STEFAN SOUSA

New York, NY • 646-***-**** • adps5m@r.postjobfree.com • www.linkedin.com/in/stefansousa1

Studio Manager with 15+ years of experience conceptualizing and executing direct marketing creative. Grew the individual fundraising net margin of a large nonprofit organization by 300% – from $10 million to $31 million. Created campaigns for nonprofit, entertainment, healthcare, and retail accounts.

Bilingual English/French.

CORE COMPETENCIES

• Studio Management • Candid Photography • Digital Content Management • Creative Concept Development • Direct Marketing • Audio Production • Mac OSX expert/IT support • Project management

WORK EXPERIENCE

APHOTOIS1000WORDS.COM, New York, NY July 2019-Present

Owner / Candid Photographer

• Create candid photos of human moments, nature, and architecture; produce abstract imagery

• Shoot events including the IRise Above Foundation’s northern roots hockey charity classic, featuring 12 former NHL players; the foundation supports young women diagnosed with breast cancer

• Curate and edit 20,000+ images annually, taken with the Nikon D810 DSLR, using Lightroom and Photoshop

• Perform daily archive of 50TB of Network Attached Storage and update image metadata

WORTH LINEN ASSOCIATES, INC., New York, NY May 2004-June 2019

Design Studio Manager / Senior Art Director / Digital Asset Manager

WLA, Inc. is a consulting and marketing agency for book/music clubs, magazine publishers, and charities

• Increased by 300% the individual fundraising net margin of United Service Organizations, Inc. (The USO) from $10 million in 2005 to $31 million in 2016 by creating direct mail, package insert, and email campaigns

• Generated $3 million annually by designing the USO “Moments That Matter” wall calendar

• Achieved $1 million cost savings by improving the imagery selection criteria of the USO wall calendar

• Delivered an incremental $1 million revenue to the USO from less than 1% of the active customer file; created an exclusive book which promoted the nonprofit’s mission to major gift level donors of $10,000+

• Developed 95+ direct marketing campaigns annually (prospecting + renewal); accounts included the USO, Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA), Texas Biomedical Research Institute, and Guthy-Renker

• Achieved 15% annual growth in direct marketing results by collaborating with CEO and senior leadership daily

• Spearheaded reorganization of over 45,000 digital assets using Adobe Lightroom and Adobe Bridge

• Supervised and trained 5 freelance designers to assist with heavy 4th quarter nonprofit workload

• Resolved Mac IT issues by troubleshooting software and hardware; performed daily asset archiving

SUSAN BENNIS / WARREN EDWARDS, New York, NY May 2003-April 2004

Digital Content Author / Art Director

SBWE’s designer shoes are part of the Brooklyn Museum’s Costume Collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and were on view in the Brooklyn Museum’s “Killer Heels” special exhibition

• Cataloged and input 800 digital assets into Content Management System (CMS); updated website content

Additional experience: Senior Art Director at BERTELSMANN MUSIC GROUP (BMG) Designed direct mail and print advertising to increase new member acquisition and re-enroll former members in BMG’s music club; annual budget was $35 million

EDUCATION

BBA Marketing / Advertising – Baruch College - New York, NY

COMPUTER SKILLS

Adobe Creative Suite (Lightroom, InDesign, Photoshop, Adobe Bridge), Logic Pro, Microsoft Office Suite, CMS

LANGUAGES & ACCOMPLISHMENTS

• Bilingual English/French; obtained a French Baccalaureate in economics while living in France

• Translated the feature film Federal Hill into French and wrote the subtitles; the film starred Nick Turturro and won the Critics Award at the Deauville Film Festival in France; contributed the song “Blood”

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