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Dan Catalano
New York, NY
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About
Industrious and personable manager, editor, designer and production specialist with a strong background in both the publishing and financial industries, superior organizational and technical skills, and a tireless work ethic; accustomed to managing disparate personalities, delivering pristine creative content on time, and dealing with all manner of production issues under intense deadline pressures.
Specialties: Highly proficient in all major production-related software, including Adobe InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator and Dreamweaver, the K4 Publishing Platform, Quark XPress, and the entire Microsoft suite of products. Well-versed in a variety of customer relationship and content management systems, with extensive experience managing and publishing content through CMS applications, as well as creating, customizing and maintaining large information databases on both cloud-based data platforms and CRM environments (e.g., Salesforce). -
Education
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MFA Creative writingNew School University2003 - 2005Master’s degree from New York’s preeminent school of arts, humanities and design.
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BA International Literature, Creative WritingNew College of Florida1986 - 1990Majored in international literature and creative writing at Florida’s most rigorous and freethinking university.
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Experience
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Account ManagerNew York, NYJun 2015 - Present (11 years 1 month)Manager and production coordinator for a major financial client at Diadeis, an international, Paris-based design and pre-media agency. Responsible for trafficking and producing dozens of advertising pieces a day, while also coordinating with two account executives to manage deadlines and solve complex design and printing issues. Oversee a team of three art workers and two proofreaders, while also managing expectations and helping to allocate resources and prioritize a high volume of work from other clients of the firm.
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Marketing Communications AssociateAutonomy CapitalMay 2013 - Feb 2015 (1 year 9 months)Designer, presentation specialist and information manager for an international investment firm. Responsible for a wide variety of tasks, including designing and editing presentation materials and client communications, creating customized CSS/HTML mailings, implementing and maintaining branding compliance for the firm's New York and overseas offices, and maintaining a large database of client and prospect information in both CRM (Salesforce) and virtual data room (IntraLinks) environments.
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Production EditorStyle.com/PrintSep 2011 - Oct 2014 (3 years 1 month)Freelance production editor for Style.com/Print, the semiannual print offshoot of Condé Nast’s popular fashion website. Working under an intense and demanding schedule, was responsible for guiding a web-focused staff through the intricacies of print production to deliver an exceptional final product. Duties included managing all InDesign and InCopy workflow through K4, coordinating the output of a dozen design and editorial staffers, and overseeing the final image processing and type-fitting for all editorial pages.
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Production AssociateMartha Stewart Living OmnimediaAug 2012 - Aug 2012Freelance production position at Martha Stewart's Whole Living Magazine. Responsible for text, layout and design adjustments in InDesign and ultimately trafficking pages through K4 to final approval.
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Presentation Center ManagerCitadel SecuritiesNov 2009 - Aug 2011 (1 year 9 months)Responsible for all presentation and promotional materials produced, both digitally and physically, by the investment banking arm of Citadel, a Chicago-based hedge fund and asset management firm. Worked extensively with Adobe Illustrator, FactSet analytics tools, and the entire suite of Microsoft Office products, with a focus on creating complex, attractive and information-rich client presentations.
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Publications ManagerCredit SuisseOct 2006 - Oct 2009 (3 years)Head of the reporting and publications unit of Credit Suisse’s Customized Fund Investment Group. Responsible for the organization, compilation, proofing and printing of over 120 quarterly financial reports. Position involved on-site supervision of a six-person staff, as well as constant cross-continent coordination with a sizable data-entry team in India.
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Managing EditorPortico PublicationsDec 2005 - Oct 2006 (10 months)Second in command of C-VILLE Weekly, Charlottesville’s premier alternative newspaper. Responsible for a wide variety of duties, including management of a large editorial staff, assignment and editing of all freelance copy, oversight of both the art department and website personnel, and shepherding the chaotic creation of a 60- to 160-page paper from editorial meeting to printing press every week of the year.
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Graphic DesignerCIBC World MarketsJun 2001 - Sep 2005 (4 years 3 months)Design and presentation professional in the creative services center of CIBC World Markets. Main areas of responsibility included creating advertising and publicity materials, as well as Microsoft PowerPoint presentations and complex Word and Excel documents.
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Associate Producer, Sidewalk NYMicrosoftNov 1999 - Jan 2001 (1 year 2 months)Music Editor and content provider for Microsoft's online entertainment guide. Position entailed assigning, editing and publishing a weekly overview of local and national music events. Responsible for organizing content, managing freelance copy, and inputting text and graphics into Front Page, Microsoft's web publishing software.
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Associate Editor, Maxim MagazineDennis PublishingMay 1997 - Dec 2000 (3 years 7 months)Music Editor of the successful men’s monthly magazine. Responsible for rounding up and conducting celebrity interviews, assigning and editing album reviews, and writing several short features and sidebars per issue.
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Music Editor, Blender MagazineDennis PublishingJul 1994 - Sep 1997 (3 years 2 months)Founding Music Editor of the groundbreaking CD-ROM pop culture magazine. Oversaw all music-related content, acting as editor, interviewer, writer and audio/video engineer.
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