Corey Knapp
Monroe,VA
Summary
Experienced Senior Graphic Designer with a proven track record of producing visually captivating designs. Skilled in delivering impactful visual solutions and making valuable contributions to high-profile projects. Demonstrating expertise in Adobe Creative Suite and typography, consistently exceeding client expectations.
Overview
9
9
years of professional experience
Work History
Graphic Designer
Microsoft (MSA) / Bluehawk Consulting
01.2024 - 03.2025
- Proficiently employed Adobe Suite, Articulate 360, and Microsoft Office Suite to design, execute, and implement digital design elements/media.
- Conducted regular design reviews and provided constructive feedback to team members, including performing regular audits of existing courses to identify areas for improvement in visuals and interactivity.
- Designed custom icons in adherence to brand guidelines, ensuring a cohesive and recognizable visual language.
- Evaluated use cases and accessibility compliance to provide user-friendly results to a diverse audience, ensuring consistency in fonts, colors, and overall design aesthetics to enhance the brand's visual representation.
- Solved problems through collaboration and innovation, and exercised sound business judgment in assessing and prioritizing multiple competing opportunities, including the handling of sensitive, confidential materials.
- Effectively communicated to project team and stakeholders to achieve business objectives with efficiency, transparency, and collaboration while creatively conceptualizing and prototyping design projects from beginning to end.
Freelance Graphic Designer
Self-Employed
11.2019 - 12.2023
- Administered diverse design services for over 25 businesses, creating logos, branding, packaging, motion graphics, and marketing materials across digital, print, and social media platforms utilizing the Adobe Creative Suite
- Engaged with clients on various projects, such as illustrations, magazine layouts, digital marketing assets, icons, billboards, vehicle wraps, and videos to deliver creative solutions to meet business goals
- Refined websites through Wix, WordPress, and Squarespace to ensure eye-catching user interfaces (UI) with user-centered design and web responsiveness while preserving brand identity
- Doubled YouTube traffic for organizations through the creation of engaging video content, animations, and thumbnails utilizing Adobe After Effects, Audacity, and Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
- Developed creative design for print materials, brochures, banners, and signs.
E-Learning Graphic Designer
Project Management Institute / Infinia Search
10.2021 - 07.2023
- Achieved business objectives by collaborating with project stakeholders through a consultative approach while focusing on alignment of project deliverables, timelines, and leading new techniques, innovations, and solutions for workflow and process improvement across 4 high-priority courses comprising of 30 lessons
- Conceptualized, presented, and implemented a variety of design assets utilizing Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign and Microsoft PowerPoint to include over 100 icons, 15 presentation template designs, and 10 variations of proprietary interactive games while meeting section 508 accessibility needs, brand standards, and design best practices for instructor-led training (ILT)
- Developed brand guides and led training of other designers on techniques and best practices for cohesive results and streamlined processes, improving efficiency by 50%
Head Graphic Designer
Sodexo
08.2019 - 11.2019
- Inspired design initiatives through collaboration with Marketing to enhance visual communications while maintaining brand identity, aligning with new design trends, and learning new technologies and techniques through research and professional development
- Integrated engaging marketing content that led to the success of three organizations while delivering projects with creativity, speed and accuracy, utilizing exceptional layout and design skills
- Pioneered new ideas for company branding, promotional campaigns and marketing communications while accepting guidance, understanding campaign strategy and driving deliverables following messaging and brand standards
Instructional Technologist
Liberty University Online Academy
12.2015 - 04.2019
- Advised and collaborated with subject matter experts across 9 departments to develop and maintain curricula using various software applications, including Canvas, Articulate (Captivate, Rise, Storyline), Adobe, and Microsoft
- Proposed and revamped over 150 graphics, illustrations, and photos for exclusive use within the online LMS while meeting specific requests and delivering knowledgeable recommendations on course design, delivery options and technological use to department chairs
- Enhanced curriculum content for over 80 courses by creating graphs, charts, infographics, animations, and voice-overs driving effective and professional data presentation for department chairs and K-12 instructors
Education
Bachelor of Arts - Studio & Digital Arts
Liberty University
Lynchburg05.2015
Associate of Arts - Liberal Arts & Sciences
Rowan College At Burlington
Pemberton, NJ05.2011
Skills
- Brand Identity
- E-Learning
- Graphic Design
- Illustration
- Logo Design
- Motion Graphics
- Photo Editing
- Presentation Design
- Adobe Creative Suite
- Microsoft Office
- Figma
- Accessibility design
Timeline
Graphic Designer
Microsoft (MSA) / Bluehawk Consulting
01.2024 - 03.2025
E-Learning Graphic Designer
Project Management Institute / Infinia Search
10.2021 - 07.2023
Freelance Graphic Designer
Self-Employed
11.2019 - 12.2023
Head Graphic Designer
Sodexo
08.2019 - 11.2019
Instructional Technologist
Liberty University Online Academy
12.2015 - 04.2019
Bachelor of Arts - Studio & Digital Arts
Liberty University
Associate of Arts - Liberal Arts & Sciences
Rowan College At Burlington
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