Borrah Jackson: in Los Angeles, CA

• Sole product development coordinator, focusing on promotional hard goods or retail quality merchandise • Prepare both client-facing and vendor-facing artwork, including trend reports, pitch packs, mock-ups and tech packs • Conceptulize products based on specific branding, trends, event and overall goals • Support sales team by placing orders, and fulfilling requests for quotes via sourcing pricing of products with vendors in China • Organize merch quotes from vendors, including net costs, marked up client costs, quantity, material, artwork imprint costs, run charge, set up fees and shipping • Coordinate artwork logistics of products while maintaining specs, such as material, dimensions, color, budget, imprint limitations, and a realistic timeline • Cultivate communication amongst vendors and clients with transparency • Organize projects with management tools such as Salesforce, Excel and Outlook • Anticipate and handle any problematic issues that may arise

• Promoted twice from Production Artist, to Senior Graphic Designer to Production Coordinator at this medium scale marketing firm • Manage a large daily volume of projects and estimate time and resources required need for successful project completion • Review all incoming and outgoing proofs, checking for content, color and production specifications, while updating spreadsheets on each project • Working closely with Art Director to increase client approval on newly printed magazines, menus and displays at various distribution points • Review billing invoices with Press Operator • Support for Sales staff, producing contracts, and sales literature • Update existing ads, magazine layouts, contracts, and websites • Hire and train new Graphic Design staff

• Designed style guides, marketing briefs, and property overviews used to sell our properties to international networks. Also, designed merchandise, such as plushies, action figures, toy packaging, costumes, clothing and school supplies • ToonZone Studios thus formed relationships and sold broadcasting rights to networks such as Cartoon Network, Canal+, TeleToon, Channel POP, ABC3, in Europe, Australia, and South America • Worked directly with the Vice President of Marketing and Business Development with a mentor-type of rapport • Designed and coordinated the construction of a marketing booth at the 2011 Las Vegas Licensing Convention including banners, literature, posters and decoration • Coordinated with print and digital publishers to package files for print ads and an eBook

• Worked closely with the School Violence Prevention Demonstration Program administrators to redesign a bullying prevention education project which included a website and instructional animation • Coordinated with web development staff and consultants to ensure a smooth upload transition for the web

• Presented expanded columbiarecords.com web design layouts, layout skins for Google Chrome, featuring various Columbia records artists, promotional animated web banners, and AOL Aim Buddy Icon for artists

• Created flash animations, graphic design, and logo design • Answered phone calls, organized studio and files