Experience

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  Capestrani Consulting, LLC

  • Butler, PA

  • Co-Owner

    • Jul 2020 - Present
    • Butler, PA

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  Proforma Advertising Concepts

  • Butler, Pennsylvania

  • Owner

    • Sep 2006 - Jul 2020
    • Butler, Pennsylvania

    Proforma Advertising Concepts is your one source with infinite resources! Our goal is to provide effective marketing strategies that you can be proud of. Allow us to motivate, inspire and encourage your customers to work with you so you can enjoy success and feel excited about achieving your dreams!You will have satisfaction and relief when working with one point of contact for all your graphic communications needs.You will also be enthused and delighted about your marketing initiatives after collaborating with professionals who will deliver creative ideas for your brand in the marketplace!

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  Advertising Concepts

  • Butler, Pennsylvania

  • Owner

    • Jul 1981 - Jan 2006
    • Butler, Pennsylvania

    My partner, Dino Capestrani, and I owned and operated Advertising Concepts, a full service advertising agency for 25 years. We graduated from of the Art Institute of Pittsburgh and we initially did our graphic design using paste-up techniques, rubber cement, rub down type and a t-square! We bought our first Mac in 1986!Things have changed so much in the last 34 years...it used to take two weeks to produce a newspaper ad that only a small amount of people would see. Now, with digital technologies, an advertisement can be created quickly and with the Internet...the world can see it in seconds! Advertising Concepts became Proforma Advertising Concepts in 2006, diversifying the agency by including promotional products, apparel, printing, multi-media and really anything that can be branded.

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  Schenk Advertising

  • Elyria, Ohio

  • Graphic Designer

    • 1978 - 1980
    • Elyria, Ohio

    This was one of my first real advertising agency jobs out of art school. And this job is where I learned how to be a business owner. Mr. Schenk taught me all the ropes of being a graphic designer as well as running an ad agency. He was a great role model.