Melanie Lumanog
Creative Professional
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What I do, plainly said.

Three honest answers: I lead creative teams, I make the work, and I build production systems when something is genuinely broken.

Open to

Full-time, contract, or consulting.

Big or small. Production-heavy environments are home turf.

Core lanes

Where I add the most value.

All three are open. I am not picky about which seat, as long as the work is real.

Lead

Creative direction and team leadership.

Reviewing work, mentoring designers, hearing other perspectives, and helping a team get to a stronger answer together. End-to-end campaigns, brief through delivery.

  • Creative direction
  • Art department management
  • Project management
  • Cross-functional partnership
Make

Hands-on production and design.

I am still in the file. Apparel for college, championship, corporate, Greek, and sports teams. Pre-press for silkscreen, embroidery, sublimation, UV inkjet, engraving, and more. Brochures, decks, and web graphics.

  • Apparel production art
  • Brochures and proposals
  • Presentation design
  • Web graphics and logo cleanup
Improve

Process and automation, when it makes sense.

If a process is working, I leave it alone. If a team is hand-keying the same data every week, I will help fix it. Adobe scripts, data-driven art, and clean handoffs.

  • Adobe automation
  • File QA and naming
  • Export pipelines
  • Onboarding and training
Toolbox

What I work in today.

And what I am happy to learn next.

Daily drivers

Adobe Creative Suite.

Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign. Most of my hours live here.

3D and web

Blender, HTML, CSS, WordPress.

3D modeling, UV mapping, rendering, and front-end ready files for the web.

Scripting

JavaScript and Python.

Adobe ExtendScript, data-driven art, and a Generative AI specialization from Purdue.

What I do not know yet

Picking up new tools is part of the job.

If your team uses something I have not used yet, that is fine. I have spent a career picking up new software, new processes, and new production methods on the job. I will read the docs, ask good questions, and be useful by the second week.

Next step

Have a role or a project that needs both creative and craft?

A quick note about what you are working on goes a long way. Specifics work better than a perfect brief.