
Thanks for stopping by!
My name is April Zammas and I’m a senior graphic designer and front-end developer. Beyond what I can show you here, I’m a detailed-oriented, fast yet efficient team player, with excellent design, communications, and management capabilities, a long history of thriving under pressure, and the ability to ease that pressure with a good joke or two.
I understand all too well the importance of exceptional organization and time management, and how they’re attributed not only to a project’s success, but to the overall success of any business. I love a good challenge and possess an infectious positive attitude. A positive attitude and a good sense of humor are as necessary for success as skill and talent.
More than just ‘work,’ what I seek is longevity within a thriving workplace, an environment in which to contribute, collaborate, and always continue to learn.
Feel free to drop me a line! I look forward to arranging a meeting that’s convenient for you, so we can discover where your organization’s design needs align with my capabilities.
- All
- Print/Display
- Web
- Social Media
- Logo/Illustration

experience
- Home improvement retailer customers include: Lowes, Home Depot, and Floor & Decor.
- Provided art direction, illustrations, print design, and store display/merchandising for National home improvement and flooring retailers.
- Production designer responsible for creating and managing graphic assets.
- Managed content and assets in the proprietary content management systems unique to each client.
- Created and maintained web presence and Youtube video content library.
- Contract graphic designer hired to support a flooring manufacturing company in Orange, VA.
- Responsible for creating product images, uploading to proprietary Content Management Systems used by their various flooring contracts.
- Assisted the marketing and sales team in creating sales sheets, product guides, 3d displays, presentations, and web content.
- Small business owner of a plant-based cafe on campus at the University of Mary Washington and in downtown Fredericksburg.
- Responsible for hiring, training, inventory, accounting and HR.
- In-house designer and social media expert creating content and event promotions.
- In-house web developer creating and maintaining a WordPress-managed web presence.
- Senior Associate for Card Tech
- Developed apps in HTML/CSS/Javascript utilizing design prototypes.
- Implemented responsive web design practices and frameworks.
- Accounted for accessibility requirements.
- Participated in agile ceremonies.
- Interfaced with product owners.
- Responsible for the development of InfoComm’s association and show websites within the OpenText (previously RedDot) content management system and LiveServer, OpenText’s delivery server.
- Utilized various web technologies and scripting libraries, including HTML5, CSS3, and jQuery.
- Streamlined content entry by ensuring ease-of-use for content authors and editors, and provided on-going documentation and training.
- Aided in the project management of development deliverables for major association site redesign, working closely with vendors.
- Implemented and supported social media marketing and site analytics, serving as the go-to for Google Analytics reporting.
- Assisted in the troubleshooting of site publishing issues.
- Provided support on the association’s WordPress show blogs.
- Offered research and recommendations for design and technical challenges.
- Worked with the Marketing Services Department on a day-to-day basis, as well as supported expositions, education, certification and membership departments, as needed.
- stem creative is a graphic and web design firm serving the needs of associations, non-profit organizations, and small business.
- stem also serves consumers with all their party stationery needs - from weddings to graduations, and birthdays to birth announcements.
- Worked on assigned desktop publishing and illustration projects for various local clients.
- Tagged various PDF documents for XML and accessibility.
- Converted older illustrations from scanned documents into vector art for newly updated documents and training manuals.
- Imported Word and text documents into new page layouts in support of 100+ page training manuals.
- Exported artwork and print-ready files for printing.
- Design, development and maintenance of a number of websites for a real estate developer and their partner companies in the builder and mortgage industry.
- Provided design services including graphic and web design, corporate identity, e-mail marketing, marketing collateral and county presentation materials.
- Attended planning sessions with the city and developer, as needed.
- Design, development and maintenance of a number of websites for an association management firm that supported education, government, and medical industries.
- Provided design services including graphic and web design, corporate identity, e-mail marketing, marketing collateral and meeting materials.
- Project management.
- Customer service and backup sales.
- Graphic design, newsletters, conference brochures, and corporate identity including logo design, stationery and business cards.
- Pre-press and production.
- Sales and customer service at Apple Computer’s flagship retail location in Tysons Corner, VA.
- Later transferred to assist in the opening of their third store in Arlington, VA. Finishing my tenure with the Tysons store.
- Provided knowledge and recommendations in the area of design, as well basic use of their pro desktop and portables line.
- Excelled in “converting” PC users by demonstrating the system’s ease-of-use.
education
- THE ART INSTITUTE ONLINE
Bachelors Degree: Advertising
Partial completion
- THE ART INSTITUTE OF WASHINGTON
Associates Degree: Multimedia & Web Design
Graduated with Honors
skills
- SOFTWARE: PC + Mac-based systems, proficient in Adobe Creative Suite (Acrobat Pro, After Effects, Dreamweaver, Illustrator, InDesign and Photoshop, Premiere Pro), Quark, and Microsoft Office (Excel, Outlook, Powerpoint, Teams, Words)
- LANGUAGES USED: CSS, Javascript, jQuery, jQuery Mobile, jQuery UI, MySQL, php, xHTML, XML
- TOOLS USED: AddThis, Canva, Google Analytics, gitHub, Google Workspace (Docs, Forms, Sheets, Slides), InVision, Meta Business Suite, Sketch, social APIs, WordPress