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Art Specialist/District Graphic Artist Coordinator
Jersey City Public Schools
Jersey City, NJ
Sep 2007 - Present (16 years 10 months)
Responsible for teaching advanced digital and traditional 2D art techniques to high school students at a magnet arts program. Steadily placed students as regional and national winners with the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards. Consistently developed students' traditional and digital art portfolios for application and scholarship acceptance to top national pre-college arts programs such as RISD, MICA, Cooper Union, and Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation. Designed all marketing materials such as brochures, flyers, and postcards for the school district. Illustrator
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Freelance Illustrator
Freelance
1999 - Present (25 years)
Clients include Christmas Tree Shops, BMG/Sony, MTV Networks, Gear Magazine, Gigunda Group (NH), and Virtual Music Entertainment (MA).
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Illustrator
Bookspan
Garden City, NY
May 2005 - Jul 2007 (2 years 2 months)
Created illustrations for over forty book clubs including Book-of-the-Month, Science Fiction Book Club, and Doubleday. Collaborated with teams of Art Directors, Graphic Artists, and Copy Editors to create art for direct mail advertisements, book covers, and book club web sites. Designed posters for award celebrations, edited video clips of author interviews, and assisted with all illustration needs for the Creative department.
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Designer
Random House, Inc.
New York, NY
Oct 2003 - May 2005 (1 year 7 months)
Designed marketing materials and promotional pieces for the Advertising and Promotions department at Random House. Created website graphics for RandomHouse.com, print ads for the New York Times, marketing brochures, conference signage, and point-of-purchase displays for bookstores such as Borders and Barnes & Noble. Appointed as one of three Mac OS X "Super-Users" to serve as immediate technical support for department employees.
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Graphic Designer
Greenwood Publishing Group
Westport, CT
Oct 2002 - Oct 2003 (1 year)
Designed all in-house marketing materials for the Creative Services department including direct mail catalogs, brochures, print ads, conference signage, and website graphics for Greenwood.com. Responsible for designing book jackets and cover art for Military series.