# Tim Lierman > Illustrator, Graphic Designer, and Animator Location: San Jose, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/timlierman An enthusiastic illustration and design professional with the ability to adapt and thrive in a fast-paced deadline-driven environment. Experienced in art direction, branding, marketing and content management. I respond quickly to changing circumstances and enjoy mastering new processes, and tools. An attention to detail, team leadership and excellent communication skills, I have the ability and experience to efficiently divide and organize workflow to satisfy even the most exacting of customer requirements. Able to articulate ideas of style, color, dimension, content and delivery both verbally and visually. ## Work Experience ### Illustrator and Designer II @ Woven by Toyota Jan 2024 – Present | Sunnyvale, California, United States Storyboard and concept illustration for Toyota's advanced development. UI/UX concept design for in-car and IVI development, visualizing future features for Toyota/Lexus customers. ### Illustrator @ American Express Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 Storyboarding from written scripts for animated ads Designing vector illustrations in Amex brand style for animated ad production. Concept/designing Illustration style guides specific to the Amex Business Blue Print Brand. ### Illustrator @ Wells Fargo Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco Bay Area • Creation of product and icon Illustrations for Wells Fargo Mobile products. Collaborating with the Wells Fargo Brand team in applying Brand standards and vision to all delivered illustration campaign assets. • Working with design teams to concept future direction of illustration themes, style and palettes. • Designing icons for Wells Fargo UX navigation. ### Graphic Designer, Animator, and Illustrator @ Facebook Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | Menlo Park, California, United States • Designing graphics and data visualization for Facebook AI and engineering researchers. • Concept/storyboard/animate explainer videos for Facebook AI and engineering researchers. • Illustrating cover images for AI publications on Facebook newsroom • Rough concept and illustration for Facebook reality labs speaker deck ### Technical Illustrator, Designer and web production artist @ Corsair Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | Fremont • Technical illustrations of new products for QSGs. • Concept illustrations for In-house and promotional use. • Creating info/motion graphics for website PDP pages. • Re-Designing PDP pages for website migration. • Managing product imagery and content for website. • Part of the transition team converting website to Hybris CMS. ### Sign Artist and Graphic Designer @ Whole Foods Market Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | Fremont Sign layout, hand written lettering, and freehand artwork. Computer based graphic design and sign production. In-store marketing and seasonal display design. ### Lead Designer and Web Production Associate – Creative Resources @ FRY’S ELECTRONICS Jan 2006 – Jan 2014 | San Jose, CA - Effectively utilizing data collection from advertisers, Google AdSense/AdWords and buyer sales statistics in the design and execution of successful advertising campaigns - Closely liaising with advertisers, including major electronics manufacturers such as Apple, Sony, LG, Panasonic, Bose, Samsung, Acer, Asus, Microsoft, Dell, RCA, Cannon and Nikon - Working with vendors and other stakeholders to create, manage and process artwork, logos, product images and text; maintaining high brand standards in a deadline-driven environment - Effectively mentoring and training new team members - Managing the production workflow to generate new website content, from concept to upload, including designing, building, optimizing and linking in Photoshop and Dreamweaver - Responsible for the design of graphic media, including print and web advertising for company, involving sponsored events such as the Frys.com Open PGA Golf Tournament, the San Jose SaberCats arena football team, as well as in-store promotional campaigns and billboards Key Achievements: - Worked in collaboration with programmers to develop a system for digital conversion and upload of print ads to Frys.com, resulting in optimization of an ad slicing and linking workflow through HTML to JavaScript conversion and automation scripts - Designed, styled and coded pages for Frys.com main store locator and all 34 Fry’s Electonics store locations; conferred with department directors and store managers to define priorities of and developed a refined user-interface design, focusing on user access and a new look to coincide with website redesign ### Production Associate and Product Photographer – Advertising @ FRY’S ELECTRONICS Jan 2003 – Jan 2006 | San Jose, CA - Participated in daily collaborative meetings with company buyers to assemble and organize marketing materials for use in advertising campaigns - Created, built and finalized print ad layouts in InDesign and Photoshop and was responsible for generating all photographic images of the products used in the ads ### Sign and Mural Painter, Designer and Monument Sign Fabricator @ T. BENNETT SERVICES ARCHITECHTURAL SIGNS Jan 1998 – Jan 2003 | Pleasanton, CA - Translated signage needs from design through fabrication in multimedia materials, i.e. metal, wood, plastic and vinyl, using Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop as well as drawing, cutting and hand painting - Worked with the customer, Paramount’s Great America and other theme parks to create hand-painted background murals, identity signs and wood-cut characters for new attractions ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tim-lierman-5345a379 - Website: https://www.outlines-and-silhouettes.com --- Source: https://flows.cv/timlierman JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/timlierman/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-07