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Design and Photography
Acumen Design, British Motorcycle Owners Association, Primer Grey, Rockers vs. Mods
Texas Medical Center
December 2008 to September 2011
Senior Designer and Photographer
Responsible for the design, layout and marketing for projects for the Texas Medical Center Corp. and the Texas Medical Center News (TMC News) including branding, logo creation, creating and upholding graphic standards, social media, event promotion, photography, photo retouching, direct mail, newspaper ads, website updates and email blasts for the bi-monthly publication the TMC News. Responsible for the rebranding of The National Center for Human Performance with logo creation, photography, social media assistance and print collateral. Head photographer for the TMC News.
Urban Living
September 2007 to December 2008
Creative Director
Maintaining day-to-day operations in a small in house ad agency. Job responsibilities consist of arranging photography shoots of properties and constant supervision of up to 50 developments inside of the Loop. Responsible for the design and layout of brochures, direct mail pieces, billboards, logos, newspaper ads, magazine ads, banners and websites. Responsible for leading a team that consists of print designer(s), rendering artist(s) and web designer(s), and
supervising all photo retouching, uploading images and any other design.
Responsible for working directly with the clients and real estate developers maintaining a constant communication to market properties in the inner loop. Responsible for all media buys and maintaining relationships with all vendors (such as printers, magazines and Clear Channel billboards) and all contract workers.
Also responsible for all of the department's internal billings, including invoicing and purchase orders.
Main programs used on Mac and PC platform: Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Acrobat, Quark and Microsoft Office/Word/Excel. All websites created in HTML.
Texas Instruments
June 2007 to December 2007
Photographer
Contract photographer for in-house projects for Texas Instruments.
Whole Wheat Creative
June 2006 to August 2007
Designer
Design and layout of brochures, direct mail pieces, posters, billboards,
newspaper, magazine ads, banners and more. Responsible for client
contact as well as media placement. Quark, Illustrator, Indesign,
Photoshop CS2. Clients: Baker-Jackson Nissan, Southwestern Brick, Evolve
Capital, Oak Creek Homes, Knowledge Systems and the Texas Bar
Foundation.
Art Directors Club of Houston
June 2006 to 2009
not for profit volunteer
position
President
Responsibilities consist of heavy event planning, art direction, design,
organizing a club of 600+ contact list. Achievements consist of
branching out the educational side of ADCH to extend to the entire 10th
district, Show Chair for the 2007 Houston Show, organizing a speaking event at VT2 with Jeff Steinhour from
Crispin Porter Bogusky (Volkswagen.) Organizer of Domy Comic Bookstore
event. Student Show Chair 2006, future Show Chair 2008.
Barstool Magazine Houston
October 2005 to February 2008
Designer and Photographer
Design and layout of magazine spreads using Indesign and Quark.
Photographer and designer for articles including cover photos. Clients:
Jerry Cantrell - Alice in Chains, Catalan, RA sushi, Hue, Chrome, Tipsy
Clover, A+, Goode Company and many other local restaurant and bars.
Rives Carlberg
July 2005 to June 2006
Designer, Production and Photography
Design responsibilities consist of working under tight deadlines on a
daily basis for high volume clients. Designing from concept to
completion. Retouching photos and artwork for printing. Freelance
Photography for Houston Texans and other clients. Also responsible for
bringing on interns in all departments. Programs used: Quark,
Photoshop CS2, Flight Check, Illustrator, File Maker, Acrobat, Microsoft
Office, OSX and PC. Clients: Helfman Dealerships - Ford, Chrysler, Dodge
and Jeep. Houston Chronicle, Houston Texans and more.
University of Houston
January 2005 to June 2006
Advisor - UH Advertising Department
Responsibilities consisted of maintaining organization of a class of 56
students with two other instructors. General and creative consultation. Coordinating outside
competitions. Lead a team to win a District Silver ADDY and second
runner up in the National Student Advertising Competition 2005. Clients:
Yahoo! and Postal Vault.
Stan and Lou Advertising
June 2005
Account Assistant/Cold Calling
Temporary position assisting with client Harbor Craft Jet Boats.
Responsibilities consisted of research, cold calling and organizational
duties. Coordinated focus groups and created a client base in Excel.
University of Houston
2001 to 2004
BA in Communications
Major: Advertising; Cum Laude; Minor: Fine Arts; Graphic Design,
Photography, Production Art and Color
University of Houston
August 2004 to December 2004
Head Coordinator - Advertising Applications
Responsibilities consisted of coordinating 18 students in a complete
advertising campaign, liaison between client and students. Head of
Creative, Creator of "Leave Behind" campaign book for client. Client;
Transportation Security Administration.
Nalco Exxon Mobil LLP
February 2000 to June 2003
Freelance Commercial Photographer, Designer and Illustration Artist
Photographer for brochures and advertisement posters for product T-D 4
diesel. Photographer and Illustration Artist for brochures and advertisement
posters for product T-D 4. Creator of the "Top Dog" T-D 4 promotional character dog.
Creator and designer of "Conference of Champions"- an advertising campaign for a San Antonio
conference for major oil production companies.