Myia Lortz-Padilla

Senior Graphic and Digital Designer

About Me

Creative and versatile Graphic Designer with progressive experience in print and digital creative across multi-varied market material platforms. Contributed as a design and templates team lead for Panduit, and Vitalant’s nationwide rebranding initiative, hosting meetings, reporting results, and managing editing, composition, and art design. Recruited actively to produce creative assets for boutique agencies and large Fortune 500 organizations. Integrated and rebuilt complex illustrator layouts into InDesign templates saving 25% of server space

Contact

lomylyn@yahoo.com
(630) 392 1135
linkedin.com/in/myia-lortz-padilla

Skills

ASSET EXPERIENCE & COMPETENCIES

TECHNOLOGY & SOFTWARE SKILLS

Education

Bachelor of Arts
Art and English Majors, Business Minor

Associate of Applied Science – High Honors Distinction
Courses in Web Design; Degrees in Radiation Therapy, Radiograph

Professional Experience

AdventHealth/UChicago Medicine
Woodridge, Illinois
Senior Contract Graphic Designer 2022 – Present

Recruited from the dissolution of AMITA Health Partnership as an independent contractor primarily overseeing rack card and poster branding and development for onboarding and legacy providers.

Adapted previous AMITA collateral into new branding for AdventHealth/UChicago Medicine saving the organization 90% of labor and costs associated with research, copywriting, creative and proofing of new resources.
Reduced 2+ weeks of costs in searching, onboarding, and training outside talent by seamlessly transitioning into the role and immediately providing assets,
Maintained and merged brand standards across the partnership between AdventHealth and UChicago Medicine in all new materials, and incorporated templates to reflect cross-branding.

Panduit
Tinley Park, Illinois
Senior Contract Graphic Designer 2022 – 2024

Partnered with fellow Senior Designer as leads for curating Network Infrastructure and Electrical Business marketing collateral, processes, templates and brand updates.

Refined older templates into versions that have cohesive branding across a kaleidoscope of asset types, ultimately making future revisions 75% faster.
Swiftly acclimated to multiple complex ticketing and naming convention processes and project types, developing savvy research skills for lost reference files, and assisted in the development and testing of an organized file archiving system.
Convened with content managers, and other departments via one-on-one meetings or as a group to gather ideas on design needs and plan the best course of action for developing creative across a range of assets, keeping alignment of style and reducing customer confusion.

AMITA Health
Lisle, Illinois
Art Coordinator/Graphic Designer 2019-2022

Amplified brand recognition through fluency of graphic design principles to elevate design concepts and typography of corporate advertisements within core brand standards for service lines holding a publicity value of +$3 million.

Mentored and managed others, educating them on design principles such as composition, color theory, and informational hierarchy, thus alleviating potential project delays while maintaining client standards.
Utilized medical education training background as a support for compelling visual designs that tell a story, consequently ensuring fewer edits and faster turnaround, and increased new creative project requests.
Rejuvenated former Presence Health creative into the AMITA Health brand through brighter, positive digital images in Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop, balanced contrast and gradients, along with other filters and effects.

Vitalant
Rosemont, Illinois
Marketing and Communications Graphic Design Specialist 2015-2018

Augmented productivity as a team leader in which the company’s national rebrand initiative projects successfully stayed 100% on schedule for meeting deadlines and the final launch date.

Modernized branded and co-branded collateral worth over $500,000+ for major hospitals, sports teams, universities, local communities, and public institutions through the collaboration of their visual design preference, typography, integrating feedback, and utilization of multi-media graphic design.
Facilitated, as Brand Administrator, the creative leadership, management, distribution, and interpretation of the visual brand guidelines, while strengthening older templates and collateral into a cohesive design across all channels, fostering brand recognition and increasing donor participation by 15%.
Restructured and implemented dynamic, custom-branded gifs, infographics, social media design, email design, and PowerPoint presentations.