[about_text]I am [label]multi-disciplinary designer[/label] currently residing in Clyde, NY with my beautiful wife and 8 years old daughter. I am usually very busy with many activities such as running my Martial Arts school – Fusion Mixed Martial Arts and working on my online business endeavor – Creative Farm Design.
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[history_unit date=”Since 2005″]

Computer Lab Instructor/Teacher’s Assistant

Clyde Savannah School District: Clyde, NY

I developed and co-taught the Digital Music (2011-Present), Digital Business (2011-2013), Digital Technology (2011-Present) and Digital Media Arts (2011-2013) at the 8th grade level.

I taught the Generation YES enrichment class (2005), the High School Digital Film Class (2006) and mentored a winning S.T.E.M. video competition team (2013).

I have also designed many print/media projects for the school.
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[history_unit date=”Since 2000″]

Graphic Designer/Web Designer,

Art Director, and Creative Consultant

Creative Farm Design: Clyde NY • Toronto, ON

Graphic design, web design, marketing branding/strategic planning and creative consulting for various retailers and small businesses. Responsibilities included photographing fashion shoots for catalogs and advertising campaigns. Art directing and developing marketing concept for in-store posters. Offered consultation on visual merchandising display and strategic/brand development.
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[history_unit date=”2002 – 2003″]

Art Director/Graphic Designer, Fashion Merchandise Consultant

Amerella of Canada Ltd.: Toronto, ON

Supervised and trained 5 graphic designers in my department. Art directed the designing of fashion prints, embroideries, hang tags, of popular retails brands, such as Mary Kate and Ashley, Henry Grethel and Zeller’s Sportek. Developed branding ideas for Zellers’s Sportek, and ISPO
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[history_unit date=”2000 – 2002″]

Graphic Designer, Art Director, Fashion Merchandise Consultant

Randy River, Brogue, & Wall Street: Toronto, ON

Developed advertising, marketing, and branding strategies/concepts. Responsibilities included photographing fashion shoots for catalogs and advertising campaigns. Art directing and developing marketing concept for in-store posters. My other responsibilities included designing fashion merchandise such as t-shirts, baseball caps, and woven prints. My graphic design responsibilities included designing brochures, hang tags, catalogs, packaging ideas, and fashion line-lists. Offered consultation on store interior graphic design concepts. Designed and brand website using Flash 4.0 and Dreamweaver 3.0. Responsible for taking the designs from conception to production including final approval of press sheets.
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[history_unit date=”2000″]

Graphic Designer

Fabulous Printing Inc.: Toronto, ON

Designed brochures, business cards, catalogs, and newsletters. Responsible for color separation and preparing files for film output and offset printing.
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[history_unit date=”1999 – 2000″]

Graphic Designer/Fashion Merchandiser

Style-Kraft Sportswear Ltd.: Toronto, ON.

Developed clothing line concept for a Style-Kraft Sportswear brand in title Clench. Designed t-shirts, pants, jackets, woven prints, brochures, business cards, catalogues, packaging ideas, and fashion linelists. Responsible for taking the designs from conception to production. Other responsibilities included technical rendering using Adobe Illustrator 8.0 and Adobe Photoshop 4.0.
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[history_unit date=”2000″]

Graphic Design/Art Direction

Haggar – Canada Women Outer Wear Division

Helped acquired the license of Haggar Canada Women Outer Wear Division by art directing and developing a magazine-like proposal for Style Kraft Ltd.
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[history_unit date=”2000″]

Fashion Designer

Clench: Toronto, ON

Successfully helped launching new clothing line entitled Clench for Style-Kraft Sportswear Ltd.
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[history_unit date=”1998 – 1999″]

Graphic Designer/Full Service Digital Output Specialist

Kinko’s: Toronto, ON

Designed and produced digital outputs using graphic applications.
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[history_unit date=”1995″]

Assistant Designer/Pattern Maker

Boggle Toggle Children’s Wears: Toronto, ON.

Designed and produced digital outputs using graphic applications.
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[history_unit date=”2000″]

Fashion Designer

Clench: Toronto, ON

Successfully helped launching new clothing line entitled Clench for Style-Kraft Sportswear Ltd.
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[history_unit date=”1998″]

Sound of Toronto

Secondary Music Teachers Associations of Toronto: Toronto, Ontario

Designed award winning poster for Sound of Toronto, A Presentation by the Secondary Music Teachers Associations.
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[history_unit date=”1998″]

Photographs

Once A Thief: Toronto, On

Photo Image used in John Woo’s T.V. series Once A Thief
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[history_unit date=”1996″]

Event Organizer and Fashion Show Coordinator

“Free At Last” (An Art & Fashion Show): Toronto, ON.

Successfully launched and organized with two other business partners a twelve hours art, entertainments and fashions extravaganza. The show included three live bands, cater foods, showcase twelve artist, and three fashion designers. I managed all aspects of the fashion show, from runway design, choreography, and make up, to hair styling. Also worked on the PR, marketing and advertising of the show. Was able to obtained at 5 minutes segments on the very popular Breakfast Television on CHUM TV, Toronto, ON
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[history_unit date=”1994″]

The 9th Annual Vancouver Chinatown Lioness Designers Fashion Competition

Vancouver, BC

One of only fifteen designers chosen to showcase designs for business, casual and evening wear.
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[history_unit date=”1993″]

Vancouver Art Gallery “Design Expose 1993”

Vancouver, BC

Part of an Art and Fashion showcase at the Vancouver Art Gallery Design Expose 1993
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[history_unit date=”1993″]

Smirnoff International Fashion Awards

Toronto, ON & São Paulo, Brazil

I represented Canada at the 1993 Smirnoff International Fashion Awards Grand Finales in Brazil. Competed with finalists from 27 other countries, I was able to gain a global perspective on international fashion.
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[history_unit date=”2002″]

Interactive Art & Entertainment Training Program

The Canadian Film Centre, Bell Habitat: Toronto, ON

Developed a prototype entitled XMF (Xtended Modular Fashion). The 24 week program focusing on the conceptualization and development of unique interactive entertainment and cultural content. Materials cover: leadership development and team building, new media technology analysis, models of interactive storytelling and game design, strategies of new media business practices. Project development: development of preliminary business plan, completion of a fully functional prototype, creation of design, technical and project documentation. Successfully launch project with a full scale interactive event with fashion models, advertisement, foods and entertainments.
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[history_unit date=”2000″]

Large and Medium Size Format Photography, Wedding Photography

George Brown College: Toronto, ON

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[history_unit date=”1995 – 1998″]

Graduated from the 3 year Art Diploma Program

The Art Center: Toronto, ON

Graduated from the 3 year Art Diploma Program: Sept. 95 – June 98 Concentrating in Graphic Design and Photography Studied life drawing, painting, illustration, sculpture, art history, video making/editing, communication arts, and photography. My major area of studied was in Graphic Design and Photography.[/history_unit]

[history_unit date=”1992 – 1994″]

Extensive Fashion Design Training and Education

Vancouver, BC & Montreal, PQ

Studied textile science, garment construction, pattern making, fashion illustration, design, history of fashion, fashion show production, and classical men’s wear tailoring.[/history_unit]

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