QUALIFICATIONS PROFILE
Award-winning Art Director with extensive experience in multimedia, marketing and print design. Exceptional collaborative and interpersonal skills; dynamic team player with well-developed written and verbal communication abilities. Highly skilled in client and vendor relations and negotiations; talented at building and maintaining “win-win” partnerships. Passionate and inventive creator of innovative marketing strategies and campaigns; accustomed to performing in a deadline-driven environments with an emphasis on working within budget requirements. Creative experience in the following:
PRINT & MULTIMEDIA & MARKETING & PROMOTIONAL
- Brochures - Promotional flyers - Newsletters - Media kits - Catalogs - Print advertisements - Television graphics - Video graphics - Online presentations - Video, sound, and 3-D animation for interactive CDs - Targeted e-mail campaigns - Screen printing - T-shirts - Posters - Client gift packages - Various promotional items - Press releases
TECHNICAL PROFICIENCY
Platforms: Mac OS 9/10, Windows XP/Me/2000.
Software Expertise: Macromedia Dreamweaver, Flash, and Fireworks; QuarkXPress; Adobe
Photoshop, PageMaker, and Illustrator; Aldus Freehand; MS FrontPage,
Project, and Office Suite (Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint, Outlook).
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
XYZ STUDIOS, ANYWHERE, ANYPLACE, 1998 – Present
Art Director
Efficiently manage and coordinate design production from concept through completion. Work closely with clients to create vision, conceive designs, and consistently meet deadlines and requirements. Effectively build, motivate, and direct design and production teams. Coordinate freelance designers, consultants and vendors to meet all project requirements. Create and conduct highly persuasive sales and marketing presentations. Expertly convert features to benefits to achieve client objectives. Manage all operational, strategic, financial, quote/bid, staffing, and administrative functions.
Key Achievements:
w Successfully completed client projects worth up to $550,000.
w Provided proposal layout and design for million-dollar corporate contracts under extremely tight
deadlines.
w Established trusting relationships with designers, vendors, and key clients.
123 CORPORATION, ANYWHERE, ANYPLACE, 1996-1998
Senior Graphic Designer
Successfully translated subject matter into concrete design for newsletters, promotional materials and sales collateral. Created design theme and graphics for marketing and sales presentations, training videos and corporate websites. Participated in team effort to produce streamlined production of policy manuals and educational materials for newly hired employees and freelance designers.
Key Achievements:
w Earned several awards for providing graphic design support to both headquarter employees and
hundreds of field offices.
w Coordinated staff participation in community-sponsored charitable events.
XYZ ART, ANYWHERE, ANYPLACE, 1994-1996
Graphic Designer
Created new design themes for marketing and collateral materials. Collaborated with creative team to design and produce computer-generated artwork for marketing and promotional materials. Participated in production of print and promotional items for key clients under directions of Marketing Department.
Key Achievements:
w Consistently recognized for fresh and innovative ideas and applications.
w Developed new art-proofing system that increased overall quality of production and improved
customer satisfaction to 97%.
w Recruited by XYZ Corporation to become their new Senior Graphic Designer.
EDUCATION/TRAINING
Bachelor of Arts in Marketing, Minor in Graphic Arts (1994)
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN STATE – Anyplace, Anywhere
