Aaron J. Rodriguez

• Graphic Designer and Sr. Production Artist for agency specializing in upscale food and beverage clients. Projects included web and print ads (for magazine and newspaper), packaging design, web and television campaigns, storyboards, client collateral, sell sheets, and industrial signage and banners.

• Major clients included Columbus, Le Tourment Vert, A.G. Ferrari, Woodside Winery, Betty Crocker, Pasta Pomodoro, and Black Angus Restaurant.

• Other responsibilities included Photoshop retouching, photography, color correction, and image manipulation

• Designer and Senior Production Artist for entertainment web and print ads, collateral, and packaging design such as DVD and Blu-Ray box art, disc label art, magazine ads, sell sheets, and more.

• Major clients included Sony Pictures, HBO, Paramount, Weinstein, NBC, and Gaiam.

• Designed collaboratively with Creative Director based on client representative feedback.

• Coordinated all assembly, preflight, duplication, and uploading of media.

• Jr. Designer and Production Artist for entertainment web and print ads, collateral, and packaging design such as DVD and Blu-Ray box art, disc label art, magazine ads, sell sheets, and more.

• Major clients included Universal, Paramount, Miramax, Disney, and Buena Vista.

• Designed collaboratively with Senior Designers and Art Directors.

• Primary department production artist for all media mechanical assembly, prepress, duplication, and uploading of media.

• Trained production staff for prepress preparation and building of media mechanicals.

• Production Artist and Assistant Art Director for agency specializing in luxury lifestyle promotion with a variety of clients. Projects included magazine and newspaper ads, web and television campaigns, client collateral, and industrial signage.

• Handled all preflight duties including prepress, mechanical assembly, duplication, and all upload/transfer of media for production.

• Clents included Hotel Nikko, St.Regis Resort & Spa, Castle & Cooke, and Hampton Lake.

• Photoshop retouching, photography, color correction, and image manipulation.

• Designed and illustrated original brand identity compositions on a variety of commercial telecommunications related projects.

• Principal graphic designer and digital illustrator for all agency campaigns.

• From original sketches to final digital composition, collaborated with art directors to produce successful design solutions.

• Product development editing through alpha and beta stages of games.

• Edited and wrote front end map description and game description copy.

• Titles included Battlefield 2 and Sims 2:Nightlife (Expansion Pack)

• Major in English with emphasis on Creative Writing (Copywriting, Journalism, and Narrative)
• Minor in Graphic Design