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• Managed creative projects to include all internal requests for new creative design of retail and loyalty catalogs, digital marketing materials such as websites, landing pages, banner ads, emails and collateral materials like brochures and mailers.• Designed pages and covers for the quarterly SkyMall catalog as well as self-promotional materials such as emails, signage and web banners. Responsibilities included design, concept, page layout, image modification, set design, prop selection, model selection, location scouting, as well as production scheduling and press file prep• Coordinating production schedules and managing personnel for multiple projects.• Oversaw brand consistency across all advertising platforms.• Designed compelling layouts for self-promotional emails and web banners.• Developed concepts and directed photo shoots for catalog covers involving locations, models, props, and lighting.

• Managed a three person creative department to service the southwest region. Oversaw a junior designer and clerical assistant in addition to several freelancers. Developed concepts and directed studio and location photography. • Met with clients to discuss and present concepts.• Controlled most design aspects of two targeted direct marketing accounts — Hershey’s Direct Gift Catalog and State Line Tack Catalog from PetSmart. Organized tight schedules coordinated between design, photography and proofing. Designed catalogs, organized content, produced press files, examined proofs. • Additional design projects included signage, logos, catalogs, inserts, brochures and presentations for such clients as PetSmart, SkyMall, SkyMall Ventures, Creator’s Syndicate, Hilton Hotels, Citi Bank and Gauthier Jewelry.

• Helped initiate new Creative Services Department to expand pre-press services and create a new revenue stream for American Color — a national printing company. • Designed all in-house promotional collateral material. • Created new concepts and logos for clients such as Penn Traffic, Robinson Knife and Dick’s Sporting Goods. • Designed page layouts for various PetSmart specialty catalogs such as Groomer, Pedigrees, R.C. Steel and Wiese. Designed pages for Dick’s Sporting Goods for their weekly circular. Other clients included CasinoRama, Enhance Pharmaceuticals, Boscov’s, Priceless Kids and Lord Chumley’s Restaurant.

• Digitally colored comic books for Marvel Comics and the Sunday Syndicated Comics. • Responsibilities included coloring black and white line art in Photoshop, adding shading and special effects. • Developed special effects techniques and efficiency improvement methods to cut production times. Pre-press production included pre-flighting, file prep and proofing for distribution to printing facilities.