Jose J. Santos Email & Phone Number

• Regularly design and oversee page production for a variety of sections and publications, primarily the A-section of the Orange County Register and the Orange County Register Sunday.• Performed a variety of duties at the Register before being integrated into the Southern California News Group, including: served in an assistant leadership role on the former Register design desk; assisted in organizing the weekly design schedule; helped guide and coach other designers in their weekly assignments; produced illustrations for various editorial sections; oversaw the training and scheduling of summer interns for two years; and designed pages for many sections throughout the editorial departments

• Regularly designed and oversaw page production of two weekly sections: Image (the fashion report in the Sunday edition) and Mind and Body (the Health pages in the Saturday section).• Occasionally designed pages for the Opinion and Calendar sections; assigned illustrations to freelancers; assisted in directing photo shoots; and helped maintain the visual standards of the Times.

Orange County, California Area

• Was primarily responsible for maintaining the visual identity of the weekly while working with editorial to present their stories in an eye-catching manner.• Regularly designed the cover, as well as other inside sections of the publication.• Assigned illustrations and photographs to freelancers, as well as researched and retrieved photos from press contacts, agencies and other sources.• Color corrected images for prepress.

• Conceptualized and pitched ideas for illustrations in the magazine, then commissioned freelance artists to create the artwork.• Regularly designed the magazine’s food section, Ciudad Eats, and entertainment listings, Calendario. Also designed a variety of other pages throughout the magazine based on the needs of the art director.• Color corrected image files for preproduction and digitally enhanced and altered images when it was necessary.

• Oversaw two company-wide newspaper redesigns, was responsible for all product innovation and enforced, as well as nurtured, visual journalism on the news desk.• Supervised a news desk consisting of six news editors who produced three publications: the Daily Pilot of Newport Beach and Costa Mesa, the Huntington Beach Independent and the Laguna Beach Coastline Pilot.• Primary responsibility was to maintain a visual consistency among the newspapers and help designers achieve their goals visually.• Helped to oversee day-to-day production of newspapers, as well as regularly designed assorted pages for each publication.

• One-year resident in the Features Design Department.• Designed mainly covers and some inside pages for the following feature sections of the newspaper: Tempo (a daily features section), WomanNews (a section covering women’s issues and human interest) and KidNews (a section targeting children between the ages of 6-13, delivered exclusively to subscribers).• Worked with freelance artists, participated in conceptualization and execution of special packages and assisted other art directors when needed.

• Was responsible for layout and design of various pages of the Copley Chicago Newspapers, a chain of community publications in suburban Chicago.• Designed section covers and inside pages for the news and features departments.