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Resume:
Hiro Chavez
Graphic Designer, Photographer, Instructor and Consultant
Objective
Hiro Chavez
To create innovative and inspiring designs, illustrations, photography in print publishing and
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Experience
Freelance Graphic Designer; Ontario 2010-continued
Clients Include:
Southern Ontario Aboriginal Diabetes Initiative (SOADI); Toronto, Ontario:
Currently involved in the production of a cook book that is tailored to the Aboriginal
community and healthy eating.
Association of Native Development in the Performing and Visual Arts (ANDPVA,
soon to be Arts Indigena); Toronto, Ontario: Handled all promotional work for all
events. As well, a board member (board secretary). Handled branding of new
organization name. Handled hiring of new executive director.
Asthma Society of Canada; Toronto, Ontario: Have been their key graphic designer
for all aboriginal directed material, as well, worked on several other projects.
Health Nexus; Toronto, Ontario: Branding and completion of Best Start Campaign
Flyers, Posters and other materials, as well, DVDs and coordinating with printer.
Native Canadian Centre of Toronto (NCCT)/One Nation in Unity (ON-U) Youth
Program/University of Toronto; Toronto, Ontario: Teaching Adobe InDesign, and
any other publishing software needed for completion of NDN Uncensored Magazine. As
well, advice and instruction of design ideas, concepts and execution, printing methods
and other media forms. Installed and IT support for an Apple Mac mini computer. As
well, teaching video editing software, and any other Mac software needed. Recently
mentored and produced a website for diabetes awareness with the youth.
www.transformingdiabetes.com. Also, create promotional material for youth programs.
Ontario Federation of Indian Friendship Centres (OFIFC); Toronto, Ontario:
Designed and continuing to design educational manuals for their courses, as well as,
other materials.
Women's Voices for Attawapiskat; Toronto, Ontario: Designed charity CD for
various artists. As well, designed promotional posters.
Actor/singer Gary Farmer; Toronto, Ontario: Created all promotional material for
newest album. Created posters for all music concerts, as well, creating new compilation
CD design.
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Noojimawin Health Authority; Toronto, Ontario: Mentored in the creation of
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promotional material for a health rights awareness launch with youth participants.
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Supplied Macbooks and setup a wireless network with wireless printing capabilities.
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Continuing Education Instructor (Adobe inDesign 2, Photoshop 2, Intro to Digital
Publishing), George Brown College; Toronto, Ontario 2008-2009
Duties included: Teaching participants in advanced skills in Adobe software (inDesign,
Photoshop), as well, an intro class to digital publishing, on both Mac and PC platforms.
Created exams, projects and course outlines.
Senior Graphic Designer, Xerox XBS/Shannon Inc./Enbridge Gas Distribution/BLG
Canada/Corus Entertainment/Wyeth/Marsh Canada Inc. ; Toronto, Ontario
2006-2009
Duties included: Coordinating the design team on all jobs. Making sure projects were
proceeding smoothly to meet deadlines, prioritizing jobs and distribution of jobs according to
workload and speed and knowledge base/skills of each designer on the team. Managing and
designing work for clients, organizing and preparing all jobs for print, and on occasion
printing and nishing the pieces. Other duties included, photography, video editing for
seminar, online and in house presentations in different formats including DVDs. DVD
authoring, and DVD ripping to reedit. IT duties included, troubleshooting printer/Mac issues,
general maintenance of all Macs, font management, xing issues on Macs, setting up emails,
printers, etc. As well, Website updates using CMS. Prepress setup of les + some
production, printing and post production. Administration of le archive database.
Education
International Academy of Design and Technology, Digital Media Design
Ontario College of Art and Design, Art and Design Fundamentals Year
Skills
Technical Knowledge (both Mac and PC Operating Systems: Windows XP, OS 9.1+,
advanced knowledge of OS X 10.0 through 10.8):
Advanced knowledge in Adobe Products: Photoshop CS5 (and all previous versions up to
5.0), Indesign CS5 (and CS4, CS3, CS2 and CS1) with variable data, Illustrator CS5 (and
all previous versions since 8.0), Acrobat 9.0 (and all previous versions since 5.0), and
working knowledge in After Effects 5.0+.
Microsoft Products: Of ce Suite. Excel, Word, Power Point, Outlook, Outlook Express,
Entourage.
Hiro Chavez Working knowledge in Macromedia Products: Flash MX (and all previous versions since
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5.0), Dreamweaver MX, as well scripting in Action Script.
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Basic knowledge in HTML, XHTML, DHTML, CSS, Java Script. FTP software (Fetch,
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Transmit, Filezilla, Cyberduck). QuarkXPress 6.0.
Working knowledge in Apple Products: Soundtrack, Compressor, DVD Studio Pro 4+,
Final Cut Pro, Mail, iLife Suite & iWork Suite .
Pre-press, graphics, and multimedia, plus troubleshooting and basic IT support for both
Mac and PC computers.
Other Skills:
Illustrator, Artist, and Comic artist for over 10 years as hobby and commission work.
Photography, lm and digital for over 10 years as hobby.
Management/Leadership Skills - managed own business while freelancing. Was a senior
designer responsible for managing juniors, interns etc. Also participated in hiring process.
Educator, taught in class setting, as well as, one on one
Soft Skills:
Hard worker Always willing to go above and beyond.
Quick learner and creative problem solver thinking Outside of the box and inside too.
Excellent ability to multitask
Languages Skills:
Fluent in English.
Pro cient in speaking Japanese and Spanish.
Referrals
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