• Identity/logotype design
• Adobe Creative Suite
• HTML5 and CSS3 web architecture
• Adobe Experience Manager /Wordpress and other CMS System
• Presentation Design/PowerPoint
• Hand-drawing sketches for print material concept
• Product photography and color correction for web and print
• Tradeshow graphics and signage
• Expert in Typography and grid systems.
• Journeyman pressman
• Bilingual: Fluent English/Spanish
Graphic Designer / Web Developer
Over 10 plus years of design and communications experience in print and online, providing expertise in identity, illustration collateral, web, presentations, retail and tradeshow environments and advertising. My Skills range from initial project conception to final production including Design and Brand evangelism, project ideation, client presentation, brainstorming, art direction, graphic design/production, budget consultation and vendor coordination. I can orchestrate multiple projects and the people involved in each for on–concept, on-time, on-budget delivery…or I can work independently and hands-on from project beginning to end.
Graphic Design
• Successful design and branding efforts for such clients as Net App, Google, US Concrete.
• Logo/Identity projects for over 33 companies.
• Brand/Identity design for consistent visual messaging and accurate corporate personality.
• Design of marketing material including corporate brochures, collateral, datasheets, and direct mail.
• I am an artist by nature specializing in photorealism and print media. I dream of art and wake up with new design ideas continuously.
• Excellent design project presentation skills.
• Successful development of brand-leveraging, loyalty-building creative for clients through retail marketing collateral including signage, point-of-sale displays and in store collateral.
Presentations
• Corporate branding savvy for several billion dollar companies.
• Provided creative direction and layout design for senior level executive presentations.
• Collaborative graphic designer specializing in up-to-date and outside the template design solutions.
• Self-motivated, ability to meet deadlines and provide quick turnaround on projects.
• Team player: work closely with upper management, clients, vendors and other graphic designers.
1/2018 – 1/2020
• Redesigned the web portal for the internal sales department.
• Brought new and innovative ideas to improve the web presence.
• Concept development, ideation and detailed specification of visual designs for prototypes and mockups.
• Produced designs, prototypes, responsive UI Design layouts, create imagery and interactive assets that address the business and brand requirements, including design and production of screen layouts.
• Participated in the development and maintenance of the web style-guide and pattern library while staying up-to-date by researching top of trends and technology.
4/2018 – 7/2018
• I design everything from branding to web, from print to packaging.
• Collaborate with the sales team to design and produce computer-generated artwork for marketing and promotional materials.
• Created tradeshow graphics, email blast, as well as some social media.
7/2017 – 10/2017
Work one on one with the head creative director on a daily basses creating a variety of art work pieces for the entire company worldwide. Design layouts for print and web including collateral (reports, briefs, white papers, data sheets, etc.), web and social media banners, PowerPoint decks, event signage and tradeshow booth graphics. Drive creative projects from start to finish, collaborating with teams within, across and outside of Marketing. Ongoing creation of responsive email templates thought the company implementing UI/UX for mobile and responsive micro sites. Work alongside senior creative and marketing staff to evolve the marketing/brand strategy. I also champion creative campaigns from inception through production and then to completion.
Graphic Designet / Web Developer, Avnet.com , San Jose, CA9/2016 – 4/2017
I had the opportunity to work on a big project creating and developing new webpage's for Avnet.com. working with a team of 9 we were able to start and finish in record time to reveal the new UI and Branding for the company. Avnet is a 28 Billion Dollar company with over 2000 webpage's highlighting over 200 electronic distributors throughout the world.
Graphic/Web Designer, Contractor / Consulting11/2015 – 10/2016
Working on diferent projects thought the year has keep my crative flow goin. Below are some companies that I have had the opportunity to work with and helped them along the way.
