Nathan Blackmore
I am a creative. Whether designing a logo, producing music, or carving the slopes on my snowboard; being creative is at the heart of who I am. With over 8 years of professional design experience, I have the industry knowledge and design prowess to tackle any job. From designing and coding websites to creating engaging collateral; I have the experience to get your brand where it needs to be.
Experience
- Design/produce brochures, print ads, conference booths, conference giveaways (IE. health bar wrappers, USB drive packaging, coasters, etc.), pop-up stands and other print collateral
- Design/produce online ad banners (static, animated GIFs as well as Flash)
- Design/produce responsive HTML emails, test across multiple email clients/browsers and upload code into email system
- Design/produce fully responsive and adaptive HTML landing pages (including jQuery animations) and test across all browsers
- Manage creative assets (emails, landing pages, and graphics) in marketing automation tools
- Manage micro-site creative using internal SFTP tool
- Update, create graphics and modify layouts of sales presentations
- Participate in creative kickoff meetings to discuss objectives and strategy for campaigns
- Work closely with marketing managers to prioritize multiple projects and deliver on the targeted deadlines
- Assist in creating graphics for quarterly company update meetings
- Play strong role in daily production meetings
- Participate in weekly global marketing meetings
- Help manage project flow of design projects
- Schedule and lead project status meetings
- Help lead brand refresh project
- Set up ‘catch up calls’ with UK Senior Designer to collaborate and share projects/ideas
- Design/produce brochures, print ads, conference booths, conference giveaways (IE. health bar wrappers, USB drive packaging, coasters, etc.), pop-up stands and other print collateral
- Design/produce online ad banners (static, animated GIFs as well as Flash)
- Design/produce responsive HTML emails, test across multiple email clients/browsers and upload code into email system
- Design/produce fully responsive and adaptive HTML landing pages (including jQuery animations) and test across all browsers
- Manage creative assets (emails, landing pages, and graphics) in marketing automation tools
- Manage micro-site creative using internal SFTP tool
- Update, create graphics and modify layouts of sales presentations
- Participate in creative kickoff meetings to discuss objectives and strategy for campaigns
- Work closely with marketing managers to prioritize multiple projects and deliver on the targeted deadlines
- Assist in creating graphics for quarterly company update meetings
- Play strong role in daily production meetings
- Participate in weekly global marketing meetings
- Helped maintain e-Rewards Opinion Panel (EROP) and Medical Market Research (MMR) websites
This included:- Making updates to HTML and JSP files
- Updating various Flash pieces
- Creating new graphics and making updates to existing graphics
- Designed/produced partner invitation emails for new and existing EROP partners
- Use system tools to manage creative content
- Assisted in standing up new languages/locales for the EROP site
- Designed/produced Flash banners for use on the EROP site
- Worked closely with Panel Marketing team
- Designed/produced panel marketing emails for EROP and MMR sites
- Assist in creating graphics for quarterly company update meetings
- Play strong role in daily production meetings
- Participate in weekly global marketing meetings
- Assisted with some Research Now marketing pieces
- Designed logos for companies and small businesses
- Created an interactive website for a client with Adobe Flash
- Created print material such as brochures, business cards, t-shirts, etc.
- Attended weekly meetings and collaborated with co-workers on client projects
- Communicated with clients via phone, email, and face-to-face meetings
- Key holding position
Education
Point Blank Music School, London, United Kingdom
BA Hons | Music Production & Sound Engineering, Graduate June 2018
Southwestern Oklahoma State University, Weatherford, OK
Bachelor of Fine Arts | Graphic Design, May 2010
Minor: Entrepreneurship
Awards & Honors
Peak Performance Award, Research Now
Quarterly, peer-nominated award for going above and beyond the call of duty
Noble Scholarship Competition, SWOSU
Yearly scholarship art show in the SWOSU art school
2007: Two pieces excepted into the show; one received honorable mention
2008: Received scholarship for pieces submitted
Skills
Design
Photoshop
Illustrator
InDesign
Coding
HTML
CSS
PHP
Video
After Effects
Premere
Other Skills
Well versed in project management tools Basecamp, Freedcamp and Jira. Strong creative understanding of Lyris HQ, Marketo, Hubspot, and Pardot email/ marketing automation systems. Enjoy communicating with clients and co-workers. Have an affinity for working through the details of a project from start to finish.