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Stamford, Connecticut, Us

Stamford, Connecticut, Us

Stamford, Connecticut, Us

Stamford, Connecticut, Us

Danbury, Connecticut, Us

Ethan Allen Interiors, Inc. engages in manufacturing and retailing home furnishings and accessories. The company involves in the design, manufacture, sourcing, sale, and distribution of a range of home furnishings and accessories, as well as related marketing and brand awareness efforts. It also sells home furnishings and accessories to consumers through a network of company-owned design centers.

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Managed the upkeep, organization and creation of daily graphical updates. Assisted the Senior Art Director in the creation and implementation of solicitation pages and graphics for webloyalty.com's post transaction division. Lead flash designer and developer on webloyalty.com’s creative team. Technical liaison between IT team and art department for troubleshooting and resolution of Mac platform hardware.Key Accomplishments: • Prompted and managed a project to streamline and organize graphical edits by creating a virtual pick-up area.• Spearheaded project to completely overhaul and streamline webloyalty.com’s job ticket system for creative requests. This included development, beta testing, rollout, system education, and technical trouble shooting.• Co-Art Directed and was lead Flash developer for redesign of Travel Values Plus consumer site that increased over all site traffic and product usability.• Increased business and profitability by performing numerous flash developments and tests such as promotional video coupon sell pages that increased click and response rates by 16%.

Worked with a number of clients over the past few years to streamline and update site graphics by adding key site optimizations.Key Accomplishments:• The Barlow Group – Executive Search Firm. Numerous graphical, flash and copy updates.• Wittek Development – Commercial Development Firm. Many flash coding updates• Structura – Architectural Firm. Created full splash page intro and animated main menu. Also created numerous photo galleries to display firm’s architectural achievements.• Collura & Company – High end handcrafted lighting and fixture company. Created splash intro animation and several photo galleries.• gotoAndDesign.net – My portfolio site.

Menlo Park, Ca, Us

Freelance graphic designer sent to Webloyalty.com as a Temp to perm employee. I was tasked with day to day graphical operations and handling job tickets for updates on the company's post transaction solicitations.I was hired on as a full time employee due to my performance as a freelance designer.

Designed and oversaw concept graphics on patented LAMA and SwingBox POP (Point of Purchase) displays that were featured in hotels, restaurants and retail locations across the country. Worked with sales staff to increase profitability by delivering high end sales demonstrations and presentations. Some of the clients I worked with were: Kraft, Dr. Pepper Snapple Group, Heineken USA, Sports Illustrated and Procter and Gamble.Key Accomplishments:• Lead graphic designer on sales presentation to Sports Illustrated for a SwingBox magazine display for the 2007 Swimsuit Issue.• Lead graphic designer on Snapple Grounds Country Time Lemonade LAMA display that was distributed nationwide to grocery retailers.• Worked on multiple corporate sales sheets on various patented products to use as tools for the sales department to increase business and profitability.

Associates, Visual Communications

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