James Dedomenico Email & Phone Number

New York, NY, US

Greater New York City Area

• Translating clients’ creative visions and direction into high caliber artwork with limited resources and short timelines.
• Guaranteed success of projects, due to productively managing all functions of project management, trafficking and communications with clients.
• Directing and reviewing look of art images for maximum impact and recognition of brands.

Greater New York City Area

• Senior Retoucher and Manager for busy internal studio team. Managed retouching work-flow, resources and projects for retouching and production projects, using internal and external partners.
• Advanced use of Photoshop for retouching and resizing beauty and still life images for use in social media, in-store merchandising, broadcast & the web.
• Set up and managed highly successful work-flow with CGI manager, increasing efficiency.
• Saved company $600K+ annually in retouching, due to innovative planning and execution.
• Collaborated and supervised internal retouchers, art directors, and vendors/agencies on images from turnover to approval.
• Maintained server asset database using consistent naming. Organized, categorized & updated the growing archive of digital assets for 20+ fragrance and 4 cosmetics brands.

Greater New York City Area

• Managed outside vendors and agencies from creation to production of assets for use in social media, in-store merchandising, broadcast & the web. Reviewed production work of production artists and freelancers prior to.
• Managed and directed studio and production projects. Attended press runs, ensuring quality control for new fragrance launches.
• Designed and reformatted assets to consistently communicate branding from packaging to magazine and digital advertising.
• Managed and maintained brand style guides and approval of assets for various uses.
• Spearheaded yearly booth for national tradeshow, coordinating with display company and GES, producing mechanicals for 50+ posters, producing and comping 100+ of counter cards and merchandising thousands of products.
• Managed and mentored team of four and coordinated with outside vendors/agencies from creation to production of assets for a variety of programs.

Greater New York City Area

• Created, updating and collecting mechanical files for print and comping purposes.
• Preparing and retouching digital images for placement in product packaging, publication, presentation and web.
• Production Designer for Events including American Cancer Society Beauty Ball, DKMS Gala, Coty HR and Internal Events.

Greater New York City Area

• Designed items for company’s calendar schedules including promotional events.
• Updated existing and created new mechanicals for packaging of various brands.
• Coordinated between departments and vendors to have comps developed and approved.

Education record

Ba, Art Studio

Graphics, Motion Graphics, Web, And Maya

Multiple classes taken through the Continuing Education Division at the School of Visual Arts. Some for my professional roles at the time.