There’s only one very good life and that’s the life you know you want and you make it yourself. - Diana Vreeland

24 plus years of experience in developing innovative designs for clients in media and entertainment, retail, manufacturing, telecommunications, financial services, health care, advertising and non-profit.
Experience working in multi-disciplinary teams to deliver designs that are not only visually engaging, but meet customer needs, product goals, and schedules. Self-motivated and deadline-oriented.

Molly’s past clients include: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Hotel Studio Allston, DCR, Fenway Park Concert Series: Pearl Jam, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Motiv, 15-40.org, VAGRANTS, Woodstock Foods, Mass General Hospital, Athena Health, Olympus Medical products - including VR, Aquent, Tivoli Radio, Equal Exchange, Harpoon, John Hancock Investments, DemandWare, Mopar, Chrysler Group, Lane Bryant, Catherines, L.L.Bean, Analog Devices, ING, Philips Healthcare, Forrester Research, Sunglass Hut, Perkin Elmer, Liberty Mutual, Smithsonian, Yale School of Management, Vicor, Sealy, Stop & Shop, CBS.

Molly has been hired to collaborate and work with brands such as TEDx, Cartier, LaPrarie, Puma, Adobe, You Tube, Wagner Skis and Jungle Magazine.

Her work has shown around the world in galleries from Hong Kong, Japan, London, Paris, Boston, NYC, Cincinnati, Miami and more. She has work in the private collections of You Tube, Berklee College of Music, Iowa State University, Cartier and many personal collections as well as being featured in Making the Cut Vol.1: The World's Best Collage Artists, Curatorial, Leaders in Contemporary Art and a selected winner in American Illustration 42. She's also been featured and published in multiple Arts Magazines.

A competitive rower for the past 25+ years, Molly has an energy that knows no bounds. As the mother of three amazing daughters, she not only spends her free time sketching the animals at the Natural History Museum, among other arts and crafts- you can find her at every hockey rink and soccer field in MA and beyond!

FULL-TIME

Director Design, UX/UI/Visual, Sallie Mae
September 2022-present

Working with executive leadership and the brand creative team, managing the UI/UX and visual design for Sallie Mae digital channels both on the authenticated side of the house as well as the un-authenticated. Sallie Mae has been busy buying new companies and integrating new services and team members. It has been critical for pivoting and quick thinking against our business objectives as a loan service company including reviewing SEO strategies, new design system rollouts, and managing 3rd party partners’ work.

This includes future strategic visioning, brainstorms, road mapping, creative concepts, and presenting the work to the executive leadership. As well as a close partnership with our development teams and content management teams ensuring design delivery and consistency.

The day-to-day involves managing, and hiring/staffing teams (copy, UX/UI/visual design) as well as project forecasting/planning and development. We want to create memorable emotional experiences that drive home a sense of being and place for our end users.


Creative Director, Rapid 7
September 2021-2022

Oversaw the creative team (including freelance staff) and provided leadership for all team members. Including reviewing work, brainstorms, creative concepts, and deck creation/presentations. Also while overseeing a small group, I was responsible for both managing and creating concepts, UX, and booth designs and providing technology solutions to support all creative solutions.

Working very closely with internal stakeholders and team members to ensure usability constraints, deliverable expectations, and budgetary limits are incorporated into the overall design execution and timeline. Aside from pushing the design boundaries, I also worked with 3rd party vendors in animation, video, and booth buildouts.

Contract Life 2016-2021

Allen & Gerritson, Forge Worldwide, DCR, Think Argus, Rubin & Rudman, TIEM amongst others.

FULL-TIME

Creative Director, GYKAntler
September 2015-2016

Reporting Directly to the CCO, responsibilities include overseeing the design group and mentoring the creative group. Helping drive, define and challenge the definition of creative everyday for everyone. Creating & upholding a brands unique vision cross platform, cross channel while overseeing interdisciplinary roles as they come together. This includes, branding, campaigns, social, responsive design (web/mobile), app design, physical experience design and just overall connected design. Know your audience.

Fostering the value of the unique individual and the benefit of team. Cross discipline. Inspire.

Staying in touch with the cutting edge digital design experiences as the industry changes on a dime. This means embracing change and acting in nimble/agile ways.

Oversee the holistic interactive design aspects of project engagements, ensuring the client’s creative vision is incorporated to develop a top tier web experience. This includes keeping technology at the forefront and engaged with design as early as possible

Working on new business Initiatives. Work very closely with clients and team members to ensure usability constraints, deliverable expectations, and budgetary limits are incorporated into the overall design execution and time line. Including scoping & planning projects.

Giving back to the community: whether it’s organizations like the adclub, engaging local colleges to create art for campaigns, having job shadows from local high schools and colleges, as well as being a speaker to college kids about the art of the digital age and what that means, to me and the industry. 


Associate Creative Director, SapientNitro
August 2007 – September 2015 Greater Boston Area

Work very closely with clients and team members to ensure usability constraints, deliverable expectations, and budgetary limits are incorporated into the overall design execution and time line.
Oversee the interactive design aspects of project engagements, ensuring the client’s creative vision is incorporated to develop a top tier web experience.
Work closely with technology/development teams offshore and locally to ensure design delivery and consistency. 

Senior Art Director, Mullen
July 2005 – August 2007

Working with Print, Direct Mail, and Broadcast, to provide Interactive
Design contributions to full service advertising campaigns,
ensuring brand consistency and content.
Work very closely with the Information Architecture team to ensure usability constraints are incorporated into the overall design execution.
Manage the work efforts of Interactive design team members to complete site designs and, Online Advertising Campaigns

BACK IN TIME

October 2003 – July 2005
Insight Product Development: Interface Designer

October 2000 – February 2002
Imagicians/Lapham Miller: Senior Designer

June 1998 – October 2000
Proxicom: Senior Designer

1997 – 1998
CBS.com: designer