Robert Villatore

Production Designer

San Francisco, CA, USA

Work Experience

SYPartners

Production Designer

Digital and physical creation.
March 2015 - United States

Franklin Templeton Investments

Production Designer

Production artist in multiple media for this worldwide investment company. I create internally and externally circulated materials for marketing, promotions, presentations and advertising. I utilize both Mac and PC.
• Print: Brochures, fund information sheets, investment sheets, sales sheets, advertisements, advertisement story-boards, fund prospectus, calendars
• PowerPoint Presentations
• Charts: created in Excel, Illustrator and PowerPoint
• Other: PDF write-able forms, maps
May 2012 - July 2015 California, United States

Williams-Sonoma

Production Artist / Account Coordinator

Account Coordinator for the Pottery Barn Kids catalog (July 2010 - December 2011).
• Coordinated workflow, proofread, prepared materials for VP meetings, made sure art and layout was consistent with branding and style, and managed the Production Assistants.
• Communicate with various departments to share materials and information for the
production and design of the catalog.
• Design and page layout.
• File management & archiving.

Production Assistant (August 2006 – July 2010) for the Pottery Barn Kids catalog.
• Design and page layout.
• File management & archiving.
August 2006 - December 2011 San Francisco, California, United States

Freelance

Designer

I worked a variety of freelance jobs over the course of this three-year time period while I was in school pursuing an ornamental horticulture degree and right after moving to San Francisco.

SHAKLEE, CA
Helped prepare materials for a trade show.

EURO RSCG, CA
Production work.

UNITED SPINAL ASSOCIATION, NY
Designed promotional materials for this non-profit organization.

DATAGRAPHIC, NY
Handled pre-press duties and for this small printing company.
October 2003 - August 2006 New York, United States

Typewave

Designer / Pre-press / Production

Designed various materials for this pre-press company.
• Design: brochures, newsletters, mailers, trade-show sheets, catalogs, business cards
• Scanning, film output, trapping, film impostion, match prints, blueprints
• Posters: printing, laminating, mounting and framing
• Paste-up
April 2002 - August 2003 New York, United States

Ziff-Davis Media, Inc.

Junior Designer

Designed page layouts for this weekly technology publication with 300,000 subscribers.
• Developed creative art concepts with Art Director, writers, editors and illustrators
• Negotiated contracts with illustrators and photographers
• Scanning and photo retouching
• Printer liaison
• Post-produced each issue for online department
• Prepared files for archiving
2000 - 2001 New York, United States

Associated Grocers

Production Artist

Designed Sunday coupon flyers for this grocery store company.
1997 - 1999 Seattle, Washington, United States

Professional Equipment

Designer

Designed the catalog for this company that sells home inspection equipment.
1995 - 1996 New York, United States

Education

SUNY College At Oswego

BFA Graphic Design

September 1991 - May 1996 Oswego, New York, United States

SUNY Farmingdale

AAS Ornamental Horticulture

September 2003 - May 2006 Farmingdale, New York, United States

Skills

Acrobat, Excel, Filemaker Pro, Illustrator, Indesign, Photoshop, Powerpoint, QuarkXpress, Word,