PROFILE:
Over 11 years of marketing and advertising experience, with specialized experience in design including: research, concept development, layout, production, pre-press, and press. Growing knowledge of xHTML, CSS, JavaScript and ActionScript. Extensive experience coordinating design projects, corporate and private events, coordinating proposals and presentations.
EXPERIENCE:
Account Management
- Manage and design client presentations
- Provide estimates for project quotes
- Provide status updates throughout project life
- Client and vendor coordination
- Meeting coordination
- Build and maintened targeting lists
- Coordinated and assisted photography shoots
- Identify new marketing opportunites
- Provide client represenation with print vendor, ensuring acturate pricing and specifications, avaialble for press checks.
- Collaborated with public relations editor with follow up calls to magazine editors after press releases
Graphic Designer
- Research, concept, design, layout, and pre-press work for multiple projects
- Print advertising; newspapers, magazines, and billboards
- Brochures, catalogs, white papers and sell sheets
- Brand identity, stationary, packaging, signage
- Direct mail campaigns; newsletters, postcards, press releases
- High resolution scanning
- Photo manipulation and color correction
Web/Multimedia Designer
- Maintained corporate website with updates to imagery, color scheme change, navigational changes
- Design and implement new web site for existing company, utilizing CSS and JavaScript
- Build WordPress site for client management
- Create animated information graphics
- Design banner ads, landing pages, routables and microsite
Graphic / Marketing Coordinator
- Support marketing efforts of sales team for large architectural firm for various projects internationally
- Led the design and implementation of new brand collateral including business papers, web site, and brochures
- Implement corporate standards for marketing collateral
- Create and maintain marketing asset library
- Press Release writing
Conference/Tradeshow Coordination
- Manage and design presentations/exhibit space
- Attend and work exhibit
- Develop file management systems
Event Planning
- Utilized consistent event identity
- Coordinated vendors
- Negotiate contracts
- MC for pre-party event
COMPUTER SKILLS:
Computer
- Adobe CS4 & 5: Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Dreamweaver, Flash, Fireworks, Acrobat/Distiller, Premier
- Microsoft Office Suite: Word, Powerpoint, Excel, Project, Outlook
- xHtml, Java, CSS,
- WordPress, Joomla, TeamSite
- QuarkXpress
- Text Wrangler, Text Edit
- Quicktime
- FileMaker
- Function Fox
- CRM (Microsoft & Deltek)
- Autodesk (AutoCADD)
ACCOMPLISHMENTS:
- Winner of 2006 Philly Gold Award, Catalog Design
- Negotiated contract for corporate sponsorship with advertising options worth $300,000
- Provided direction and support in multiple photo shoots