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com Objective Freelance or Full-time Employment as an Art Director/Designer

Employment Freelance (NYC, LA, and San Francisco) 08/07-current Senior Art Director/Designer Lead designer for start-ups and small businesses. Coordinate strategic marketing consultations with clients. Create original illustrations, graphic resources, creative design, cohesive branding and interactive media for the web and print. Agency Rx (New York, NY) 05/06-08/07 Senior Art Director/Designer Created collateral print and promotional pieces for product product launches including style guidelines and logo development. Managed and trained junior and mid-level designers on projects and accounts. Streamlined ideas and presented final work to clients. Publicis Dialog (New York, NY) 03/04-03/06 Art Director/Designer Worked on an array of clients from beauty to liquor to kitchen appliances. Concepted, designed and art directed on several projects on a day-to-day basis. Developed website design and email blasts for campaigns as well as executing multi-media design for direct mail pieces, traditional print, and TV. The Heibing Group (Madison, WI) 10/02-03/04 Junior Art Director/Designer Responsible for the design and production of projects from concept to production. Set up layouts and prepped them efficiently for the production team and vendors. Worked with account team to identify strategic intent of specific projects.

Education VCU Adcenter, Richmond, VAArt Direction Masters of Science Awarded June 2002 University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN Bachelors of Arts Awarded June 2000

Skills Language: ASL/Sign Language Computers: Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, HTML5/CSS, Wordpress/php, Final Cut Pro, Quark Xpress, & Microsoft Office Other: Northern Shao Lin Kung Fu, Karaoke, Film, Breakdancing, and Comedy