Catherine B. Vivo: Graphic & Web Designer in Long Beach, CA

(Contract freelance work as they arise) Digital and Print design. Design, manage, print and work on conceptual art for marketing materials, web site, promotional campaigns, events, and merchandise. Managing social medias and graphics. Design and develop corporate identity, logo concept design and branding, brochures, catalogs, flyers, mailers, trade show booth graphics, web site development, apparel, promotional gift, branding, wedding invitations and other web or print projects. SAMPLE CLIENT LIST: X1 Financial Services, California Quake Women's Football Team, Baltimore Nighthawks Football Team, 951 Party Rentals, Coldwell Banker Real Estate, Smiles By Dr. C, Boys & Girls Club of Venice, Women's Football Foundation (WFF), Guam Women's Football Tackle League (GWFTL), Briana Kim Attorney at Law, East LA Crown Theater with Tony Plana.

Operate and manage a sports organization. Organize and coordinate team events, fundraisers, and manage team financial budgets. Design, manage, print and work on conceptual art for marketing materials, shirts, web site, brochures, promotional campaigns, events, video editing and merchandise. Manage all social networking sites and graphics. Maintained all graphics for player and team images for games, bio graphics for web site, media game guide, schedule card, team posters, and game tickets. Designed concepts for team branding, logo concepts and merchandise designs.

Design manager of the creative and marketing department of a multi level branded company for artificial grass that's available online and in stores such as Costco, Sam's Club, Home Depot, Walmart and PreGra. Supervised creative team to begin redesigning the branding of all print marketing materials, logo concepts, packaging design, corporate branding and apparel graphics. Determined estimated budget, ROI, managed online promotional campaigns, email blasts, social media campaigns, POS display racks and maintaining all brand style guides. Dealing directly with vendors, press checks, deadlines, IT troubleshooting and also maintain all promotional company apparel and merchandising branding.

Art direction and troubleshoot artwork. Designed and managed logo and packaging artwork layout and set up. Coordinate with multiple vendors and customers to ensure corrugated box, tubs, lids, parchments and packages are formatted for print. Maintain all art files, format properly and provide final art approval before production.

Work directly with Marketing Director to coordinate annual trade show booth graphics, materials and mailings. Track and report expenses. Configured annual budget for most marketing campaigns and events. Develop and design new corporate identity and style guide for the corporate branding. Design and organize annual mailings, trade publication advertisements, marketing materials, trade show booth graphics, animated Flash and/or PowerPoint presentations. Redesigned corporate company site, designed 3 individual company sub-division web sites and designed and programmed launch page sites for live inventory customer sites. Started as a Marketing Coordinator and promoted as a Graphic Designer a year into my position.