Desarae Veit

Work Experience

• Help business owners with their web design & development, graphic design, social media marketing, SEO, taxonomy, strategy, email marketing and email automations
• Collaborate in the UI and UX designs of all clients
• Design online marketing presence for all social media
• Provide design direction for all websites

• Built a social media marketing and web development company from the ground up
• Help clients with their web design & development, graphic design, social media marketing, email marketing & automations and event planning

• Built a boutique business from the ground up. Lead a small team in marketing, branding, creative graphic design, website and social media presence
• Opened two storefronts in 2022. Co-designed the interior space, merchandised the store and managed staff, customers, vendors, merchandising and inventory management
• Built a community around small business growth
• Developed a Facebook Live Strategy and implemented hours of video marketing, live shows, as well as developed reels and stories on end for the business

• Manage JIRA project requirements
• Set and lead team/stakeholder meetings, and do UI/UX design for CRM project.

• Translate business goals and project requirements into concepts and solutions by collaborating on project task lists, wireframes, user flows and final products.
• Balance user needs and client objectives.
• Solve strategic business and design problems through research, collaboration, and analysis.
• Create UCD documentation, UI specification documentation, and UAT plans

• Team lead for user interface development. Including task management, planning, resource planning, and timelines.
• Research, analyze, and share insights related to user goals and behaviors.
• Create design solutions via prototyping, wireframes, frameworks, and concept validation.
• Active role in balancing stakeholder expectations at all levels of management.

• Communicate with other contractors about design and development deliverables
• Coordinate meetings and lead team discussions prototypes and development projects
• Responsible for UI development and ensures the projects meet basic and appropriate design standards, 508 compliance, UK accessibility standards, and CMMI compliance
• Knowledge of application development for Medicare and Medicaid quality improvement programs
• Documenting UX/IA/UI processes for team members (includes updating templates, checklists, code review logs and verifying quality assurance checks on completed and documented)

• Troubleshooting assistance related to Magento newsletters, Magento WYSIWYG content, branding, and design
• User interface and newsletter design, QA, and development of Magento and Wordpress websites
• Convert raw images and layout designs into CSS/XHTML themes
• Collaborate with stakeholders and project managers to build and refine graphic designs for websites
• Develop innovative, reusable web-based tools

• Created presentations with quarterly results of mortality studies
• Enhanced tracking procedures including documentation that helped streamline processes
• Banner, Print, Radio, Television, and Outdoor Advertising
• Email Marketing

• Managed multiple cross-platform campaigns using A/B testing, user research and SEO.
• Developed and leveraged various partner relations for affiliate marketing campaigns (i.e. Double Click and CJ).
• Creative lead for multiple websites, banners, national marketing campaigns, loyalty programs, and newsletters using HTML, CSS, Drupal, Joomla, WordPress, wire frames, and PHP.

• Promotional Brand Representative for clients like Proctor & Gamble, Coke, Pepsi, General Mills, and Unilever. Present and demonstrate new products to potential consumers with emphasis on sales, prepare/set up display(s) for clients

• Develop production art for multiple clients using Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop.
• Design promotional CDs using HTML, CSS, and Flash.
• Create website on CMS400 using HTML, CSS, and PHP.
• Write detailed specification documents with clear project deliverables and timelines.

Education

Professional Skills