• 2XL inc. website development / print collateral
• Bay Point Ballet, poster design / web development / print collateral
• Little White Dog Press, book covers
• AP Crane training, CMS website consulting / print collateral
• Foster Enterprises, Garbage Bag Kid card game development
• 3D Printing & Rapid Prototyping, Foothill College / Tech Shop SJ
5/2015 – 10/2015
I worked under the production department for Bay Area Parent and Boston Parents Paper and was responsible for the design, testing, proofing, scheduling, and monitoring of custom Email campaigns, weekly Enewsletters, website updates and contests for two parenting markets. I was also responsible for the creation of web and print ads. Another responsibility was to execute creative concepts to produce finished working solutions, and interpret brand standards and adapt as needed. With a combined audience reach of 314,000 parents and a local digital audience of 89,000. I also developed new ongoing landing pages for their new website in working closely with two CMS systems one for Boston and the other for the San Francisco Bay Area.
Graphic Designer/Web Master, See Grins RV, Gilroy, CA5/2013 – 12/2015
Product photography and color correction for web and print, daily up-dates new and used products on their website . I created hand-drawing sketches for print material concept proofs. Create, manage and maintain marketing content used for blogs, social media and communities, videos, web pages, presentations, and sales tools. Experienced and skilled in creating final art for print ads, long and short collateral pieces, posters, corporate identity, static and animated digital banners, and a strong social media presence etc.
Free-lance Graphic Designer, San Francisco Bay Area,4/2012 - 6/2012
Designed and produced various publications as well as Corporate Identities and a variety of UI Design packaging for music industry and corporate /private sector.
• Google Inc, Sunnyvale CA (contract)4/2012 - 6/2012Graphic Designer Web Developer: I created the initial website comp for a list of photographers as well as Artist throughout the Nation to display via the web in a 360 º virtual tour of their business on Google Search.
• NetApp , Sunnyvale CA (contract)
10/2011 - 3/2012Graphic Designer Power Point Specialist: Designed and produced Power Point presentations for the NetApp Corporate University internal product training courses. Sr. Graphic Designer/Web Master, Central Concrete Supply Co., San Jose, CA
1/2001 – 12/2008
Designed promotional print material to support sales team of 20 people. Created and updated all the company's promotional items. Built email blast and banner sets for company's advertising campaigns. Maintained and updated the electronic marketing calendar, and all the social media. Developed and maintained all aspects of their web presence and digital assets as far as weekly or by-weekly photo shoots or video shoots of their past and present jobs. These jobs include; San Jose Adobe building pours, San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, Devil's Slide Tunnels and Bridges Pacifica, CA, Letterman Digital Arts Center and San Francisco Academy of Science. Putting on a hard hat and a safety vest was always second nature to archive the job.
Web Developer / Designer, Silicon Graphics INC., Mountain View CA1/1999 - 12/2000
Create / Desing User Interface for intranet sites.
Highly fluent in Adobe Creative Suite (Illustrator, Photoshop, Indesign, Dreamweaver, Premier, Camtasia Studio) as well as Microsoft Office, particular PowerPoint, Over 10 years in the print industry as a Journeyman Pressman. I am comfortable and experienced in Flash, animated Gifs and production including HTML5, CSS3, CMS, JQuery, JAVA script, development of responsive websites. I am fluent with both Macintosh and Windows operating systems and understand cross-platform issues.
3D Printing, Solidworks and Autodesk Inventor Foothill College Palo Alto, CA (GPA 3.5) 2016
Online training with Richard Blum , PHP and MySQL Online, CA (GPA 3.5) 2015
Online training with Chris Minnick , Creating Mobile Apps with HTML5 Online, CA (GPA 3.5) 2015
Software QA and Test Automation, Santa Clara, CA (GPA 3.5) 2010
Wed Development (html, CSS), Masters Institute, San Jose, CA (GPA 3.5) 1998
Newspaper offset Web Press Graphic Comm. Int'l Union, WA,DC. 1994 - 1997
Graphic Arts and Commercial Art, Mission College, SJ, CA (GPA 4.0) 1989 -1990
Gravure Printing Graphic Communications Int'l Union, WA,DC 1983 -1986