Experience

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  Powell's Environmental Graphics

  • Northern California

  • Founder

    • May 2022 - Present
    • Northern California

    Powell’s Environmental Graphics provides design consultation, graphic design, and custom signage solutions for the general public, private, and contracting industries. Our services include Project Management, design, signage fabrication & installation, and consultation.

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  Specialized Graphic, Inc.

  • Project Director

    • May 2019 - Jul 2022

  • Estimator/Project Manager

    • Jun 2017 - Jul 2022

    Creating proposals for architectural and ADA compliance signage for future projects/buildings on the west coast. Estimating, project managing and a little bit of design.

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  Bay Area Barricade

  • Concord, California

  • Production Manager / Graphic Designer

    • Sep 2016 - Jul 2022
    • Concord, California

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  Vamp Media

  • Belmont

  • Owner/ Graphic Design Professional

    • 2001 - Jul 2022
    • Belmont

    We are Vamp Media a small graphic design group located in the San Francisco Bay Area of California. Vamp Media specializes in graphic design, retouch and restoration. We also offer web design and custom framing design. Our designers will work with you from start to finish to ensure complete satisfaction with your project. We have over 12 years experience creating custom images for various clientele. Let us design that next logo for you or restore that old wedding photo of the grand parents. Ready to tackle projects large and small. Vamp Media looks forward to hearing from you give us a call today. (415)-937-8267

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  FASTSIGNS®

  • Graphic Designer/ Prepress Operator

    • Jul 2015 - Sep 2016

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  Aaron Brothers

  • United States
  • Retail
  • 300 - 400 Employee

  • General Manager

    • Oct 2009 - 2012

    • Manage and motivate a staff of 10-15 employees. Organize, schedule and oversee thestaff in completing a variety of projects in a fast paced competitive environment.• Promoted for outstanding salesmanship, teamwork and artistry.• Interview & hire new employees. Coach & train staff to achieve and surpass sales goals.• Order supplies for store and frame shop, conduct payroll, execute the planogram.• Design custom framing, coordinate frame designs and mats, color coordinate designs.

  • Assistant Manager

    • 2009 - Nov 2011

    • Manage and motivate a staff of 10-15 employees. Organize, schedule and oversee thestaff in completing a variety of projects in a fast paced competitive environment.• Interview & hire new employees. • Order supplies for store and frame shop, conduct payroll, execute the planogram.• Design custom framing, coordinate frame designs and mats, color coordinate designs.

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  Zazzle

  • Redwood City, CA

  • Production Design Team/ Z-Touch Team

    • 2007 - 2009
    • Redwood City, CA

    ZAZZLE, Redwood City, CA – Retouch Specialist, Designer 2007-2009• Performed highly skilled process to remove blemishes, artifacts, red eye and skindiscolorations from images as part of the model shot retouch team (Z- touch Team).• Promoted to Designer: created custom designs and galleries for Zazzle’s clients.• Responsible for creating one third (over 1.3 million products) of the content on the website. Mapped images to products on excel to create Meta data for each product created.

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  Graphic Traffic

  • Emeryville, CA

  • Lead Sales and Design Assistant

    • 1998 - 2000
    • Emeryville, CA

    GRAPHIC TRAFFIC, Emeryville, CA – Graphic Designer, Sales Rep, 1998-2000• Worked directly with customer’s artwork to create t-shirts and promo items.• Answered telephones, designed art for print, handled payment and receipts, interactedwith industry printers, accurately quoted pro forma jobs, shipped products to clients.

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  Hard Hat Magazine

  • San Francisco, CA

  • Graphic Design Intern

    • 1997 - 1999
    • San Francisco, CA

    • Designed magazine covers, logos, layout for ads and articles.• Customer Service, learned and developed a solid understanding of team- work in design.

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  Poeticali Distherbd Music

  • San Francisco Bay Area

  • MC/Owner at Poetical Distherbd

    • 1900 - 1994
    • San Francisco Bay Area

    Bay Area Hip Hop Artist. I ran my label as well as managed a group of three artist.