Coroflot

Resume

QUALIFICATIONS PROFILE
Award Winning Designer, Teacher & Musician. Solid experience in a wide range of industries. From Fashion to Finance, Music to Pharmaceutical. Designed branding, websites, advertising, packaging & publications for top Manhattan companies. Including SONY, Arista Records, Estée Lauder, Grand Central Terminal & KPMG.

Advanced Adobe Creative Suite CS3 Photoshop Illustrator InDesign Dreamweaver XHTML Cascading Style Sheets CSS Spry Ajax & JavaScript Flash ActionScript3. Quality production & timely delivery.

Highly perceptive of the culture of ideas and visual images. Well-developed language and communication skills and the demonstrated ability to translate concept into real impact. Dynamic team-building and ample interpersonal abilities with emphasis on establishing and maintaining “win-win” relationships. Clear ability to teach. Excellent writer, published songwriter and classically trained musician, possessing a refined appreciation for the arts in general.

BRANDING • FASHION • UX • PACKAGING • PUBLICATIONS • ADVERTISING

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
FREELANCE DESIGNER 2001 – Present

WEBSITE UX, BRANDING & DESIGN
• KPMG-Cisco Systems – Flash banners, motion graphics, animations
• USAData – Creative direction & branding proposal. XHTML/CSS UX
• Barclays – AS3. Fresh Concentrate
• Exhale Spa – Concept, brand & demo online holiday gift program
• American Society of Pain Educators Art direction of product campaign
• Ayounis Bakery – XHTML & Flash, logo design and packaging
• Metrosonic Studios – XHTML
• Weatherford Mastiffs – Signet, XHTML

CONCEPT, ILLUSTRATION, BRANDING & IDENTITY
• SONY – Logo, illustration of Driven By a Vision convention materials: 20’ banners, collateral Harrington Design Group
• KPMG – Metallic, duotone & multi-plate printing, international branding & publications
KEY ACHIEVEMENT • Beyer Blinder Belle – Concept & illustration large installation: Twelve 45 feet x 35 feet panels Vanderbilt Room Grand Central Terminal, • Typography & lettering – Hoboken Train Terminal

PACKAGING
• Arista Records – CD production Electrasy u Macys – Kitchen & household
• Estée Lauder – Materials design in plastic & aluminum cosmetics counter Saks Fifth Avenue
KEY ACHIEVEMENT • Demeter Fragrance Library – Successfully presented product design that won licensing with Mattel Corporation Fragrance of the Barbie Collection

ADVERTISING
• Cosmopolitan – trade ads WalterKarl u Coach – display ads
• Ogilvy PR – Flash Huggies pitch. Brochure awards program
KEY ACHIEVEMENT • Westpoint Stevens – Produced ads, packaging, apparel/textile & POP that licensed with
Lucas Films – Star Wars “Queen Amidala”, • Art Direction for Joe Boxer Trade Show

SENIOR DESIGNER
• Petals – Catalog layout and design. Managed staff & freelance. Worked with Director of Photography

DESIGNER
• Patient Care Magazine – Layout and design of feature articles, editorials and front covers for prestigious medical journal produced by Physicians Desk Reference. Worked closely with editor in detail-critical environment
KEY ACHIEVEMENT • Two Jesse H. Neal Awards Editorial Excellence, • NY State Council on the Arts Grant for arts journal Tea For One, at Barnes & Noble

EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND
• B.A. Vanderbilt University / Florida State University Scholarship in Viola & Classical Guitar
ADDITIONAL COURSEWORK
• New York University – Flash ActionScript
• Manhattan School of Music – Classical Guitar, Music Business

VOLUNTEER WORK
SYDA Foundation – Crew Supervisor

TECHNICAL PROFICIENCY
MAC ADOBE CREATIVE SUITE CS3, CS4
• Photoshop – Composite, mask, adv editing, color
• Illustrator – Complex paths, charts/graphs, logo, precise illustration, innovative typography
• InDesign – Masterpages, stylesheets, booklets, separations / Bridge – Asset mgmt, Camera Raw
• Dreamweaver – XHTML / CSS, AJAX, JavaScript
• Flash – ActionScript3, OOP
DigiDesign Pro Tools – Production/Mixing
Sibelius– Music notation
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
MUSIC & WEB DESIGN 2005 – Present
• Abrons Art Center – Henry Street Music Settlement – Classical Guitar
• New York University – Freelance Tutor in Web Design

PUBLISHED SONGWRITER
ICARIAN RECORDS – Two commercially released records on Apple iTunes, Plum TV, Radio 360
DISCOGRAPHY
Music Video – Ganymede (FatKing/Engel) 2009
CD – Anne Boleyn (Icarian) 2008
EP – Pentagonal Flower (Icarian) 2006

“Unlimited power may be available when two or more people coordinate their thoughts and actions in a spirit of perfect harmony for the attainment of a definite purpose” – Napoleon Hill