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Hi there, my name is Borrah Jackson. I have 7 years of professional experience in graphic design and coordinating. Focuses range from marketing, animation, custom products, branding, publishing, and displays.

I began my professional career before I graduated from Otis College while interning at Sony Music in the Digital Marketing department, and then as a design intern at TwinArt, an Emmy-winning motion graphics firm.

After graduating in 2010, I was a graphic artist at a boutique animation studio, ToonZone Studios, where I designed and developed the various in-house marketing collateral. I worked closely with the VP of Business Development, designing and conceptualizing project overviews, marketing guidelines, back-to-school campaigns, 1-sheets, and various materials used to sell the broadcasting rights to our animations.

From there, I was hired as a production artist at Kingfish Media, LLC, (DBA Localess.com). Within my 5 years there, I was promoted twice; first to Senior Graphic Designer, and then to the production department, as the Production Coordinator. This coordinator role gave me an opportunity to develop relationships with vendors and printers and hone in on administrative and organization skills.

Afterwards, I accepted a Project Coordinator position at Capture Group, a promotional marketing company. My focus was product development and purchasing, helping clients figure out the exact details of their promotional hard goods projects, whether for retail or for event give-aways (waterbottles, power banks, backpacks, towels, sunglasses, totebags, stationary, anything to get your branding across!) along with the logistics and desired promotional outcome was exciting. On top of that, Capture Group held me to a higher level of professionalism considering I would be their contact person for so many design details. I also enjoyed developing the vendor relationship with so many of my manufacturers.


• Sole product development coordinator, focusing on promotional hard goods or retail quality merchandise
• Prepare both client-facing and vendor-facing artwork, including trend reports, pitch packs, mock-ups and tech packs
• Conceptulize products based on specific branding, trends, event and overall goals
• Support sales team by placing orders, and fulfilling requests for quotes via sourcing pricing of products with vendors in China
• Organize merch quotes from vendors, including net costs, marked up client costs, quantity, material, artwork imprint costs, run charge, set up fees and shipping
• Coordinate artwork logistics of products while maintaining specs, such as material, dimensions, color, budget, imprint limitations, and a realistic timeline
• Cultivate communication amongst vendors and clients with transparency
• Organize projects with management tools such as Salesforce, Excel and Outlook
• Anticipate and handle any problematic issues that may arise

Project Coordinator

• Promoted twice from Production Artist, to Senior Graphic Designer to Production Coordinator at this medium scale marketing firm
• Manage a large daily volume of projects and estimate time and resources required need for successful project completion
• Review all incoming and outgoing proofs, checking for content, color and production specifications, while updating spreadsheets on each project
• Working closely with Art Director to increase client approval on newly printed magazines, menus and displays at various distribution points
• Review billing invoices with Press Operator
• Support for Sales staff, producing contracts, and sales literature
• Update existing ads, magazine layouts, contracts, and websites
• Hire and train new Graphic Design staff

Production Coordinator

• Designed style guides, marketing briefs, and property overviews used to sell our properties to international networks. Also, designed merchandise, such as plushies, action figures, toy packaging, costumes, clothing and school supplies
• ToonZone Studios thus formed relationships and sold broadcasting rights to networks such as Cartoon Network, Canal+, TeleToon, Channel POP, ABC3, in Europe, Australia, and South America
• Worked directly with the Vice President of Marketing and Business Development with a mentor-type of rapport
• Designed and coordinated the construction of a marketing booth at the 2011 Las Vegas Licensing Convention including banners, literature, posters and decoration
• Coordinated with print and digital publishers to package files for print ads and an eBook

Graphic Artist/ Marketing Assistant

• Worked closely with the School Violence Prevention Demonstration Program administrators to redesign a bullying prevention education project which included a website and instructional animation
• Coordinated with web development staff and consultants to ensure a smooth upload transition for the web

Branding Designer

• Presented expanded columbiarecords.com web design layouts, layout skins for Google Chrome, featuring various Columbia records artists, promotional animated web banners, and AOL Aim Buddy Icon for artists

Design Intern

• Created flash animations, graphic design, and logo design
• Answered phone calls, organized studio and files

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Borrah Jackson

North Valley Occupational Center

Otis College of Art and Design

Pierce College