Andres Garcia Email & Phone Number

Los Angeles, CA, US

Los Angeles, California, United States

Los Angeles, California, United States

• Revitalized Spark’s Operation Exhibition committee to connect 25 artists of all art backgrounds with 300+ attendees.
• Organize weekly meetings within a team of 6 to discuss market strategies, artist outreach, event planning, and logistics.
• Secured $3,000 in sponsorships to fund artists’ art projects and opening night exhibition materials.
• Led 12 marketing graphics and 1 grassroots marketing campaign, resulting in over 11,000 views on social media.

Los Angeles, California, United States

• Organized a pitch competition to promote entrepreneurship in the Los Angeles community with over 1000+ entries.
• Designed marketing material to promote 10+ USC artists using Figma, Illustrator, and SolidWorks for a music festival.

Los Angeles, California, United States

• Create pitch decks for investors, accelerators, and grant committees using Figma and PowerPoint, resulting in winning the IYA Ignite grant for $1,500 as of December 2023.
• Lead end-to-end design processes, prototyping 12 high-fidelity mock-ups for business applications in Figma, and executing the development of the company website, garnering the interest of over 50 small businesses.
• Conduct competitive analysis to identify key features, similarities, and differences of other loyalty programs.
• Led user research initiatives, interviewing 10 small businesses in the food and retail industry to gather insights for developing a centralized loyalty program.

Miami, Florida, United States

• Collect data from sales and social media trends to drive creative strategic decision-making in marketing, merchandise releases, and budgeting within the clothing art division resulting in $5000 in revenue in 2023.
• Construct a community platform for artists to connect, network, and hear about art-related opportunities on Discord, garnering more than 400 interested since its inception in December 2023.
• Spearhead weekly meetings within a team of 10 to discuss 22 design projects, 15 public events, and 16 market strategies as of our latest revamp date in August 2022.
• Develop Intrefied’s design system and website with Webflow and Figma using industry-standard design techniques.

North Key Largo, Florida, United States

• Implemented a handbook for handling daily credit card reconciliations based on bank database information, reducing the daily occurrence of identifying a singular inaccurate credit card payment report by 47%.
• Established new practices between the Accounting department and Welcome Center to address discrepancies between payment receipts and Authorize.net merchant payment forms by identifying leads to troubleshoot and discuss.
• Performed bank account reconciliation and month-end journal entries for 4 corporate accounts.

Los Angeles, California, United States

• Performed manufacturing operations at one of USC’s biggest merchandising manufacturers, producing over 400 apparel items.
• Provided personalized sales experience to guests, showcasing a step-by-step process on how their apparel gets manufactured.
• Consulted with 12 external clients, including small businesses and USC clubs, on pricing, quality control, and graphic design product for various apparel items such as shirts, hoodies, robes, and hats.

Los Angeles, California, United States

• Developed 5 grassroot marketing campaigns targeted at USC business and engineering students for a Y-Combinator-funded educational tech startup, which resulted in over 200 downloads and new user registrations.
• Oversaw 10 study sessions using the app and recommended changes to senior management on minimizing internal errors regarding the tutor hiring process, which resulted in the restructuring of tutoring screening.

Minor In Designing Products, Industrial And Product Design

Bachelor Of Business Administration - Bba, Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies

Associate Of Arts - Aa, Business Administration And Management, General, 4.0