Ry Jones: Art Director in Denver

• Supervised successful delivery of 9,000+ digital design assets alongside a cross-functional team for the most extensive line of agency business, driving conversions and overseeing $8 million in client projects. • Guided creatives at all levels on day-to-day projects and directly managed teams of 3-5 individual contributors, coaching on career paths and goals. • Evolved brand guidelines for improved efficiency and created educational/onboarding resource decks for enterprise and agency members as a steward of the brand. • Supervised the development of a proprietary email design system in Sketch, later migrating to Figma and performing all library updates/maintenance. • Fostered collaboration with product and E-commerce teams within the organization to optimize components in AEM and Figma.

• Utilized design thinking and an agile approach to create results-oriented outcomes for clients in retail, entertainment, education, Web3, and restaurant services. • Independently owned projects from start to finish, managing communications, concept presentation, iteration, execution, and delivery. • Adept at working remotely across international time zones and connecting with dispersed teams from different cultural backgrounds, having lived abroad for a decade and producing bilingual materials for personal and client purposes • Adopted new software, systems, design trends, and technologies on the fly to produce custom-tailored visual solutions that adhered to best practice principles, typography, color theory, and layout techniques.

• Executed pixel-perfect visual designs from concept to final hand-off, creating pitch decks and presenting to marketing team stakeholders through successive rounds of feedback. • Solved complex process problems by developing templated production systems to optimize high-volume / high-velocity asset design and delivery. • Mentored designers at all levels, providing feedback and leading go-to-market campaign creative for digital communication channels. • Aligned business goals with design strategy to produce effective in-market display and banner ads, landing pages, motion, and animated assets. • Interpreted design briefs and managed time effectively, rapidly iterating and consistently meeting tight deadlines on simultaneous projects.

• Founded an independent, mission-driven apparel label that donates 100% of profits from all B2C sales to dozens of charity organizations, generating thousands in philanthropic proceeds. • Produced all designs, and managed onsite vending, eCommerce operations, social media presence, garment ordering, and printing. • Achieved Threadless.com Top Shop status in the first year of operations. • Selected as an exclusive licensing partner from 202-present.

• Combined instructional design principles with new technologies to deliver dynamic lessons for all ages and abilities in classrooms of 20-30 students. • Redesigned Schoolhouse.com.tw website in 2013 and managed site operations as the sole web administrator through 2018. • Developed a supplementary grammar system comprised of a 150-page book and digital resources via www.gramgran.com.

• Collaborated with a grassroots team of volunteer designers to create one of Taiwan's most recognizable expat-owned indie magazines. • Introduced new brand standards that elevated the overall aesthetic and designed 75% of all spreads across quarterly issues. • Worked with bilingual translations in design and assisted with editing in English and Mandarin Chinese.