QUALIFICATIONS SUMMARY

• More than five years of experience as a Production Manager.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills.
• Creative, determined and detail oriented.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to multi-task and work well under high pressure.
• Ability to work within a team environment.
• Extensive knowledge of principles and methods for showing, promoting, and selling products or   services, including marketing strategy and tactics, social media networking and product demonstration.
• Strong ability to match or detect differences between colors, including shades of color and brightness.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

AIGA, the professional association for design (NY), Production Manager: 5/13-present

• manages relationships with printers, sponsors and external design teams
• ensures the website's content, usability and appearance are optimal
• administers the production of collateral materials for events
  

ARTnews Magazine (NY), Production Manager: 9/04-5/13

• Traffic all print and online adverts including positioning, color, and size requests to determine the overall layout for each issue
• Work closely with individual clients and graphic designers to meet the magazine’s technical specifications
• Responsible for matching all artwork and achieving all client color approval
• Prepare for pre-press by converting all adverts to Artnews settings (using Quark Express and Adobe)
• Proof blue lines for each issue before the magazine goes to press
• Oversee the production for the digital editions on Zinio
• Manage, Code and upload all online editorial and advertising content for the ARTnews website and ARTnewsletter
• Coordinate the hiring and supervising of all Artnews Production interns
• Create original accessories or design garments that follow well established fashion trends
• Design, write and print business cards, promotional stickers, postcards and media kits
• Set prices for styles, developing a group of products and marketing them through retail venues
• Utilize social media resources Facebook, Twitter and Blogger
• Identify target markets for designs, looking at factors such as age and gender
• Pitch editorial features to publications and websites
• Style, photograph, edit and retouch a fashion and product campaign portfolio
• Prepared website evaluations for client proposals
• Determined production schedules
• Guided art professionals in discovering the work of emerging artists via Online Registry

BHEKI (NY), Creative Director, Designer: 8/09-9/09

• Create original accessories or design garments that follow well established fashion trends
• Design, write and print business cards, promotional stickers, postcards and media kits
• Set prices for styles, developing a group of products and marketing them through retail venues
• Utilize social media resources Facebook, Twitter and Blogger
• Identify target markets for designs, looking at factors such as age and gender
• Pitch editorial features to publications and websites
• Style, photograph, edit and retouch a fashion and product campaign portfolio

Monkey Clan (NY), Project Management: 8/03-8/04

• Prepared website evaluations for client proposals
• Determined production schedules

Artist’s Space (NY), Artist’s File Assistant: 1/03-5/03

• Guided art professionals in discovering the work of emerging artists via Online Registry

aRUDE Magazine (NY), Publisher/ Editorial Assistant: 4/01-12/01

• Maintained Office Space
• Street Style and Product Photographer

303 Gallery (NY), Intern: 5/00-4/01

• Assisted the staff with general and administrative tasks
• Aided development and process on commercial photo shoots (Vibe, New York Times Magazine, Index) as well as conceptually based shoots

Photographer Lyle Ashton Harris (NY), Assistant: 10/99-9/00

• Aided development and process on commercial photo shoots (Vibe, New York Times Magazine, Index) as well as conceptually based shoots

2012     Beck’s Greenbox Augmented Reality Project 

GRANT

2011     National Endowment for the Arts Grant

EDUCATION

New York University, School of Education, NY, NY

Studio Art, May 2003 Honors Scholar

NYU Study Abroad, Paris, France Courses in: 19^th & 20^th century art history,

History of photography in France, Spring 2001

SOLO  ART PROJECTS & EXHIBITIONS

2012            Metallica, Y Gallery Salon, New York, NY

              Edward Hopper Inside Out, Dandelion Wine, Brooklyn, NY

2011           Nite Light, Chashama 266 Gallery, New York, NY

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2012              Connival: The Installation of Visual Oddities & Beautiful Strangeness, Chashama Taxi Terminal, L.I.C., Queens

                       Manuel Feed, Con Artist Gallery, NY, NY 

2010             Common Ground: Imaging North Brooklyn, Arts@Renaissance, Brooklyn, NY

                    The Business of Aura, The Broadway Gallery, NY. NY

                    LOVE & afFUNCTION, The Knitting Factory, Brooklyn, NY

2009             Perspectives on NYC, Cameo Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

                    By the Water Front, Urban Arts Fest, Castle Braid Lofts, Brooklyn, NY

                    Release, C.C.C.P. Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

                     Greenpoint Open Show, Marie Taillefer Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

                     Made from the Best Stuff on Earth, Brooklyn Artillery Fair, Brooklyn, NY

2008             Love Knots, The Interactive Art Gallery, New York, NY

2005             Affordable Art Fair, Christopher Henry Gallery, New York, NY

                    Grand Opening Salon, Christopher Henry Gallery, New York, NY

                    Rebelle, The Lower Eastside Gallery at CSVC, New York, NY

2004             The Eclectic Painting Show, Amos Enos Gallery, New York, NY

2003             Post Neo-Integrity: Burnt to a Crisp, Asterisk Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

                    BFA Painting Show, NYU Rosenberg Gallery, New York, NY

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

2012- Con Artist Collective, Member

2011-NYU Studio Art Alumni Critique Group, Organizer

2009- Studio Fuse, an alliance of visual arts professionals to create and foster open dialogue concerning contemporary visual  art in the form of group studio critiques, organized group projects, and an art blog.

2009-2010 Greenpoint Open Studios, a collaborative effort between artists, organizations, businesses and volunteers to build a creative platform.

COMPUTER SKILLS

Experienced with Microsoft Word, QuarkXpress, Adobe Acrobat, PhotoShop, File Maker Pro, HTML, Fetch, Researching (use of internet and library databases), working knowledge of In Design, Excel, Illustrator, Dream Weaver

REFERENCES AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST