My Resume

MY RESUME

Profile Experience Education Special Skills Personal Details

PROFILE

- Detail-oriented Graphics specialist withh a keen eye for different designs and continuity.

- Definitive understanding and technical eexpertise in color correction.

- Highly productive; combine a strong workk ethic with precise, efficient techniques.

- Recognized by the company for quality off work and ability to lead and teach others in a relaxed yet professional manner.

- Active in the community and in self-enriichment/leadership training.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

April 2004 - Present
Graphic Designer/ Product Developer/ Cana General Trading, Dubai,UAE

- Responsible in creating layout and desiggns of company ads, logos, posters, catalogs & brochures to be use in selling company items inside all U.S. Military Base in all Gulf Counties.

- Responsible in developing new products ffor U.S. Armed Forces and NATO such as t-shirts, patches, bonney hats, bags etc...

- Responsible in developing & concepting nnew ideas for designing shirts and other items that the company exporting in different countries.

- Responsible in supervising computerized embroidery and printing machine for shirts and caps.

- Responsible in designing embroidered iteems.

February-April 2004
Graphic Designer/ Apollo Advertising, Dubai,UAE

- Responsible for creating layout and desiigns for all kinds of indoor and outdoor signages.

- Responsible for visualizing and creatingg exhibit gallery and stand designs that can be use in any kind of exhibitions.

- Responsible for concepting new ideas to create many different objects that came from cheap and useless materials.

- Responsible in doing airbrush painting oon materials that will going to use in different exhibitions.

July 1995-January 2004
Graphic / Textile Designer/ Best Print Textile Co., Philippines

- Responsible for creating layouts and illlustrating textile designs using Primavision Graphic Software.

- Responsible for developing/editing textiile designs and illustrate it into a new artwork manually.

- Responsible in separating colors and traansfer it on a computer print-out.

- Responsible in creating spot color desiggns and have its color separated into an acetate film.

- Has a full knowledge in operating contacct exposing machine that is used to exposed textile designs and transfer it on a film.

- Can process exposed design films inside a darkroom.

January1994-February 1995
Layout Artist/ Kabataan Publications, Philippines

- Provides layouts and illustrations for eeditorial and entertainment sections of Kabataan, a youth oriented newspaper circulated in Bulacan.

EDUCATION AND TRAININGS

Tertiary:
University of Santo Tomas
Manila, Philippines
College of Architecture and Fine Arts
BFA Major in Advertising
1990-1995

Secondary:
St.Paul College
Bulacan, Philippines
1986-1990

Primary:
St.Paul College
Bulacan, Philippines
1980-1986

Vocational:
Microcadd Technologies
Quezon City, Philippines
Digital painting, editing and composition
2003

Awards, Seminar and Exhibitions attended:

1996
Outstanding Employee of the Year
Best Print Textile Finishing Corporation
Bulacan, Philippines

Jan.2000-2003
Exhibitor ( Best Print Textile Finishing Corp.)
Confederation of Garments and Textiles of the Philippines
World Trade Center Manila, Philippines

Aug 2004
Seminar on Graphic Software Application and T-Shirt Designing / Printing
Top International Trading Services
Doha, Qatar

June/Dec. 06
Seminar on Product Development for Handicrafts and Resins
Chiangmai Gifts Co.
Chiangmai/Bangkok, Thailand

MAJOR INTEREST AND SPECIAL SKILLS:

- Sketching / Painting
- Illustrating w/ the use of any kinds of medium (Oil, Watercolor, Pastel, Poster Color, Acrylic Paint, Charcoal etc..)
- Photography
- Computer Literate (Adobe Photoshop, Illuustrator, CorelDraw, 3D Studio Max, IMSI Dreamhouse 3D,
Primavision, Adobe Flash, MS Office, Wings XP & CorelDrawings for computerized embroidery)
- Web Designing
- Airbrush Painting
- Glass Etching
- Package Design / Labeling
- Mechanical Drawing / Perspective
- Freehand Drawing
- Modeling Paper Mache / Clays
- Styro-Cutting
- Stage Designing / Stage Production
- Backdrop Designing
- Silkscreen printing / T-shirt designing<
- Digital Painting
- Playing different kinds of musical instrruments
- Video and Picture editing
- Driving w/ UAE driver’s license
- Operating Computerized Embroidery Machinne

PERSONAL DETAILS:

Name:                 James Francis M. Cruz

Nickname:           Jim

Address:              Meycauayan Bulacan, Philippines

Email Address:     jamfran22@gmail.com

Passport No:       MM 111262

Gender:               Male

Religion:             Roman Catholic

Civil Status:         Married

Date of Birth:        October 4, 1973

Place of Birth:      Bocaue Bulacan, Philippines

Occupation:          Graphic Artist

Organization:         Association of Artists in Asia

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