Sales Design

JAVIER A. PINZ N

Packaging Designer

*** ***** ****, ***. *, Bethany, CT 06524

203-***-**** . ***********@***.***

QUALIFICATIONS PROFILE

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Professional Senior Graphic Designer skilled in developing and creating

packaging, labels, displays, selling, collateral and promotional material

for leading international brands.

Proven track record of achieving 99% accuracy rate, while executing over

100 projects annually.

Secured premium quality packaging, by providing on-site graphics and

technical support to printing facilities, nationally and abroad.

Improved company business by 20% through client solicitation and retention.

Graphics experience servicing food, apparel, consumer packaged goods,

pharmaceutical, stationery, shavers, lighters, household cleaning and

beverages industries.

CORE COMPETENCIES

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. Global & Domestic Packaging . Pre-Press Ready Files

. Consumer Packaged Goods . Graphics Technical Support

. Logos . Color Proofing

. Branding . Offset, Flexo and Rotogravure

. Point of Sales Displays . Paper, Film and Corrugated

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

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BIC CORPORATION, Shelton, CT, 2000 - 2009

Senior Designer

- Redesigned the logo and packaging graphics for the Round Stic pen, the

company's most popular

and profitable product.

- Conceptualized, planned and executed more than 100 design projects

annually for global distribution to

North America, South America and Asia.

- Created packaging for Disney, Scooby Doo and X-GAMES licensed stationery

products; and for

Survivor TV Series, NASCAR and WWE licensed lighter products.

- Brainstormed and provided ideas to Design and Marketing Directors, of

Bic and Sheaffer, for the

development of product lines, and to ensure a consistent international

identity.

- Saved time and money by working closely with the Packaging Engineering

Dept. to produce effective

packaging solutions within budget.

- Secured print quality and availability of final packaging by providing

on-site technical supervision at

printing facilities in Greece, Mexico and USA.

Ultra Flex Packaging, Brooklyn, NY, 1995 - 1998

Graphic and Production Designer

- Created original designs for flexible packaging for food, apparel and

household industries.

- Managed graphics production from concept phase to film plates

production.

- Increased business by 20% by assisting the Sales force, and meeting with

clients and interpreting their

design and graphic needs.

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JAVIER A. PINZ N

Packaging Designer

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE (Cont.)

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INDUSTRIAL ART AND DESIGN (DAISA), Panama, Republic of Panama, 1989 - 1992

Art Director/Graphic and Production Designer

- Managed and trained a team of 3 Graphic Designers

- Conceptualized, designed and supervised projects requiring hand drawing,

Mac graphics,

mechanical color separation and plate making for flexo printing on

corrugated packaging.

- Provided original designs and graphics to Coca-Cola, Colgate-Palmolive,

Guinness, Nabisco, Nestl ,

Pepsi and other well recognized brands.

- Obtained new business through meeting with clients and by providing the

sales division assistance in

interpreting their requests.

- Assured quality control by communicating and coordinating with all

departments involved.

COMPUTER SKILLS

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Mac

Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop and Acrobat

MS Office (Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, Word)

Macromedia Freehand

HTML

EDUCATION

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Master of Fine Arts, Packaging Design (completed half the program), Pratt

Institute, Brooklyn, NY

Bachelor of Arts, Applied Arts, School of Architecture, University of

Panama, Republic of Panama

Professional Development Courses

- The Dale Carnegie Course - Shelton, CT, 2006

- Design Management Institute (DMI) - The 19th International Brand Design

Conference:

Brand, Design, and Business-the Integration Imperative - Chicago, IL,

2007

- Overseas Publishers Representatives - 2008 and 2009 Color Trends

Conference - New York, NY, 2007

- Creating Web Pages - Amity Regional District N 5 - CT, 2010

Languages - English, Spanish and French

Skills - Hand Drawing, Comps, Photography, Digital Retouching and

Restoration, Ceramic Sculpture

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