United States

Graphic Design

✊🏿🏳️‍🌈 Diversity & Inclusion

Maura McDonald

Senior Visual Designer

Communication

Adobe Creative Suite

Understanding factors that lead to a motivated team - recognition, communication and more.

Keeping team members motivated

Understand the process of training, motivating and directing your team members.

Managing people

How to create a positive workplace culture that drives collaboration and productivity?

Fostering a good team culture

Steps to building and maintaining a strong, cohesive and effective team.

Building an effective team

Learn the tips to successfully manage a team in a remote environment.

Managing a remote team

Making remote and globally distributed teams work for you and your needs.

Working remotely

Learn essential burnout prevention techniques and replenish physical and emotional energy.

Managing burnout

Talk to people who have learned to manage their imposter syndrome.

Dealing with imposter syndrome

Talk to other immigrants about the nuances and challenges of working in the tech industry.

Being an immigrant in tech

Keeping your sanity, career growth and job satisfaction.

Surviving a merger or acquisition

Navigating micro-aggression, getting paid what you are worth and finding a community.

Being a woman in tech

Strategies for maximizing your design internship or co-op program.

Getting the most out of my internship

Tips for transitioning into a new role or company.

Changing roles

How to successfully prepare and position yourself for a job promotion?

How to get promoted

How to ask for a promotion and negotiate for salary raise?

Negotiating a job offer

How to think about design career paths and what progression looks like for designers?

Design career path

Get actionable feedback on your resume or portfolio.

Resume and portfolio review

Practice HR, technical and behavioural interviews with mentors.

Practice mock interviews

Talk to people who've broken into the tech industry and learn their stories.

Breaking into tech

Learn the best ways to answer technical interview questions with frameworks

Acing technical interview questions

How to set up the team for success by defining and measuring team's performance.

Choosing metrics and team goals

Best practices for running productive design critiques.

Running effective design critiques

Methods of prototyping and solution validation. When to use which kind of prototype (eg. Webflow, Notion, etc)

Prototyping methods and tips

Manage team expectations and get the most out of your meetings.

Running effective meetings

Learn how to properly present your work and share ideas and opinions.

Presenting your work with impact

How to work with team members with different skill sets but towards a common goal?

Working cross-functionally

Methods and models of exploring, deciding and delivering design.

Building a design process

Managing being the only designer at your company and working with non-designers.

Being the only designer

Explore different generative and evaluative research techniques. User research synthesis and presentation.

Conducting good user research

Ways and resources to improve your design skills.

Improving design skills

Navigating the working relationship with PM's and engineers as a designer.

Working with product and engineering

How to create personas, and leverage them in design.

Creating and leveraging user personas

Ways to provide constructive feedback to team members.

Giving effective feedback

How to conduct interviews, what to ask, and how to analyze your results? (eg. user interview)

Conducting effective customer interviews

What are design systems and how to work with them?

Building successful design systems

Responsible for visual design of marketing collateral and UI design while adhering to brand standards, including: packaging, social/web graphics, HTML emails, animations, presentations, illustrations, iconography, UI graphics, and trade show displaysCollaborate daily with: account managers, art directors, print/trade show vendors, web app developers, IBM internal clients/brands, and fellow visual designers to deliver the final product Major accomplishments include: graphics to represent the IBM brand and services for major conferences, such as "Think", and complete designs of UI assets for several web applications and sites.Position involves:• Design, problem solving, and brainstorming skills• Presenting ideas to clients to present ideas, and adjusting design to fit client needs and goals• Understanding and adherence to budgets and schedules• Computer/design software skills to execute designs, using the Adobe Creative Suite programs• Working with printers, vendors, developers or other technicians to complete the final deliverable

Brand Communications + Design team. Work on the front lines, creating the day-to-day collateral and other communications that Red Hat customers see most. A collaborative, team-oriented, and fast-paced environment on projects that include collateral materials, web graphics, information graphics, posters, presentations, t-shirts, and more.

• Reports and maintains the Chapter financial records• Prepares annual, event and project budgets and analyzes    actual financial performance• Supervises the preparation of annual audits/reviews and tax returns• Manages the routine accounting functions including the general ledger, accounts payable/receivable, and bank reconciliations• Provides cash management oversight, manages line of credit, and acts as liaison with bank• Event Producer for successful Homegrown Lunch n' Learn series

Owner of interactive and traditional marketing communications design company.  Work with clients to create and improve digital marketing via web site design and development, Search Engine Optimization and social media integration.  Custom design and corporate branding development for traditional marketing channels.

All aspects of graphic design, layout and production for all marketing materials.  Managed all newspaper/magazine, radio and other media buys and placements.  Assisted other departments such as public and investor relations, internal training documents and designed annual report.Key team member of Marketing and Sales effort that lead to record profits and 300% share price growth.

Graphic design and production of all sales channel marketing communication and adverstising including: production and distribution, designing and producing all advertising materials for It’s Fashion division, designing and producing a monthly fashion magazine, creating graphics for company intranet.

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