Steve Castro Email & Phone Number

Medford, Ny, Us

Melville, Ny

Vice President for our agency's website and app development team, handling projects for national and global clients. Primary verticals include Health Care & Wellness, Education, Beauty, Financial, and Craft Beverage.Responsibilities include project management, creating timelines, budgets and proposals for new projects, and presentations to client leadership teams. As PM, responsible for coordinating tasks between Marketing, SEO, Creative, Social, and Development departments. Also serve as lead UX strategist and designer.Re-organized the department from the ground-up, establishing new internal roles, as well as partnerships with external agencies, vendors, and freelancers.Standardized and expanded the department's service offerings. Established consistent standards for user experience, security, maintenance, price structure, and client-facing documentation.Created several new revenue streams for the agency, including website ADA and GDPR compliance services, which included developing our audit methodology and creating client-facing reports.

New York City Metropolitan Area

Ronkonkoma, New York, United States

Senior Web Designer for over 20 of NBTY's public-facing global brand websites, including Disney, MET-Rx, Nature's Bounty, Pure Protein, Balance Bar and more. Projects were taken from concept to completion, starting with UX wireframes and Photoshop mockups, straight through to HTML/CSS/jQuery coding. Provided creative direction to back-end developers to ensure compliance with established brand guidelines.Lead UX and visual designer on the company’s first two consumer mobile apps in the Health & Wellness vertical, which were produced in-house for Android and iOS.In 2012, my duties expanded to oversee all in-house and outsourced digital marketing creative work for NBTY's Active Nutrition brands.

Woodbury, New York, United States

Production Manager and Senior Multimedia Designer on major advertising and marketing campaigns for clients that included WWE, Universal Studios, Playboy, UFC, MGM Studios and many more. Projects ranged from interactive CD-ROMs, websites and HTML emails to packaging and printed marketing materials.I managed a Creative Department of several artists and freelancers and also created project proposals, budgets and schedules.

Mineola, New York, United States

Designed layouts for feature stories, entertainment listings and advertisements for alternative newspaper on a tight weekly production schedule.

New York, New York, United States

Worked on art/text corrections with the production department for major titles including Batman, Superman, and Vertigo brand. Also worked for the in-house ad trafficking department and Mad Magazine office.

Ba, Illustration, Art History

Activities and Societies: Hartford Art School, Cartoonist for The Informer, Lincoln Theater House Manager Goldfarb Student Exhibition.

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