1. GREGORY V. VALENTINE
610 564 0054 • gregv@vdigroup.com • print/web/multimedia samples
Senior-Level Experience | Agency, Corporate, Entrepreneurial Background | Manager | Leader | Negotiator | Sales
Problem-Solver | Business Management | Client Services | Team Player | Quick Study | Tech-Savvy
Enthusiastic | Flexible | Dedicated | Fine Artist
Profile
I have managed my creative-services design business for many years, and serve as consultant to corporate and agency spheres. I offer
panoramic vision and seasoned supervision of strategic creative services -- for all media (print, web and multimedia). I am likewise an
outstanding fine artist in drawing, painting and illustration, both conventional and digital.
Capabilities
• Multi Media • Interactive/Art Direction • Client Consultation • Graphic Design • Illustration • Front-End Coding
• Project Management • Animation • Strategic Planning • Tactical Planning • Technical Processes • Customized WordPress
Consulting & Employment
Renaissance, Philadelphia, PA, January 2016– July 2016
Director of Creative Resources
• Oversee/collaborate with 5-person design team in digital, social media, video graphic and graphic design/production
• Perform extensive production and coding tasks daily, within a proprietary e-commerce CMS system 1. 2. 3.
• Engage in weekly Constant Contact email design and production 1. 2. 3.
• Create complex website mockups for programming 1. 2.
• Manage logo and print design/production
• Direct video graphics design/production
• Host daily meetings and monitoring of job queues via Salesforce software
Barnabas Health System, Toms River, NJ, November 2015 – January 2016
Front-End Developer
• Developer for large content migration job from SharePoint to Oxcyon Centralpoint
• Routine HTML and CSS scripting as needed
Dentino Marketing, Princeton, NJ, June 2015 – November 2015
Front-End Developer
• Developer for production of tourism emails: 1, 2, 3
• Developer for production of responsive landing pages with Double Click Floodlight Tags: 1, 2, 3, 4
• Developer for production of HTML5 banners, embedded with ClickTag scripts for tracking: 1, 2, 3, 4
Munich Re America, Princeton, NJ, February 2015 – June 2015
Multimedia Specialist
• Videographer using Sony PMW200 XDCAM with audio mixer and teleprompter
• Produce/post-production audio/video captures for all corporate video needs – Final Cut Pro X 10.2.1
• Manage/edit Pirobase CMS for US web presence
• Manage/edit Jangomail CRM and accompanying HTML newsletters
GD64, Berwyn, PA, December 2014 – February 2015
Creative Services Director
• Modify design and recraft overseas corporate collateral for use in United States market
• Redesign overseas charts and diagrams for State-side use
• Video/audio capture and editing of classic sports movie clips for use as 1- and 2-minute shorts for IT conference
Progressive Business Publications, Malvern, PA, May 2014 – December 2014
Interactive Artist
• Produce HTML4 email documents with inline style embeds via Act-on CRM environment
• Produce HTML5 landing pages via local server
• Raw-coding in Notepad++ and TextWrangler for HTML5, CSS3, and some JavaScript
• Design next generation web mock ups using Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator and Acrobat
Oticon, Inc., Somerset, NJ, February 2014 – May 2014
Interactive Designer/Web- CRM
• Design and produce graphics for use in print and web production
• Creation of sliced HTML-based images/code from Adobe Photoshop for use in a Sitecore environment CRM
Rumsey Electric, Conshohocken, PA, November 2013 – February 2014
Marketing Manager
• Create and execute via SharePoint Customer Relationship Management system (CRM), E-blast
communications for product offerings, educational seminars, newsletters and business correspondence
• Graphic-design expertise to develop media for use in digital display network, website modifications (CMS), print collateral
• Development of interactive forms PDFs for internal/external use
2. • Proofreading/editorial copy assistance for press releases, case studies and business correspondences provided
Church & Dwight, Ewing, NJ, June 2013 – November 2013
Web Support Developer
• Create, monitor and revise/troubleshoot content for a custom SharePoint Content
• Management System (CMS) hosting consumer products, specialty sales promotions, news articles and weekly specials
• Performed daily edits to HTML/CSS as well as manage and upload through remote desktop environments, images, graphics and
video
Nemours A.I. duPont Hospital for Children, Wilmington, DE, April 2012 – June 2013
Digital Display & Motion Graphics Manager
• Trouble shoot tactical/ technical issues of existing digital display network, (FWi: Four Winds Interactive) along with IT
• Produce and schedule brand-compliant content within a Four Winds Interactive CMS for use on an enterprise-wide platform of over
(40) HD digital displays at two hospitals and health clinics in PA, NJ, DE and FL
• Develop static, animated, video-graphic, web-fed, live-data, news crawls, and touch screen (way-finding content for both interaction
and point-of-waiting/point-of-departure audiences
• Print collateral design and production provided as needed
Softmart, Inc., Downingtown, PA, January 2012 – April 2012
Graphic Designer/Production Artist
• Designed and produced specialty items including high-end direct-mail calendar campaigns.
