Gregorio Narvasa Email & Phone Number

Suginami, Tokyo, Japan

Owner and baker of MONSTA Sweets, an American style bake shop in Tokyo Japan

Miami & Tokyo

• Marketing, Project management & branding consultation, design and direction provided to a litany of clients, including:
• Live Japan: YouTube project management, bar & nightlife video content
• Sakura House: Project management of marketing strategy & rebranding of 300 Bar chain.
• Bespoke: Custom illustrations and stories, for high ticket specialized clients.
• Turkel: Orlando/Kissimmee Sea World tourism commercial.
• Graphic design: print ads, brochures… Show more Marketing, Project management & branding consultation, design and direction provided to a litany of clients, including:

Minato-ku, Japan

• Took the new brand guidelines and created uniform designed business cards, catalog sheets, pamphlets, advertising promotions.
• Created convention displays and banners.

• Created branding guideline book for 3rd party sales reps to follow.
• Maintains the style guide for internal employees use of branding in self made documents shown to clients.

Minato-ku, Tokyo Japan

• Set up and record lighting, mics, and cameras for Medical Dr interviews.
• Record, and edit interview videos.
• Create, and edit tutorial videos.

Tokyo, Japan

• (Japan office ended operations June 2020)Primary Objective:
• Collaborate with Japan, and Taiwan Live ops monetization team to implement briefs for the in-game promotion design team.
• Create design wire frames, and brief copy in English, to have translators localize into Japanese, and Chinese.
• Delegate design tasks, direction, and deadlines to design team.
• Organize and set up files for the Back office team in the Europe Live ops location to release on the Japan, and Taiwan… Show more (Japan office ended operations June 2020)Primary Objective:
• Organize and set up files for the Back office team in the Europe Live ops location to release on the Japan, and Taiwan platforms.

Shibuya, Tokyo Japan

• UI / UX Designer for mobile game apps and web games mainly for the Japanese market. Created the UI design guidelines for design team to follow.
• Games based on Japanese novels, manga and anime IPs.
• Create original in-house games.
• Created the base UI and UX design rules for the game.
• Work with art director to create menus, buttons, icons for the UI.
• Work with engineers to create page actions and animations for the UX.

Shibuya, Tokyo Japan

• Conceptualized dozens of concepts for new games of large IP's, and in-house development.
• Create presentations of concept, UX wire frames, game play, and UI game aesthetic visual samples.
• Integrate monetization into game design
• Marketing strategy for game type demographic
• Concepts created for web and smartphone platforms.

Tokyo, Japan

• Taught returnee Japanese students to maintain age/grade level appropriate English.

Tokyo, Japan

• Created one-of-a-kind Japanese theme comics and posters for affluent families visiting Japan. Meeting the clients and interviewing to give them customized attention to them for what experience they want documented in.
• Illustration/private manga for clients.
• Create and illustrate adventures of clients traveling to Japan in a manga format.

Tokyo, Japan

• Prepared business English students for their International presentations such as the JAICA organization, and Tokyo University professors. Re-wrote presentation, and dialogue to be natural sounding, yet easy to convey.
• Prepped MBA hopefuls for Eiken, IELTS and TOFEL speaking exams to be able to get accepted to their programs.
• One-on-one, basic to advance conversational English teaching.
• Students range Junior/High/University, office… Show more
• Students range Junior/High/University, office workers, housewives & retired.
• Heavy focus on correcting ‘katakana’ pronunciation. Show less

Coconut Grove, Florida

• Assisted in content of commercial concepts with the Art Director. Took concepts to storyboard format with analog illustration completed with digital coloring.
• Story boards for Kissimee/Sea World commercials.
• Photo shoot concept design, Miami tourism promotions.

Miami, Florida

• Accomplishments: Created all web marketing promotions and email campaigns. Main campaign focus was on the American Blood banks, it attracts customers with custom promotional design for event giveaways.
• In charge of Red Cross account branding compliance for use of its logo for all national locations.
• Oversaw all aspects of graphic layout for internal collateral / external textile print.
• Design, photograph, layout and produce internal campaign marketing materials.
• Design… Show more Accomplishments: Created all web marketing promotions and email campaigns. Main campaign focus was on the American Blood banks, it attracts customers with custom promotional design for event giveaways.
• Design, photograph, layout and produce customer catalogs.

Miami, Florida

• On the cusp of the “geek chic” boom, created a magazine for an in demand niche market. The magazine became the only full color, internationally distributed publication to have its main focus on the independent comics.
• Quickly was known to get exclusive interviews before other outlets.
• Published exclusive comics in the magazine.
• Managed 25 staff and freelancers, which encompassed all creative and editorial departments.
• Maintained relationships with publishers… Show more
• Maintained relationships with publishers, clothing brands and record labels.

Miami, Florida

• Created a design company dealing with national clients offering branding consultation, graphic design & print services.
• Worked with clients to brand companies, from nightclubs to furniture chain stores.
• Art direct freelancers and photo shoots.
• Designed marketing collateral materials advertisements, brochures, business cards and trade show marketing materials for clients.
• Offered print services from one color, full color and specialty printing.

Miami Beach, Florida

• Accomplishments: Streamlined ‘client design approval system’ by creating a new workflow sheet. This documented which designer updated the design of all changes and times of approvals. This system lowered the amount of.
• At the time of arriving as a manager, there were many “lazy” designers. I created a “3 strikes” system for designers. If their designs would cause a project to be late, canceled or… Show more Accomplishments.
• At the time of arriving as a manager, there were many “lazy” designers. I created a “3 strikes” system for designers. If their designs would cause a project to be late, canceled or reprinted due to their mistakes.
• Managed both design team and sales team with a staff of 30.
• Staff was made of day shift and night shift, designers and sales teams.
• In position to hire or fire design staff.

Downtown Miami, Florida

• Accomplishments: When put into the Art Director position, in a new way for project managing the design team was able to produce from concept to pre-press samples in 2-4 weeks, raising productivity output dramatically.
• In charge of project management presentations to the upper management.
• Managerial responsibilities of being in charge of three person design team.
• Converting consumer products from South American to United States… Show more Accomplishments: When put into the Art Director position, in a new way for project managing the design team was able to produce from concept.
• Converting consumer products from South American to United States demographic.
• Implementing product branding from concept to market.

Miami Florida

• Accomplishments: Helped conceptualize several new monthly titles. In the same period, new story direction and promotion doubled monthly orders.
• Created a mail order system and increased back issues sales over 50%.
• Digital color and layout of comics books.
• Editor and writer to several titles.
• Managing freelance artists.
• Convention representative.