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Visual Development Artist

Creative & Design

Hi! My name is Jeff Biestman, and I’m an extremely creative visual and graphic design professional with over 10 years of solid experience working in key positions for recognized software and gaming companies within the design industry. I have a talent for collaborating with creative teams and clients to capture artistic visions and translate these into meaningful designs. My dedication to innovating, inspiring, and transforming the design world has been consistently proven during my work history. I’ve repeatedly demonstrated my expertise as a leader throughout my career, but I’m always eager to learn more from other industry frontrunners and mentors.

Some highlights of my expertise include the following:

- Concept Art and Illustration
- Storyboarding and Preproduction
- Advertising and Marketing
- Character, Creature, and Animal Design
- Environment, Layout, and Prop Design
- Business Planning and Development
- Digital Illustrations and Promotions
- Cost Analyses
- Budget Management and Allocation
- Concept / UX Design
- Technology Applications
- Branding and Brand Development
- Training and Professional Development
- Presentation Delivery
- Project Management and Leadership

Created innovative brand and corporate identity and design solutions including logos, infographics, social media, website, trade show and promotional materials. Guided clients through identity development and brand building process including small to midsize businesses (SMB) and startup clients in software, gaming, consumer products, wealth management, cannabis, construction and food industries throughout the West.
GRAPHIC DESIGN | BRANDING
-	Partnered with clients and design teams to understand project direction; gathered business requirements, project goals and schedule, developed design solutions and visually communicated ideation concepts through sketching and renderings.
-	Analyzed product and brands research data to differentiate business in the marketplace by investigating patterns, correlations, competitors and market trends.
-	Planned design and layout concepts based on client and industry research and project requirements in digital format for print, web and mobile applications.
-	Illustrated project concepts by designing rough layout of art and copy regarding arrangement, size, type style and related aesthetic concepts; communicated design variations through thumbnails and mockups demonstrating benefits to clients.
-	Created detailed hand-drawn product sketches to present industry appropriate design concept proposals; built layout template for design image elements, color, typography in Photoshop, Illustrator and Sketch.
-	Prepared finished copy art, coordinated printing and online implementation with outside agencies, art services, printers to produce production-ready art in a range of styles per client request.
-	Managed creative projects from ideation to deadlines through designer, client and production manager review cycles to ensure ability to maintain visual style guides and templates.
CREATIVE
-	Developed multiple design ideas for Emanuel Ungaro, a French fashion house and incorporated client feedback resulting in product for the Paris fashion industry.
-	Designed visual concept for graphic novel from a 95-page script; developed storyboard and built initial five-page layouts for delivery to publisher for production of both graphic novel and TV series by aligning client vision to final design product.
-	Created superhero art renderings of star athletes concept designs for Cal Athletic Department including Jared Goff for marketing campaign.
-	Illustrated children’s books including “The Life of Willie McCovey” and “Cooking with Grandma”.
-	Created custom mixed media and canvas paintings in oil and acrylic from photographs submitted by customers.
-	Designed all internal marketing and advertising initiatives; promoted logo, branding art services resulting in new revenues.
-	Managed financial transactions including contracts of the business to ensure profitability.


Taught innovative and creative art classes to young students by integrating the elements and principles of traditional fine art with technology-based projects. 
Key Achievement:
- Led the Volunteer for The Veterans Day Assembly with over 300 participants to honor all branches of the military. 

Art & Technology Teacher

Developed UX/UI design and quality assurance solutions to clients including Airbnb, NetApp, Yahoo and Microsoft as member of five-person team. Lead QA Tester for Airbnb’s “Host Voice” page in producing text string edits in nine different languages.
? Partnered closely with Airbnb team to ensure accurate language translation aligning tactical work activities to strategic vision.
? Lead Quality Assurance Testing engineer for Airbnb Community Host Voice page; managed team of four engineers to develop foundation HTML/CSS code.
? Collaborated with Mumbai, India engineering team for design and quality assurance solutions ensuring foreign language text keys located properly and all buttons aligned with text keys across all languages.
? Designed Lithium Community dashboard monitor wall for Facebook, Twitter and Social Network.

Product Designer

Co-developed new social media game in collaboration with international team of six programmers for mobile or laptop- based platforms. Communicated issues and recommended changes to engineering team.
? Performed troubleshooting to identify all text and audio glitches and submitted them as case files within the system.
? Provided language localization testing and verification and prepared bug and fix files for system

Associate Product Testing Engineer

Generated new business opportunities for SMB, mid-market and enterprise pipeline with 300+ new accounts in Salesforce and 500 new employee contacts for Value Added Reseller (VAR) of cloud, hosted and software solutions, as well as traditional hardware vendor platforms such as Cisco, NetApp and Barracuda.
? Reported directly to CEO for all special projects, on demand assignments and customer contact.
? Penetrated regional accounts by educating high-level contacts on product offerings and driving demand with meetings in partnership with Senior Account Executives.
? Consistently exceeded outbound and inbound pipeline activity metrics by nurturing existing account base and developing additional pipeline; certified on technology and pitch by all partner ISVs.
? Built strategic relationships with development and implementation partners to ensure successful deployments for clients.
? Company acquired by Datalink for strong sales in hi-tech, government, media, entertainment and higher education markets

Inside Sales Account Executive 

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