• Daily completion of marketing materials such as business collateral, rebate incentives, data sheets, promotional materials and
Intranet content delivered to internal clientele
Shor and Associates, Inc., Wilmington, DE, October 2011 – January 2012
Graphic Designer/Web Master
• Web production for business-to-business clientele. Developed HTML-base web sites
• Project presentation to legal firm’s web site and medical firm’s site committees
ProfitPoint, Inc., Clifton Heights, PA, May 2010– October 2011
Graphic Designer/Web Master
• Design and production of print/web and E-blast, E-mail projects for B-2-B organizations
• HTML 5 web sites, E-blasts and E-newsletters with server-side linkages
Motorola, Inc., Horsham, PA, January 2010 – May 2010
Technical Illustrator/Photo Retouched
• Advise, consult and produce the conversion of CAD, (DXF), and render mechanical product drawings into presentable line art/color
art for use in print and web based applications
• Retouched, color- corrected and re-sampled related digital images of CAD product shots
• Design/production of product-user manuals through direct collaboration with team engineers, writers, project coordinators and
product managers
Vizion Group, Inc., Berwyn, PA, July 2009 – January 2010
Graphic Designer/Web Master
• Consultant for print, web and Flash animation projects
• Non- and not-for-profit organizations web site construction utilizing table less (CSS), (X) HTML compliant restrictions as well as
basic JavaScript for password-protect and security options/features – site wide
Quatro Studio, Willow Grove, PA, October 2008 – July 2009
Graphic Designer/Web Production
• Print, web landing pages, and animation design/production assignments
• On-going HTML constructs from multi-layered Adobe PhotoShop graphics files as well as wire frames and site schematics
Spring Health Products, Norristown, PA, January 2006 – October 2012
Design Consultant
• Design, development, and production of all manufacturers’ marketing communications materials pertaining to print, web and display
graphics for sales promotions and dealer support
• Frequent quarterly print sales sheets designed and produced along with the launch of a new company web site 2012.
Education
Hussian School of Art, Philadelphia, PA, Bachelor’s Level Degree – Art, Major: Advertising, Minor: Illustration
Sessions College for Professional Design, Tempe, AZ, Non-Program Courses – Web Programming/Multimedia
Bucks County Community College , Bristol, PA, Continuing Education Certificate – JavaScript Fundamentals
Software Proficiencies
• PC/Mac Platforms • Adobe Photoshop CC • Adobe CC Illustrator • Adobe CC Media Encoder • Notepad++
• Adobe CC InDesign • Adobe CC Premier Pro • Final Cut Pro X • MS Word • WordPress
• MS PowerPoint • MS Excel • Quark Xpress • Adobe CC After Effects • Adobe Edge Animate
Programming Experience
• HTML 4/5 • XHTML • XML • CSS 2/3 • CMS • CRM • SharePoint • JavaScript • Responsive • Click Tag