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Highly creative, passionate, and multi-talented Graphic Designer with more than five years extensive experience in print-design and advertising marketing design. Magna Cum Laude graduate in Graphic. Have worked in a wide variety of industries including: publishing, health care, financial services, insurance and risk management, real estate and construction, automotive, home improvement, consumer products, retail and wholesale, food and beverages, and electronics. Deep knowledge of pre-press file preparation. Skilled in client and vendor relations and negotiations. Exceptional collaborative and interpersonal skills. Highly organized, hard-working, and committed to perfection. Detail-oriented, able to juggle multiple tasks and meet pressure deadlines. Dynamic team player with well-developed written and verbal communication abilities, good at prioritizing and time management. Supervising other designer and overseeing their production. Personal experience is a combination of contemporary graphic design skills and a traditional fine art background; Magna Cum Laude graduate in Fine Arts.

Professional Experience

2003-Present - Freelance Graphic Designer
•	Actively designing identity, promotional, and advertising materials for companies and individuals from different states, including: logos, stationary, brochures, catalogs, posters, invitations, labels, ads, direct mail, and graphics.
1/2007-11/2007 -- Senior Graphic Designer, The Laurus Group, Purchase, NY
•	Executed massive design production of numerous visual materials from concept to competition. Executed pre-press file preparation. 
•	Worked under very tight deadlines and on multiple projects. 
•	Very successfully combined artistic/fine art background with technical design skills in the creative process. 
•	Managed three other designers in the art department. 
•	Oversaw design projects from concept to development. 
•	Motivated and directed design. Reported only to the president of the company. 
•	Built structure in art department achieving maximum efficiency in production process. 
•	Great deal of experience in heavy trafficking, organizing art department meetings and training. 
•	Created innovative marketing strategies and campaigns. 
•	Worked closely with clients to create vision, conceive designs, and consistently met deadlines and requirements. 
•	Established trusting relationships with clients, vendors, and designers.
•	Coordinated freelance designers, interns, and vendors to meet project requirements.

2004-2007 -- Graphic Designer, Advertising Concepts, Mount Kisco, NY
•	Worked as first graphic designer under the art director for a very busy advertising agency. 
•	Successfully translated subject matter into concrete design for marketing advertising, promotional materials, and collateral. 
•	Created design theme and graphics for marketing and sales presentation. Completed multiple, complex projects under daily, extremely tight deadlines. 
•	On many occasions left in charge of overseeing the art department's projects and client/publication/vendor relations.
2003-2004-- Graphic Designer, Yorktown Printing Corp, NY
•	Duties separated in three departments of the company: PennySaver magazines art department, North County News newspaper art department, and Pre-Pres department of the magazines and the newspaper. 
o	At the PennySaver's department: responsible for the design of ads, inserts, and promotional materials. Worked closely with sales reps to achieve client objectives.
•	Earned several awards in ad design contests.
o	At the North County News department: responsible for the layout of the newspaper pages. Close work with journalists and editors; pressure deadlines. 
•	Newspaper awarded for design concept. 
o	At the Pre-press department: responsible for the 4-Color and spot-color pre-press preparation of large amount of pages. 
o	Pagination of the newspaper and the magazines books, each one up to 500 pages.
2002-2003 -- Interactive Animation Internship, Media Morphosis, CT
•	Worked as graphic designer under the supervision of the art director. 
•	Followed instructions in the creation process of web sites and variety of multimedia projects. 
•	Great achievements in image manipulation and retouching. 
•	Design based on the appearance of the letter.
Educational Background
Bachelor of Graphic Design, minor in Animation
Fordham University, NY .Magna Cum Laude.