Hi, I’m Ashley and I specialize in brand identity, packaging, website design, ux & ui for mobile and web. I love illustration, branding, typography, & when it all works well together. Beyond design, I'm a nature enjoyer, history buff, and a curious explorer of entomology and mycology.

work experience

Sherper’s // Marketing Associate // Hales Corners, WI
2022 – 2024

• Email Marketing. Creating templates and updating designs to reflect ongoing sales.

• Social media. Creating, editing and scheduling posts. Copywriting. Running multiple social media pages various social platforms.

• Creating store signage, promoting sales, updating existing in-store branding

• Product photography, filming and editing promotional videos

• Merchandise design including custom illustrated T-shirts, Labels, Patches, and Tags

• Retail sales and customer service

Ocupop // Designer // Milwaukee, WI
2019 – 2022

• Identity Design, brand guidelines, illustration libraries, and social media kits

• Collaborating with creative directors, animators, developers, designers, and strategy teams

• Websites, logos, wordmarks, illustrations, packaging

• Responsible for a weekly article editorial illustrations, branding elements, presentations, for various google developer brands (Android, GooglePlay, Firebase, women techmakers, puppet.js, etc)

• Participating in the implementation and integration of websites

• Juggle multiple projects while managing strict deadlines

• Design with attention to detail, strategy, and efficiency

• Interpret and follow design guidelines, creative briefs, and feedback
  

Odvant Creative // Design Intern // Milwaukee, Wi
2018 – 2019

• Design for digital and print for local non-profits and small businesses

• Collaborating with the team during sketch and brand discovery phases

• Gathering estimates and researching production options with local print production businesses
  
  

University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, Union Marketing Services | Lead Designer
2016 – 2019

• Designing both digital and printed marketing material for campus clubs, small and large scale events, university organizations, student government groups, and promoting available students resources

• Maintaining a welcoming, open-minded, and inclusive work environment for the student design team

• Creative direction, gathering inspiration, facilitating design check-ins before presenting to clients, serving as a bouncing board for ideas, and offering constructive feedback

• Collaborating with internal writers, print production team, admin, social media team and external student organization teams

• Mentoring, providing creative direction, and guiding towards growth and success to student designers

• UWM Union Marketing Services is funded and operated by students