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Not just applying my skills but doing many needed actions on everyday basis to get things done.
- Brand Development
- Product Design
- Packaging Design
- Consumer Products
- Corporate Identity
- Toy and Game Industry
- Art Director
- Style Guide
- Industry Knowledge
- Self-Learner
Project Manager, Product Design, Brand development, web site creation and media coordinator.
- Leadership Skills
- Project Management Skills
- Team Management
- Interpersonal Communication Skills
- Adaptability
- Foreign Language
- Self-Motivation
- Complex Problem Solving
- Self-Starter
- Decision Making
As an enthusiast I learned to use as many software’s needed in order to obtain the best result for each project, I am a self-learner.
- Adobe Creative Suite
- Microsoft Suite
- Font software
- Video Software
- Adobe Premiere (Limited)
- After Effects (Limited)
- OmniFocus, OmniOutliner
- HTML (Basics) / ASP (Basics)
- WordPress
- And many others
Associate Designer / Project Manager / Founder, january 2018 – Present
Project Manager, Product Design, Brand development, web site creation and media coordinator.
- Created the company’s line of product from their concept to production.
- Developed a new method to die-cut Tyvek in a roll press without the need to cut in sheets.
- Created the product cost sheets and achieved the best result on each technique used to produce every part in the line of products.
Managing Director / Project Manager / Founder, September 2006 – Present
Brand development, Toy Design, product design, Industrial Design, Package Design, Style Guide Development and web site creation.
- Slashed various clients trade event costs by 15% by negotiating pricing and fees and most important project details, while ensuring the continuation and enhancements of services as the Project Manager.
- Increased clients profit margins by reducing various steps of production in the line of production.
- Create, coached and applied a new methodology of organizing, naming and storing files and projects for every client attended. Today this method created by me is used in many companies as a requirement for any project.
- Prepared over 70 employees in different projects and tasks, advising, influencing and advising them into better professional, all of them are now designer at great companies.
- Successfully redesigned several company’s logos and character art visual appearance.
- Developed (concepted, designed and programmed) the company’s ERP program to keep track of our clients briefing and projects.
- Accelerated the design process of artwork creation for line of products and delivery for our clients from the toy market by creating implementing mini Style Guides, minimizing the need to hire new seasonal employers or temps to create artwork.
AS A PROJECT MANAGER
- Supervised employees and teams to help reach maximum performance levels.
- Made sure that the company had access to the appropriate equipment and financial resources necessary for success.
- Developed and implemented budgets based on client’s company needs.
AS A DESIGNER
- Develop designs using many specialized computer software, based on the project needs.
- Operated autonomously in all facets of business; proficient in customer relations, brand positioning, revenue growth, financial management, driving operational excellence, business development, price negotiations
Graphic Designer / Marketing / Recipe creator, july 2016 – Present
Roles in Brand development, Cook and Sales and Marketing.
- Cooked the recipe for the Reduced Lychee Vinager Glaze.
- Created the company’s visual communication and packaging.
- Developed a new method to produce and package the Lychee adapting common use equipment to production purposes.
Gemini – Universal Kids Ltda
Graphic Designer focused on brand development. Engaged in any of the company needs for fine art, illustration and graphic design for licensed product, catalogs, corporate communication, point of sale material and trade fair decorations as well as coordinating the design team in many aspects such as time frame, date of delivery, and job distribution. Worked with marketing, product and sales teams to drive projects to completion.
Responsibilities
- Create graphics and illustrations for toys, games, and many other products, packages, catalogs and marketing needs (Brands including Hasbro, Disney, Warner and Mattel)
- Collaborate with designers and product managers
- Perform usability and perform quality control on designs
Graphic Designer / Self Employed, 2003
Founder of the company that later would change its name to Estudio n’Ovo.
Proactive Comércio e Serviços
Freelance designer and computer programmer, 1995 – 2002
Achievements
Accomplished the graphic design and programming for the 3 Online Education Courses for the Health Insurance Company Unimed in company with the College Fundação Armando Alvares Penteado – FAAP
Computer Technician, 2001 – 2002
Responsibilities
- Set up hardware and install and configure software and drivers
- Maintain and repair technological equipment (e.g. routers) or peripheral devices
- Install well-functioning LAN/WAN and other networks and manage components (servers, IPs etc.)
- Perform regular upgrades to ensure systems remain updated
- Troubleshoot system failures or bugs and provide solutions to restore functionality
Broadcast Recording Comercial Ltda
Graphic Designer, 1999 – 2001
Responsibilities
- Attend the costumer,
- Artwork design for every kind of job necessary
Assistant Computer Technician, 2001
Responsibilities
- Set up hardware and install and configure software and drivers
- Maintain and repair technological equipment (e.g. routers) or peripheral devices
- Install well-functioning LAN/WAN and other networks and manage components (servers, IPs etc.)
- Perform regular upgrades to ensure systems remain updated
- Troubleshoot system failures or bugs and provide solutions to restore functionality
Post-Graduate on Business Administration
Fundação Armando Alvares Penteado – FAAP, 2014
Post-Graduation on Business Administration Dissertation: Simple Definitions of the Brand Licensing Market
Bachelor of Arts in Graphic Design
Centro Universitário de Belas Artes de São Paulo – Belas Artes, 2004
Ohio (USA) – Meigs High, 1997
STYLE GUIDE – PRODAV4 – Animation series, january 30 of 2018
STYLE GUIDE – PRODAV3 – Animation series, 2017
Lecture about how to create a compelling Brand Style Guide
Basics of a Licensing Style Guide – ABRAL, 2016
Lecture to explain the basic of a Style Guide and how it should be created for new brands focused into product licensing
Toy and Character Creation Award
Judge at the VII Toy Creation Award, 8 of November 2011
Jury member at the VII Toy Creation Award for the Licensing Brasil Magazine
Judge at the IV Toy Creation Award, 30 of June 2011
Jury member at the IV Toy Creation Award for the Licensing Brasil Magazine
Judge at the IV Industry Excellency Toy Award, 11 of April 2011
Jury member at the IV Toy Creation Award for the Licensing Brasil Magazine and Brazilian Toys Association ABRINQ
Judge at the VI Toy Creation Award, 2010
Jury member at the VI Toy Creation Award for the Licensing Brasil Magazine
Judge at the III Character Creation Award, 30 of June 2010
Jury member at the III Character Creation Award for the Licensing Brasil Magazine
Publications & Presentations
Licensing Manual – The basic of toy and brand licensing
Licensing Brasil Magazine, 19 articles
Columnist for the Brazilian Licensing magazine, wrote articles giving tips and success cases about design intricate to the brand licensing market for a period of 2 years.
Publications available on EPGRUPO website, digital copy upon request.
- Expo Licensing LATAM – 10 editions, 2009 to 2018
- Expo Licensing Las Vegas, 2008 – 2012
- Kids Experience, 2018
- The Union – 2nd Edition – Saga, 10 and 11 of march 2012
- The Union – 1st Edition – Saga, 15 of march 2011
Portuguese (Brazil) – Native
English – Fluent (lived abroad USA) and used the language at work
- High School Exchange Student 1996 – 1997
- Over 12 years of practice attending clients
German – School Basics (11 years at elementary and high school)
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