Aileen Revils
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About
Driven Graphic Designer with over 8 years of experience from in-house to freelance, national and international clients. Working with and for small retail companies to musicians to B2B wholesale companies as well as individuals. I have played the role of an ambitious team player to creative soloist and team leader in the industry. While being able to meet “due yesterday” deadlines and adaptive to changing client needs. I have an Associate of Applied Science Degree, Graphic Design, as well as over half of my Bachelors degree, which has been paused briefly. Conjointly with Graphic Design I have 10 years of Photography experience from portraits, still life, events and product shots. Skills are wide and vary from Adobe Software to Dreamweaver, basic HTML/CSS and fine arts. Over and above knowledge of major social networking sites for promotional usage. I am always willing to learn more skills.
Specialties: Technical Skills:
Adobe Photoshop
Adobe Illustrator
Adobe InDesign
Adobe ImageReady
Adobe Flash animation banners only
QuarkXPress
Adobe Dreamweaver
Pre Press Set Up
Large format posters and signs
Catalogs
Other Skills
Photography
Fine Art
Production: cutting & mounting
Teamwork skills
Leadership skills
Time management skills
English (Read, Write, Speak)
Spanish (Read, Speak)
Swedish (Basic speaking & learning) -
Education
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BachelorArt Institute of Pittsburgh2007 - 2012Online Division
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Associate Graphic DesignArt Institute of Houston2003 - 2005
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Experience
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Graphics/photography/productionThe Pomeroy Collection, Ltd.Mar 2011 - Jun 2013 (2 years 3 months)Designing pillows, packaging, jewelry deigns. Communications with factories, new product development and quality control. Packaging design, jewelry design, organize and manage product data sheets.
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Graphic Designer & Street Team Project ManagementViolent DivineSep 2008 - Sep 2011 (3 years)Creating designs for the band such as animated web banners, flash newsletters, regular bulletins, announcements, tour posters. As well as the new brand identity for 2009 such as new logo, typeface, colors, album artwork and CD artwork. Set up album to pre-press in Sweden’s standards. Running the band’s myspace page and 6 street team pages by adding, accepting requests, posting bulletins, or just checking for the Violent Divine when they are away on tour.
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Graphic Designer, Photographer, & Web maintinerNazar’s Fine JewelryNov 2009 - May 2010 (6 months)Take photographs of high end jewelry for the web site. Touch up the photographs and maintain web site. Enter in inventory, and new products into the system as well as receipts for sales.
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Contract Graphic DesignerJayla Com SolutionsApr 2009 - Dec 2009 (8 months)Designing graphics and layouts for collateral such as posters, signage, brochures and web page design concepts to be coded up by a web designer. Also reporting back to the art director online interaction with the occasional meetings.
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Freelance Graphic Designer & PhotographerThe Creative GroupAug 2009 - Aug 2009Contracted to take photographs for the University of Houston’s Alumni Magazine, and minor touch ups.
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Logo DesignVP ModelsApr 2009 - Apr 2009Create a new logo for alternative modeling company to use on web, and business cards.
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web coderOver the TopMar 2009 - Mar 2009Code and organize web content.
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Graphic Design/Photography/Print Production ArtistCharming CharlieJul 2005 - Dec 2008 (3 years 5 months)Creating posters from scratch designs either from illustrations to photographic designs. Each design had to be for posters to flyers, ads, banners, product tags, buttons and desk pads for the retail counter. All files had to be set up for Pre-press and other printers to print out final designs. Photographing product in studio and outside work, touch up photographs for the ads and more or just to have for the sellers to send back and forth with the vendors. Load photographs and type in data for e-commence site. (Retail sale division)
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Graphic Design/Photography/Print Production ArtistSilver ExpressJul 2005 - Dec 2008 (3 years 5 months)Photographing product in studio and outside work, touch up photographs of product for catalogs, flyers or web. Restoring photographs of broken products for either vendor or company sales. Laying out the catalog pages with product and typesetting up to 108 pages and data entry for the web. Setting up the files for Pre-Press printers with pdfs or pdfs for the website for customers to download. (Whole sale division)
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Graphic DesingerMama Trash Promotions, IncFeb 2007 - Dec 2008 (1 year 10 months)Create animated web banners as gifs, flyers, and help out with street teams.
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Graphic DesingerAntik Denim AccessoriesSep 2007 - Oct 2008 (1 year 1 month)Create fashionable Postcard, business card, entrance web page, Point of Sell sheets, invoice design. As well as set it up to be Pre- Press printed and home printer format.
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Logo DesignBusi-giftsJul 2007 - Jul 2007Logo Design
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Graphic DesingerU of Downtown, Police AcademyMay 2007 - May 2007Design a flag and shirt for graduation, the flag hangs at the school for life.
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Graphic Design InternshipThe Art Institute of Houston Design StudioOct 2005 - Dec 2005 (2 months)Creating designs from scratch or adjusting the branded collateral to fit the regional school information with the flyers, brochures, business cards, posters. As well as manage the school magazine and random photographs for the archives.
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Elsewhere on the Web
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On Coroflot@Leenstar, member since 2006
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