Mark Avila

(917) 767-3428                                                              75-15 210 Street Apt. 2B
srmavila@gmail.com                                                         Oakland Gardens, NY 11364

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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
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2005-2019           Daily Racing Form, LLC                                              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 & PROJECTS
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                    - •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 & INTERESTS
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                    - Bachelor of Fine Arts in Computer Graphics
                    - New York Institute of Technology, Old Westbury, NY


References available upon request.