Seth Schlegel

7452 Willow Bottom Road
Sykesville, MD 21784

Cell Phone: 561.870.5441/Email: schlegelse@hotmail.com

Results‐driven professional with substantial experience in product design and marketing seeks a full‐time graphic design position in a challenging and team‐oriented work environment.

WORK EXPERIENCE

Graphic Designer                                                                                               2019 – Present
National Institutes of Health, National Cancer Institute – Rockville, Maryland

  • Lead in the design, layout, and development of fact sheets, videos, images, GIFs, logos, and infographics across Twitter, Instagram, internal and external websites, and blogs
  • Ensure all graphics and design projects created undergo mandatory 508 compliance, making content accessible for all
  • Storyboard, production, edit, and create videos using Adobe Premiere and After Effects
  • Consult with data science, informatics, and IT managers on time-sensitive design tasks and present definitive project timelines, and expectations
  • Established brand style to create consistent design standards such as color and font type and size across all media platforms
  • Set up photo video production

Sr. Graphic Designer                                                                                               2007 – 2019
MR Publishing – Lake Worth, Florida

  • Conceptualized and created logos, brochures, newsletters, social media projects, commercials, advertisements etc. for several clients including country clubs, banks, and other nationally known companies
  • Emphasized a high level of customer service on a daily basis to accommodate clients’ needs and wishes
  • Helped educate other employees on current computer programs
  • Coordinated with local printers to ensure the highest quality of end products
  • Completed multiple tasks with effective time management skills
  • Meet with clients and committees to create marketing campaigns both in print and in social media
  • Set up photo shoots and work with photographers to achieve clients’ needs
  • Work as a photographer, taking pictures of client events to use in projects
  • Administrative work, including creating proposals, maintaining budgets to hit company goals

Desktop Publisher/Graphic                                                                                       2004 – 2007
Wayne‐Dalton – Mount Hope, Ohio

  • Designed and created layouts for product manuals
  • Created all illustrations for product manuals
  • Researched and developed all text for product manuals
  • Produced complex models using CAD programs for illustrations in product manuals
  • Tested product installation procedures for instruction development
  • Assisted with hiring processes for the Design Department
  • Trained new employees on relevant programs and procedures

COMPUTER EXPERIENCE

  • Desktop Publishing: Adobe Premiere, Adobe After Effects, Adobe InDesign, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Bridge, Adobe Acrobat
  • CAD Programs: AutoCAD, Solid Works, Autodesk Civil, Autodesk Mechanical, Autodesk Architectural
  • Animation Programs: 3D Studio Max
  • Window Base Programs: Word, Excel, Access, Power Point
  • Web Design: DreamWeaver, HTML, WordPress

EDUCATION

Associate Degree in Computer Design and Animation
Kent State University 2004

Associate Degree in Applied Science
Kent State University 2004

Solid Works training courses completion in Essentials, 2D Drawings, Advance 3D Parts, PDM Works and Assemblies

Kent State Productivity Software Courses in Photoshop, Advance Photoshop, and Dreamweaver