• Trained over 1,000 professionals in digital editing tools. Many of those students now use those tools in the workforce.• Designed online and lecture versions of bachelor’s-level and graduate imaging classes for the • Photography and Web Design and New Media programs..• Designed the entire digital imaging curriculum for the School of Web Design and New Media. • Maintain a 4.7 (out of 5) rating on student evaluations since 2007.

• As a member of a team of three, saved Michael Kors 25% in the first year (year over year) on their post-production budget. • Analyzed all Gap and Michael Kors images post-production and image output vendors for efficiency and price normalcy.• Used two decades of experience and visibility into multiple companies post-production workflows and pricing to determine baselines for multiple classes of post-production services.• Interviewed all vendors, domestic and international, to determine where each fells within determined baselines taking into account the work performed, the average timeliness of delivery, and quality.• Determined and reported efficacy of each vendor using the methodology laid out above and made recommendations based on those findings.• Advised Gap and Michael Kors on best practices and industry average image production costs.

• Oversaw an in-house transition for all marketing imagery.• Saved the company $200K in the first year and $500K in the second year by engineering a system capable of handling four times more images for 30%-40% less cost.• Directed all projects for creative department, ensuring creative staffing matched workload requests in both skill and capacity from all other departments.• Managed creative department budget and priced all new print projects, paper choices, and photography equipment purchases.• Researched, chose, and implemented project management software to coordinate requests from marketing, merchandising, design, production, IT, and sales.• Owned the creative calendar; worked closely with CEO, finance, merchandising, sales, production, and design to sync with their calendars.• Researched and implemented DAM solution for marketing, creative, and sales; streamlining the workflow, enabling easy sharing with vendors and wholesale partners, and bringing entire file structure to the cloud.• Owned relationships and helped negotiate pricing with printing presses and paper mills.• Performed press checks for all nine annual catalogs and handled all in-house prepress functions.

• Directed all facets of services and customer relations for Levi’s, Dockers, Restoration Hardware, PayPal, ABC, Coors, Marmot, and others.• Managed budget for all post-production services offered by the company.• Tripled company revenue in 5 years.• Designed workflow and oversaw retouching and image preparation for Levi’s e-commerce, wholesale, banners, and other digital media worldwide (US, EU, Japan, China, India, Australia, South America, and Middle East).• Shaved 20 days off a 30-day production cycle using Gantt Charts, PERT diagrams, and critical path best practices.• Strategized with CEO and CFO to establish budgets, handle invoices, and review fiscal picture on a weekly, quarterly, and annual basis.• Directed production of magazine, catalog, and newspaper advertisements and special ads (graphic, sign, billboards, subway, bus wraps, in-store advertisements, hangtags, and packaging) for a variety of clients. • Recruited all new hires and built organizational structure.• Designed and implemented training focused on high efficiency retouching, quality standards, automation, and customer service.• Created and managed seasonal production schedules and process coordinating with global market deadlines.• Assessed and audited multi-million dollar budgets for procurements and marketing teams of Michael Kors, Gap, Marc Jacobs, and others to determine savings, best practices, efficacy, and seasonal availability of vendor pool.

As a freelance Production Manager I oversaw and coordinating the production of scholarly publications.

As a freelance Production Manager I was responsible for maintaining branding throughout all generated imagery assets and documents.

As a Production Coordinator & Artist I regularly adapted and executed creative direction on media for products, furniture, and fashion brands.

As a freelance production artist I executed creative direction on game covers, manuals, packaging and cover art.

• Responsible for all image production, retouching, and layout production for all Bloomingdale’s magazines. • Reduced in-house production cost by 5% within six months and 10% within one year.• Trained new team of six retouchers within three months.• Reorganized, rebuilt, and restaffed print production department, cutting costs by 15%.• Coordinated multiple creative and production agencies, external partners, photographers, and printers.• Managed $1,000,000 budget and collaborated with Vice President to ensure proper execution of brand strategy.• Proofread, managed pagination, and worked directly with printing presses and advertisers.• Worked closely with Marketing VP to forecast spending for the department.• Coordinated marketing workflow between a creative services staff of over 35 employees and a production staff of over 25; provided retouching services and traffic support through project timeline.• Implemented a new workflow tracking software and new scanning techniques that led to improved production and more efficient management of multiple simultaneous projects.• Publications included Vogue, Details, ELLE, Prada, Diesel, Dolce & Gabbana, Chanel, Gucci, Burberry, and Dior. Partnered with large-volume presses and printers such as New York Times, L.A. Times, Quebecor World, Quad, Continental, Arandell, and R.R. Donnelly.• Negotiated contracts with vendors.• Attended multiple press checks to ensure accuracy and quality of color catalogs.

Vicente began his imaging career refining catalog imagery in Miami at Burdines, part of Federated Department Stores. There, he implemented award-winning workflow initiatives that improved the cost savings and efficiency of the post-production, IT, creative, photography and copywriting departments.