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Experienced Design Director with strong leadership and interpersonal skills. Demonstrated capability to facilitate effective connections through communication and collaboration.  

 

Select qualifications
The  art director role in newspapers required a multi-faceted and creative input at all levels.  Creativity became essential to  generate the unique experience for visual style, images, layouts and print publication. 

 

The Asbury Park Press
Creative Art Director

• Spearheaded initiatives for news ideas which included special sections such as New Americans, Jersey Alive, Jersey Sun, Buzz, Wellbeing section.
• Redesigning sections for the newspaper, software QuarkXpress, Illustrator, and Photoshop.
• Designed and implemented communication and content pieces, including magazines, news sections, feature sections and special projects and other materials as needed.

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The News-Press Project Designer

• Art directed special projects and  feature sections for the daily newspaper in English and Spanish. To inform the reader of the activities and with innovative design solutions. 
• Provided graphic support to editors, photographers and writers to ensure time management organization across the entire newsroom and print.
• Performed daily duties to ensure the newsroom and art department communication.
 

Accomplishments
Awarded nationally and internationally for creative designs solutions that offer impact and readability.

• Responsible for the visual style of Jersey Alive weekend tabloid. Responsible for the visual style of parent and Child magazine. This resulted in an increase of 20% in pages published.

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Education

• School of Visual Arts Magazine design

• Escuela de Bellas Artes Graphic designer 
• UNF - ESOL teaching certification

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