studio@vivianaespinosa.com

(203) 733 1821

EDUCATION

May ‘07 New York University Masters Degree - Interactive Telecommunication

May ‘99 Western CT State University Bachelors Degree - Graphic Design

SKILLS

Multi-task Interaction Designer with visual design background and front-end web developing skills in CSS and XHTML 5 (hand coded). Capable to create compositions for further development in Flash, Processing and Maya.

Advanced Graphic Design knowledge of the latest Adobe CS applications (InDesign, PhotoShop, Illustrator, Acrobat Pro, Dreamweaver, AfterEffects, etc.) as well as QuarkXpress, MS Office, AfterEffects, sound editing and production.

Hands-on Illustrator and prototype building with various materials.

Use and maintenance of various high-resolution slide and non-slide scanners and cameras.

Fluent speaking and writing in Spanish – professional translator.

EXPERIENCE

Spring ’07 - Present Borough of Manhattan Community College (CUNY)

Fall’10 - Present LaGuardia Community College (CUNY)

Spring ’10 - Summer ‘10 The Art Institute of New York

Spring ’08 - Fall ‘09 Westchester Community College (SUNY)

Adjunct Professor/Lecturer (some descriptions of taught classes. More non-digital art-driven classes have been taught)

Multimedia Design Class

· Manipulate graphics, text, video and sound in sophisticated ways for use in print layout as well as multimedia, with an emphasis on design concepts for the creation of web pages.

· Implement visual design principles to on screen designs. Emphasis on the creation of storyboards, site maps.

· Implement XHTML web standards and the use CSS formatting

· Insertion of multimedia objects (animations, forms, videos, flash).

Video Arts and Technology Class

· Manipulate graphics and text, video and sound in sophisticated ways for use in print layout as well as multimedia, with an emphasis on design concepts for the creation of compositions for screen

· Introduction to AfterEffects and PhotoShop.

Communication Design I and Graphic Design Applications

· Principles of Graphic Design and its history.

· Emphasis on text manipulation with relationship with space.

· Introduction to all applications related to Graphic Design

Illustration, Type Design, Art History, Web Design

· Lecturer

August ‘09 – November ‘09 The New York Stock Exchange

NYX.com User Acceptance Testing

User-acceptance testing on Fatwire 7.5 CMS (Content Management System) implementation and future www.nyx.com website.

4/2002 – August 2008 Housatonic Area Regional Transit

Designer – Marketing and Public Relations Coordinator

· Creation of marketing materials with the purpose of redefining the company’s branding (fleet look, mapping, timetables, and website -www.hartct.org).

· Promoting the use of public transportation by marketing the services through ads in various media, presentations and representing the agency in public meetings as well a in the private sector.

• Make decisions on the use of the marketing budget and compliance with our marketing plan.

9/2005 - 12/2006 The Studio for Digital Projects and Research

Student Technology Assistant NYU Bobst Library
Assist the Senior Lab Manager in the technical administration of a leading digital arts program.

• Assist student and faculty users: provide instruction on electronic text, flatbed scanning, video/audio editing, etc.; assist Studio staff with day-to-day operations (inventory, statistics, web site, etc.)
• Set-up and maintenance of PC and Macintosh computer systems; hardware and software, PC and Macintosh based servers networking and major peripheral input and output devices.
• Set-up and maintenance of video and audio creation, editing and recording systems, digital video and sound recording and editing systems.

CLIENTS
Rodale (Prevention Mag.) & Parenting.com Photo Editor/Designer New York NY

LatinoAmérica News Senior Art Director Danbury CT

Design of the newspaper layout, collateral materials and advertisements. Translation from English to Spanish and vice versa.

Marketing Drive US Art Director Wilton CT

Production all in-store advertising for the Gillette Corporation, at National and International levels. (Gillette’s products: Duracell, Braun and Oral-B).

Brainbow Corporation Web Designer / Developer White Plains NY

Design and front end development. Some clients included names such as alransales.com, atwebmall.com, and concordplazany.com.

Ethan Allen Inc Multimedia Design Artist Danbury CT

Front-end development, print catalog design, product database creation and management.

TRAINING and AWARDS

2005 Market-Based Ridership Strategies Seminar

2004 National Women’s Transportation Seminar Member

2003 Leadership Training Danbury Chamber of Commerce

Flash Attack Workshop

Marketing Public Transportation Seminar

2002 Creating Effective Email Marketing Campaigns

1999  Designing and Planning Web Pages Certificate

December 2004 - American Graphic Design Magazine - Award

October 2003 - Art Alumni Show Award - Western CT State University