I have a proven track record of successfully launching products under tight timelines and challenging circumstances. As a Design Director, I led a team of junior designers to launch product lines for well-known brands like Marilyn Monroe, Hard Candy, and Earth to Skin while managing to set up a whole WFH functional design department and design procedures in midst of a global shut-down. Succesfully designed and turned over to manufacturing one of the nations largest hand sanitizer project during the shutdown, that was activated for immediate sales at Walmart E-commerce site, from ideation to production in less than 2 months. The Earth to Skin hand sanitizers alone generated a revenue of 9 million dollars at the day of launch. However, I was let go from the company in May 3rd 2020, like many other creatives.
My most recent corporate work project: I took Estee Lauder's MAC Cosmetics Holiday 2023/24 collection to launch as a consultant, where I completed 36 complex designs from design intent files to production for their holiday packaging, covering for shortcomings of their internal design studio and product photograophers and marketing due to the pandemic and holiday rush, working fulltime on-site at their Soho, NYC office. Layout designs, coordination with project management, file naming, server organization, mechanical file preparation for all files done and completed in extremely tight deadlines and limited budgets. Project launched and sold during holiday season of 2023, this project is a testament to my ability to work under pressure and meet tight deadlines.
After handing out the project to manufacturing and MAC internal design team, I decided to take a break till NYC opens to function for full time opportunites. During this time I traveled and did some art. I am honored as an artist where my art was chosen by NYC's Iconic Rockefeller Center's flag project in March and displayed for a month in April 2023. My art flag of New York Food Memories in collaboration with City Harvest, was reserved on May 2023 to be at the Historic Archives of Rockefeller Foundation. NYC: The City of Lobsters& Burgers. I can tell you more about it if you'd like to hear the story behind it and my thinking process as an artist.
With curiosity and my desire for growth starting with world shutting down, I learned about new tech and got into building the new era of the internet with blockchain technologies, AI and web 3. As a result, I worked as a brand a creative lead on designing a self-care product line for gamers in collaboration with Bored Apes, a leading On Chain Art project (NFT). Also I designed a character and my character "Lobsy" was chosen by Imaginary Ones (a web 3 company) and was turned into a playable in game character in collaboration with Bubble Rangers who had collaborations with Samsung and more.
While looking for a full-time position, I have also been focusing on illustrations and digital design with new technologies, studying how to implement Ai, ethically into a new creative process and design operations (Yes; the buzz words you hear chatGPT, MidJourney, DallE, Runway, Adobe Firefly... sure I can help you with that as well) With my extensive experience and ability to create effective designs with a strategic approach, trend setting, under challenging circumstances, including knowledge of latest technology, I am confident in my ability to add value to any corporation I join.