Otto Grajeda

Front-End Digital design for WEB team.
Designing banners for several landing pages.
Collaborating in an ongoing conversion of Responsive sites.
Promotional & Marketing Ads.
Catalogs, Product Man

As a freelancer I've done work for small companies. Providing design in advertising material.

Flyers
Business cards
Posters
Web UI Design
Banners
Mailers
Forms
Brochures

As Graphic Design Assistant I am responsible for creating concepts for promotional and marketing ads. Design and compose marketing collateral both print and online (newspaper, magazine ads, direct-mail, invitations, signage, e-mail campaigns, website banners). Prepare all final artwork to print-ready files, while checking for accuracy and quality. Perform print production jobs in-house. Complete product photo retouching and color correcting for web and large-scale print projects. Handle multiple projects simultaneously while insuring all are completed within deadline. Communicate with manager to ensure artwork is accurate and up-to-date.

As an employee of Sabrent, my duties include and are not limited to creating inoovating graphics and art work to vastly improve the overall look and feel of the company's brand, such as package design, prototyping . At the same time, I am also involved in assistance with product testing and techinical support for their vast technology product line.

Oversee all aspects of design from the Marketing team and in charge of all visual designs in the mobile developing department.

During my 3 month contract position as the Lead Graphic Designer, I was in charge of constructing the graphics for various small businesses in the Chicago-land area.


Flyers
Mail Postcards
Restaurant Menus
Banners
Door Hangers
Forms
Business Cards
Posters
T-Shirt Graphics

Graphic Designer
SolutionPeople (July 2010 – April 2012)
While employed with SolutionPeople a consulting company specializing in creative training for major fortune 500 companies around the world. I was the primary designer in charge of maintaining brand standards, creating logos, brochures, PowerPoint templates, photo editing, print and online graphic designs. I also took over as the lead designer of the first ever “Innovation Application” for iPhones and smartphones alike. I developed a new user interface for the upcoming tablet version. I have received a certification in “Accelerated Innovation and Creativity Training” in June 2010 which introduces the 4 steps to improve creativity.

• Overall Company Branding
• Developed format for notebook materials, handouts and
manuals
• Mobile Application User Interface Design
• Desktop Publishing; Signage, Flyers, and Poster design
• File Management
• Website Graphics

Designing various marketing collateral for various clients.

Letter Heads
Business Cards
Logo
Envelopes
Web Graphics
Mobile UI Design
Facebook Banners
Booklets
Brochures
Business Cards
Catalogs
Door Hangers
Business Cards
Greeting Cards
Postcards
Posters

As an intern with Reflejos (a Spanish newspaper of the Daily Herald), my duties as an assistant Graphic Designer included image preparation, searching stock photos for featured articles, logo designs, Ad designs; Ad inserts, assisted with a portion of the layout design and was involved in meetings having to do with the newspaper's content and featured articles.

* Photo Editing, Maintaining stock graphics and photos.
* Ads, inserts and flyer designs
* Newspaper article layouts