Frank Meneses
Fort Lauderdale,FL
Summary
Highly organized and detail-oriented design professional with strong work ethic and dedication to achieving goals. Skilled at developing and maintaining branding systems, creating key artwork and prepress management. Knowledgeable in project management principles, business processes and customer service best practices.
Overview
20
20
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Tufting Coordinator
The Tufting House
11.2023 - Current
- Greeting/checking in customers
- Setting up and breaking down tufting stations throughout class
- Assisting customers while tufting with questions, guidance, demonstrations etc
- Providing customers with accurate information about product offerings, pricing, and availability, etc
- Ensuring yarn stock is up-to-date and faced properly
- Tufting rugs as needed based on customer orders
- Staying updated with new products and offerings.
- Gathered and organized materials to support operations.
- Set priorities and problem-solved workflow issues to maintain rapport with customers and managers.
Co-founder, Graphic Designer/artist, Creative Director, Art Educator, Event Manager, Team Leader, Production Manager
Soul & Ink, LLC
03.2015 - 11.2023
- Creator of small business that does live-screen printing activations across globe
- Managed small team of screen printers and creatives at experiential events
- Extensive experience with apparel printing
- Experience with experiential and social marketing communications
- Management and operation of Screen printing and heat press equipment
- 4-color manual press
- Heat press vinyl and DTF applications.
Prepress Manager
Impressions, Inc
11.2012 - 11.2014
- Serve as the prepress manager and digital color specialist handling all incoming time sensitive projects
- Track several projects simultaneously, coordinate production to appropriate departments, while managing three separate digital presses
- Ensure and streamline detailed quality control through artwork edits, color correction, proof production and mechanicals for all artwork
- Collaborate with customer service representatives and master printers on proficiency in processes, resulting in budget saving solutions.
Canine playgroup supervisor
Happy Hound Pet care
05.2013 - 08.2013
- Supervise play with up to 7 canines, interact and report to human parts about their pet's experience, clean and organize facilities
- Hold keys to open facilities
- Accomplishments: Able to help organize and maintain facilities, helped with training of numerous dogs.
Contract Graphic Designer
Nuclear Regulatory Commission/Madison Design Group
02.2010 - 05.2012
- Serve as a key member of the publication team providing creative consultations, marketing and design services, working nationally and cross-collaboratively with internal clients, including Public Affairs and Office of Nuclear Research components
- Conceptualize, develop and execute original design solutions for wide range of marketing collateral focusing on nuclear energy and regulation
- Manage, direct and strategically design for wide range of high profile projects and events, such as annual conference, holiday gala, info digest, team work campaign, annual report and budget book
- Recipient of NRC Teamwork Award for design of successful internal marketing campaign to promote team building and boost employee morale.
Graphic Designer
Area Thirty-nine
09.2006 - 05.2008
- Develop advertising and promotional marketing materials to support services provided by top-selling realtors specializing in west side of Los Angeles
- Collaborate with team of photographers, web programmers and illustrators on several design projects
- Report weekly on web traffic analytics, providing valuable trend forecasting and market research insight to clients.
Graphic Artist /Assistant to the Art Director
Thibiant International
03.2004 - 08.2006
- Design print materials and publications for luxury skin care brands such as Thibiant, Guinot, and Bath & Body Works
- Assist award-winning art director on all creative development including product photoshoots, international advertising campaigns, and publications
- Serve as brand ambassador ensuring consistency in artwork and branding guidelines
- Manage multiple projects simultaneously, adhering to strict deadlines and guidelines to ensure quality control
- Negotiate and manage vendor contracts.
Education
Associate of Arts - Advertising
Montgomery College
Rockville01.1995
Skills
- Graphic design
- Prepress management
- Illustration
- Photography
- Art direction
- Branding
- Adobe Illustrator
- Adobe Creative Suite
- Adobe Photoshop
- Typography
- Layout Design
- Adobe InDesign
- Copywriting
- Market Research
- Social Media Management
- Web Design
- Adobe Acrobat
- Digital Marketing
- Vendor Management
- Graphic design
- Layout design
- Prepress
- Social media management
- Marketing
- Team management
- Photography
- Customer service
- Events management
Accomplishments
City Paper- The People Issue
November 2017
Honored along with my wife/partner as one of the most interesting and creative people in Washington DC.
Certification
Master Decorator Certificate, ISS Master Sportswear, 2019
Timeline
Tufting Coordinator
The Tufting House
11.2023 - Current
Co-founder, Graphic Designer/artist, Creative Director, Art Educator, Event Manager, Team Leader, Production Manager
Soul & Ink, LLC
03.2015 - 11.2023
Canine playgroup supervisor
Happy Hound Pet care
05.2013 - 08.2013
Prepress Manager
Impressions, Inc
11.2012 - 11.2014
Contract Graphic Designer
Nuclear Regulatory Commission/Madison Design Group
02.2010 - 05.2012
Graphic Designer
Area Thirty-nine
09.2006 - 05.2008
Graphic Artist /Assistant to the Art Director
Thibiant International
03.2004 - 08.2006
Associate of Arts - Advertising
Montgomery College
Master Decorator Certificate, ISS Master Sportswear, 2019
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