Design Manager

Jose Andrade - CREATIVE SERVICES PROFESSIONAL

***A West 12th Street - NY, NY 10014 . abg8sw@r.postjobfree.com . 646-***-****

OBJECTIVE - To secure a leadership role in the production and delivery of

creative output across mediums.

SKILLS -

. Technology planning, deployment, evangelism and management

. Managing and leading creative, technology, and production teams

. Building and evolving organizational and technology infrastructures

. Developing and managing process and workflows, both digital and manual

. Business analysis, planning, and growth

. Agency and design firm operations management

. Talent and resource management

EXPERIENCE -

Medicus Life Brands (A Publicis Company) - Dates: December 2009 - Present

. Role: TECHNOLOGY DIRECTOR

. Responsibilities:

. Establish, oversee, and evolve agency technology infrastructures

. Counsel on technology initiatives across teams and clients

. Work closely with digital strategy to evolve strategies

. Oversee, evolve, and manage the production of all print and

digital projects across brands

. Oversee full time staff, freelancers, and vendors towards the

successful completion of all projects

. Mentor and manage staff growth, performance and issues management

. Participate in client facing presentations representing the

digital arm of the agency for new business, new initiatives, as

well as ongoing dialogues

. Participate on corporate level task forces towards identifying

initiatives and standards across agencies

. Services: Digital tactics & strategy, Interactive and new media,

print, direct mail, out of home, graphic design, brand identity,

collateral, web design & development, web marketing, social media

initiatives, events, multimedia, video

. Clients: Shire, Abbott, Gilead, Sanofi-Aventis, LungRx, Auxilium,

AstraZeneca

Tribal DDB - Dates: August 2009 - November 2009

. Role: OPERATIONS MANAGER

. Responsibilities:

. Managed agency infrastructure and resources

. Established and maintained relevant vendor relationships

. Established staff assignments delegated tasks across brands

. Managed schedules and team calendars

. Worked closely with project management, the creative department,

account, and finance to ensure appropriate balance of budgets,

timelines, and resources

. Services: Digital tactics & strategy, Interactive and new media,

graphic design, brand identity, collateral, web design & development,

web marketing, social media initiatives, events, multimedia, video

. Clients: Don Julio, H&R Block, Merck, Novartis, Johnson & Johnson,

Abbott

Nition Design (A Chandler Chicco Company) - Dates: April 2004 - August 2009

. Role: TECHNICAL CREATIVE SERVICES DIRECTOR

. Responsibilities:

. Launched a full service graphic design, interactive and

production division for the Chandler Chicco Agency

. Developed a service list and rate card to include print,

mechanical art, web, video, new media, interactive, new business,

graphic design, and production services

. Implemented processes, policies, conventions, best practices, and

marketing strategies

. Established administrative infrastructure to include,

comprehensive business plan, staffing, and agency growth

. Developed and deployed a full technical infrastructure to

include, workstations, communications, file server and services,

standard application sets, archival/de-archival system, file

sharing systems

. Oversaw all studio functions to include project strategy, task

delegation, time and budget estimating, studio vision/evolution,

training, people/process management, P&L

. Acted as division representative to agency stakeholders, clients,

and vendors

. Acted in lead creative direction and design roles

. Services: Print and direct advertising, graphic design, brand

identity, collateral, web design & development, web marketing, social

media, events, interactive, video

. Clients: Olympus, Coca-Cola, Genzyme, Novartis, Novo-Nordisk, Pfizer,

Sanofi-Aventis, Allergan, UCB

AIChE (American Institute of Chemical Engineers) - Dates: September 2002 -

April 2004

. Role: DESIGN DIRECTOR

. Responsibilities:

. Responsible for the creation, direction, overall branding, look

and feel of the company identity and all marketing material

. Delegated tasks to and managed eight designers and production

artists

. Designed and developed look, feel, and production workflow of

flagship magazine Chemical Engineering Progress (CEP)

. Directed event design, production, workflow, and on site

facilitation

. Strategized marketing and communication initiatives and direction

. Delivered and presented growth and strategy plans to executive

board and key stakeholders

. Services: Print advertising, graphic design, magazine publishing,

online identity, web graphics, e-marketing, events, webcasting,

interactive

. Clients: Internal design agency

Inergy Group - Dates: November 1999 - September 2002

. Role: STUDIO SERVICES MANAGER

. Responsibilities:

. Directed creative infrastructure of organization to include

conceptualization, design, project management, client contact,

and hardware/software infrastructure

. Oversaw and managed graphic design and production teams

. Reviewed, established, and implemented studio procedures,

workflow, and digital infrastructure

. Managed staff to meet daily deadline requirements and workload

. Maintained vendor and client relations updating database

information and services as needed

. Researched emerging technologies, applied, deployed, and taught

relevant technologies to staff

. Services: Internet design and development, marketing strategy, print

advertising, CD-Rom authoring, graphic design, brand identity.

. Clients: IBM, American Express, Xerox, Fujifilm, iWeb, Network

Solutions, Barnes & Noble

Foote, Cone, & Belding - Dates: February 1993 - December 1999

. Role: STUDIO MANAGER

. Responsibilities:

. Reviewed, considered, and managed the workflow and technical

infrastructure of four studio departments (A/V, digital

production studio, imaging print studio, traditional comp studio)

. Deployed growth plan to foresee and execute studio futures

. Researched emerging technologies, applied, deployed, and taught

relevant technologies to studio body

. Delegated and managed daily client deliverables

. Managed account parameters to include estimates, proposals,

conferences, and presentations

. Services: Print Advertising (general, direct, and broadcast), Brand

Identity and Strategy, Graphic Design

. Clients: Colgate, AT&T, Nabisco, Tropicana, Lucent, Gevalia, Merck,

Citibank, Universal Studios, United States Postal Service

Other - Description: U.S. Army Reserves (Armored Infantry - Transportation

E-5 rank) - Dates: 1979 - 1986

Education

. School Of Visual Arts Advanced Graphic Design 2000

. United Digital Artists Web Tools and Technologies Certificate 1999

. DuPont School of Graphic Arts Graphic Arts Technology Certificate

1990

. Design on Disk Desktop Publishing Certificate 1989

. Pratt Institute B.A. Advertising & Design 1986

Achievements

. Art Directors Club Judge for NJ, NY portfolio review 2009

. Webby Awards Lead architect/designer for four websites 2005

. CreativePro.com Spokesperson for launch at Seybold Seminars 1999

. Publish Magazine Feature article "Creative Technologies" 1998

. Seybold Seminars Seminar speaker "Preflight: Tools & Techniques

1998

. Mac Fair Forum speaker "Emerging Web Technologies" 1989

Affiliations

. Graphic Arts Guild

. American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA)

. Art Directors Club (ADC)

. Type Directors Club (TDC)

. One Club

. MyRagan Social Media Communications

Extra-Curricular

. Music

. Chinese philosophy and martial arts

. Cinematography

References and portfolio available upon request

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