Freelance Art Director work or Senior Art Director / Creative Director position with an advertising agency that will challenge my current print and web design skills and allow me to develop new ones.

Advertising & Design: Self-starter and Cutting pasting artist, studio manager at various agencies - handling all aspects of a project throughout the agency to maintain a smooth work flow. Strong creative style, excellent computer skills, excellent art and photo direction, staff management, and client contact. Computer: Extremely skilled in all the major software packages - Photoshop, Illustrator, Quark, InDesign, Image Ready, etc. – what I don’t know I’m very fast to learn. I have trained staff in all of these programs as well. Also familiar with database/ spreadsheet, word processing, networks, and sys tem diagnostics.

Business Management & Communications: Staff management, customer relations/sales experience with training in Business Writing and Communications. In my advertising career, I have handled all aspects of agency operations – marketing plans, estimating, budget and media planning, creative direction, project management, and new business presentation.

CAREER SUMMARY
• Creative Concepts for Ads, Instore branding and Web etc.
• Used a wide range of typography to appeal to specific audiences.
• Produced ad campaign strategies for a variety of products and services.
• Communicated corporate identity through design of logo and collateral.
• Designed thumbnails, roughs, and final comps for print advertising.
• Experience in PhotoShop, Illustrator, Freehand, CorelDraw, PageMaker, Indesign and Quark Express.
• Created consumer packaging using PMS and four-color processing.
• Knowledge and organise of Photo Shooting.
• Familiar with Complete preparation and production for Flexo and Offset.
• Worked on both platform Mac & PC Freelance Art Director (presently)

Working directly with advertising agency/design studios, as well as corporate clients, to create online and print marketing campaigns. In all projects I rely on my diverse talents, creative ability, and a proven network of other artists, writers, programmers, etc. – built from 15 years experience in the advertising business.