Adriana Forrest Email & Phone Number

Waco, Texas, United States

Austin ⭐️ Waco

Cedar Park, Texas

Responsible for all creative operations, contractors supervision and work production. Directs the activities to maintain the company's standards of creative excellence, timeliness, and profitability, while achieving the clients’ goals. ➢ Meets cost standards by monitoring expenses; implementing cost-saving actions.➢ Develops basic presentation approaches by reviewing materials and information presented by client.➢ Determines production requirements by reviewing client requirements; considering scheduling factors.➢ Determines project content by reviewing and approving art and copy materials developed by staff.➢ Obtains client approval by presenting final layouts to client.➢ Improves quality results by studying, evaluating, and re-designing processes; recommending changes to art, copy writing, and production departments.➢ Updates job knowledge by participating in educational opportunities; reading professional publications; maintaining personal networks; participating in professional organizations.➢ Develops marketing strategies by examining client objectives; planning, scheduling, and completing design and production requirements for direct marketing, telemarketing, and advertising.➢ Improves marketing quality results by studying, evaluating, and re-designing creative processes; implementing changes.➢ Updates job knowledge by participating in educational opportunities and in professional organizations.Project Management, Foster Teamwork, Positioning, Organization, Coaching, Promoting Process Improvement, Proactive, Marketing Research, Client Relationships, Developing Creative Standards, Productivity

Pleasanton, California

Creative Director, Owner & Manager, ClayCatShop, Pleasanton, CA (2011 – Present).Manages all aspects of a clay design and art studio including sales, promotions and designing and creating portraits, sculptures, clay paintings and wearable art. ➢ Designs, develops and manages company brand, logos and imaging; integrates ecommerce, media and other forms of marketing and successfully launches company and product promotions; designed company website.➢ Manages all forms of B2C and B2B design projects including 3D illustrations and sculptures.➢ Promotes and manages exhibits throughout California.➢ Won first place in the IPCA Clay Competition 2013; published in international magazines.➢ Designs all promotional materials including flyers, postcards, stickers, catalogs and signage.

Austin, Texas, United States

Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area

Austin, Texas Area

San Jose

Sr. Designer G-Technology (HGST now Western Digital) San Jose, CA (2015 – Present).Marcom, Packaging, Web & Creative Services.➢ Provided creative services and support to Marketing branded, WW packaging, Sales andChannel teams.➢ Helped the creative team build, edit, and prepare pre-press files of retail packaging thatG-Technology distributes globally.➢ Built, edited, and prepared web-ready files of web and social media.➢ Managed the creation/implementation of new product campaign/ launches.➢ Designed marketing materials such as: logos, icons, posters, brochures, web banners,datasheets, case studies and other Marketing collateral assets.➢ Provided support for events and trade show materials creation, web and print.

Creative Director, Coffee Bean Technologies, Pleasanton, CA (2009 – 2011).Performed graphic, user interface and web design for a leading developer of social media branding technologies, social ID and related integrated marketing programs.➢ Designed company’s user interface and website; worked on company brand promotion campaign integrating ecommerce, media and other marketing. ➢ Designed and developed graphics, user interfaces, websites, social media promotions and integrated marketing programs for clients; cultured, managed and maintained client relationships.➢ Worked on the layout designs, illustrations, logos and branding in company publications, icons and marketing.➢ Provided graphics, web designs and other support for the company’s engineering department.

Performed freelance graphic and web design for various companies including Rainbow Pages (conceived and designed company website, user interface and an integrated company promotion plan and provided creative solutions as needed); Mervyns (contributed to and developed diverse creative and graphic projects, store campaigns, print collateral and projects such as designing the highly successful candy cart nationwide “YUM” display); and Centro de Avance Hispano (designed and developed websites and print collateral for numerous related businesses and entities).

Professional Enrichment Classes, Multimedia Design

Multimedia Design, Academy of Art College, San Francisco, CA

Bachelors In Graphic Design, Graphic Design

BA Graphic Design, Caracas Design Institute (I.D.C.), Caracas, Venezuela