Design Marketing

Ilene Rein ** Forest Drive Hillsdale, NJ ***** 201-***-**** ******@*****.***

Experienced in creative management, art direction, graphic design, web design, marketing,

magazine design, and management/coordination of visual arts projects from concept to completion.

Education

ROCHESTER INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

BFA, Graphic Design, 1989, Honor Student

Computer Skills

Mac and PC Literate Dreamweaver CS5 Photoshop HTML/CSS MS Word/Excel

InDesign CS5 CS5 FileMaker Pro

QuarkXpress MS PowerPoint

Professional Experience

PURPLE COMMUNICATIONS, Hackensack, NJ

Creative Director, November 2009 - Present

Purple Communications is one of the nation’s largest providers of communication services

for the deaf, hard of hearing, and speech-disabled communities.

• Designed and managed all projects for in house Marcom Department. Projects include advertising,

web design, email campaigns, marketing materials, event support, promotional items, exhibit booth design.

• Consulted with individual departments on creation, planning and development of marketing materials.

• Supervised and provided the creative direction to design and production team.

• Acted as hands on designer and production artist.

• Reduced printing costs by 75%.

METRO DESIGN GROUP, Hillsdale, NJ

Designer/Owner, August 2005 to November 2009

Founder of a full service design studio. Clients represented are from the technology, medical, retail and non-for-profit areas.

Projects include advertising, promotional materials, art direction and slide presentations from concept to print.

DOLPHIN TECHNOLOGY, Rome, NY

Freelance Designer, August 2005 to Nov. 2007

Defense contractor providing Information Assurance technology to the Department of Defense (DoD) and Intelligence Community (IC).

• Redesigned software user interface for ISSE Guard IA, an information assurance device

for securely transferring secret and top secret data between government agencies.

• Designed slide presentations.

• Logo designs, web interface design for other products.

JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF SYRACUSE (JCC)

Marketing Director, Aug. 2005 to Aug. 2007

• Designed and produced all marketing, advertising and public relations of all events and programs.

• Designed, produced and maintained web site.

• Planned out annual department marketing within tight, non-profit budgets.

• Wrote and submitted press releases to area media.

• Coordinated promotional materials for trade shows and events.

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COMPUTER GRAPHICS INSTRUCTOR

Freelance Instructor, June 1995 to July 2004

Instructor for courses in computer graphics at companies such as AT&T, Aventis, and Exxon Mobil.

Worked for the following agencies and learning institutions:

Morris County Community College, Inacom, Mercer County Educational Technology Training Center, ETI, Kinley & Manbeck.

I ON DESIGN, INC., Plainsboro, NJ

Designer/Owner, June 1995 to 2000

Founder of a full service design studio.

BRILLIANT IMAGE INC., New York, NY

Creative Director, May 1993 to June 1995

Company provided presentation and direct marketing design to corporate firms.

Clients included Simon and Schuster, JP Morgan, and Showtime.

• Responsible for management of the creative department of a 24-hour design service.

• Managed seven staff artists plus freelancers.

• Art directed and wrote slide presentations.

• Account Executive for key accounts.

VARITYPER, INC., East Hanover, NJ

Graphic Designer, June 1992 to January 1993

Leading provider of typography systems, turned to providing desktop computer solutions.

• Managed and produced PrePress Direct direct mail catalog from concept to press.

• Directed temporary staff through production process.

• Art directed product photo shoots.

• On-site for press approvals.

AVENUE MAGAZINE, New York, NY

Design Director, July 1990 to June 1992

Upscale magazine based in NYC.

• Coordinated Advertising Services department.

• Responsibilities included creating advertisements and sales tools to generate business.

• Worked directly with President, Publisher and sales staff.

• Clients ranged from Coca-Cola, Christian Dior, The Ritz Hotel, to the Moroccan Government.

ZIFF DAVIS PUBLISHING, PC MAGAZINE, NY, NY

Assistant Art Director, July 1989 to July 1990

Created computer graphics and layouts for trade publication.

THE PUSH PIN GROUP, New York, NY

Intern, July 1988 to August 1988

Design support for Seymour Chwast and staff designers.

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