Ellen Christine
2024: Resume | CV
Costco Wholesale
| Ecommerce Marketing | Art Director
2024 - Current
Creative Manager | 2023 - 2024
Associate Art Director | 2021 - 2023
Develop and execute digital marketing strategies for Costco across channels, on-line, in the app, email and print. Working alongside leadership, merchandisers, other Costco teams and our team of designers to create unique and successful campaigns.
Oversee a team of designers, developing and excecuting style guidelines and templates for all online chanels. Coaching, cooperating and bringing to life new creative for Costco branding.
Art Direction:
- Homepage Redesign: excecuting templates and implmentation.
- Native App Homepage Art Direction.
- Collaboration and communication with marketing, leadership, UIUX, IT and the ADA team for completion.
- Updated process’ for Campaign Briefs to improve workflow and output.
- Design, Write and Publish Online Style Guide
- HTML & photoshop templates for online adds, emails, landing page & microsites.
- Develope Online Add Specs and Marketing Opportunities documents.
- Collaborate with vendors and third parties to maintain site standards.
Leadership:
- Coaching a team of avanced designers to collaborate while supporting each persons unique gift.
- Creative lead for a team of 13 experienced ecommerce designers.
- Team performance reviews, training & management.
- Hiring and on-boarding new designers.
- Monitoring workload while setting standards for productivity and accuracy.
- Oversee all campaigns, emails, print pieces to ensuring highest possible standards.
- Teach HTML, Bootstrap CSS and print experience upgrades.
Costco Wholesale
| Senior Designer
2016-2021
Extensive experience with HTML/CSS coding, creating responsive web sites and landing pages. Versatile design applications from print to web, email campaigns, to oversized warehouse posters. Collaborate with Dev, UX and Marketing on to create successful output and results. Developing clean HTML code into responsive design for better usability, SEO and ADA compliance. Lead designer on the Costco App, leading multiple initiatives to improve functionality. Ideation, design & creation of new content for App Savings Panel. Organize, produce & test App content.
The Singing Tree
| Business Owner
2008-2017
I ran a full service design business, working internationally with third parties in multiple languages and translations. I grew my company from a foundation in Fine Art. I created food packaging, trade show displays, brochures, catalogs and POS marketing. I designed and coded responsive websites, developed business identities, blog content, social media and more.
My ten years of experience as a business owner taught me how to intuitively listen to my clients, empathize with the consumer and produce projects on time, within budget. As a business owner working with other business I handled multiple priorities, I understand the value of remaining focused on strategy and objectives. I led my clients through the creative process from start to finish. Most of them became long term friends and returning clients.
Education
Masters of Fine Art: 1996-1998
Edinburgh College of Art
Honors Graduate
Fine Art: Drawing & Painting
Bachelors of Fine Art: 1992-1995
University of California at Santa Cruz
Honors Graduate
Fine Art
Study Abroad: 1994 -1995
Lancaster University
Drawing & Painting
Continued Education: 2004 - Current
Bellevue College
Continued education in Design, HTML & CSS for Web Development.
Language Skills
English: Native
Spanish: Second
Advanced Spoken
Beginning Written
French: Third
Beginning Spoken
Beginning Written
Code: Fourth
Advanced HTML
Advanced CSS
Advanced Bootstrap
Soft Skills
I am accustomed to running, managing and being accountable for multiple projects from start to finish. Presenting concepts to a variety of clients while maintaining deadlines and budgets. I enjoy collaboration in the creative process and working across disciplines to produce best possible outcomes.
Leadership
Communication
Team Player
Software
Adobe CS Advanced:
Dreamweaver, Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign
Adobe CS Beginner:
XD, Acrobat
App Software Advanced:
CM2 tool for Costco App
Sketch Beginner
Google Intermediate:
Docs, Sheets, Presentations, Automation
Microsoft Intermediate:
Word, Excel, Powerpoint
