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ABOUT ME

I am a media specialist currently pursuing a masters in new media applications to advance my career in the field. I've specialized in corporate branding, graphics, web and social media production, film, and video editing. I am up for a creative challenge any day of the week!!

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I am a true believer that "If you do what you love, you'll never work a day in your life!" 

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I spend most of my free time with my family and friends getting into new and exciting misadventures.

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EXPERIENCE

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Digital Media Production Specialist  

Middlesex Community College – 2016 to present

  • Educational/Teacher Assistant to faculty in the department. 

  • Provide tutoring services to students. 

  • Create marketing brand and educational collateral for the department.

  • Manage Social media integration and website for the Center for New Media Department.

  • Assist faculty with inside/outside school production projects, such as tutorial videos, state/court videos, motion graphics, illustrative graphics for training purposes, comedy spoofs for school productions, and intros/outros for news segments, and other variety shows.

  • Certify students on the camera equipment available for loan purposes.

  • Setup and breakdown studio and equipment for audio/video production recording.

  • Supervise loan pool equipment for students.

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Training Coordinator

Helping People Excel – 2024 to 2025

  • Developed the proper skills and certification of the agency’s workforce to explain its policies and procedures and manage the various training programs: Red Cross CPR/AED & First Aid, PMT, DDS Compliant Trainings, and the Agency’s own training.

  • Designed the various training programs using the proper and accurate techniques, such as classroom lecture setting, video demonstration, one-on-one coaching, and hands-on group training.

  • Ensured that the workforce could meet its current and future training certifications while delivering quality training to all employees. Training courses ranged from 9am-4pm (6hrs), for 3-4 days a week, every week.

  • Provided administrative skills to manage the scheduling of all the various training programs and maintained record-keeping of compliant participants.

  • Certified in CPR, PMT, and DDS State certified competencies.

 

Creative Design & Marketing

Fox Laminating – 2016 to 2024

  • Concept and creative media/digital/print design. 

  • Design for in-house & company’s clients branding and marketing purposes. 

  • Produce countless of photo-manipulations, logos, layouts, few e-blasts and gif web-ads.

  • Head of marketing campaigns (print mailings & digital e-blasts) from inception to end result.

  • Design and maintain company's web site. 

  • Manage social media platforms.​​

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Retail Account Executive

AT&T Mobility – 2007 to 2011 

  • Managed between 14 to 20 retail kiosks/stores for the Wireless & Wired, Indirect Channel in surrounding counties.

  • Executed training sessions, side-by-side selling, new product demos, launches, plans and features.

  • Maintained morale and strengthened business relationships within the corresponding territory.

  • Created approved sales & marketing pieces, literature, brochures and flyers for special promotional events.

  • Set-up table events for the holiday sales to promote AT&T Mobility products, sales & services.

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Concept Designer / Marketing & Promotion Specialist

Printing Department – 2002 to 2004

  • Conceptual Graphic Designer / Marketing & Promotional Specialist

  • Met with clients to assess their marketing, printing & promotional merchandise needs.

  • Created conceptual designs for all marketing and promotional pieces for in-house and outside accounts.

 

Branding & Concept Designer/Presentation Specialist

Universal Graphics – 1997 to 2002

  • Created and concept-designed a global corporate brand identity for a Bayer pharmaceutical prescription drug, which is FDA-approved and used to represent: Avelox, moxifloxacin HCI.

  • Met with clients, concept creation & branding, layout design, packaging design, composition, and proofs.

  • Coordinated and organized programs that implemented a better workflow and performance for the company.

  • Multi-tasked quoting, prepress, print production, fulfillment and shipping distribution.

  • Responsible for multiple accounts simultaneously.

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TECHNICAL SKILLS

 

Mac & PC proficient in:

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Adobe Creative Cloud Suite

  • InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere Pro, After Effects, Final Cut Pro, Light Room, Dreamweaver, Acrobat, Animate, etc.

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Microsoft Office

  • Publisher, Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Outlook

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Web & Code

  • WordPress, WIX, DreamWeaver, HTML, CSS, jQuery, Bootstrap.

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EDUCATION

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BACHELOR'S DEGREE

Graphic & Media Arts & Web Design: 3.98 gpa

  • Southern New Hampshire University – 2016 to 2018

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GENERAL STUDIES

Concentration in Communications: 4.00 gpa

  • Charter Oak State College – 2015 to 2016

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ASSOCIATE'S DEGREE

Multimedia & Graphics: 3.86 gpa

  • Middlesex Community College – 2012 to 2015

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ASSOCIATE'S DEGREE

Visual Communications 3.96 gpa

  • Gibbs Technical College – 2001 to 2003

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PROFESSIONAL WORKSHOPS

HOW Design Conference – 2001

  San Francisco, CA

  • Scripting the Branded Experience, Retail Trends and Forecasting

  • Blurring the Lines Between Design and Illustration

  • Building a Business Case for Design

  • Inspiration, Theme and Concept in New Media Design

  • Change and Creativity in a Corporate Culture

  • Presentation Skills

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References upon request. 

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