Zachary Pipik

Design manager with over 14 years of experience

BFA in Graphic Design 
Department of Art, Western Michigan University 

Associates in Applied Science with Honors, Focus in Graphic Communication 
School of New Media, Kalamazoo Valley Community College 

Product graphics manager and creator, with success in print and digital media, as well as packaging design, production. Experience with brands such as Maytag, Jennair, Indesit, Acros, Brastemp, Kitchenaid, and HomeValet.

Employment:

Seeley Designworks | Graphic Design Specialist/ Consultant

June 2021 – Present | Southwest Michigan, USA

• Managing numerous print, packaging, and digital design projects simultaneously to meet tight deadlines using Figma, Microsoft, and Adobe products for alignment of app, print, and web assets.

• Supporting employee communications by developing and editing content and content production, and creating a system for approval and distribution of finished documents.

• Delivering projects with creativity, speed and accuracy, utilizing exceptional layout and design skills.

• Preparing final art documents to send for production of manuals, guides, apps, and web assets.

• Working with suppliers, regulators, and translators to prototype and promote approval of final outputs.

On-Product Graphics and Consultant

July 2020 – Present | Southwest Michigan, USA

• Interviewing key personnel and stakeholders to understand business processes, and target creative assets to solve conceptual and design problems.

• Building productive working relationships and collaboration across organizations, disciplines, to meet project needs.

• Defining complex issues and developed timetables and processes for informed decision making about the needs and requirements of organizations using presentations, prototypes, and models.

• Leveraging business performance and development techniques to assist organizations using organizational skills, Product Lifecycle Management experience, and production experience.

Whirlpool Corporation | Product Graphics Studio Lead

August 2018 – July 2020 | Benton Harbor, Michigan, USA

• Designed, executed, and Co-Managed a global artwork creation process.

• Integrated into Engineering process and workflows to provide fast paced, accurate artwork for thousands of SKUs.

• Organized hundreds of projects concurrently, providing deliverables as needed in a fluid and changing environment.

• Created management and training tools and techniques, for integration of cross functional global creative and manufacturing teams.

• Creator and manager of on-product brand language, and overall brand language, standards, and facilitator of manufacturing.

*This role was eliminated due to Covid19 restructuring

Whirlpool Corporation | Senior Stylemaster/Senior Designer

July 2006 – August 2018 | Benton Harbor, Michigan, USA

• Created numbered, controlled artworks for the manufacture of appliance and product graphics, using a variety of manufacturing methods, and various supplier constraints.

• Presented design work to clients and internal stakeholders to share and challenge ideas, inform brand language.

• Worked closely with development teams to implement design specifications, satisfy legal and regulatory requirements, and provide a technical framework for creatives to integrate with other disciplines.

• Prepared preliminary sketches, models, and diagrams to reflect product and brand design concepts. 

• Reduced brand complexity and production cost for select categories and brands by up to 60%, resulting in a large per unit cost reduction, production time reduction.

Communications Assistant/Graphic Designer | First United Methodist Church

2005 - 2006 | Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA

• Wrote, edited, formatted and distributed finished newsletters, messages, other materials.

• Performed copy-editing and proofreading tasks.

• Created print and electronic promotional marketing materials.

• Managed online resources including archives, website, server.