Mark Avila
(917) 767-3428
75-15 210 Street Apt. 2B
Oakland Gardens, NY 11364
CAREER PROFILE
Accomplished artist-driven professional with over 17 years of design experience. Focused on advertising and publishing companies. Expertise in graphical content and print production. Strong hunter profile with a proven ability to interface with art directors to ensure solutions that meet customer requirements. Exceptional communicator with demonstrated success building relationships at all organizational levels. Significant exposure to printing vendors from years of internal and outsource printing. Exemplary problem-solving skills with the ability to identify problems and implement corrective and creative solutions. Solid history of visual success. Self-motivated, open-minded with high energy.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2005-2019
New York, NY
Graphic Artist / Production Assistant
- Developed, managed and executed various publications on a daily basis.
- Assist contractual clients with specific advertisements from initial concept and design to final product.
- Liaison with copy editors overseeing layout design. Consulted contractual clients with third party advertisements. Ranging from initial concept and design to final product.
- Designed and layout cover pages for football, basketball and thoroughbred horse racing newspapers.
2004-2008
Anguilla Life Magazine (Freelancer)
New York, NY
Graphic Designer / Page Layout
- Altered, enhanced and color corrected high-resolution photos for travel planner magazine.
- Designed multi-page templates, created vector art work and customized style sheets.
- Color proofed, preflight and archived finalized documents for prepress printing.
2001-2005
Sportseye, Inc.
Port Washington, NY
Graphic Designer
- Designed covers and editorial contents for daily publications and quarterly magazines.
- Responsible for outputting pages to Konica Imagesetters and Agfa Computer-to-Plate Systems.
- Accomplished multiple printing deadlines on a daily basis.
- Maintained Imagesetting Systems such as film changing and chemical refills.
1991-2001
New York Sounds Entertainment (Freelancer)
Elmont, NY
Graphic Artist / Video Editor
- Designed logos and page layouts for company’s promotions.
- Created flyers, business cards, newspaper ads and posters.
- Designed flyers, business cards, newspaper ads and posters. Arranged and proofed all print jobs for press.
- Responsible for creating storyboards and editing digital videos. Exported movies to VHS and DVD media for weddings and special events.
SKILLS & TECHNOLOGIES
- •macOS & Windows 10. Basic knowledge of macOS Terminal.
- Indesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, Acrobat, Acrobat Distiller, Aperture, Corel Painter,
Sketch Book Pro, QarkXPress.
- HTML, CSS, JQuery, WordPress, Coda, Sublime Text, Dreamweaver.
- FTP, SMB, Final Cut Pro, Premiere, iMovie, Luxology Modo.
- Microsoft Office, Pages, Numbers.
EDUCATION
- Bachelor of Fine Arts in Computer Graphics
- New York Institute of Technology, Old Westbury, NY
References available upon request.
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