Juan Pablo Rojas
Miami FL 33126
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Professional Objective
To obtain a position in a company where my design assets and expertise may be shared to produce outstanding printouts and collaterals, as well as media for the internet to promote the company’s goods.
Summary of Qualifications
More than ten years of experience in layout and composition. Color theory. Photography. 2D and 3D conceptualization of ideas as well as Logotype and branding design and implementation. Corporate ID manual creation. Design of collaterals and ads for printed and virtual media.
Skills
Conceptual design in paper from sketches, and its further implementation in different media with the aide of commercial software. Knowledge of Color Selection, pre-press concepts for CMYK and spot color printing. Highly creative and resourceful. Light plate making and small press printing knowledge. Bilingual (English and Spanish) Knowledge of CSS, DHTML, AJAX and light actions script for users to interact with site via flash, as well as streaming media / video.
Knowledge in the following software
Adobe CS5 Design Suite (Photoshop, Flash, Dreamweaver, InDesign… ) AutoCAD Architecture 2011, 3D Studio MAX 2010, Autodesk Inventor, Quark Xpress, Corel Draw!, MS Project Manager, MS Windows 7/XP, MAC OS/X. Software for FTP, media management, utilities.
Education
ITT Technical Institute Getzville, New York. May 2007
Degree: Associate Degree in Computer Drafting And Design. GPA 3.5
Student of the Quarter honor 3rd Quarter
Bryant & Stratton College Buffalo, New York May 2005
Degree: A.O.S. Degree in Information Technology.
Deans List
Internship: Computers for Children's
Nomination: Who's Who Among Students in American Junior Colleges.
Universidad Jorge Tadeo Lozano Bogotá D.C. Colombia. April 1996
Degree: Bachelor of Graphic Design
Experience
Webmaster - Owner Merca-web.com. June 1999 – Present
Webmaster and permanent creative for merca-web.com. Other developed websites: hmexportservices.com, sepc.org, twinj.com, lacany.com, rgcengineers.com, ididntknewwhoiwas.com, eduardosegovia.com among others. Creation of landing pages for wholesale products.
Teacher / Instructor CCAT Miami, Florida. June 2010 – Present
Photoshop, MS office, Introduction to computers and OS/X instructor to students preparing for camera editing, lightning and sound engineering at the Center of Cinematography, Arts and Television at the Miami-Dade Campus.
Graphic Designer/Production Whitley Collection Doral, Florida. August 2010 – November 2011
Design and implementation of e-mail campaigns, in-house collaterals, product catalogs, brochures and other printed booklets and catalogues. Product Photography for specific figurines. Process of RAW negatives for production. Back end database maintenance.
Website Specialist National Parkinson Foundation. Miami, Florida. October 2009 - July 2010
Website maintenance trough Netcommunity and Kentico CMS. Creation of publications for events. Supervision and control of printed material in press. Other tasks relates to internal communications done with ms office software.
Website Designer Forlife Products, Inc. Miramar, Florida. July 2008 - September 2009
ECommerce shopping cart maintenance, creation of landing pages for new products / services, email campaign creation and maintenance, render and new product imposition in images, flash applet creation for a quick navigation experience. Product photography shots and retouch. General Sites maintenance for all the domains available. Translation to Spanish and implementation of sites in CSS and navigation optimization.
Graphic Designer Whitley Collection Doral, Florida. March 2008 – June 2008
Design and implementation of e-mail campaigns, in-house collaterals, brochures and other printed booklets and catalogues. Product Photography for specific figurines. Process of RAW negatives for production.
Website Specialist National Parkinson Foundation. Miami, Florida. October 2009 – Present
Website maintenance trough Netcommunity CMS and Kentico CMS. Creation of publications for events. Supervision and control of printed material in press. Other tasks relates to internal communications done with ms office software.
Website Designer Forlife Products, Inc. Miramar, Florida. July 2008 – September 2009
ECommerce shopping cart maintenance, creation of landing pages for new products / services, email campaign creation and maintenance, render and new product imposition in images, flash applet creation for a quick navigation experience. Product photography shots and retouch. General Sites maintenance for all the domains available. Translation to Spanish and implementation of sites in CSS and navigation optimization.
Graphic Designer Whitley Collection Doral, Florida. March 2008 – June 2008
Design and implementation of e-mail campaigns, in-house collaterals, brochures and other printed booklets and catalogues.
WEB Graphic Designer ShopLatino Networks Doral, Florida. June 2007 – February 2008
Design and maintenante of eCommerce Business Portal for internet.
Designer Bufkor, Inc. Buffalo, New York March 2007 – May 2007
Design, draw and recreate renders of jewelry boxes for customers. Creation of set of working drawings.
Monitor Malcolm Pirnie, Inc. Buffalo, New York Oct. 2006 – Nov. 2006
Supervision of Debris and vegetation recovery in Buffalo, NY. Field Work.
CADD Technician Buffalo Office Interiors, Inc. Buffalo, New York. June 2006 – October 2006
Data entry to CAD Database, Floor plan layout preparation from third parities, Install layout plan preparation.
Creative Designer White Directory Publishers Buffalo, New York. June 2005 – May 2006
Design and Creation of Ads for the Talking Phone Book nationwide.
Debt Collector Lenahan Law Office Buffalo, New York. June 2004 – May 2005
Bilingual debt collector and financial assistant.
Tech. Support Specialist ClientLogic Corporation Buffalo, New York. March 2003 – May 2004
For Lexmark inkjet printers in Latin America. Performed training in Monterrey, Mexico for new Lexmark agents. Supervisor for US and Canada Queues. Quality Assurance of participant agents.
CADD Technician Systems & Engineering, P.C. Buffalo, New York. January 2001 – February 2003
Web Development, Civil Structural Cad drafting 2D-3D, rendering and VRML Maintenance of Intranet site.
Portfolio
Online portfolio available at:
http://www.behance.net/jprojasw
http://www.linkedin.com/pub/juan-pablo-rojas/0/644/614
http://www.merca-web.com
References
References are available upon your request.