Director/Designer, Up Design, USA & Mexico
Start to finish projects for Hewlett Packard, Darwin Initiative and small businesses. Created in-house brochure for HP including layout with graphics— charts, graphs and illustrations. Cover illustration and book design for self publishers for sales on Lulu and Amazon. Also adapted books to Amazon kindle. Converted local newspaper "Atención" from Quark to InDesign/InCopy setting up matching styles for both editorial and production and creating multipage master pages. Principal designer for CLH Solutions and Cizer Software Corporation creating logo, box designs, on-line store as well as technical data brochures, business cards, and letterhead.
2000-2005
Designer, Indent Design, Reading, England
Designed logos, magazines, brochures, leaflets, signs, logos, taxi signage and fliers in a fast paced design agency just outside of London.
1997–2000 Illustrator, Noriega Editores, México City
Illustrated 20+ book covers and interiors. Subjects varied from children’s books to scientific topics.
Skills
- Adobe Photoshop
- Adobe InDesign
- Adobe Illustrator
- Adobe Dreamweaver
- Microsoft Word
- Powerpoint
- Auxilary Programs, Bridge, WordPress
- Bilingual (Spanish & English)
- Project Management & Deadlines
- Proofreader marks
Education
B.A. Philosophy—Cum Laude, Albion College, Albion, Mi
Book Design—London College of Printing, London, England
Computer Graphic Design—Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Il
MFA Painting—Instituto Allende, Universidad de Guanajuato, México
HTML programming and web page design—MacSchool, México City
