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OBJECTIVE

Utilize creative talents and graphics/publishing experience in the consumer, industrial and information technology fields, to manage creative direction and design process.

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

PREFERRED BRANDS INTERNATIONAL., STAMFORD, CT., 2004 - Present
Art Director
• Responsible for look and feel of Tasty Bite, a multi-national ethnic food brand, across packaging, web presence, advertising, fleet trucks and corporate identity
• Create (concept to pre-press) dynamic P.O.P. (point of purchase) merchandising
• Design and creation of multi-national packaging
• Heavy photo retouching with focus on food and food service products
• Extensive use of Photoshop and Illustrator Creative Suite
• Responsible for Coordination of major industry tradeshows and the design of collateral material used, including design of booth
• Coordination of printers, production houses and photo studios in the U.S. and abroad.
• Daily contact with India and Australia.

SONNEMAN DESIGN GROUP., LARCHMONT, NY 2000 - 2004
Senior Graphic Artist
• Create (concept to pre-press) dynamic full page ads, for Magazine and point of purchase merchandising
• Meet demanding deadlines while working closely with, engineers, clients and marketers.
• Design and creation of packaging
• Heavy photo retouching with focus on industrial products
• Extensive use of Photoshop and Illustrator
• Daily contact with printers, freelancers and photo studios.

MICROWAREHOUSE INC., Norwalk, CT 1994 - 2000
Senior Layout Artist - International (1997 - 2000)
• Create (concept to prepress) dynamic full page ads, for top computer companies* in bi-monthly European INMAC, LAN and Technomatic Catalogs.
• Meet demanding deadlines while working closely with European coordinators and marketers.
• Daily contact with Holland, France and the United Kingdom.

Senior Layout Artist - Domestic (1995 - 1997)
• Create and prepress full and body page ads for the Data Comm and Micro Systems Catalogs.
• Meet deadlines while working directly with domestic marketers.

Desktop Artist - Domestic (1994 - 1995)
• Create pre-conceptualized ads for the Data Comm and Micro Systems Catalogs.

*Representative client companies: 3Com, Allied Telesyn, Intel, Cisco Systems, Microsoft and IBM


ROSSIN CREATIVE GROUP, Stamford, CT 1990 - 1994
Studio Artist (1991 - 1994)
• Illustration, paste-up/mechanicals, creation of photo-ready composites and client interaction.

PhotoStat Operator (1990 - 1991)
• PhotoStat camera operation and general art studio duties.

FREELANCE WORK

LEATHER WORX 1995 - 1999
Leatherworker
Creation of one-of-a-kind hand-crafted leather goods: belts, briefcases, handbags, while working at the New York Renaissance Faire creating and fixing armor, making knife and sword sheathes, etc.

LIONE RAMPANT, INC. 1993 - 1998
Staff Artist/Art Coordinator
Illustration, logo design/corporate identity, book layout and design and coordination of assignments to other artists.

CLARKEWORKS 1992 - 1994
Senior Designer/Illustrator
Conceptual work and designing for underground music companies, CD cover design and concept, band logo design, using Quark Xpress and Illustrator.

STAMFORD CHAMBER OF COMMERCE 1992 - 1993
Designed posters for annual charity functions.

EDUCATION

Connecticut Institute of Art, Greenwich, CT, Graduated 1989

MACINTOSH COMPUTER SKILLS

Quark XPress 3.32
Adobe Illustrator CS
Adobe PhotoShop CS
Airbrush Adobe InDesign CS
Adobe Acrobat 6.0 Pro
Microsoft Word 2004
Microsoft Power Point 2004
Extensis Suitcase X1
Barcode Pro

ARTISTIC SKILLS

Fast and creative concept/design/layout
Award-winning illustration - City of Greenwich
Paste-up/mechanicals
Conceptual marker rendering
Chromatec/FABCO processes
PhotoStat camera operation
Basic Knowledge of Digital Photography