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Greater Chicago Area

Responsible for Marketing and Communications planning, budgeting and development for the company. Utilizing my bilingual abilities to help communicate in Spanish language markets.

Greater Chicago Area

Research, identify and sign potential Distributors to increase sales and awareness in Latin America. Direct Sales in the Caribbean region and in non distributor countries within South America.

Greater Chicago Area

Bergkamp Inc. is an international leader in the design and manufacturing of asphalt pavement preservation equipment for contractors and government agencies. My duties include selling equipment and parts and facilitating communication with our customers in Latin America. My goal is to better serve our customers and increase sales in the region.

Glenview, Illinois

VIENTO Creative was my creative services business where I created and designed advertising, marketing and sales materials for a diverse set of clients. I have a track record of helping organizations succeed by providing creative solutions, appealing designs and outstanding customer service. I managed projects from concept through completion, which also included hiring, directing and managing contract designers, translators, and web programmers. Key Achievements:• Produced an interactive DVD program to help an organization educate parents about teen health• Designed a twenty-two poster exhibit showcasing an organization’s 16 years of achievement• Rebranded a research and translations organization to improve their market position

Los Angeles

A boutique marketing communications firm, Durazo Communications specialized in the development of multicultural campaigns. The agency was headed by a Hispanic PR pioneer and acquired a prestigious list of clients. I headed Durazo’s creative department and was responsible for all advertising development, graphic design, and managing supportive staff and budgets. My duties also included pitching clients, new business presentations, and heading creative brainstorming sessions. Key Achievements:• Responsible for developing the Hispanic portion of a $120 million broadcast campaign • Helped the agency and its partners acquire more than $30 million in new business• Recipient of several Public Relations and Marketing awards

Greater Los Angeles Area

Sebastian International is recognized as a leader of salon hair care and cosmetics products. It is now part of the Procter & Gamble family of products with worldwide sales. I served as a key member in a fast-paced and deadline oriented creative department that designed materials in five languages for the marketing, sales, PR, and education departments. The projects required innovative design, maintaining brand standards, keeping up with latest trends, accurate color matching and considerable exposure to printing processes.Key Achievements:• Worked directly with Creative Director on new branding and strategic marketing initiatives• Helped distinguish the company as a global creative leader with industry leading designs • Lead designer for the launch of the in-house retail store, salon and training center

Greater Los Angeles Area

DIRECTV is a Fortune 500 telecommunications company. During the company’s formative years, I served as an instrumental part of a busy and deadline-oriented creative department designing ads, brochures, and collateral materials in support of the marketing, sales, and PR departments.• Collaborated with large in-house staff including art directors, copywriters, and traffic managers• Contributed to the organization’s one-millionth subscriber milestone

Bachelor'S Degree, Communication Studies, Magna Cum Laude

Activities and Societies: Alpha Sigma Lambda Honor Society MemberCoursework included; Professional Client Communications, Public Speaking.

Certified Digital Marketing Professional, Digital Marketing, Professional Certification

The Digital Marketing Institute and the American Marketing Association provides a professional certificate training course in digital.

Art/Art Studies, General

Graphic Design Certificate, Graphic Design

WVOC is a trade school where I received a certificate of completion for 1,400 hours of Graphic design training.

Web Design-Dreamweaver And Flash Training

This was an extensive two day course on the fundamentals of Dreamweaver and Flash taught by Lynda Weinman of Lynda.com.