Creative Director or Sr. Art Director / Designer (hands-on) Print, Web, Mobile, Outdoor, Retail, Agency

1. Suzanne Venuti Harris
258 Evergreen Rd
Ramsey, NJ 07446
M: 201-981-4495 • H: 201-962-8236
Email: ZangoghDesigns@gmail.com
Portfolio URL: www.ZanGoghDesigns.com
EDUCATION
Bachelors of Science in Visual Arts, SUNY Empire State College — Hartsdale, NY
Associates Degree in Computer Systems Management, College of Westchester — White Plans, NY
EMPLOYMENT
Creative Consultant & Art Director/Graphic Designer — Ramsey, NJ • 2009 – Present
Creative consultant & designer for print, web, interior/exterior, POS
signage, expos and B2C QR code mobile interactive advertising.
• 360º AdMarket, LLC: Creative Consultant & designer accountable
for creating campaigns with QR codes for direct customer mobile
interaction for various companies. This includes creating ads from
initial concept to graphic design to art direction to feature image
selection to final output while incorporating clients’ brand identity &
aesthetics. Clients include: TD Bank, J&J Snacks, USPS & more.
3/2011 - Present
• Passaic County Tire, LLC: created brand identity, logo, business
cards, POS materials, interior/exterior permanent signage, joint
venture promotions & third party promotions. Plus manage their discount website Used Tires Xpress. This includes
designing web promotions, content management (product images & copy descriptions), etc & promote on eBay, Twitter,
Facebook, Google, etc. Brands include: Michelin, Hankook, Goodyear, Pirelli, Continental, Firestone, etc.
7/2009 - Present
• Club Girly Girl Online T-shirt & Novelty Store: created brand name, logo and all graphic designed t-shirts & products.
Designs marketed towards modern & pop culture. www.ClubGirlyGirl.com 7/2009 - Present
Currently designing on Mac OS X Leopard utilizing Adobe Creative Suite CS5 Extended.
Achievements: created new corporate brand for Southeastern Freight Lines, Passaic County Tire, Club Girly Girl.
Website Manager/Content Editor & Designer, Bogen Imaging, Inc. —
Ramsey, NJ • 2008 – 2009
Web manager, content editor (design & copy), for high-end photography, video
& cinematography accessories. Supporting the U.S.A. network of dealers,
sales representatives and consumers. Brands included: Manfrotto, Gitzo,
National Geographic, Lastolite & more.
• Daily added, edited, verified & uploaded new product images & copy
description to website’s product catalog.
• Weekly met with Marketing Director and/or Product Manager to present
mock-ups of new web banner promotional designs & articles to promote
products in feature web sections, third-party sites, authorized dealers &
sales representatives.
• Managed online brand & product awareness: conceptualized, designed,
copy-wrote, uploaded & marketed feature promotional website banners &
articles for rebates, special offers. Designed new product landing pages, calendar of events, enter to win promotions, email
promotions. Web materials distributed & utilized for authorized dealers & sales representatives to ensure brand & product
image & description accuracy.
• Increased target consumer & email database providing online interactive educational webinars.
• Created concepts & designs for online joint-venture campaigns to increase target customers & email database, while
increasing brand & product awareness.
• Managed Bogen Imaging’s brand image to ensure online consistency with authorized dealers, sales representatives,
joint venture promotions, etc.
Achievement: Launched Bogen Imaging’s first online retail website.

2. Creative Director/Designer, OMNI Fitness Equipment – Moonachie, NJ • 2000 – 2007
Created all print and website concepts & design materials; planned a 12-month rollover
advertising calendar with a 2 million dollar annual marketing budget. High-end brands
included: LifeFitness, Precor, Pacemaster, Vectra, SPRI, etc.
• Strategically planned annual advertising campaigns & allocated budgeted dollars to a
12-Month marketing calendar of events with a 2 million dollar budget. Created layouts
from initial concept to design, to art direction, to copywriting, to final output for all
advertising campaigns: newspaper ads, direct mail, website promotional landing pages,
web banners, Google Adwords, e-mail ads, magazines ads, POS posters/hang-tags,
billboards, radio, expos, grass root campaigns, etc.
• Prepared campaigns visuals & presented mock-ups to the VP of Marketing.
• Selected images for each campaign based on concept, this included: directing photo
shoots and/or purchasing stock photography and/or utilizing vendor images.
• Advertising Department Manager:
o Supervised & delegated marketing & production coordinator’s work performance,
attendance and conducted annual reviews.
o Approved marketing & production coordinators negotiated contracts, for: print (direct mail, ROP ads, magazine ads,
POS posters, hangtags, grass-root ads, expos etc.), website third-party promotions, shipping, etc.
o Directed regional & district mangers, sales team with detailed campaign instructions, multi-media publications
& run-dates, product markdowns, expiration dates, P.O.S. posters & hangtags, etc.
o Reported weekly to the VP of Marketing & Operations; reviewed & analyzed market penetration & competition;
strategized to increase market share for each region.
• Developed & Managed Omni Fitness Equipment’s website & online marketing currently used by www.BusyBody.com:
o Designed website schematics & visual pages, hired web developers for backend code & rack space management.
o Created, managed, updated, designed & coded (HTML/CSS) website graphic promotions, landing & sub pages,
category pages for product brand, images & description, etc.
o Designed & coded emails, created Google Adwords, etc. (designed & coded: Photoshop/Dreamweaver/Image Ready).
o Researched online companies’ & created campaign concepts for online joint venture campaigns to increase our direct
consumer database & market share.
Achievements:
• Promoted to Senior Art Director & managed the advertising department with a 2 million dollar budget.
• Strategically developed a marketing plan with VP of Marketing. Target goals: to separate our brand from competitors,
increase annual ROI and gain market share. Successfully increased ROI from -4% to +11%. Direct contribution: created a
unique corporate brand identity & advertising multimedia esthetics: applied branding to all print, web, retail materials, etc.
Art Director, Macy’s — New York, NY • 1996 – 2000
Center Core and Bridal Registry Art Director this included: jewelry, women’s fashions and
accessories, hosiery and lingerie. High-end brands included: DKNY, Liz Claiborne,
Givenchy, Jones NY, Guess, Tommy Hilfiger, Waterford, etc.
• Weekly met with marketing director, merchandise buyers, copywriters and
art directors to brainstorm & cohesively promote retail products for catalog
and/or newspaper advertising.
• Responsible for designing front cover catalogs for high-end jewelry.
• Designed & directed initial layouts for direct mail (catalogs/ postcards),
newspapers, POS signage & magazine ads.
• Presented layouts to Group Art Manager.
• Selected models & stylists (make-up, hair, fashion stylists for photo shoots.
• Directed photo shoots: models, photographers & hair/makeup/fashion stylists;
also directed still-life photo shoots.
• Selected images to feature in advertising promotions.
• Verified & finalized printing proofs/press checks for mass production & distribution.
Achievement: First person promoted from technical layout artist to Art Director.
COMPUTER SKILLS
Adobe Creative Suite CS5 Extended Safari BBEdit 6.0 / Home Site 5.0
 Photoshop Mozilla Firefox Google Adwords
 InDesign Google Chrome Right Now Technologies (CRM)
 Illustrator Microsoft Office 2008 Digital Photographer/Retouching
 Dreamweaver  Word Cumulus / InRiver
 Acrobat Professional  Excel Mac OS X Snow Leopard
 Flash Catalyst  PowerPoint Windows XP/Windows 7
Quark Xpress 6.5  Entourage QR Code Mobile Interaction