Carl James

Handles inventory-related tasks in a warehouse setting for Vision Wheels. Maintaining levels of inventory, reporting monthly inventory levels, labeling and recording inventory for future use, and maintaining accurate records. Stay in constant communication with departmental managers to ensure inventory is replenished and proper levels are maintained. Other responsibilities include assisting in the shipping and receiving of new shipments, logging all inventory purchases, conducting physical counts to make sure no theft is occurring.

Creates and designs graphics that will meet specific needs of a business. Whether the work is used for commercial and/or marketing/advertising purposes.

Model for JCPenney Big & Tall Catalog

•Executes the replenishment / restocking of the store – Walks the floor and stock room areas and / or works appropriate reports to identify replenishment opportunities; brings out merchandise to fill in the floor positively impacting merchandise presentation and store sales; ensure products are displayed to core standards.

•Operates within the door to floor / transformation process – Delivers and unloads the trucks; prepares the merchandise, and places merchandise on fixtures or to back stock (Operations)

•Delivers .com merchandise – Manages the receiving, sorting and organizing of .com merchandise in the stockroom; processes .com returns and maintenance .com merchandise. Retrieve merchandise from stock room and delivers items to customers for checkout (Operations)

•Executes the monthly SET –Moves /stages /sizes fixtures, places graphics, and assists with assembling / installing additional visual elements based on company guidance (Operations)

•Assists customers– Greets and assists customers in finding products and delivering a FAIR customer experience; partners with Service Specialists when customers require a deeper level of product information(Brand)

managed and supervised a staff of production artists with an emphasis in assisting with creative direction and design. Main duties of designing and laying out daily advertisements, in B/W, spot color and CMYK. Also completing dummies for the daily paper under strict deadlines. Coordinating activities needed in preparing advertisements for print or broadcast, supervising workers throughout the production of ad campaign materials, selecting the style of advertisements based on design, sketches, layout, method and other design factors, submitting copies of ad materials to printing firms, examining layout proofs and determining items to edit as necessary and deciding the final advertising products to launch, among others. During this time I also took on a second position during June 2009 - July 2009 as the OSX specialist, troubleshooting computer related and network problems while executing the pre-press output to film for the daily paper.

Develop campaigns for clients by designing ads for print publications or websites, or even creating broadcast commercials to be used on television and radio. I also came up with catchy jingles and logos, trying to promote clients brand at every opportunity. Being aware of clients or companies budget and try to find cheap, yet effective, methods of marketing depending on size with CMYK full color, spot color, B/W.