DESIGN EXPERIENCE

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Art Director, dam fine designs, Philadelphia, PA • May 1999 - Present

Clients included Shock Coffee, an international coffee wholesale supplier, where I designed their ads, signage, corporate communications, vehicle wraps, tradeshow marketing and package design. Also, Show Communications Publishing Company, where for 4 years it was my responsibility to create, design, produce, and pre-press a monthly 224-page magazine (Wholesale Source Magazine), a quarterly 86-page business-to-business bridal magazine (Bridal Sources) and 5 additional 64-page quarterly publications. I also produced two 176-page yearly apparel catalogs, including design, layout, photoshoots and pre-press. Other clients during this period have been widely varied: Bodek & Rhodes (apparel catalog), Ted Thomas Associates (pharmaceutical marketing), Lorel Marketing (monthly catalogs), Prudential Fox & Roach (real estate), Hemisphere Group (pharmaceutical advertising agency), Gen-Probe, Centocor and Merck (pharmaceutical).

Art Director/Account Executive, Sharp Advertising, Las Vegas, NV • April 1997 - March 1999

At Sharp Advertising, I created and designed corporate identity, advertising, brochures, and signage for several Las Vegas casinos. I supervised six support staff members and served as Art Director and Account Executive for all of the agency’s clients, which included Oasis Residential, Terrible Herbst Oil Co., Richmond American, RoadRunner Casinos, Maxim Casino, Golden Gate Casino and others. I was also responsible for customer billing, job trafficking, and vendor referrals.
I was solely in charge of the marketing and distribution of a signage product known as “The Tube” to several casinos throughout the world.

Graphic Designer, Nellcor Puritan Bennett, Pleasanton, CA • November 1995 - April 1997

While at Nellcor Puritan Bennett, I designed camera-ready art for the company’s Corporate Communications department. I directed several projects from implementation to completion, most notably the company newsletter and the corporate identity, and was on the production team for designing the company’s web site.

Graphic Designer, Rolodex Corporation, Secaucus, NJ • April 1992 - June 1994

While at Rolodex, the national office products company called upon me to redesign all of the company’s brochures, forms, price lists, and advertising materials. I coordinated all of their presentation materials relating to their marketing needs including 35mm slide presentations, handouts, and workbooks. I also re-created approximately 400 pieces of line art images using Adobe Illustrator.

Graphic Designer (Freelance), Merrill Lynch • Princeton, NJ • October 1993 - July 1994

At Merrill Lynch I trained six artists during the company’s transition from Pagemaker to QuarkXPress. On several occasions, I held the responsibility of Supervisor and organized and delegated work to several freelancers working on the night shift.