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Resume

Work Experience

10/24–Present

WGU 
Sr. Manager, Creative

  • Lead strategic collaboration between marketing stakeholders, creative teams, and business partners to deliver high-impact campaigns aligned with organizational KPIs.

  • Direct brand-aligned creative initiatives supporting new academic programs, university growth strategies, and integrated marketing campaigns.

  • Drive campaign execution across multiple channels while ensuring consistency in messaging and visual identity.

  • Partner cross-functionally with marketing, brand, production, and leadership teams to streamline creative.

  • Mentor and support creative professionals while fostering a collaborative, performance-driven team culture.

5/22–10/24

WGU
Manager, Production Design

  • Lead, managed, mentored and grew the production design team. 

  • Provided solutions to streamline production design work using new technologies and solutions.

  • Worked cross-functionally with Brand Manager, Copy Manager, and Creative Director to ensure all production collateral were formulated to campaign and brand standards.

3/20–5/22

WGU
Sr. Graphic Designer

  • Designed banner advertising including: static ads, HTML animated ads, responsive ads, animated GIFs.

  • Created graphic motion designs in After Effects for social platforms like Instagram and Facebook.

4/18–3/20

WGU
Visual Designer

  • Concepted, created, and implemented a look and feel for marketing campaigns.

  • Collaborated with off-site printers, attended press checks, and cultivated external company relations.

  • Completed all job requirements in previous design position.

2/16–4/18

WGU
Graphic Designer

  • Designed static ads, animated ads, and responsive ads, animated GIFs, email headers, email layouts, banners, brochures, and tri-panels, while maintaining brand standards.

  • Completed both large (billboards, environmental) and small (display ads, print ads) format print projects.

2/14–4/16

NCHAM
Coordinator III

  • Created booklets, brochures, banners and convention materials while maintaining brand standards.

  • Managed workloads and schedules for a team of five.

  • Resolved technology questions and technical issues.

Education

2010–2015

Utah State University  |  Logan, Utah
Bachelor's of Science in Art

Skills
& Expertise

  • Adobe Creative Suite: Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign

  • Figma, Miro, Firefly Boards

  • HTML5 Digital Advertising

  • Workfront, Clickup, Trello

  • Microsoft Office Suite: Word, Excel, PowerPoint

  • Motion Graphics & Social Media Content Design

  • Digital Asset Production & Campaign Design

  • Mac and PC Operating Systems

© 2026 By Derek Saunders

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