Carlos Centeno

Associate Creative Director & Designer

Lebanon, PA, USA

Work Experience

PPO&S, Inc.

Digital Art Director

July 2015 - May 2019 Pennsylvania, United States

Invictus, LLC

Contracted Creative Director

Developed branding strategies and provided design and front-end web development for clients in both nonprofit and for-profit sectors.
January 2010 - July 2015 Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, United States

InsuranceNewsNet, Inc.

Senior Graphic Designer

Designed and coded direct response email campaigns for company’s clientele; work in conjunction with art director to design monthly print magazine — a publication with over 50,000 subscribers nationwide; created in-house marketing collateral and coordinated vendors for production; provided strategy, design, and development for InsuranceNewsNet’s various websites and mobile sites.
October 2011 - July 2015 Camp Hill, Pennsylvania, United States

Dean Design & Marketing Group

Designer

Developed marketing strategies/ideation and design for both print and web collateral; coordinated and provided art direction for illustrators, photographers, copywriters, proofreaders, and other vendors; performed project manager duties and maintained local and national accounts; worked in conjunction with other designers under a creative director.
June 2008 - October 2011 Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States

Dance Distributors

Graphic Designer

Designed quarterly dancewear catalog, advertisements, and other print/web collateral; maintained company website; was responsible for all in-house communication collateral.
May 2006 - January 2008 Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, United States

PPO&S, Inc.

Associate Creative Director

May 2019 - Present Pennsylvania, United States

Education

Messiah University

BA in Graphic Design

August 2003 - January 2006 Pennsylvania, United States

Florida State University

June 2002 - May 2003 Tallahassee, Florida, United States

Languages

English (Fluent),
Spanish (Native),

Awards

Service Industry Advertising Awards

Best of Show - PA Insurance Fraud Prevention Authority's "See How They Lie" Campaign

2016

Service Industry Advertising Awards

SIAAward GOLD - Integrated Marketing Campaign category for PA Insurance Prevention Authority's "See How They Lie" Campaign

2016

Service Industry Advertising Awards

SIAAward SILVER - Integrated Marketing Campaign category for YWCA Greater Harrisburg's "In a Pinch" Fund Campaign

2016

Hermes Creative Awards

PLATINUM - Integrated Marketing Campaign category for PA Insurance Fraud Prevention Authority's "See How They Lie" Campaign

2016

Graphic Design USA

American Web Design Award - Keep Pennsylvania Beautiful's eWastePa.org Website

2016

Graphic Design USA

American Web Design Award - PPO&S Website

2016

The Communicator Awards

SILVER Award of Distinction - Integrated Campaign category for YWCA Harrisburg Area's "In a Pinch" Fund Campaign

2016

The Communicator Awards

SILVER Award of Distinction - Corporate Identity category for Pierson Computing Connection, Inc.

2016

Min's Integrated Marketing Awards

Marketing Team of the Year - My team at InsuranceNewsNet is a Finalist next to The Atlantic, Martha Stewart Living, and Women's Health Magazine

2014

American Society Of Business Press Editors

Azbee Awards of Excellence GOLD - Web Redesign category for InsuranceNewsNet Magazine

2014

Service Industry Advertising Awards

SIAAward SILVER - Newsletter category for Camphill Special School's Reflections

2011

Service Industry Advertising Awards

SIAAward MERIT - Annual Report category for Camphill Special School

2011

Service Industry Advertising Awards

SIAAward GOLD - Logo/Letterhead Design category for Kimberton Whole Foods' identity work

2009

Skills

Adobe Creative Suite, Art Direction, Beanstalk (Deployment), Branding, CSS, Front-End Web Development, Graphic Design, Grunt, HTML, Illustration, Jquery, PerchCMS, SASS, Tower (Git), UX/UI Design, Web Design, Wordpress (CMS),