Giovanni Mota

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OVER 9 YEARS OF EXPERIENCE IN PUBLICITY AGENCIES AND 7 MORE YEARS IN

NEWSPAPERS, AND SERVICES BUREAU AS PRODUCTION ARTIST/DESIGNER. EXPERIENCE

IN PRODUCTION/DESIGN OF MAGAZINES, NEWSPAPERS AND TEXTBOOKS, POP AND

BILLBOARDS. KNOWLEDGE OF PRE-PRESS PROCESS (PRE-FLIGHT). WORK IN CS3, CS4

AND CS5. QUARK XPRESS 4 - 8.

Skills

BILINGUAL SPANISH AND ENGLISH

Great knowledge of PC and Expert in MAC computers

Proficiency in Photoshop (retouching, fixing, collages, text, etc)

InDesign, Quark, Illustrator, Acrobat,

Freehand, TERA GN3, MS Office products

Excellent knowledge of print production processes and their technical

requirements

Extensive Ad agency experience

Ability to build files from start to press-ready final arts

Exceptional ability to manage multiple priorities and deliver to deadline

Responsible for the quality of the finished product

Prepared files for pre-press output, production color profs and creating

press-ready PDF's

Web Design (Dreamweaver + HTML + MySQL + PHP)

Experience

FREELANCE DESIGNER, LA RAZA NEWSPAPERS AND OTHERS 2009- TODAY

Design covers and supplements, ads (winner of best design weekly hispanic

newspaper in USA)

Designer, Negocios Now, Chicago-2008-2009

Design the magazine (base in previous templetes) and make all the

production process.

Designer, LA RAZA NEWSPAPER, Chicago-2008

Design newspaper, creating templates, make covers and some info graphics

Graphic Designer, HYPA, Chicago- 2006 - 2008

Design of yellow pages, ad for the yellow pages, design the newspaper.

Translate ads from English to Spanish

Final Arts, Publinac, Guatemala - 2002 - 2006

Manager of final arts (magazines, press, billboards, pop, etc) retouch of

photos, collages of photos. Clients Cofi o Stahl (Toyota, Chevrolet and

Fiat) cars and services, Esso, Pizza Hut, Saul E. Mendez.

Final Arts, Ogilvy, Guatemala - 1997 - 2001

Manager of final arts (magazines, press, billboards, pop, etc) retouch of

photos, collages of photos. Clients Shell, Duracel, Audi, Banco Cuscatlan

Diagramming Manager, El Periodico, Guatemala - 1996-1997

Manage of diagramming of the newspaper and computer center.

Customer Services, Tipos Graficart, Guatemala - 1993 - 1996

Attention to the client (service bureau) Attention to various ad agency

needs

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