Coroflot

Resume

EDUCATION:
Web Database Development Certificate program
Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, 2011 - present

Communication Design, Graphic Design, Bachelor of Arts
New Jersey City University, Jersey City, NJ, 2004

Marketing Art & Design, Advertising Graphics Design Option
Associate in Applied Science
Middlesex County College, Edison, NJ, 2000

SKILLS:
Adobe’s Creative Suite: Photoshop, Illustrator, Acrobat, InDesign, ImageReady, and Dreamweaver; HTML/CSS; email blasts, web ads, QuarkXPress, and Microsoft Office’s Word, Excel, PowerPoint; digital photography, film processing and printing

EXPERIENCE:
6/04 - Present
Freelance
Successful completions of Identity Design and Information updates: Website, Twitter account and Facebook for United Youth of New Jersey; Full-page advertisements for G. G. Woody Funeral Home, LLC

• Project 1: Designed Website and Twitter page for this non-or-profit organization (http://unitedyouthofnj.org)
- Scope: Worked with clients to create images, scanned pictures and wrote copy; created page and cover layouts

• Project 2: G. G. Woody Funeral Home Full-page Ads for Local Churches Anniversary Booklets
- Scope: Met with a client to determine goals; selected picture; organized and presented finished layouts; and sent ads to printer via e-mail

Study Abroad to Africa (SABA), Jersey City, NJ
10/08 - 5/10
Graphic Designer/Assistant
- Developed a new identity for this upcoming study abroad program
- Designed promotional literature for Summer and Fall programs in person and online classes
- Presented ideas and sketches to the Founder of SABA

Linden Board of Education, Linden, NJ
9/07 - 6/09
Substitute Elementary Teacher
- Developed my own approach on how to present Mathematics, Language Arts, Reading, etc. to the students on the blackboard
- Instructed children the curriculum based on the teacher’s lesson plans

Mann Publications, New York City, NY 01/05 - 08/06
Art Director/Graphic Designer of Fashion Mannuscript
- Created new magazine page layouts, folios, use of color, placements. etc.
- Scanned event pictures and retouched them in Adobe Photoshop
- Collaborated layout concepts with a co-worker for magazine
- Reviewed, approved and presented final layouts to the Creative Director
* Achieved significant improvements for magazine experience, readership, and increase subscriptions

Burning Butterfly, Brooklyn, NY
06/03 - 08/03
Graphic Designer Intern
- Developed new ideas and sketches to change the look of the packaging
- Drew sketches of packaging designs and presented them to the Candle Designer
- Designed a new identity design, candle labels, postcards; and web banners for the website
* Increased candle sales and curiosity of the brand

VOLUNTEERISM:
Jusleine Daniel for Freeholder, Middlesex County, New Jersey, 2009 - 2010
- Proofread literature for the campaign and posted events on FaceBook: http://bit.ly/9G4Ptr
- Distributed flyers and postcards to local residents
- Attended weekly meetings to discuss plans and local events
- Participated in phone banking and compiled a monthly event calendar