Owner/Principal Designer, Red Couch Studio | 1999-present

Skills: Design (logos, illustrations, brochures, ads, collateral, newsletters, catalogs, packaging, POP displays, pattern colorways/repeats). Web (HTML, CSS, Javascript, basic php/MySQL, Flash, banners (AS3), eblasts, ecommerce, template development. Marketing (content development, SEO, social networking, press kits). Photography (tabletop, jewelry, headshot, retouching, stock research).

Clients: Kula for Karma, Jason Apollo Voss, Sociologists for Women in Society, SelectBooks, Devotion Yoga, BodyWise Connection, Dr. Deborah Lubetkin, U.S. News & World Report, Jacqueline Ho Designs (Allure, Time Out NY, The New Yorker, WWD, Forbes), Nancy Green Design (Crate & Barrel, Macy’s, Michael Aram, Certified, Hampton Forge, Boston Warehouse, Mikasa), Lily Zane Home, Gina Jiang Designs, Face Capades, NLTA, FAI Consulting, Geller Group, A Girl Named Guy, Eric Decetis Cartoons, Acupuncture for Athletes, TaxStream, Greenwood Legal, Bella Prints.

• Photoshop CS4
• Flash CS4
• Illustrator CS4
• Quark
• InDesign CS4
• Powerpoint
• Dreamweaver CS4
• Joomla!
• Fireworks CS4
• WordPress

Development Director, iTelevise | Hoboken, NJ | 2001-03
• Developed video packages utilizing new media and integrated workflows
• Coordinated video shoots for ActorPack and Video BizNiz Card CDs
• Developed iTelevise Original Content Division and designed mobile stage set
• Produced field segments (New York /London) for “Putting on Makeup”
• Created website with streaming video content and oscommerce storefront
• Designed animations, broadcast graphics, print advertising, and packaging

Freelance Graphic Designer, Various Agencies | NYC | 1991-01
• Provided design and production services for agencies and clients including:
Saatchi & Saatchi/Klemtner (Amgen, Wyeth, AstraZenica), Bozell, Lowe Lintas & Partners (Verizon), Merritt-Clapp (Blistex), Gallagher & Gallagher (Aventis Pasteur, Pocono Mountain Industries), Berlitz (Xerox, Symbol), Merkley Newman Harty (Mercedes-Benz), CMG (Virgin Atlantic), The Food Group (Mott’s, Lipton, Polly-O), Adventure House (Cambridge University Press, The Girl Scouts), Kirchoff/Wohlberg (Harcourt), Soscio X ( Paper Magazine, “Vera Wang On Weddings”)

Associate Art Director, North American Bear Company | NYC | 1999-00
• Designed and produced newsletters, catalogs, sell-sheets, print promotions
• Designed illustrations, hangtags, and textiles for plush toys and teddy bears
• Designed packaging, POP displays, advertising, and signage
• Designed scale package mockups and sets for catalog photo shoots
• Assisted production of photo shoots and trade show events

Senior Graphic Designer, NobleWorks | Hoboken, NJ | 1996-99

• Designed greeting cards, catalogs, promotions and packaging
• Digitally colorized photos and illustrations, retouched art and cartoons
• Optimized images for web, designed ecards, provided mac troubleshooting
• Assisted negotiating artist contracts and licensing terms
• Coordinated sales team and trade show events

Studio Manager, Lisa Charles Watson Photography | NYC | 1995
• Coordinated pre-production, set construction, props, staff, and locations
• Distributed promotional materials, prepared estimates, and managed expenses
• Assisted on-set for various clients including: Coach, Bergdorf Goodman, David Yurman, Avon, American Airlines, Marshall Fields, Wathne, Paul Smith

Production Assistant, DDB Needham Advertising | NYC | 1994-95
• Provided creative support services for agency senior management
• Assisted producing multimedia presentations for CEO Keith Reinhard
• Prepared credential books and award reels for agency promotions/new business

Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, 1993
S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications
B.S., Illustration Photography
Syracuse DIPA, London (1991)