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Laith Renno

Laith Renno

Newnan,GA

Summary

Experienced Front-End Developer/Designer and SharePoint Developer with over 14 years of demonstrated history building corporate business solutions in media, financial, and legal industries. Strong technical background with collaboration systems, building portals, websites, workflow, and data analytics. Expert in building custom business solutions, branding, graphic design, layout, and multimedia.


Innovative problem solver that works well independently or on a team. Curious, Hyper-focused, detail-oriented, a fast learner, adapts quickly, accepts feedback and constructive criticism, bringing value with experience and a broad spectrum of knowledge. Strong visual design sense, skilled in branding through multimedia, digital, print, and creative strategy. Inventive and resourceful, able to find alternative solutions to overcome technical and creative hurdles.

Overview

23
23
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

SharePoint Developer / Graphic Designer

Greenberg Traurig
Atlanta, GA
05.2019 - Current
  • Work with one of top 10 law firms in country to provide custom business solutions for their departments, shareholders, and teams of associates.
  • Gather requirements, plan, develop, brand, and manage custom business solutions in SharePoint, HighQ, WordPress. Often function as both project
    manager and developer.
  • Design user-friendly, time-saving automated processes for shareholders and associates using SharePoint and HighQ, building template solutions that can easily be duplicated and deployed.
  • Perform data analysis using Power BI to analyze data from various platforms and sources, including building project task and time tracker used by our team.
  • Manage high volume of projects, over 300 sites over past 3 years. Often involved with six projects at any given time.
  • Entrusted with highly confidential data owned by our high-profile clients and shareholders.
  • Build Power BI dashboards to monitor site activity, usage, storage, and other metrics to share with leadership.

Senior Graphic Designer

Spicy Dragon Designs
Newnan, GA
10.2014 - 05.2019
  • Deployed new brand identity for American Express - built and scaled branded visuals and content throughout sales readiness materials, training and collateral
  • Transformed learning environment for 4,500 global sales team members by modernizing their learning experiences (videos, podcasts, interactive learning portals)
  • Owned instructional design and multimedia strategies – delivered premium online and offline experiences (videos, podcasts, websites, infographics, presentation decks, posters, collateral, certificates, more)
  • Consulted and executed on post-production of in-house videos and podcasts, greatly reducing use of outside vendors (lower thirds, animation, editing, color correction, audio cleanup)
  • Coded HTML, CSS, and jquery to customize and enhance departmental web-based CMS and collaboration systems (sharepoint, salesforce community)
  • Designed and developed media library solutions using Salesforce Community and SharePoint - used to deliver and track and manage over 200 sales related training videos.

Senior Multimedia Developer

Turner Broadcasting System Inc.
Atlanta, Georgia
01.2000 - 10.2014
  • Responsible for maintaining Turner’s brand identity for print collateral, websites, portals, and communications for internal departments.
  • Developed, planned, and owned video transcoding process and solution using Adobe Media Encoder.
  • Guided and supported over 10 departments with video processing and embedding requests.
  • Consulted with internal clients to plan, develop and design over 60 SharePoint sites over span of 14 years.
  • Collaborated with consulting agency and our team to plan and develop SharePoint based media asset library solution.
  • Engaged with various internal departments, groups, and teams across all of Turner’s networks and brands.
  • Focused on designing highly branded internal SharePoint portals with animation and video.
  • Mentored and guided graphic design team and facilitated unity between business analysts, project managers, and developers to maintain design integrity across all of our creative output.

Education

Associate of Applied Science -

DeVry University
Decatur, GA
06.1992

Skills

  • Power BI Report Design
  • Skilled in Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe After Effects, Adobe Audition, Adobe Fireworks, Adobe InDesign
  • Team liaison
  • Materials preparation
  • Website graphics
  • Image manipulation
  • 2D and 3D Design
  • Logo design
  • Visual design
  • Branding strategies
  • Digital design
  • HTML / CSS / Javascript / jQuery

Platforms / Tools

  • SharePoint 2013 / 2016 / Online
  • Power BI
  • SharePoint Designer
  • Workflow Development
  • HighQ
  • WordPress

Accomplishments

  • Post-Production and delivery of 200+ corporate videos - American Express
  • Created animated logos using After Effects, Illustrator and Photoshop
  • Produced 9 podcasts for American Express Sales Field Training
  • Branded trade show and Xitracs marketing assets - Concord USA
  • Revitalized SharePoint global new hire portal and onboarding experience
  • Managed strategy for SharePoint portal site migration to SharePoint Online

Additional Information

  • Worked with clients - American Express, SunTrust Bank, Coca-Cola, Veritiv, Cricket Wireless
  • Team won Best Advance In A Learning Strategy, Brandon Hall Group (2018) (American Express)
  • Portal design received 2013 IABC Bronze Flame Award for site rebrand (Turner Broadcasting System, Inc.)

Certification

E-Learning Instructional Design | ATD Education, Alexandria VA

Timeline

SharePoint Developer / Graphic Designer

Greenberg Traurig
05.2019 - Current

Senior Graphic Designer

Spicy Dragon Designs
10.2014 - 05.2019

Senior Multimedia Developer

Turner Broadcasting System Inc.
01.2000 - 10.2014

Associate of Applied Science -

DeVry University
Laith Renno