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JAVIER ADAN RICO

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Highly qualified Web Designer with extensive experience in online marketing, project managing, interactive multimedia, web, email and print design. With exceptional, collaborative and interpersonal skills; dynamic team player with highly developed written and verbal communication abilities. Highly skilled in client and proposal negotiations; talented at building and maintaining creative design concepts. Passionate and inventive creator of innovative design strategies and campaigns; accustomed to performing in a deadline-driven environment with an emphasis on working within budget requirements. Creative experience in the following:

PRINT MULTIMEDIA WEB
  • Brochures
  • Promotional Flyers
  • Newsletters
  • Catalogs
  • Advertisements
  • Stationary
  • Online Presentations
  • Video, Sound and 3D Animation
  • FASH Animation
  • Email Marketing
  • Digital Photography
  • HTML, DHTML, XHTML
  • CSS
  • JS/JavaScript
  • FLASH/XML
  • PHP
  • ASP

LANGUAGES:

 

Fluent in Spanish; Elementary Japanese.

TECHNICAL PROFICIENCY

 

Platforms: Mac OS X, Windows 7/Vista/XP

Software Expertise: Adobe CS4: Dreamweaver, Flash, Fireworks, Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, Acrobat; MS FrontPage, Open Canvas, Paint Shop Pro 7, Ulead, LotusNotes, SilverPop, SnagIt, and Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook)

Web: HTML, DHTML, ASP, PHP, XML, Ajax, CSS

Online Tools: Adobe Scene7, CheetahMail. Coremetrics, JIRA, HBX Analytics, Google Analytics, Cvent

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

 

Smith & Noble. Corona, CA – December 2008 to Present
Web Designer II
Work closely with online marketing manager and senior web designer to enhance, design and develop front end look and feel of Smith & Noble’s three major ecommerce website. Each website mirrored Smith & Noble’s three major brands. Website I was responsible for is Smith & Noble’s B2B (Business to Business) partner website SmithNoblePro (formerly Jessitt-Gold). Concurrently assisted senior web designer with main brand website with designing various flash homepage looks, flash ad banners and update HTML code. Responsible for all email marketing for SmithNoblePro and ShopBlinds. Working together with back-end IT specialist building beta site project for release in 2010. Experience in Vignette creation and maintenance with Adobe Scene7 Image Authoring tools. In charge of design, implementation and execution of all email marketing campaigns. Generated email marketing reports and statistics for online analysis.

iMatrix, Inc. / 13 Minutes Magazine, Santa Ana, CA – June 2008 to January 2009
Lead Web Designer
Joined company to revamp and redesign their main publication magazine web site and integrated WordPress (a blogging script). Made the website portal easy to use for staff writers to post blog entries. Script, code and other essential section of the site are under my responsibility to edit and update as time goes by. New layout design projected to Editor and Staff to be changed each season. Corporate site, iMatrix, Inc., is in progress of an entire redesign. All CSS and PHP based coding. Integrating shopping cart and flash design file for users to submit artwork and upload to corporate FTP. Usage of Flash with XML, PHP, CSS, XHTML, Java Script and Ajax is being used to compile the new site. Site to be launched January 2009.

Kingston Technology Company, Fountain Valley, CA – July 2008 to December 2008
Latin America Marketing Assistant
Assisted and coordinated with individuals and entire Latin America team in their daily needs. I Coordinated with customers from Mexico, Central and South America and fulfilled all marketing material orders and product inquiries. Used businesses level Spanish on a daily bases and helped edit and translate content for web and print materials. Major event planning for two customer visits, both one week long. Each group were provided different attention and needs. Helped organize, schedule and accommodate flights, hotels, shuttle service, restaurant reservations and entertainment. Project lead for updating marketing literature materials for print and web.

Beckman Coulter (KT Media, Inc.), Brea, CA – October 2006 to May 2008
Web Project Manager
Created website layout compositions and mock-ups. Designed various layouts, book covers, and other online and print material from inception Updated and edited complex FLASH files. Researched and analyzed client competitor’s websites and completed reports to be included in marketing plans and campaigns. Familiarized with Google and Yahoo! web analytics, search engine marketing and pay-per-click campaigns. Developed working experience with IT, Marketing Directors, and Clients to work on various projects. Capable of multitasking up to eight projects and retain specific amount of time for each to complete before a deadline. Updated and operated a large global website with a multitalented web team.

Guardian Preferred Properties, Inc., Riverside, CA – May 2004 to November 2006
Office Assistant & Translator
Verified receipt of materials and obtained procurement approvals prior to processing invoices. I collected and processed payments from escrow and mortgage requests. Submit certification forms to property manager and return to requester. Prepare homeowner association governing documents for escrow. Finalize escrow file and move out previous owner/seller and move in new owner/buyer. Input dues and monthly homeowner association bills to property owner’s account. File, organize and update all office documentation and information sheets dealing with insurance contact information, monthly dues amount, any new assessments and creating new easy to read forms for submittal to escrow and/or mortgage companies. Receive and handle phone calls made by property owners. Collect and organize information, complaints, emergencies and account balance inquiries. Managed and translated all Spanish speaking property owners. Translated and Interpreted for property managers and other office employees.

EDUCATION & TRAINING

 

  • Bachelor of Science: Web Interactive Media (May 2009 – Present)
    Art Institute of Pittsburgh: Online Division
  • Microsoft Excel 2003 Certified (August, 2008)
  • Bachelor of Arts in Communications: Advertising (January 2007 – May 2009)
    California State University Fullerton – Fullerton, California
  • Associates Degree in Digital Media Art-Graphic Design (January 2004 – May 2006)
    Irvine Valley Community College – Irvine, California

 

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