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Matthew Willbond

Cleveland

Summary

Experienced advertising professional with a proven track record in driving advertising sales and building strong customer relationships. Acknowledged for strategic market analysis skills and creating impactful advertising campaigns. Valued as a collaborative team player with a flexible approach and a focus on achieving results. Proficient in client negotiations and adept at managing advertising campaigns effectively.

Work History

Advertising & Promotions

Gale’s Garden Centers
  • Create & display instore marketing, graphics, website updating, building & managing Constant Contact account, developing weekly ads for multiple local newspapers, modernizing company graphics / visual marketing without a complete company re-branding. Event planning & hiring, managing donations & building new symbiotic relationships all under tight budgets. Additionally ordering, updating proper office forms, label / tag creation, aiding in construction of our displays & instituting all the above skills to smoothly integrate the acquisition of a new location.

Grocery Manager

Lucky’s Market
  • Oversee the daily running of the grocery department staff, ordering, hiring, training managing truck intake, inventory, meeting shrink goals, budgets, working with local vendors, scheduling, working within budgets and trying to maintain margins. Meeting & maintaining the ever-changing regulations during the Covid Pandemic and keeping departments as stocked as possible with a continually changing supply chain. Creating eye catching, award winning, product displays to attract customers, increase sales. Help employees to grow thrive in order to reach their goals and create a constructive, respectful & inclusive work environment. Initially hired as an Assistant Grocery Manager & then later promoted.

One on One Aide

Positive Education Program
  • Active mentoring, tutoring, instruction of general education and classroom supervision of children coping with severe behavioral handicaps and learning disabilities. Helping with Board of Mental Health Duties included: participation in development of I.E.P’s and conferences with parents.

Graphic Designer

Luna Marketing
  • Create t-shirt designs, illustration, logo design, providing customers with creative, cost effective solutions when working within a budget, corporate promotional ideas. Color separations, aid in production schedules, working within strict deadlines, breaking down complex logos to simple one-color designs, utilizing the best use of designs in limited space, creating designs that can be used in a variety of promotional formats. Also assisted with, physical screen printing, shooting screens, reclaiming of screens, determining inks, checking in inventory and general merchandising and store appearance.

Store Operations Manager

Crate & Barrel Furniture
  • Leading the stock staff, running a clean and efficient stockrooms, making sure incoming and outgoing trucks are processed quickly and accurately, keep lines of communications open between other management personnel, acting liaison between corporate headquarters of any mechanical and physical issues with the building, oversee any repairs being completed with the building, the contact and communicator with outside contractors, travel to new stores to train new staff and assist with store set up. Work with store visual designers with visual set ups and lighting. Voted associate of the quarter by peers winter quarter.

Freelance Graphic Designer
  • Passionately completing freelance design projects that include CD layouts for local musical groups, t-shirt designs, company branding, concert and corporate promotional flyers for area venues & companies for web and hard copy use, sticker design and various business cards.

Freelance Photography
  • Energetically photographing musical groups and small events for promotion and web use. Also experienced with retouching & restoring vintage photos for clients plus hanging and lighting gallery shows.

Education

Bachelor’s Degree - Studio Art with emphasis in Graphic Design

Coastal Carolina University
Conway, South Carolina

Skills

  • More than ten years of diverse, hands-on management, top notch customer service and sales experience Adaptable, organized, results and detail-oriented with excellent work ethics, strong time management and interpersonal skills
  • Team player also capable of working independently with minimal direction
  • Ability to come up with clever ideas & solutions for a given topic and develop creative ways to solve a problem
  • Strong knowledge of Adobe’s Creative Suite including Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign on both Mac and PC formats along with the Publisher program Ability to learn new programs in a timely manner
  • More than ten years of diverse, hands-on design experience in many different aspects of graphic design and photography

Timeline

Advertising & Promotions

Gale’s Garden Centers

Grocery Manager

Lucky’s Market

One on One Aide

Positive Education Program

Graphic Designer

Luna Marketing

Store Operations Manager

Crate & Barrel Furniture

Freelance Graphic Designer

Freelance Photography

Bachelor’s Degree - Studio Art with emphasis in Graphic Design

Coastal Carolina University

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