Jill McCarthy has over 20 years of experience in user experience design, digital branding, and marketing. She currently works as a UX Designer at State Farm, where she develops intuitive design solutions across mobile and responsive platforms. Previously, she was Principal at Fancy Pants Media, where she specialized in digital brand development and marketing campaigns. She also held art director roles at Xceed, Inc. and Think New Ideas, Inc., where she led design teams and collaborated with clients including Coca-Cola, SunTrust, and BellSouth.

1. JILL MCCARTHY
2705 Midway Road Decatur, GA 30030
T: 404-377-3868 M: 404-441-5127 E: jill@fancypantsmedia.com
Experience
State Farm | Dunwoody, GA | February 2015 – Present | UX Designer
Working closely with Business Analysts, UX Leads, UX Architects, Content Strategists, and Interaction Designers to develop
innovative and intuitive visual design solutions for a wide range of consumer facing experiences within mobile and responsive
environments. Driving consistency across multiple platforms, as well as identify emerging styles and shaping the direction of the
user experience enterprise wide. Create compelling digital workflows that are easily transformed into engaging web experiences.
Collaborate with all team members within the agile creative space.
Fancy Pants Media | Decatur, GA | 2000 – Present | Principal
Building upon a creative background with many years of experience, I specialize in digital brand development, multi-faceted
marketing campaigns, dynamic media applications and user experience design. I enjoy working directly with the client, creating
design solutions with high visual impact. Since every clients creative solutions are different, I might develop a variety of products,
including websites, online advertising, presentations, animated demos, books, magazines, posters, product packaging, exhibitions
and displays, corporate communications and corporate identity. Some of my clients include: Alterian, Elemental Interactive, Merkle,
Ollinger Creative, Siemens, Telling Media, Troux, Verndale and WiKid.
Xceed, Inc. | Atlanta, GA | 1999 – 2000 | Art Director
Responsible for helping to open an Xceed office in the Atlanta area. This included hiring and managing designers, developing
internal creative standards and procedures, as well as developing and implementing cohesive creative strategies for client’s
including HomeRun.co.uk, Spherion, ALPNET, Cox Interactive, and Carolina Lighting and Power. Worked with a dedicated team
consisting of: creative director, senior designers, designers, account representatives, production specialist, site architect, and
technical programmer. Ensured visual design communicated and functioned successfully to varying technical and performance
specifications. Communicated and presented concepts and design comps to client throughout all stages of design. Gained
advanced Internet experience with consumer websites, corporate intranets, extranets, B2B, and e-commerce sites. Gained in-depth
knowledge of interactive design, digital branding, integration, localization, and browser compatibility.
Think New Ideas, Inc. | Atlanta, GA | 1996 – 1999 | Art Director
Concept creation and development, refinement of direction, and final refinement toward production for corporate internet/intranet
web sites and corresponding print collateral. Direct other designers and photographers in concept creation and development for
client’s including CoCa-Cola, Metro Atlanta Chamber of Commerce, SunTrust, BellSouth, First Union Bank, Georgia World Congress
Center, TBS and Orkin Commercial and Residential. Coordinate web site project team of account executives, designers, html
programers and application engineers. Work with technical specialists to create interface design for applications. Ability to create
estimates, proposals, and budgets. Also responsible for client creative relations.
Education
The George Washington University | 1987 – 1991 | Bachelor of Fine Arts
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