Katie Porter
Sr. Director, Photo And Video Production Studio Operations
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKatie Porter is a senior director who has built and scaled industry-leading in-house photo and video studios for major retail brands, overseeing end-to-end production of high-volume e-commerce and omni-channel campaigns. With 11+ years in leadership roles at Old Navy and Banana Republic, she manages a $20M annual budget, a 22-person studio organization and hundreds of freelance creatives to deliver tens of thousands of assets annually. She blends creative direction with operational rigor—launching two 20,000 sq ft studios, implementing studio automation tools like Creative Force, and reliably delivering multi-set shoots under tight seasonal deadlines. A hands-on leader and mentor, Katie pairs a Mass Communication master’s with deep retail production experience to drive brand consistency and innovation across print, motion, and digital platforms. An uncommon detail: she also contributes front-end improvements to open-source design documentation projects, reflecting a rare cross-disciplinary fluency between creative production and web UX.
11 years of coding experience
Master's Degree, Mass Communication/Media Studies, Master's Degree, Mass Communication/Media Studies at Louisiana State University
Github Skills (18)
javascript10
ui-components10
css10
system-design10
carbon-design-system10
system10
sys10
lessc10
react10
ux-design9
gatsby9
documentation9
html9
ui-designer8
typescript7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
sendgrid/docs
Dec 2015 - Feb 2020
Repository of Twilio SendGrid's product documentation.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:101 commits, 23 PRs, 1 push in 4 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Katie primarily focused on front-end development tasks within the documentation repository. They added and modified fonts, adjusted base font sizes and restructured stylesheets. Key contributions included the implementation of a retina icon for github callouts, styling the footer iframe, and styling code snippets within the documentation. They also made the header more responsive and fixed spacing issues.
gatsbyreactstatic-sitetwiliouiux
twilio-labs/paste
Feb 2020 - Mar 2022
Paste is a design system for designing and building consistent experiences at Twilio.
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:170 reviews, 22 commits, 20 PRs in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Katie primarily focused on enhancing the Paste design system's website, particularly the documentation and examples. Their contributions include implementing and refining UI components like the Blockquote, and Callout and integrating design guidelines into the navigation. They updated the website's styling and content, including adding Pride-related elements and improving the dark theme implementation. They also addressed issues and fixed typos to ensure a polished user experience.
reacttwilioux-patternsconsistentexperiences
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