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I am a resourceful and innovative creative lead with expertise in all stages of digital art direction and design, from concept through product launch. I thrive on guiding projects, collaborating with clients, and delivering compelling visuals that align with strategy and budget. I love turning unique ideas into measurable results and enjoy partnering with teams to push creative boundaries while meeting deadlines.…I am a resourceful and innovative creative lead with expertise in all stages of digital art direction and design, from concept through product launch. I thrive on guiding projects, collaborating with clients, and delivering compelling visuals that align with strategy and budget. I love turning unique ideas into measurable results and enjoy partnering with teams to push creative boundaries while meeting deadlines.

James Mariano

Designer, Illustrator, Graphic Designer, +4

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I am a resourceful and innovative creative lead with expertise in all stages of digital art direction and design, from concept through product launch. I thrive on guiding projects, collaborating with clients, and delivering compelling visuals that align with strategy and budget. I love turning unique ideas into measurable results and enjoy partnering with teams to push creative boundaries while meeting deadlines.…I am a resourceful and innovative creative lead with expertise in all stages of digital art direction and design, from concept through product launch. I thrive on guiding projects, collaborating with clients, and delivering compelling visuals that align with strategy and budget. I love turning unique ideas into measurable results and enjoy partnering with teams to push creative boundaries while meeting deadlines.

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I am a resourceful and innovative creative lead with expertise in all stages of digital art direction and design, from concept through product launch. I thrive on guiding projects, collaborating with clients, and delivering compelling visuals that align with strategy and budget.

I love turning unique ideas into measurable results and enjoy partnering with teams to push creative boundaries while meeting deadlines.

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Work Experience

Media Designer at McGraw-Hill Education

January 1, 2022 - Present

Lead strategic planning for visual design prototyping within the Design team; oversee service vendors and guide team members to ensure assets meet quality, budget, schedule, and scope; create and maintain department documentation around systems, tools, processes, and workflows.

Multimedia Designer at Leidos

January 1, 2020 - January 1, 2022

Develop applications using storyboards; apply adult learning theory to e-Learning and blended learning solutions; develop multimedia training products for web-based delivery; work with AS2, AS3, JavaScript, HTML (including HTML5), CSS, XML; assist with design and programming of interactive multimedia applications for web-based delivery.

Media Designer at McGraw-Hill Education

January 1, 2016 - January 1, 2019

Worked with vendors and in-house artists to create engaging illustrations and art assets; acquired hundreds of photos/images that met academic integrity standards for learning modules; completed 55 animated math videos on time and under budget; created wireframes and workflows for interactive learning content.

Art Floor Manager / Senior Animator / Illustrator at Pearson

January 1, 2010 - January 1, 2015

Reworked series of animated videos into lively highly-animated series of character driven cartoons, enhancing learning principles incorporated into video script; wrote scripts for animated vignettes, increasing student engagement; worked as art lead, supervising team of 14 artists, organizing art tasks and delivering projects on time and on budget; trained outside vendors in techniques which matched in-house illustration and animation styles, leveraging resources to meet production deadlines; collaborated with outside vendor creating hundreds of animated vignettes, ensuring animation style established by in-house artists was matched.