Experience
Senior Packaging Manager
2015 – present | New York, NY
Jay Franco & Sons Inc.
Skills
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Responsible for developing concepts, solutions and presentation deck of packaging to retailer Wal-Mart in bedding and bath items; includes soft and hard goods.
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Research market trends and provide recommendations for new initiatives.
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Develop cohesive line of designs while maintaining distinctiveness in each item.
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Render point-of-purchase displays for store features customize for retailer; also fulfilling openline and licensed brand guidelines for Disney, Nickelodeon, Marvel and Rovio.
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Acting liaison to vendors overseas by providing mechanical files, sourcing materials
and color proofing with China, Taiwan and India; ensuring quality control and production timeliness.
Packaging Artist
August 2010 – December 2012 | Elmsford, NY
Packaging Manager
2013 – 2015 | New York, NY
Amscan Inc.
Adoble Creative Suite :
Illustrator
Photoshop
InDesign
Bridge
Acrobat
Microsoft Office:
Word
Outlook
Excel
Free-hand:
Sketching
Painting
Industrial Sewing
Pattern making
Leather
Zippers, Rivets & Snaps
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Generate and manage several projects simultaneously within a tight deadline.
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Work cross-functionally with other departments to communicate on project direction, review of artwork, and execution of multi-brand properties in packaging.
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Maintain standard files for in–house and licensed brands, updating package templates,
and organization of internal work efficiency.
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Laid out mechanical from design directions, and retouched images for prepress calibration.
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Adhered to graphics style guides, check consistency in packaging files for retailer Party City.
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Construct three-dimensional mocks to product specification for shelf merchandising.
Packaging Design Assistant February 2009 – August 2010 | Long Island City, NY
Jacmel Jewelry Inc.
Languages
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Hand built packaging for jewelry. Including gift boxes, retail display boxes and accessories cards for point of purchase.
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Created technical pack for factory and sampled high-end luxury boxes.
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Prepared presentation boards from verbal directions to photoshopped ready images.
Chinese (Mandarin)
HTML (basic)
Freelance
November 2008 – Present | Flushing, NY
2010 - present
2010 - present
Clients Included:
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Guitar Triller - Designed original packaging for Kickstarter campaign of new tool for guitarists.
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Queen's 19th District City Council Campaign - designed campaign materials including t-shirts, newsletters, fliers, signs and invitations.
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Nini Montifiore Jewelry E-commerce - wrote HTML to maintain online jewelry store for sales.
Sample Coordinator
2007 – October 2008 | New York, NY
David & Young Co, Inc.
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Organized and photo documented samples for sales team and production of wearable accessories.
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Provided marketing materials; production of wholesale catalog, advertisement posters and flyers.
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Assisted styling on photo shoots, retouched images and maintained central file organization.
Education
Syracuse University | 2006
Bachelors in Interactive and Industrial Design
School of Visual and Performing Arts
Fashion Institute of Technology | 2016
Accessories Design
Continuing and Professional Studies