My Focus:
Be passionate about my interactive, advertising, and creative work while fulfilling my desire to deliver the best interactive or print experience possible.
My Formal Education:
INTERNATIONAL FINE ARTS COLLEGE
Aug. 1991 / Miami, FL
Degree in Graphic Design, Commercial Art
Studies included: Drawing, Publishing, Advertising, Marketing, Illustration, Photography, Animation, Business Law, Business Management, Typography
My Skillsets:
Adobe Acrobat CS3
Adobe After-Effects
Adobe Director 7
Adobe Dreamweaver CS3
Adobe Flash CS3
Adobe Illustrator CS3
Adobe InDesign CS3
Adobe Photoshop CS3
Adobe Premiere 7
CMS, Joomla, WordPress
File Transfer Protocol
Lightwave
Office XP 2007
Open Office 2.4
QuarkXPress 6.0
Quicktime 8
RealProducer
RoboDemo 5
Specular Infini-D
Swift 3-D
Web Development: ASP, CSS, DHTML, JS, PHP
featured works:
www.makeupbycelso.com
www.ourplanetstories.com
www.cbssports.com/fantasy
www.fantasynews.cbssports.com
Partial CLIENT LIST
Absolutely Florida Magazine, Aquent, Celso Olaguibel, Claxson, Cosmic Child Care, eBrainFuel, El Sitio, Envision Technical Solutions, ExpressHVAC, Everything Jamaican, Gio Grafx, Inc., God Verse Man, GMSHRM, Historical Museum of Southern Florida, JZ Graphics, Inc., Illuzens by Stacy Kavitch, Lil Engine, Net Visits, Inc., NFL.com, Out of Africa, Premedia One/Seven Worldwide, Smarterway, Inc., Our Planet Stories, Platinum Television Group, South Florida Chamber of Commerce, Software Techniques Inc., TMP Worldwide, Yum Yum Asia Cafe.
Affiliations
August 2001 to Present
National Association of Photoshop Professionals
Other Skills
Bilingual in Spanish
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My Experience:
FREELANCE
MULTIMEDIA ARTIST / Mar. 1993 to Present
Contracted to produce graphic arts for a variety of mediums such as: logos, magazines, marketing campaigns, print collateral, trade shows and publications, web site consulting, web site designs, and web development in a variety of web languages. Also tasked to create multimedia and movies used for web, CD-ROMs and DVDs.
CBS CORPORATION / CBSSports.com
SR. WEB DESIGNER / Mar. 2005 to Present / Ft. Lauderdale, FL
- Manage team of designers assisting producers, developers, programmers, sales and marketers with visual representations of GUI (graphical user interfaces)
- Creation of simple, attractive and engaging user-friendly designs
Establish project goals and timelines
- Offer implementation solutions
Wireframes and fully designed mockups with advertising space for internal marketing and external clients
- Maintain best practices while implementing style guides
- Assist Marketing departments with promotional campaigns for on-site ads, print advertisements, and logos for CBS web properties and other partners;
Assist nationwide sales teams with design and checking of advertisements
- Quality control content across CBSSports.com
- Creative thinking and motivational brainstorming of projects in order to help meet tight deadlines;
- Communicate strict design and usability standards in order to deliver the best user experience.
- Client list includes Dell, Honda, Toyota, Bayer, NFL, NCAA, Visa, MasterCard, PGATour, Comcast, Hewlett Packard, Dodge, Pontiac, Sprint, Ford, BFGoodrich, RBS, AT&T, Facebook, MySpace, and more.
SOFTWARE TECHNIQUES, INC.
ART DIRECTOR / Sep. 2002 to Dec. 2004 / Winter Park, FL
- Created print marketing and advertisements
- Design, development and maintence for intranets, extranets, and client sites.
- Wrote, produced and distributed web content and marketing collateral, business cards, product hand outs, brochures, catalogs, banners, and multimedia content.
- Handled web promotions and implemented web sales using forums, email captures and email newsletters.
Improved web site search results using
- CSS, DHTML, SEO and keyword optimization methods
COMMERCE THRU DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY
SR. GRAPHIC DESIGNER / Jan. 2001 to Sep. 2002 / Orlando, FL
- Assisted with designing web interface for a variety of government applications such as One-Stop, Unemployment, and Education.
- Developed multimedia tutorials for 500+ areas named ‘Virtual Trainers’ to assist users with questions regarding page use.
- Creation of graphics and web designs for marketing tools; color corrected photographs and scanned images.
- Built interactive CD-ROM business cards to provide company and product information to government procurement offices.
EL SITIO – CLAXSON
WEB DEVELOPER / Mar. 2000 to Jan. 2001 / Miami Beach, FL
- Design and development of art and muscial events for the hispanic community on website.
- Assist in backstage photography and filming of events including Nine Inch Nails, Tori Amos, Winter Music Conference, also interviewed the band Blink 182.
- Designed and developed MGM’s Hispanic websites for Casa Club TV in both Spanish and Portuguese
- Built website from the ground up with in-depth information about the hosts, their shows, how-to tips on home decor, a plethora of recipes, gardening tips, home repair advice, and multimedia for the hispanic audiences around the world.
TMP WORLDWIDE
LEAD PRODUCTION ARTIST / Jul. 1998 to Mar. 2000 / Ft. Lauderdale, FL
- Managed team of designers in pre & post-production of print recruitment collateral including ads, brochures, posters, t-shirts, table tins, banners, window clings, and catalogs.
- Spearheaded new promotions and campaigns with artwork, layouts, and web graphics for a variety of clients such as Blockbuster, Eckerds, Washington Mutual, Edward Jones, Visa, Gwinett Health, Jabil, Ruby Tuesday, Home Depot, and more.
- Assisted Dallas, Orlando and Atlanta TMP offices daily with additional creative and marketing requests.
ABSOLUTELY FLORIDA MAGAZINE
PRODUCTION DIRECTOR / Mar. 1997 to Feb. 1998 / Miami Beach, FL
- Maintained interactive online travel magazine catering to users in search of relative Florida information, activities and events.
- Tasked with creation and management of HTML, links to chat rooms, articles, games, maps, personal ads, scanning, and manipulation of photographs.
- Worked directly with the Publisher on cover stories and layouts.