CV of Design Manager / Art director , looking for a job of Design / graphistes.enligne-it.com

Current industry: Printing

Size of the company: 101-1000 employees

Current position: Design Manager

Number of years spent at this position: 6-10 years

Number of persons you managed: 6-10 persons

Annual salary: 50000.00 EUR

Total working experience: more than 15 years

Availability: Immediate availability

Positions: Art director, Senior graphic designer, Specialised graphic designer

Industry: Design and branding, Communication, Corporate

Desired type of contract: open-ended contract, fixed term contract, Fixed-term / casual work, Temporary work

Desired working time: Full-time, Part-time, One-day assignments, Seasonal work, Available on Week-ends

Minimum annual salary desired: 50000.00 / 50000.00 EUR

Highest educational level completed: number of years studied and completed with a diploma after highschool : +5

Last diploma : Advanced course in graphic design Schule für Gestaltung, Basel, Switzerland

Current educational level : +5

Other training courses :

Geographical mobility: Country : Belgium, France, Ireland, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Mexico, Monaco, Spain, Switzerland, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, Vatican

Known Tools / Software/ Methods Adobe CS 5, Microsoft Office

HGV, LGV, special vehicles licences B

Languages French : Working language
English : Working language
Spanish : Native
Italian : Basic
German : Basic

Mr. To... G...

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35000 Rennes
France

Nationality: Mexican and American

Born: 16 June 1963, Minneapolis, Minn., USA

Driver’s licence: B



Civil status: married, 3 children.



Languages: native language Spanish, English
and French high level, German and Italian basic level.



Hobbies: nature, music, golf, travelling,
animals, exploring.



Conventional Design: corporate identity,
internal communications, posters, flyers, collateral, brochures, annual
reports, menus, etc.



Security document designer such as
banknotes, passports, visas, ID cards, excise stamps, labels.



Expert with Adobe CS versions (Photoshop,,
Illustrator, InDesign) PowerPoint, etc.



Professional Experiences

Oct. 2010

AtelierGM Design

Individual business. Graphic design company
offering services for conventional design, banknotes and other fiduciary
security printing documents. I have managed design teams in companies in
different countries in Mexico, Canada, and more recently in France for 7 years
at Oberthur Technologies. During my career, I have worked with projects in a
variety of sectors such as the furniture industry, the mechanic and electronic
industry, health, culture, food, security printing, corporate communications
and publishing.



2004 - 2010

Oberthur Technologies

Head of the Design Department. Our team was
a key player to get access to Central Bank tenders and win consequential
banknote, passport and ID card printing contracts with a high degree of
sophistication and technical constraints in very short deadlines. This included
the development of new projects for banknotes and other fiduciary documents for
various countries of the world, as well as certain corporate internal
communication documents.



2000 - 2003

Canadian Bank Note Co. Ltd.

As security document designer such as
banknotes, passports, visas, ID cards, our team collected important contracts
for printing banknotes, fiscal stamps and passports for the company. I was also
very involved in producing the presentations of the new banknote family for the
Bank of Canada, the licence issuing organism in Alberta’s province, and other
corporate documentation.



1998 - 2000

GMD Diseño S.C.

Partner of a company offering conventional
graphic design services. I was the manager of a team of 4 designers tackling
our clients’ demands within different industry sectors such as restaurants,
publishing, measuring equipment, cultural and social events, etc. Among others
we were the design agency for Club de Industriales, the centre of the executive
spheres of Mexico; we also worked for a group of restaurants, we placed the
signage system at the Hotel Meridien Cancun; we made a book of Mexico’s best
restaurants’ recipes, etc.



1994 - 1998

Freelance designer

Independent graphic designer working for
clients in a wide variety of sectors, the furniture industry, the real state
industry, the mechanical industry, the food industry, etc. I was a designer for
Wonder, one of the brands of the group Bimbo, I produced several packagings for
their products; also worked with Lopez Morton producing their furniture
catalogues, brochures and other documents; for Cicasa, a company manufacturing
equipment and water measuring systems, we elaborated their corporate identity,
applications, internal communications and website conception.



1988 - 1989

Banco de México

Designer of banknotes and also banknote
elements for various series of Mexican currency.



1983 - 1987

Producciones Audio & Video S.A. de C.V.

Graphic designer at a communication agency
with clients such as department stores as well as in the office furniture
industry.



Education

October 1993

Specialization course:

“Typography : Tradition and Innovation”

at Centro de Diseño Industrial S. A.

Bilbao, Spain



March 1993

Specialization:

“Character Rasterisation”

By Dr. Roger Hersch et Claude Betrisey of
the

Peripheric Sytems Departement at the

Polytechnic Institute of Lausanne

Basel, Switzerland



1991 - 1993

MBA equivalent degree :

Avanced Course in Graphic Design

“Weiterbildungsklasse für Grafik”

Allgemeine Gewerbeschule Basel,

Schule für Gestaltung

Basel, Switzerland



June 1989

BA Graphic Design

Professional examination with honours

Universidad Anahuac A. C.

Mexico City, Mexico

Mr. To... G...

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35000 Rennes
France

Art Director/Senior graphic designer

Dear Sirs,



For several years I have led design teams in different companies in Mexico,
Canada and more recently, for the last 7 years, in France.



All along my career I have been familiar with all kinds of projects of different
industry sectors such as the office furniture industry, the electric and mechanic equipment
industry, the Health Ministry, cultural events, the food industry, the security
printing, corporate communications and publishing.



My intention at present is to be able to work in a company such as yours,
bringing my knowledge, my multicultural experience and my versatility into play.



It would be a pleasure to make your acquaintance and to discuss personally
the possibility of collaborating together.



Hoping to hear from you soon, I remain, Sincerely,

Mr. To... G