Dario Mescia

My duties at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia are extremely diverse.

Responsible for the concept and design of campaigns and the presentation of those campaigns to clients. Also tasked with seeing those projects through to completion, including managing photo shoots, all print and web components, photo retouching, prepress as well as final signoff on printer proofs.

Launched a training program to allow designers to polish their skills and stay up-to-date with constantly changing software.

Working to establish and asset management system to allow for a more streamlined manner to search through our hundreds of thousands of assets spanning numerous departments, including photographs, videos, PDFs and Word files.

Tasked with managing the hardware and software for our department, ensuring everything is up to date and cost effective as well as acting as the point man for all questions involving technology.

Created and implemented a traffic workflow system for the art department.

Worked with a developer to design a system for the account managers to open and manage projects within the department.

Worked with IT to purchase and implement a server for the department to house all of the thousands of jobs and hundreds of thousands of assets (images, logos, stories, videos, etc.)

Managed the prepress department of a promotional printer.

Completed all design work for promotional pieces for the company including trade show materials and advertisements.

Built and maintained a traffic workflow system for the art department of the agency.

Handled all production management duties: estimates, press checks, prepress, invoicing, and establishing and maintaining vendor relationships.