Mara Stephenson

Game Open is a mobile startup that connects compatible gamers to create a better multiplayer gaming experience. - Conduct quantitative and qualitative research to identify user needs and determine key features and functionality - Define personas, scenarios, user journeys, and flows to better understand the end user - Create annotated wireframes and interactive prototypes to share solutions with the team

- Oversaw projects from concept to execution - Collaborated with stakeholders and project teams to develop creative campaigns that achieve initiatives across all social media platforms - Planned and conducted brand research to aid in developing effective content strategies - Utilized A/B testing to validate content and target audience - Designed graphics and copy for brands like CNN, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, WSB-TV, and Clark Howard

- Designed logos, marketing collateral, presentations, infographics, and digital templates for internal and external use - Created project proposals and mockups to present clients with creative content strategies - Drafted effective and engaging copy for various social campaigns - Designed, implemented, and managed social campaigns for company’s largest clients

10 week, part-time, career accelerator course with the opportunity to learn key UX fundamentals, tools, and best practices from industry professionals - Worked independently and collaboratively in an agile structure - Studied and utilized key UX methodologies including user research, persona development, site maps, user flows, wireframing, prototyping, and user testing - Learned to use tools such as Sketch and InVision to design live, clickable prototypes - Implemented visual design skills to create enjoyable user interfaces - Iterated and tested multiple design solutions based on usability testing

- Photographed commercial, portrait, and lifestyle photography - Retouched, color correct, and digitally manipulate images to meet client needs - Provided graphic design solutions for marketing materials, invitations, and photo books

- Styled, photographed, and retouched product, lifestyle, and editorial photography for use in web and print campaigns - Worked closely with clients and art directors to achieve creative vision and meet brand standards - Demonstrated high level of proficiency in Photoshop by utilizing skills in beauty retouching, masking, compositing, recoloring, color correcting, and digital painting for both model and product photography Partial Client List: Kimberly-Clark, Discovery, Carter's, SPANX, UPS, Amway, Trulife