Design Marketing

Derek Berghaus Graphic Designer San Diego, California, 921**-***-***-

**** (c) www.derekbdesign.com

email: abm16g@r.postjobfree.com

. Consumer and business-to-business advertising.

. Print design, production including ads, collateral, direct mail,

catalogs, brochures, packaging, product labels, newsletters

. Industries include Automobile, Beauty and Health, Consumer Electronics,

Entertainment, Trade Magazine Publishing.

. From concept stage through design, production, and print including pre-

pressing files for final proofs, mechanicals.

. Advertising Agency and Corporate Creative Departments experience.

. Possess strong hands-on approach. Macintosh software, hardware and

digital photo studio support.

Software: Mac & PC, Adobe CS 3; InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, Acrobat,

QuarkXPress 7, Suitecase, Font Reserve, Retrospect Backup, Lotus Notes,

Disk Warrior, MS Office and Fetch. Mac OS X 10.5.

Positions:

The Link Agency, San Diego

Freelance 06/2009 - Present

Design and the developement of print media and brochures for The

International Academy of Low Vision Specialists. (IALVS).

Manage ad info with regard to publication specifications. Create PDF's for

publications upload.

Adlhoch Creative Advertising, LA

Freelance 12/2008 - 03/2009

Design and layout for outdoor signage for The Farmer's Market 75thYear

Anniversary Promotion at The Grove-posters and banners. Designed ads for da

Vinci Dental.

Guitar Center Corporate, LA

Freelance 06/2008 - 11/2008

Design/production - In-store retail signage, monthly promotions for over

200 stores as well as packaging and catalog production.

David & Goliath Advertising, LA

Freelance 04/2008 - 06/2008

Mechanicals for Kia Motors, Universal studios and Anchor Blue Clothing.

Outdoor and publishing. Mounting boards for presentations.

Beachbody, Beverly Hills, CA. Direct Marketing

Full-time 04/2007 - 03/2008

Designed advertisements for National magazines - Esquire, Maxim, and Men's

Journal. DVD packaging including wraps and face art. Fitness product

catalogs and collateral. Re-branding supplement labels. Design of

advertising materials for web downloads.

Wyndeham Kestrel Pre-press, Los Angeles

Freelance 11/2006 - 03/2007

Final package mechanicals for the Fresh & Easy Grocery Chain Brand.

Weston Mason Advertising

Freelance 09/2006 - 11/2006

Senior Production Artist - Production of final files for Sony Home

Entertainment and Beauna Vista Entertainment. Ads, dvd's

and collateral.

Herbalife, Los Angeles

Freelance 02/2006 - 09/2006

Business-to-business support for the Herbalife Brand. Design and production

on advertising and marketing materials. Also designed pdf's and Microsoft

Word documents to upload to the website.

OPI Nail Products, North Hollywood

Full-time 04/1999 - 02/2006

Report directly to VP, Conceptual Product Development and Advertising. Work

with advertising and marketing department

designing, production, preparation of mechanicals for ads, POP displays,

packaging, collateral and labels for national advertising/product launches

appearing in Vogue, InStyle, Glamour and trade magazines. Digital photo

studio and Macintosh administrative support.

Freelance 1997 - 1999, Los Angeles

Pacific Healthcare, Healthnet, DDB LA, Grey LA, Cahners Publishing Groupand

California Beverage Publication. Some of the other campaigns I recently

worked on include KIA Motors, Anchor Blue Clothing, Universal Studios,

Fresh & Easy Grocery Chain, Sony, Buena Vista Home Entertainment. Design,

production, presentation boards, creating mechanicals for outdoor and

publishing for Bullseye, the production studio for david & golliath

advertising. My experience also includes DVD related Home Entertainment

Advertising-creating wraps and face art for DVD's and retail POP's.

EDUCATION:

1994 - 1998 UCLA Extension, Los Angeles, CA., Certificate in Graphic

Design and Computer Graphics.

1993 Ort Institute of Technology, Los Angeles, CA. Certificate in Computer

Aided Design/AutoCAD 10.

1992 Santa Monica City College, CA., Undergraduate Graphic Design studies.

1978 - 1979 University of Cape Town, South Africa, Business Major.

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