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PROFILE:

Detail-driven professional with career-long record of strategic planning, multimedia marketing, and graphic and digital design success for various organizations.

Proven talent for aligning business strategy and objectives with established design development and artistic paradigms to achieve maximum operational impacts. Vision-focused thought leader with expertise spanning operations optimization, relationship management, cross-functional team collaboration, design software, brand identify development, audio/video editing, website editing and development, photography, packaging, client management, color rendering, marketing material development, market analysis and segmentation, and project management. Exceptionally dedicated professional with keen interpersonal, organization, and communication skills, as well as visual design and extensive technical expertise.

EXPERIENCE:

Digital Designer Boogie McGee’s Bayou Smokehouse BBQ
September 2016 – Present Los Angeles, CA

  • Spearhead the design and development of visual treatments and interaction solutions that meet and/or exceed business and technical requirements by strictly adhering to a design brief and complying closely with brand identify standards to allow for maximum success.

  • Play a key role by devising, developing, and dispensing innovative and effective ideas and design solutions to contribute to and support website and email team objectives.

  • Provide extensive assistance and support with art direction over the course of photo shoots and conduct the editing images as needed.

  • Collaborate and communicate with management to dispense decision support on the overall design for marketing materials.

Print Designer Teacher Created Materials
July 2010 – December 2014 Huntington Beach, CA

  • Directed the design and development of all printed marketing collateral packages, covers, product catalogs, and interior page designs.

  • Administered all aspects of audio and video editing, from assembling the raw footage and outlining of footage, ensuring the highest possible quality of completed work.

  • Obtained and developed extensive experience and understanding in the fundamentals of vector graphics, retouching photos, marketing assets, branding materials, as well as a combination of shape, color, imagery, typography, and space.

  • Closely collaborated with and navigated the coordination of freelance designers, consultants, and vendors to meet and exceed all project requirements.

Graphic/Web Designer BRC Advisors Real Estates
April 2008 – May 2010 Los Angeles, CA

  • Piloted the creation and design of the company’s identity, logo, stationery, website, brochure, and flyer through effective utilization of my extensive design expertise.

  • Orchestrated the maintenance and the design of the usability of the website by searching for and identifying new methods to improve and enhance the user’s overall experience.

  • Conducted in-depth analysis into the project requirements and limitations including client objectives, target markets, appropriate media, and production considerations.

  • Executed the effective and visually appealing design of the layout of PowerPoint presentation slides and presentation mounted boards.

Graphic Designer HDR Engineering, Inc.
April 2004 – December 2006 Irvine, CA

  • Customized layout proposal template in Word and PowerPoint for the Marketing Department to input chart, placement photo, and contents.

  • Certified that the corporate branding identify was standardized across all materials, including brochures, postcards, flyers, newsletters, covers, graphs, charts, ads, aerial maps, and infographics.

  • Administered the creation of and re-rendering of engineering and construction drawings from AutoCAD to present to clients and award shows.

  • Handled the customization and editing of audio and video for company’s safety inspection and vendor projects.



EDUCATION:

Bachelor of Science Interactive Media Design
Art Institute of Orange County
Santa Ana, CA | June 2007

Associate of Graphic Design
Art Institute of Houston
Houston, TX | December 1997

SKILLS:

Mac + PC Platforms:

Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Flash, Dreamweaver, Fireworks, Lightroom, Soundbooth, Audition, After Effects, Premiere, Final Cut Pro, Bridge, Acrobat Professional, CSS, HTML, XML, XHTML, PHP, AJAX, Java Script, MySQL, Autodesk 3Ds Max, QuarkXpress, CorelDraw, Microsoft Office

ACHIEVEMENTS:

2 — 1st & 2nd Awards on Rendering Artwork
Art Institute of Houston | 1997

5 — Proposal Awards
2 — Posters Design Awards
HDR Engineering, Inc. | 2004 – 2006

Health/Life Licensing
State of CA, 2014 – Present


FREELANCE:

Boogie McGee’s Bayou Smokehouse BBQ, MAAE Photography, Sensational Skin, Keller Williams Realty, Kim Tran Jewelry, Ann Jewelry,
BRC Realtors, MOMS of Military, Weller Court