WORK EXPERIENCE
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| Pure West, Chief Strategy Officer, Senior Designer, New York, NY |
May 2008 – Present |
Pure West is a Digital Creative Agency that produces web, film, and marketing content. Recent clients include Barneys New York, Vice Magazine, Aristotle Circle, The Belgrave Trust, Shorefire Media, and The Veterans Corporation.
- Senior Designer and manager of Web Development initiatives. Responsible for all design and visual coding (CSS and HTML) along with all PHP development on WordPress projects.
- Oversaw the design of film promotional materials, marketing materials, and video game art.
- Instrumental in the marketing campaign for Second Skin, which resulted in a premiere at SXSW, articles in Newsweek, the Boston Globe, and the LA Times, a theatrical release, and a one week run on Hulu.
- Personally responsible for acquiring over $120,000 dollars in contracts over the past year.
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| National Economic Opportunity Fund, Investment Banker, New York NY |
October 2004 – May 2008 |
NEOF is a social venture capital fund focused on economic development and business incubation. Since its inception in 1985, NEOF has successfully leveraged over 220 million dollars of equity investment in tax credit securities to finance community projects valued at over 500 million dollars.
- Promoted from webmaster to head of marketing and brand development. Responsible for public face of NEOF, including marketing to funding sources such as federal agencies, banks and corporations, as well as clients, such as community organizations and entrepreneurs.
- Responsible for developing and writing all marketing materials, including business plan, investment presentations, press releases, advertisements, and website.
- Delivered individual oral sales presentations to upper management of major companies.
- Wrote multiple federal and state tax credit applications.
- Produced a 20 minute promotional industrial film for NEOF.
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| Crunk Energy Drink, Graphic Designer, New Rochelle, NY |
May 2004 – October 2004 |
Crunk is a subsidiary of Sidney Frank Importing, the beverage company responsible for Jagermeister and Grey Goose.
- Responsible for building and maintaining an interactive website using Macromedia Flash.
- Created print advertisements, stickers, billboards, and vinyl vehicle wraps.
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| National Economic Opportunity Fund, Webmaster, New York NY |
April 2003 – May 2004 |
- Responsible for building and maintaining the corporate website and producing all print materials.
- Website design included MYSQL databases, PHP and CGI programming, CSS elements and streaming video.
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ACTIVITIES
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| Manhattan Young Democrats, Chair of the Economic Issues Committee |
January 2009 – Present |
EDUCATION
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| Cornell University, College of Art, Architecture, and Planning, Ithaca, NY |
September 1999 – May 2003 |
- Graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting
- One of four students to receive the David R. Bean Prize for Excellence in the Fine Arts.
- Course load included a full Liberal Arts curriculum and non major course work in Economics and History.
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| Albert Einstein Visual Art Center, Silver Spring, MD |
September 1997 – May 1999 |
- One of one hundred and fifty students, and one of twenty visual artists, out of approximately seven thousand applicants selected by the NFAA to receive the youngARTS award. Was then one of four visual artists selected from youngARTS winners to receive the Presidential Scholar Award, Talent in the Arts, given personally by President Clinton in Washington D.C. Prizes included trips to Miami, FL and Washington, D.C., fifteen hundred dollars, and exhibition in the Smithsonian National Museum of American Art.
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SKILLS AND INTERESTS
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- Proficient in Spanish, Adobe Creative Suite, Flash, HTML, CSS, Dreamweaver, Microsoft Office, and familiar with Javascript, CGI, PHP, Quark, Premiere, and After Affects. Experience in linear & non-linear editing for video.
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