Designer

New York City

Due to the nature of being on incubator/consultancy teams, NDA work is not shown





IBM
2021 - Present


Designer + Facilitator

Uncovering business value, defining problems, shaping solutions, and proving them out for IBM's largest clients using design thinking methodologies. 





Newell Brands
2014 - 2021 


Katie held the position of Senior Art Director, Experience Design where she partnered with 5 business divisions to influence the digital roadmap of over 40 brand websites.

Katie has worked closely with the C-suite to visualize brand experiences at every touchpoint in the user journey. This includes near term and future visions, in store and online, packaging to environmental graphics and everything in-between. At the core, Katie connects the dots to create meaningful experiences for a vast portfolio of leading CPG brands.




Newell Brands
Design Day 

Katie is part of the Mastery club within Newell Brands. A club whose mission is to inspire and encourage the pursuit of personal and professional mastery within the organization. Here, Katie spoke about the club’s weekly inspirational emails and promoted the newly launched Mastery podcast. Episodes are hosted by Katie and feature masterful Newell employees who share valuable knowledge with 4 design hubs across the country.




E-School 4 Girls
Student Entrepreneurial program
Katie is a volunteer for the E-School 4 Girls, a non-profit organization developing and supporting woman as leaders and entrepreneurs. She has volunteered as a speaker and served as a judge on the panel evaluating the student’s final business pitch presentations at NYU.




Candle Power by Yankee Candle
Pop-Up Media Event


Katie was interviewed on the logo design at the VIP launch party of the Candle Power Pop-Up in SoHo. Yankee Candle creates the fragrances that help create special moments. This pop-up store is designed to bring that to life through interactive displays. The pop-up was also a chance to celebrate all three home fragrance brands under one roof. Featuring limited edition products by Yankee Candle, Woodwick, and Chesapeake Bay.




AIGA NY 
Active Member 

Participation Event List:
The Art of Art Direction

Design from Necessity 

Sound and Picture

Paula Scher and Unit Editions: 522 Pages and 41 Years

Paul Sahre: Why Be a Designer?

One in Ten: Gender Equality in Design

Brand Building and Social Media

Designing for AR/VR + The Screenless World

Brand By Hand - Jon Continod

Ingrid Fetell Lee
The Aesthetics of Joy


Love Thy Client


Tina Essmaker
The Great Contentment


Work Wife

Type x Graphic Design 
Relationships & Collaboration

The Part-time Professor

Type x Graphic Design: Craft and Originality / An evening of frank (and passionate!) conversation between graphic and type designers.

American Punk Graphics 
Glen Cummings, Steven Heller, and Andrew Blauvelt
Branding Products for People Billie + Recess


Branding the Tangible Base Design + Jones Knowles Ritchie