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

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: ▪ 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, magazines and other promotions. Event planning: Trade show booths, reunions, receptions, corporate events, including: ▪ Dozens of convention booth planning, and booth representative. Including San Diego Comicon ▪ Reunion: More than 200 guests at South Miami Senior High Class Reunion, 2007. ▪ Corporate BBQ: for 150 guests for Cottonimages, 2008. Show less

▪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.

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

(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:▪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 platforms.▪Regularly collaborate with the Israel Headquarters Art Director on upcoming game features and releases, to prepare for the Japan, and Taiwan releases.▪Regularly collaborated with the Japan Art Director to create original local market theme promotions for the Japan, and Taiwan markets.▪Create new, Updated, and localized graphic design in-game promotions for the Japan, and Taiwan Market.Accomplishments:▪Created a new system to implement localizing English in-game design promotion content, to a scalable structure for various languages. This system has now been incorporated into the headquarters global localization plans.▪The streamlined system removed excess steps, and centralized the information workflow.▪Code markers in the setup would indicate the next step could move ahead without the need to directly notify team members. Show less

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.▪Working in a mixed Japanese/English speaking… Show more 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.▪Working in a mixed Japanese/English speaking environment. Projects: Girls Synphony 2 (2018) - UI/UX DesignKakegurui (2017) - UI, Icons, IllustrationsPrototype HTML 5 pinball game (2017) – UI Design, Illustrations Prototype HTML 5 solitaire game (2017) – UI Design, Illustrations Dragon Knight 5 (2017) - Logo, Game Icons, UIR.I.C.E (2016) - UI design, English LocalizationTap -n- City (2016) - UI Design, English LocalizationPrototype "Flick Guardians" (2016) - Game designer, UI/UX DesignerPrototype "Tap RPG" game (2016) - UI DesignMuv-Luv Alternative マブラヴ オルタネイティヴ (2015) - UI/UX design Show less

▪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.

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

▪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 their art. ▪Illustration/private manga for clients. ▪Create and illustrate adventures of clients traveling to Japan in a manga format.

▪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 for their level of English.▪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 ▪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 for their level of English.▪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 workers, housewives & retired. ▪ Heavy focus on correcting ‘katakana’ pronunciation. Show less

▪ 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.

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. ▪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, photograph, layout and produce customer catalogs.▪ Provide customer support for graphic layout.▪Coordinate customer logo acquisitions and confirm/recreate art for textile print.▪Use of branded/license material guidelines. Show less

▪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 market. ▪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 ▪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 market. ▪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, clothing brands and record labels. ▪Created the magazine layout and designed each issue. ▪Oversaw the acquisition of advertisement space. ▪International distribution level of 20,000. Show less

▪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.

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 error claims in turn saving the company time and money because of the new documented system. • 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: 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 error claims in turn saving the company time and money because of the new documented system. • 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, after the “3rd strike” they could lose their job position. After the rule was in effect, productivity went up and error complaints dropped dramatically. ▪ 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. ▪ Customer service support for specialty clients. ▪ In charge of design for “high profile” clients ▪ Illustration by hand and digital. ▪ Design brand consulting. Show less

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 from the previous team 2-4 month turnaround. ▪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 to pre-press samples in 2-4 weeks, raising productivity output dramatically from the previous team 2-4 month turnaround. ▪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 demographic. ▪ Implementing product branding from concept to market. ▪ Package design for over 30 products: candies, cookies, pasta, soap, lotion, notebooks etc. ▪ Conceptualize and illustrate characters/mascots ▪ Create physical samples of package for review. ▪ Design all trade show materials and trade show booth. ▪ Create all sales sheets. Show less

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.