Eric B. Email & Phone Number

Mundelein, Il

Marketing Team Leader responsible for leading the marketing activities of the company. Responsible for managing a Marketing Team of 4 people and product/marketing communication to every department. Catalog & flyer management and creation, overseeing the design of more than 25 catalogs over 7 product categories. Catalogs & support flyers used by inside and outside sales team and distributors nationwide. Working with outside distributors for co-branded collateral pieces.Primary contact and creator for monthly national advertising programs in trade magazine publications.Managing website through HTML coding and Content Management software with a 30% increase in page view and new visits over 3 years.Overseeing direction of photo shoots for over 10,000 individual products. Editing color correction and retouching photos in Adobe Photoshop.Coordinate marketing programs with outside vendors and management. Build on marketing concepts developed by management; coordinate multiple platform marketing programs; brainstorm future marketing ideas along with management.

Mundelein, Il

Marketing Specialist responsible for leading the marketing activities of the company. Responsible for product/marketing communication to every department.Coordinate marketing programs with outside vendors and management. Build on marketing concepts developed by management; coordinate multiple platform marketing programs; brainstorm future marketing ideas along with management.Coordinate company efforts to create new marketing materials such as catalogs, flyers, and brochures.Serve as the key repository for all competitive company and product information. Monitor competitive print, web, trade show, marketing efforts.Assist the sales team with the marketing and customer contact process. Serve as key stakeholder for the website. Serve as liaison between outside sales force and internal departments on all marketing and customer contacts.Lead the efforts for surveying customers for quality, brand name recognition, ease of use, pricing.

Power Rangers podcast released every other Saturday on the Four Eyed Radio Network, plus a monthly extra episode thanks to supporters on Patreon. Duties include show topic discussions, website and social media management, convention coverage, interviews, audio editing and production.

Wheeling, Illinois

Marketing Specialist who coordinated and assisted with the marketing activities of the company’s marketing department. Maintained and updated organizational web site, creation and managed all social media activities and grew to over 1300 followers in a single year, managed mailing and client databases, assisted with centralized organizational branding efforts; including advertisements, collateral materials and promotional items, worked with twenty district offices for services with outside vendors, assisted with procedures and implementation strategy for marketing to be considered by the Marketing Director, and data tracking.

Wheeling, Illinois

Marketing Assistant who coordinated and assisted with the marketing activities of the company’s marketing department. Maintained and updated the organization’s web site, managed customer databases, assisted with the centralized organizational branding efforts; including advertisements, collateral materials and promotional items, worked collaboratively with district offices for services with outside vendors, assisted with procedures and implementation strategy for marketing considered by the manager, and data tracking.

Rosemont, Il

Production Designer (2005-2006), Assistant Department Head (2006-2007), Department Head (2009-2010) for the Anime Central convention hosted by M.A.P.S. Managed and collaborated with artists to produce advertising flyers, attendee and staff badges, signage, t-shirts, and souvenir program book. Duties included department management, maintaining production budget, art direction, project management, book design and layout, convention branding, and 10th anniversary logo design. Attendees as of 2010: 20,000.

Worked part-time photographing and photo-editing various items for auction. This included a variety of small to large items. Very detail oriented, had to catch item faults if any, and make sure all important features of any said item were displayed.

Pre-press Design Specialist who worked on digital files being prepared for digital printing or two-color press. Designed a number of business cards, letterheads, brochures, posters, and other projects. Handled customer’s existing files, modifying them for print or recreating them from scratch and had to recreate customer’s existing logos from jpeg to full scalable vector art. Also worked with new customers to consult with them on new branding ideas and designs.

Worked with new convention as lead graphic designer. Created convention logo and branding, advertisements, signage, attendee and staff badges, and souvenir program book.

Worked on printing and finishing large point of purchase displays, such as banners,case cards, and end caps. Small format printing like menus, business cards, and inserts. Finishing work including bindery, trimming and mounting. Experience with Onyx and Fiery print management software, and took charge of color management calibration on large poster printers.

Production Assistant that worked on copy jobs and final production through bindery (padding, collating, side stitching, folding) and mailing. Helped with the creation of some design projects. Trained and Operated Xerox Docutech, Fiery Print servers. Canon Colorpass system, and GBC Bindery systems.

First experience with printing and binding. Learned all the basics and trained extensively. First experience with Adobe design programs before college. Scanned photos, designed layouts, typesetting, organizing of jobs and filing.

Bachelor'S, Advertising And Graphic Design

Activities and Societies: Alumni Association, Secretary 2008-2011Magna Cum Laude, 3.88 grade point average

High School, Art, Marketing

Activities and Societies: DECA - An Association of Marketing Students (1996-2000)