Hello,
I’m Michelle Valentin — a Visual Digital Designer working across graphic design-prints, marketing, web, automation, and UX designs. I’m passionate about creating intuitive digital experiences and meaningful visuals, using systems thinking and narrative‑led design to craft scalable interfaces and cohesive, brand‑driven campaign assets.
About Me
I work efficiently, a team collaborator, and adapt quickly to different project needs. I’m seeking for a designer contributor role where I can refresh user‑journey connections, elevate key touchpoints, support unified visual systems, and contribute to a stronger business ecosystem through thoughtful storytelling design.
My portfolio reflects that journey—rooted in curiosity, care, and a genuine love for creating visuals that help people connect with the tools and information they need.
Take a moment to browse my Design gallery—I hope you enjoy the experience.
Core Competencies:
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Digital & Visual Design:
Figma, Adobe Creative Suite, Illustration, Brand Systems, Responsive Layouts
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Web & Front‑End:
AI Tools, Web Design, WIX, HTML/CSS, CMS Portals, HubSpot, Email Campaigns
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Marketing Creative:
Digital Campaigns, Banner-Product Leads, Video, Social Graphics, Landing Pages
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Engineering Application Tools:
AutoCAD, 2D/3D Revit-BIM, Desigo CC BACnet, Control Point Touch Systems
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Tools & Workflow:
Jira, Confluence, Wrike, SalesForce, Lucid Chart, FigJam, Mural, Blue Beam
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Communication & Presentation:
PowerPoint Slides, Infographics, Trade Show Prints, Fillable PDF, Style-Guides
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SEO Analytics & Accessibility Research:
User Surveys, Usability Data-Heat Mapping, A/B testing, WCAG standards
Education:
Kent State University User Experience Design - Communication, MS Studied responsive visual designs, user research, usability testing, interaction design, and information architecture. Design thinking methodologies and hands‑on prototyping and wireframing for all media platforms. Technical Skills: Figma, FigJam, Mural, CMS, SEO Analytics, Adobe Creative Suite.
Illinois Institute of Art Multimedia/Digital Graphics, BFA Studied digital interfaces, marketing visuals, product graphics, and multimedia experiences across platforms including graphics, video/audio, web designs, and print communication. Technical Skills: Adobe Creative Suite · Video editing - Wix · Figma · CMS · HTML · JavaScript · FTP
Robert Morris University Web-Graphic Designs, AAS Studied and built website interfaces and graphic arts projects within a media concentration. Technical Skills: Adobe Creative Suite · HTML · JavaScript · Visual Basic Applications (VBA) · CMS · FTP
Professional Achievements:
Design Award:
An Illumina Platinum Winner in Graphic Design, The Artist’s Call for Justice features a powerful black‑and‑white silhouette crafted through layered photo manipulation and transformed into a compelling final artwork. View Gallery Photograph.
Recommendation Letters:
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US Bank: Lisa Sileo, Web Content Specialist
Professional Experiences:
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U.S. Bank Corp.
Online Banking
Chicago, IL | UI/UX Visual Digital Designer | 2022 - 2025
Home Lending Sales - Consumer Shop Division
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Designed digital experiences and marketing‑aligned UI/UX visual digitals for enterprise financial products. Created responsive web, tablet, and mobile versions to aligned with enterprise brand standards. Directed visual optimization, component development, and asset implementation to scale AEM DAM global libraries.
Duties includes:
• Maintained U.S. Bank’s brand standards while designing in Figma, Adobe Creative Suites and AI tools.
• Built web pages, wireframes prototype interaction screens and UI-marketing feature product infographics.
• Create custom iconography, illustrations and asset-component libraries for a scalable design system.
• Designed web hero banners and product‑centric visuals to support marketing campaigns generation leads.
• Improved the shopping‑cart user flow for selecting financial products by identifying and reducing key friction points.
• Applied AI generative tools to refine imagery, content & research data to accelerate high‑quality visual design output.
• Leverage SEO analytics to translate data optimization actions to improve rankings, traffic, and user engagement.
• Crafted UI/UX reaction prototypes, translating user‑flow diagrams into defined interaction‑sequence screen patterns.
• Utilized FigJam/Mural ‑based screen mockups to articulate product concepts and support stakeholder evaluation.
• Partner with Agile, Author, and Dev teams to define user‑journey touchpoints / support shared vision objectives.
• Participate in A/B testing, heat mapping discovery, and usability improvements to resolve component issues.
• Developed style guides covering grids, ratios, error states, modals, and user accessibility compliance standards.
• Supported Dev engineers to optimize usability, restructure interface layouts, and streamline end‑to‑end digital flows.
• Collaborate with the accessibility-research team to ensure the final product meets the needs of all end users.
Software knowledge:
Figma, AI Generative Tools, Jira, Confluence, FigJam, Mural, Research Survey Tools, PowerPoint Slides, CMS Management, HTML, CSS, Adobe Creative Suites, Accessibility Standards & SEO Adobe Analytics
Siemens
HVAC Engineering
Mt. Prospect, IL | UI/UX Graphic Engineering II, GIS-MW Specialist | 2017 - 2022
BAS Automation, Smart Infrastructure | Engineering Division.
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My work at Siemens centered on translating complex mechanical engineering drawings into data‑driven visuals that improved system clarity, accuracy, and cross‑team alignment for large‑scale infrastructure projects. Utilized QA standards to validate mechanical systems against engineered‑ready construction drawings, implement technical visuals, and support decision ‑making for both internal and client‑facing materials.
