Photographer/Retoucher 

2004 - Present /   Rossy Photography

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Event photography, portraiture/headshots, studio photography, lighting with strobes and natural, modifiers, reflectors. Table Top Photography (shooting tethered, seamless background, products.

Lightroom, Camera Raw, Photoshop, compositing, retouching, extracting subjects from backgrounds, adding shadows, extending backgrounds.

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Freelance Graphic Designer 

AUG 2020 - Present  /   KinderCare   www.Kindercare.com

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Currently Freelancing at KinderCare. I am assisting in the design of print and digital deliverables. I’m also creating exploratory designs for meetings and presentations. Working with marketing director, lead designers and production manager. Currently using Wrike (management software) and Slack. Print work includes: window clings for daycare centers, print signs and flyers, resizing of current ads and Banners. Retouching. Digital work includes: Social media campaigns and web re-design, Mockups Resizing of Digital static and animated ads. Working and releasing files remotely.

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Freelance Graphic Designer 

MAY 2021 -AUG 2021 and NOV 2020-Present  /   Vionic Shoes www.vionicshoes.com

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I'm currently freelancing for Vionic shoes. I used the company's corporate graphics standards to design digital assets for emails, social and web posts. I create motion graphics and videos for social media as well. 

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Freelance Production Artist 

MAY 2021 -JUN 2021 /   The Shade Store www.theshadestore.com

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I freelanced for The Shade Store briefly for a specific project. I helped them re-create their entire website in Sketch as their original was completely created in photoshop. I created both web and mobile version in sketch as templates based on their current site. I also assisted in creating business cards for all employees.

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Freelance Production Artist

FEB 2016 - Present /   SyndicateBlue

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I Work as a freelance Graphic Artist as needed on location and remote for various clients as assigned by SyndicateBleu. Clients have included: 
The Gap Inc., 2 years, 
Lloyd & Co. 1 month, 
J.Crew (2019-present and off) 
ForceMajeure (a packaging and industrial design company1 month 2019)

For these companies I have provided digital, web, email, mobile, print, marketing, out of home large format printing and/or packaging. I also did retouching production and image cataloging and archiving. (Click here to read more about each individual company's job description)

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Studio Manager/Head Retoucher

APR 2008 - AUG 2013 / GlobalHue/Studio Imprint

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Managed & assigned work to production artists in an ad agency’s print studio. Routed jobs to proofreaders. Worked with print producers & traffic managers to maintain deadlines.

Retouched: Lifestyle images, created composites, and color matching. Composed and resized mechanicals for billboards, bus shelters, newspapers, magazine ads and out-of-home signage. Preflighted & released files and trained new employees. Output proofs and color checked them. Resized ads to print on various sizes of newspapers and billboards. Translated general market ads to other markets including french & Spanish. Accounts worked on : Verizon, Bermuda, Census 2010 and Jeep.

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Advertising Artist 

2007 / 3 months   EL Diario/La Prensa

 

Designed display ads for print in newspaper. Received ads from vendors and inspected them. Translated ads from English to Spanish. Routed ads via workflow program. Worked with account executives to create the ads. Worked with the traffic coordinator to establish and maintain deadlines. Released ads to the pagination team.

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Freelance Production Artist

2006-2007 / KLK Staffing

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Provided Temporary Freelance Production services to the following companies:

• Studio Imprint

• Hirshhorn & Young Graphics

• The Topps Company Inc.

• The Courier Times Newspaper / Eclypse / Corporate Concept Solutions

• Dominican Life Magazine

• Euro R.S.C.G. Life

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Production Artist

2001-2006 / The Topps Company Inc.

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Created Mechanicals for the production of sports trading cards. Output proofs for vendors. Silhouette subjects from backgrounds. Created etching and varnish plates for foil stamping & UV coating. Used Photoshop actions to duplicate creative designs on various images. Created Licensor & vendor proofs. Collaborated with copy editors and proofreaders to make corrections to files.

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Graphic Designer 

2000 -2001/ Fiducial

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Created artwork for in-house financial magazines, and franchise marketing and operating manuals. Created newsletters, display ads for newspapers & yellow pages, business cards, stationery, brochures, catalogs, manuals & Direct Mail Inserts. Created graphs and charts using illustrator and InDesign. Designed, archived and maintained logos.

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Graphic Designer

1999-2000 Hoy/Newsday

 

Designed display ads for print on the newspaper. Created artwork for media kits, banners, presentations, flyers and other publications. Received ads via email and FTP.  Released PDFs to different publications. Created Imposition sheets. Worked with account executives and sales people to create the ads. Worked with traffic coordinators to establish and maintain deadlines. Designed office stationery and insertion order forms. Handled rush jobs. Trained new employees