Coroflot

Resume

Qualifications

• Over 5 years of design experience with varied clients for
diverse audiences across print, web, and structural media.
• Worked with clients to assess client needs and brand DNA to
produce promotionals, mass marketing and collateral.
• Identified and researched target audiences to tailor design
concepts and make appropriate media buys in order to appeal
to the applicable needs and desires of various cultural, social,
and economic groups.

Skills

Communication

• Proven ability to communicate effectively with difficult clients
in order to identify brand DNA, market trends, and effective
media outlets.
• Shared findings pertaining to project needs concisely to
teammates and subordinates.
• Demonstrated ability to provide and receive constructive criticism
in a tactful manner.
• Made presentations of designs to clients and government
officials for selection and eventual approval.
• Demonstrated ability to communicate convincingly and smoothly
through unexpected and difficult client questions.

Design and Production

• Demonstrated proficiency with the Adobe Creative Suite.
• Created single and multi-piece promotions, large document
displays, packaging, and three-dimensional signage.
• Strong literacy and application of HTML and CSS for mass
marketed e-mail blasts and site designs.
• Intuitive use of the design process from pencil to pre-press.
• Consistently budgeted time and resources well within constraints.

Art Direction and Conceptual

• Applied research to develop possible concepts through scrapping,
sketching, brainstorming etc.
• Used the input of teammates and clients to further develop
concepts into comps and layouts..
• Chose layouts, illustrations, photographs, color schemes, and
other design elements that would appeal to the sensibilities of
target audiences.

Employment
The Official Production Co. 07 - 09
Graffik Cin 06 - 09
Lastwear Clothing Co. 5/09
Fabel Headwear 10/07 - 12/07
Dead Baby Bike Club 6/08 & 6/09
Filter Creative 9/07
Creative Circle 7/07
Holland America Line 1/07 - 4/07
Pacific Continental Apparel 12/06
The Buttenick Ensemble 6/06
Light In The Attic Records 2/06 - 11/06
Stones Throw Records 11/05
Tuscon-Pima Arts Council 6-8/00 & 6-8/01

Programs
• Illustrator
• Photoshop
• InDesign
• Fireworks
• Dreamweaver
Languages
• CSS
• XHTML

Education
Bachelors of Fine Arts, Graphic Design
The Art Institute of Seattle 2006