PERSONAL SUMMARY:

I'm organized, timely, and a fast learner with great skills and knowledge.

I like to take projects from start to finish.

WORK EXPERIENCE:

**** - ****

Team Comfort, Bloomingdale, Illinois

Marketing Manager of Business Development/Graphic Designer

Oversee all marketing and promotional activities. Design, develop and

create all marketing/advertising materials and e-mail blasts with company

objectives. Website maintenance. Create and implement a marketing schedule

and budget designed to consistently promote the company efficiently.

Cultivate a process to test and review the effectiveness of each promotion.

Responsible for marketing company's products and services to the right

market whether it be business to business or business to customer. Manage

all aspects of production, receipt, and distribution of marketing

materials. Achieve consistent and timely marketing coverage utilizing all

available distribution channels. Conduct market research to identify

potential opportunities. Analyze potential strategic partner

relationships. Trade show preparation. Other duties and tasks.

2006 - 2006

Avalon Risk Management, Inc., Elk Grove Village, Illinois

Graphic Designer/Marketing Assistant

Designed and created artwork for ads, brochures, trade publications,

newsletters, tri-folds, fliers, handouts, t-shirts, etc., utilizing Adobe

CS, QuarkXPress and Acrobat. Create the "Quest" newsletter in MS FrontPage

and distribute to internal and external clients as e-mail blasts. Also

create PowerPoint presentations and format, create and modify documents in

Word as well as create, format and modify training materials for internal

and external use along with designing, creating and modifying corporate

marketing materials. Assist with trade show preparations. Additional

projects and tasks as needed.

2004 - 2005

B & F Technical Code Services Inc., Hoffman Estates, Illinois

Graphic Designer/Marketing Assistant

Designed and created covers, artwork and ads for brochures, trade

publications, newsletters, tri-fold brochures, fliers, course guides, etc.,

utilizing QuarkXPress, Illustrator and Photoshop for B & F Tech and The

Building & Fire Code Academy (a subsidiary of BF Tech). Placed created ads

in various trade publications and on promotional gifts. Answered caller/e-

mail inquiries regarding placing ads. Maintained client database and

templates and provided marketing research. Ordered and processed mailings

for promotional gifts, went out on the field with inspectors to take

photos, website maintenance, created PowerPoint presentations with sound

and animation, other duties as assigned.

1998 - 1999

ForceField Marketing Inc., Schaumburg, Illinois

Marketing Coordinator

Contacted clients to book demos for promotions of food products, entered

survey data into FileMaker Pro database, tracked product shipments,

gathered and submitted product data to clients via e-mail, agency

correspondence, other tasks and support functions.

CONTRACT & FREELANCE WORK:

2007 - Present

FREELANCE WORK

Graphic Design

Sheerly Elegant: Half-page Ad

Orbitz WorldWide: T-Shirt Design

Signature Doctors: T-Shirt Design

Durable Office Products: Line Art

CONTRACT WORK

Contractors providing contracting services while searching for permanent

employment.

Sun Consultants:

CDW: Administrative Excel Work - Marketing Department

Digitalpeople:

J.S. Paluch: Production Artist

Salem Group:

American Academy of Dermatology: Administrative Assistant - Meetings &

Conventions Department

Village of Schaumburg: Data Entry - Finance Department

Northfield Industries: Data Entry

2000 - 2004

Snelling, Superior Technical Resources, Fellows Staffing, OnSite, Adecco &

Office Team:

Contractors providing contracting services while searching for permanent

employment.

Assignments have included:

ABN AMRO: Administrative Assistant to Managing Director - Global

Head of Foreign Exchange

GE Capital Commercial Finance: Administrative Assistant to Senior VP

- National Restructuring Department

Spiegel: Administrative Assistant - Corporate Marketing /

Merchandising

Kimball Hill Homes: Administrative Assistant to CFO - Finance

Department

Facilitech, a Service of EcoLab: Administrative Assistant - Sales

Department

Harding Environmental Science & Engineering: Administrative

Assistant - Accounting and Marketing Department

Sears, Roebuck & Company: Buyers Assistant - Tools and Hardware

Riverside Publishing: Human Resource Assistant

ACNeilsen: Executive Administrative Assistant to Marketing

Executive - Marketing Department

Work/Tasks:

Executive calendar/e-mail maintenance, schedule conference rooms/meetings,

create itinerary/correspondence, travel arrangements, set-up interviews,

extract data from company websites/vendor information systems, report

generation, internet research, handle confidential information, maintain

account listings, fulfill customer inquiries, process sales orders and

other support functions.

WORK SKILLS:

- PC & MAC - PowerPoint - FrontPage - Illustrator - Dreamweaver

(Basic)

- Word - Publisher - Acrobat - QuarkXPress - HTML & CSS

(Basic)

- Excel - Access - InDesign - ImageReady - Premiere Pro

(Basic)

- FileMaker Pro - Outlook - Photoshop - Fireworks (Basic) - Final

Cut Pro/Express (Basic)

- Flash (Basic) - Soundtrack Pro (Basic)

Portfolio: www.coroflot.com/egallegos

PHI THETA KAPPA Honor Society

RHO KAPPA Chapter, Elgin Community College

EDUCATION:

Elgin Community College, Elgin, Illinois

Associate of Applied Science Degree: Web Site Design with High Honors

Associate of Applied Science Degree: Computerized Graphic Design with

Honors

Basic Vocational Specialist Certificate: Adobe Creative Suite with High

Honors

Basic Vocational Specialist Certificate: Web Design with Honors

Associate of Applied Science Degree: Office Administration Technology

- Executive Secretary

Vocational Specialist Certificate: Office Administration Technology -

Executive Secretary

Basic Vocational Specialist Certificate: Office Administration

Technology - Word Processing with Honors

Basic Vocational Specialist Certificate: Office Assisting with Honors

Basic Vocational Specialist Certificate: Management - Marketing

Basic Vocational Specialist Certificate: MOUS Word Preparation with Honors

Basic Vocational Specialist Certificate: MOUS Excel Preparation with Honors

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