Coroflot

Resume

SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS

-Ten year’s experience working in creative illustration and graphic design.

-Exceeded expectations in a priority-changing environment with multiple projects, tight deadlines and team contributors while maintaining budgets.

-Creative, dedicated, enthusiastic, hard-working, self-motivated individual.

RELEVANT EXPERIENCE & ACCOMPLISHMENTS
GRAPHIC DESIGN

-Apparel graphics for "The Children's Place" Duties include graphics for T-shirts, expensive garments, sleepwear, and accessories for both baby and big girl and boy.

-Apparel graphics for "Garan Inc. for Walmart". Duties include graphics for seasonal and sleepwear.

-Apparel graphics for “The Limited Too/Justice” Tween Corporation. Duties included graphics for: Tops, bottoms, t-shirts, intimate apparel; such as bras, panties, sleepwear and swim.

-Organized, managed, designed and Project Coordination for full color: publications, educational products compact disc, CD Covers, video jackets, brochures, newsletters, ads, and logo designs.

-Coordinated, managed and developed all aspects of exhibits, while creating new concepts in mission with corporate brand guidelines.

-Developed a new brand identity for in-house exhibit signage.

-Interfaced with management, team members and vendors resulting in finished products that supported brand guidelines and were completed on time and within budget.

-Originated a two-piece self awareness “Taking Action” poster campaign for a nonprofit agency, The Ohio AIDS Task Force.

ILLUSTRATION

-Illustrated hand drawing graphics for apparel for “The limited Too” clothing for tweens.

-Illustrated and designed the children’s book “Five Little Lady Bugs” for School Specialty Publishing. Published 2006.

-Collaborated with the Make - A- Wish foundation and 8-year-old author Travis Flores to illustrate the children’s book “The Spider Who Never Gave Up.” Published 2004.

-Collaborated with art directors and clients to illustrate various novel cover illustrations for “Five Star Publishing” in Waterville, Maine.

-Launched Mother’s Day email campaign for Casauri Corporation. Illustration met all needs of client on public campaign for their primary product, electronic cases.

-Worked with Octane, Inc. advertising agency on a print campaign for the Milwaukee Children’s Hospital to educate parents and children about unique medical conditions.

ORGANIZATION
-Created, managed and produced graphics for various seasons for Tween apparel. Worked within a team from concept to completion of collections. Also, organized mood boards, linesheets and mini presentation boards for various meetings. Corresponded with vendors to ensure clothing quality and readiness.

-Improved work flow of company graphic projects and introduced internal tracking system to ensure all projects met deadlines.

-Coordinated, managed and produced graphics for 2001 & 2003 holiday campaign for COSI Columbus.

-Created and developed identity for Big Machines and Science Under The Big Top, both summer attractions focusing on the science of each exhibit, COSI.

RELEVANT SKILLS
-Brand Identity Development
-Apparel Design
-Print Layout
-Print Prepress
-Photo Retouching
-Drawing
-Watercolor
-Illustration

COMPUTER SKILLS
-Freehand
-Photoshop
-Illustrator
-QuarkXPress
-Painter
-Pagemaker
-Corel Draw
-In-Design
-Adobe Acrobat
-Acrobat Distiller
-Microsoft Word
-Microsoft Excel
-Mac OSX

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

Graphic Designer & Illustrator
The Children's Place., New York, New York 2011-Present

Graphic Designer & Illustrator
Garan Inc., New York, New York 2009-2011

Graphic Designer & Illustrator
The Limited Too, Columbus, Ohio 2006-2008

Graphic Designer & Illustrator
School Specialty Publishing, Columbus, Ohio 2004-2006

Graphic Designer
COSI, Columbus, Ohio 2000-2004

Graphic Designer, Illustrator & Writer
Tastes Like Chicken, Columbus, Ohio 2000-2002

Graphic Designer
The Columbus Dispatch, Columbus, Ohio 2000

Graphic Designer & Production Assistant
The Other Paper, CM Media, Columbus, Ohio 1999-2000

Graphic Designer
The Talking Phone Book, Buffalo, New York 1998-1999

EDUCATION AND TRAINING

-2003 The Center for New Directions, Columbus Ohio.
Career Development program.

-2002 New Horizons, Columbus, Ohio. Graphic Design/Desktop Publishing computer training programs.

-1994-98 The Columbus College of Art and Design, Columbus, Ohio. B.F.A., Majoring in illustration and design. Dean’s List.