Sarah Ollerhead

Illustrator and designer with a strong passion for creating visually engaging and impactful media.

Freelance Illustrator and Graphic Designer | Sept. 2016 — Present

• Adapt artistic approach to match established brand and style guidelines, experienced in establishing and documenting new best practice guides for brand identities.
• Generate high volumes of graphics and videos for A/B testing marketing materials for web and social media advertising.
• Editing videos and adding closed captions to improve accessibility.
• Designing branded advertisements, one pagers, white papers, social tiles, and marketing emails to generate customer demand and engagement.

Graphic Designer, D2L | Remote | Nov. 2020 — Jun. 2022

• Produced over two thousand deliverables for various requests including vector-based illustrations, video assets, infographics, text-based layouts, and accessible documents on a tight timeline.
• Developed new best practices to ensure consistency between designers while creating graphics and accessible documents in accordance with Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.1 (WCAG 2.1).
• Collaborated and coordinated with teammates and points of contact across departments to exchange feedback, clarify communications, and ensure deadlines were met.
• Approached all topics and subject matter mindfully, in a manner that was sensitive, diverse, inclusive, and respectful to the lived experiences of others.
• Set personal objectives and key results (OKRs) and collaborated to achieve 100% of team and company OKRs.

Graphic Designer, Health Out Loud | Remote | Jul. 2020 — Feb. 2021

• Collaborated with a team of designers, copywriters, consultants, and stakeholders to refresh brand identity and brand guideline documentation.
• Developed pitch presentations and packages for stakeholders and partners.
• Built and maintained a comprehensive media library for quick and easy access to assets.

• Accessible Documents: Word, PowerPoint, and Acrobat
WebAIM | April 2022

• Honours Bachelor of Illustration
Sheridan College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning - Oakville, ON | April 2016