Kelsey Songey

About Kelsey Songey

Thirteen years of experience in the Graphic Design field featuring an expert level of knowledge in: digital and print art mediums. • Six years of leadership experience assisting the Managers with mentoring newly hired graphic designers and training existing graphic designers. • Excels in fast-paced environments while also creating new innovative ideas to drive up the standards of digital and print mediums for internal promotion and/or client’s requests.• Consistently receives praise for executing designs flawlessly from discovery, conception, to final delivery for an internal promotion piece and/or client’s request.• Specializes in the attention to detail of the internal companies and/or clients’ branding, typography and layout choices when creating or reviewing a variety of digital and print campaigns. • Always exceeds expectations by creating valuable partnerships, displays a positive attitude to everyone, and ensures we are meeting deadlines. k••••••••@outlook.com

Experience

1. Senior Graphic Designer

   Keadjian

   Feb 2020 — Present · Walnut Creek, CA, US

   Excels at being a lead and highly praised Senior Graphic Designer by continually, year after year, creating excellent designs for one of the agencies’ largest clients, and in return, the agency receives contract extensions. • Recipient of an Agency Recognition Award given to three employees out of one hundred, in October 2024, to recognize grit and true devotion to the agency’s success for the entire year. • Manages multiple high-end projects at once.• Regularly works on the development, any updates, and overall content management of eight of the agency’s clients’ websites. • Develops ten of our clients’ e-newsletters (monthly and/or quarterly) and delivers them to the agency’s clients in various mediums: HTML outlook, MailChimp, Salesforce, Interactive PDF, JPG with QR codes, SharePoint internal webpage, and the agency’s clients public facing blog.• Completes a thorough quality assurance review and provides feedback to the graphic designer’s projects prior to the Marketing Manager, and/or Associate Creative Director, and/or the Creative Director quality assurance reviews. • Conceptualizes and creates internal and external collateral, mailing materials, digital materials, campaign materials, infographics, and presentations, while communicating the choices made for the art direction and the overall formatting of the design request.• Hosts weekly design review calls with the agency’s Senior Vice President and Senior Account Manager to discuss the projects for the week and ensure we are developing creative solutions for the client and meeting our deadlines for the client.

Education

• Udemy

  Completed course: Wordpress for Beginners - Master Wordpress Quickly

• UC Berkeley Extension

  Completed course: Creating Interactive Documents with InDesign

• The Art Institutes

  Bachelors of Applied Science , Graphic Design

• Western Nevada College

  Associate of Applied Science, Business Management

• Solano Community College

  Completed Coursework in Graphic Design & Illustration

Skills

• Web and Print Banners
• Flyers
• Adobe Creative Suite
• Drawing
• Photography
• After Effects
• Motion Graphics
• Photoshop
• Packaging
• Indesign
• Business Cards
• Posters
• Mac
• Visual Communication
• Graphics
• Dreamweaver
• Illustrator
• Art
• Adobe Illustrator
• Adobe Photoshop
• Publications
• Graphic Design
• Branding & Identity
• Custom Invitations
• Web Design
• Typography
• Adobe Acrobat
• Illustration
• Brochures
• Logo Design
• Social Media
• Microsoft Office
• Flash
• Newsletters
• User Interface Design
• Advertising
• Image Manipulation
• Page Layout
• Layout