Francesco Sardoni

November 2001 to Present: Malco Gifts & Regina Press – Melville, New York

Senior Art Director / Senior Graphic Designer / Websites Administrator
Designed catalogs, publications covers, packaging and logos. Designed, developed and maintained database driven Web sites. My duties as Web sites administrator included: software updates and technical guidance. Handled user accounts, site design, database maintenance, and programming.

June 2003 to June 2009: Vision Den Inc. – Holbrook, New York

President / Project Manager / Lead Designer
Managed all business operations including quality control and client relations. Directed and delegated interactive and traditional design projects to teams of full-time and freelance designers, photographers and programmers. Negotiated budgets and prepared estimates based on strategies and client goals. Created visual identity and Web sites for the company and several other clients.

September 1998 to November 2001: Media Jelly – New York City

Senior Art Director / Senior Graphic Designer
Clients: Twentieth Century Fox, Cartoon Network, Scholastic Inc., GTInteractive.
Designed interfaces for Web sites, interactive games and CD-ROMs. Designed logos and visual identity packages for many clients including Media Jelly. Directed team of production artists and Web developers. Responsible for purchasing, upgrading and troubleshooting Mac software and hardware.

March 1997 to September 1998: Seaman’s Furniture / Seaman’s Kids – Woodbury, New York

Senior Graphic Designer
Created corporate identity for Seaman’s and Seaman’s Kids. Developed Web sites for both companies. Created weekly advertising for newspapers including 4-color circulars and magazine ads. Designed brochures, posters, tags and other displays. Responsible for purchasing, upgrading software and hardware.

May 1996 to March 1997: Grey Advertising / Grey Interactive – New York City

Freelance Art Director / Graphic Designer
Clients: Cover Girl, Lee Jeans, Crown Royal, Domino’s Pizza, Champion, Shaw Carpet Showplace, Globalstar.

August 1995 to May 1996: Quinn Fable Advertising – New York City

Art Director / Graphic Designer
Clients: AT&T Wireless Services, K-Rock, Oxford Healthcare, Bristol Myers, Nabisco’s SnackWell’s, Profound.

May 1994 to July 1995: Tyco Playtime – New York City

Freelance Graphic Designer / Packaging Designer
Clients: Matchbox, Sesame Street, Harley Davidson, Looney Tunes.

June 1993 to April 1994: Gem Studio – New York City

Desktop Publishing & Typesetting
Clients: Young & Rubicam, O&M, McCann Erickson, Grey Advertising.

June 1992 to May 1993: DMB&B – New York City

Assistant Art Director
Clients: Burger King, Coca Cola.

Skills:

Acrobat, Dreamweaver, Flash, Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop, XPress, Maya, FileMaker Pro, Office, Aqua Data Studio. Mac OS X and Windows XP. HTML, CSS and basic PHP. MySQL and SQL. OsCommerce, Infor eCommerce with integration to IBM AS400 system. Joomla! CMS and ASP driven NS Website E-Commerce Packages including OSComerce.

Education: Fashion Institute of Technology – New York City

A.A.S. Degree Advertising Design with minor in Computer Graphics.

References: Available upon request. Other: Speaks and writes Italian fluently. Freelance Work: E-mail me for rates and availability.

Version: 2011