responsible for establishing new business, marketing, budgeting, quoting, and invoicing. Show less

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  CVCC - Catawba Valley Community College

  Aug 2005 - Jan 2010

  Instructor

  Part-time instructor for introduction to web design and introduction to animation. Using Dreamweaver, HTML, CSS, Flash, Actionscript 2.0, and beginning Actionscript 3.0.

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  Corning Optical Communications

  Mar 2010 - Feb 2016

  Successfully balanced my responsibilities as graphic designer and manager of a graphic design team. Created graphics for brochures, print and digital ads, and interactive displays. Developed wire frames for websites and HTML templates for email, landing, and splash pages. Instrumental in the conceptual, design, and creation of graphics for regional and global campaigns and implementing them through print, digital, packaging, trade show graphics, multimedia, and web. Successfully managed a team of regional and global designers through conceptual, design, and implementation of over 120 completed projects per month that met and/or exceeded customer objectives. Established UI and UX best practices for new website content management system. Over four years of experience within consumer products. Responsible for creating a global list of print vendors in order to expedite printing in region for brochures, sales sheets, and trade show graphics. Areas for print vendors included NAFTA, EMEA, and CALA. Show less

  • Design Manager

    May 2011 - Feb 2016

  • Web Designer

    Mar 2010 - May 2011
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  Contractor For Wells Fargo

  Jun 2016 - Jul 2016

  Enterprise Mobility Team
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  City of Charlotte

  Aug 2016 - Aug 2017

  Marketing & Creative Services Supervisor
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  Bernhardt Design

  Aug 2017 - now

  Design Marketing Manager