Duties includes:
• Developed custom UI layouts, data dashboards, and control‑panel visualizations for internal digital systems.
• Visually structured proposal‑deck marketing materials highlighting new product features for stakeholders and sales team.
• Extracted 2D/3D mechanical drawings from CAD / Revit-BIM to incorporate project workflows and system integration.
• Operated within complex, system‑oriented environments to develop scalable, functionality and design solutions.
• Integrated graphical floorplans and application panel interfaces for HVAC and fire‑safety system platforms.
• Collaborated with the PMs and sales team members to engage new design solution, migration or upgrades.
• Engaged with product owners to test prototype enhancements for upcoming feature launches.
• Developed data‑driven dashboards for monitoring visual insights for engineering maintenance team.
• Designed and implemented custom menu interfaces within a kiosk‑driven control‑point environment.
• Created custom illustrations, icons, and DAM component assets used across product-marketing materials.
• Worked closely with field operators and building engineers to navigate and test graphics on client-site.
• Provided on‑site and remote support, ensuring visual consistency, and usability across deployments.
Software knowledge:
AutoCAD, Revit, Desigo CC BACnet, Control Point Application-Touch Panel System, Micrographics Insight, Wrike, CMS Management, HTML, CSS, LucidChart, Blue Beam, PowerPoint Slides, Adobe Creative Suites
Digital Marketing-Graphic Designs
Real Estate & Mortgage Companies - Contract Role's
Chicago, IL | Digital Email, Web, Graphic Prints, and Marketing Designer
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Partnered with multiple real estate brokerages across commercial and residential portfolios to lead multichannel marketing strategy, strengthen brand positioning, and deliver data‑informed digital assets that elevated campaign engagement, listing visibility, and conversion performance. Additionally, produced bold, large‑scale graphics for storefronts, trade shows, vehicle decals, street hanging banners, and bus stop / bench ads to capture attention and create strong visual impact.
Newmark
Commercial Real Estate | Chicago, IL | 2016-2017
Digital Email / Marketing Coordinator:
Designed and formatted digital assets imagery for e-blast campaigns, ensuring brand consistency and audience engagement.
Duties includes:
• Design/schedule digital assets for e-blast campaigns for marketing promotion.
• Created high-end commercial brochures, RFPs, and property booklets.
• Customized presentation materials for sales events, client meetings and consultant pamplets.
• Designed web‑hero banners and digital assets aligned with lead‑generation and social media strategies.
• Enhance floorplan graphics to provide clearer availability and occupancy data for client review.
• Integrated building‑stack real-time visual data into the design workflow and summary reporting.
• Print & bind materials, cover mats, and property proposal flyers.
Software knowledge:
CMS Email Campaign System, PPT, SalesForce, HTML-Dreamweaver, Excel, PPT, Adobe Creative Suites
PERL Mortgage, Inc.
Real Estate | Chicago, IL | 2015 - 2016
Digital Email Designer:
Customized e-invites, set-up automated email campaigns, HTML coding, SalesForce submissions and trouble-shoot failed submissions reporting.
Duties includes:
• Designed custom e-invites to schedule and coordinate automated submission campaigns.
• Pulled survey for management reporting on automation campaign and survey results.
• Designed web‑hero banners and digital assets aligned with lead‑generation reporting.
• Allocate prints and digital assets and customized fillable online pdf forms.
• Maintain Realtors profile websites and landing pages and order custom business cards.
• Tailored sales presentation materials for brokers, real estate agents and regional consultants.
• Customized promotional postcards for targeted mailing and printed ad campaigns.
• Utilized CRM platforms: Act-On, JUNGO, PrintSF, ExactTarget to manage e-mail campaigns on SalesForce.
Software knowledge:
SalesForce, HTML-Dreamweaver, CMS Platforms, PDF Fillable Forms, Adobe Creative Suites
24/7 Real Estate / Hartland Insurance
Real Estate / Investment Firm | Woodridge, IL | 2014 - 2015
Senior Lead Designer:
Collaborated with the regional sales team members as a graphics consultant, developing customized visual assets to support product promotions.
Duties includes:
• Weekly graphic ads developed for both broadcast TV spots, websites and social media campaigns.
• Designed web‑hero banners and digital assets aligned with lead‑generation reporting.
• Design high-end presentation materials for consultants and realtor’s across US branches.
• Create consultant booklet prints to maintain brand consistency and client-facing materials.
• Customized promotional postcards for targeted mailing and printed ad campaigns.
• Negotiated with vendors to manage production timelines, pricing, and quality control.
• Supervise and train summer interns, volunteers, and coordinate planning events.
Software knowledge:
Adobe Creative Suites, PPT, Excel, Video-Photo Editing, Mail-Chimp
Coldwell Banker
Real Estate | Elmhurst, IL | 2012 - 2014
Marketing Graphic Designer:
Enhanced property imagery and developed virtual tour campaigns to support digital marketing efforts. Acted as a graphics consultant for the regional office, tailoring visual assets to local market needs.
Duties includes:
• Design sell sheets, brochures and property prints for home showing.
• Create management reporting and pull database for mailing radius distribution.
• Customized promotional postcards for targeted mailing and printed ad campaigns.
• Maintain Realtors profile websites, landing pages, and order custom business cards.
• Designed web‑hero banners and digital assets aligned with lead‑generation reporting.
• Develop virtual home video walkthroughs and enhance property photos through detailed retouching.
Software knowledge:
Adobe Creative Suites, Video-Photo Virtual Editing, CMS, Constant Contact, Web Site Portal
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