Sales Director
Resume:
Jimmy Lujan
JimmyLujan @yahoo.com
www.Zhibit.org/jimmylujan
Summary
I am left and right brain enabled naturally creative, visual and intuitive with the added bonus of
being a logical thinker, analytical and organized. I have professional experience in the graphic
design and publishing industry creating effective marketing, promotional & advertising collateral.
I’ve worn many hats in my career: production artist, production director, art director, creative
director, photographer, exhibit designer, freelance artist. I am seeking just the right company that
appreciates and rewards hard work, dedication, talent, creative and logical thinking, as that is
what I have to offer.
Experience
Market Art Director at Consumer Source, Inc. 2001 to 2010
Production Director at Consumer Source, Inc. 1998 to 2001
Creative Director at Consumer Source, Inc. 1990 to 1998
Production Artist at Consumer Source, Inc. 1985 to 1990
Freelance Artist & Product Photographer 1985 to present
Design
Over 24 years of creative logo design, brochures, stationary, direct mail, point of
purchase/packaging, newspaper and magazine layout & design. Created billboard designs, T
shirts, corporate marketing and branding, trade show booth design and production, graphics &
signage, copy writing, digital product and real estate photography, photo retouching and color
correction. Produced company media kits, fliers, coupons, catalogs, post cards, promotional
materials, menus, banners, sales training materials, posters.
Production and Art Direction
Successfully managed the layout, design and production of a 1000 page monthly consumer
publication with duties and responsibilities including: Daily communication with publisher and
sales team to plan the book layout, designing client advertisements, setting and enforcing weekly
and monthly production schedules and deadlines. Maintained and accounted for production work
flow sending daily/monthly work logs and progress reports to the publisher and national art
director/supervisor. Designed and compiled front cover artwork, display ads and photography, tear
cards, fill pages, gate folds, maps, indices and generated a paginated dummy, using Microsoft
Excel. Gathered final ad approvals from sales staff and ad agencies, uploaded art and
photography files to printer FTP server. Managed the online proofing and soft proofing process,
made final corrections and uploads to printer.
Technical Skills
Mac OSX and PC proficient, highly skilled in CS3+ Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign,
Acrobat Pro, QuarkXpress, MS Office Excel, Word, Power Point, Entourage, Lotus Notes, Safari,
Firefox, Fetch, Titanium Toast
Accomplishments
Have won “Employee of the Month” and “Ad of the Month” numerous times, won multiple first
place trade show booth designs and “Haady” awards. I was instrumental in developing many
marketing projects and training materials for the sales and distribution departments. Helped
implement many production and pre press procedures to cut costs and increase productivity, such
as going “paperless”, and streamlining sales production/photography standard requests.
Experienced with online systems, including FTP site management, file upload/download servers,
web based proofing systems, PDF management and photography file management.
Education
Advertising/Graphic Design/General education courses University of Texas El Paso, El Paso
Community College
Web Design Principles Collin County Community College
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