CATHERINE C. CALAMIA

*** ******** *, ****** *****, FL 33484

Cell: 561-***-**** • Home: 561-***-****

Email: ac0avi@r.postjobfree.com • www.catcreative.net

PROFESSIONAL PROFILE

An accomplished, motivated, and analytical professional with many years of experience in various areas

of Creative / Art Direction and Design, for Front end Web Development Digital Marketing and Print.

Demonstrated ability in coordinating projects from concept through completion utilizing exemplary, skills in computer manipulation, photography, illustration, printing and production.

Excellent managerial/organizational skills in order to meet deadlines, including: trafficking/tracking projects through to completion. Working and corresponding with all departments and print vendors. Check proofs,

go on press runs and quality control on all projects.

TECHNICAL EXPERTISE

Most recent applications of Creative Suite, InDesign, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Macromedia Dreamweaver, Fireworks, Flash, Freehand, and QuarkXpress. Microsoft, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Publisher, and Adobe Acrobat. Knowledge of: Wordpress, .asp, .php, .css, javascript, SEO, Google Analytics, 3DCart, Amazon and more.

PROFESSIONAL HISTORY

Graphic Designer – Over The Top Mobile Marketing – Delray Beach, FL – March, 2017 – Present – Freelance

Create and design mock-ups for mobile marketing cars. Design various marketing materials for company.

Produce final files for production.

Graphic Designer - Crazy Wholesale - Pompano Beach, FL • September, 2013 – January, 2015 - Freelance

Designed displays, catalog sheets various marketing materials and website. Retouched photos, wrote copy

and keywords for e-commerce website and Amazon. Designed, distributed Email ads thru Constant Contact

and tracked them with Google Analytics.

Graphic Designer - I.B.I Designs, Inc. - Boca Raton, FL - January, 2012 - October, 2012

Developed, rendered and expanded concepts throughout production of advertising campaigns for

Premier Estate Properties Real Estate Company. Collaborated with creative team to develop artwork for marketing initiatives. Conceived original designs and marketing concepts used in brochures,

market reports, postcard mailers and etc.

Maintained web content for Real Estate agents. Worked on floor covering web sites for Floorforce a

separate division of I.B.I. Designs, color correction of photos and design content.

Graphic Designer - Creative Design & Marketing, Inc. - Boca Raton, FL - 2004 - 2010 - Freelance

Website development, design, maintenance and .html e-mail promotions for volunteergifts.com that specializes in awards and recognition gifts for nonprofit organizations and Volunteer Program Managers.

Designed and created products for the web site. Designed brochures, flyers and large format print

materials for trade shows.

Art Director / Production Manager - The Coventry Group, Boca Raton, FL -1996 - 2005 - Freelance

to 2009

Leverage strategic vision, business acumen, and artistic talent to deliver high-impact marketing, print and web design projects. Solid success directing and implementing broad range of revenue-generating design projects, from conception to launch. Readily translate business requirements into effective advertising campaigns while ensuring projects meet all milestones, deadlines and budget requirements.

Created and executed projects that include consumer and trade advertisements, packaging, hang tags

and P.O.P. displays, catalogs, brochures, trade video’s, salesmen and business-to business brochures, newsletters, product photography, billboards, newspaper ads, posters, commercials, radio and etc. for

all key accounts at this full service advertising, marketing, media buying and public relations agency.

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Set up an in-house computerized graphics department. Responsible for equipment buying and recommendations.

Senior Graphic Designer - Silver Burdett & Ginn, (Division of Simon and Schuster)

Parsippany, NJ - 1993-1996

Designed and executed new educational, music, science and social studies programs for elementary

school text books.

Designed various trade books, early reader supplemental books and sales brochures.

Oversaw design and development of photo shoots, commissioned photography and illustration activities.

Created art and illustration through utilization of various software applications.

Served as a major designer on an award-winning program.

PRIOR PROFESSIONAL HISTORY

Art Director - Launey, Hachman & Harris, Inc., New York, NY

Art Director/Production Manager - The Courier, Bayside, NY

Various Freelance Clients: Rexall Sundown • VoulunteerGifts.com, • Narconon Stonehawk • Cruise Shoppes, Fort Lauderdale, FL • Springboard Sales, Marketing Inc.• Luxurytravelclub.com • Exquisite Art,

Inc. • System Graphics Inc.• Marketur Marketing Inc. Fort Lauderdale, FL • BlueSky PR, Fort Lauderdale,

FL • Eden Resorts, Boca Raton, FL • Macmillan/McGraw-Hill, New York - Prototype design for Elementary Reading Teachers Edition, • Queens Chronicle, New York - Graphic design, typesetting and trafficking

• Network Publications, Atlanta, GA - Graphic design and layout, national real estate guide, • J. Walter Thompson Art Studio, New York - mechanical paste-up, • Macy’s, New York - Design and layout/marker comps/type spec of fashion ads, • Ohrbach’s, New York - Designed and illustrated 7-foot tall illustration for street-level window display • BQE Health Report • Carina Sportswear, Inc.• Fashion Institute of Technology.

EDUCATION

Fashion Institute of Technology, New York, NY

Associate in Applied Science/Advertising Design

Associate in Applied Science/Illustration

The New School, New York, NY

Certificate in Microcomputer Graphics and Desktop Publishing

PC Professor, Boca Raton, FL

Certificate in Macromedia Dreamweaver, Fireworks and Flash

Certificate in Microsoft Frontpage

Willing to Travel • References Available Upon Request

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