Laura O. Barcena Villalba    
1294 Islington Avenue
Toronto, M9A 3K2
416.231.0985
www.lobvdesign.com
 lobv@lobvdesign.com

Graphic Designer/magazines design specialist

Highlights
* Successful Graphic Designer with 9 years' experience five of them in the magazine publishing field
* Managed a team of eight graphic designers; delegated tasks and guided the team to meet quality standards, deadlines and clients’ expectations for  
   20 monthly publications
* Introduced new procedures which increased designers' efficiency
* Awarded  for designing the Special Edition of the movie magazine Maxximo Evento
* Photoshop and sports trainer
* Detailed, results-orientedand  hard worker independently and with a team;
* Produced the design of more than four monthly publications of 32 to 96 pages
* Selected and hired new designers
* Passion for design; good interpersonal communication skills; bilingual: English and Spanish
* Well-organized, detail-oriented and focused on improvements in production and delivery.

Mac and PC Applications
Photoshop            Flash          Open Office                 I Show You
In Design             Go Live      Basic HTML               Safari
Illustrator             Word          Basic Dreamweaver    Explorer and Firefox
QuarkXpress        Excel         Power Point                 Skype

Professional Achievements
Publications Leader:
* Introduced new design procedures which reduced processing times
* Designed, wrote and implemented an operational standards manual for new and current designers;

Graphic Designer:
* Streamlined methods for designing 17 pages per day
* Awarded  for designing the Special Edition of the movie magazine Maxximo Evento
* Promoted as a Senior graphic designer in Vanguardia Editores company in 2006

Volunteer Experience
Graphic Designer    Since March 2008
ASAAP Alliance for South Asian AIDS Prevention, Toronto
Design flyers and web banners using the alliance’s symbols for an integrated look
Graphic Designer    April-August 2008
DragonFly Distributing, and Gramprecision Scales, Mississauga
Designed logos, packaging, catalogues, booklets


Professional Experience
Publications Leader    2006 – 2007
Vanguardia Editores S.A., México City, México, www.vanguardiaeditores.net
* Managed a department of eight graphic designers; delegated tasks and guided the team to meet quality, content and accuracy standards and
   deadlines for 20-plus publications
* Organized, scheduled and assigned projects to the designers; monitored and evaluated staff performance
* Supervised .PDF and .EPS files to be sent to pre-press
* Designed and presented magazine layouts to the company owner and senior management team for pre-release approval.

Graphic Designer    2002 – 2006
Vanguardia Editores S.A., México City, México, www.vanguardiaeditores.net
* Produced the design for magazines and print material
* Digitalized and retouched images using scanner and photoshop CS3 to  meet publication standards
* Photographed products; edited images for content an appearence standars
* Designed advertisements, posters, logos, calendars, flyers and other printed materials.

Graphic Designer    2001 – 2002
TM Imports, México City, México
* Produced embroidery kits design and vectorized images
* Designed advertisements, posters, logos, and flyers.
* Graphic Designer    1998 – 2002
* Solucion Digital México City, México
* Produced logo designs and working doing regular photocopies (copy center)
* Scanned, resized, cropped and fixed colour on client images, at least 24 each month.

Education
B.A.  in Graphic Design    1997
Universidad del Valle de México, México City, México

Training Courses
* Flash and Go Live                                                                 2007
Toronto School of Art, Toronto
* Typography                                                                            2005
Versal Institute, México City, México
* In Design                                                                               2004
Vanguardia Editores S.A., México City, México
* Digital Design [Photoshop, Illustrator and QuarkXpress]    1997
Mac training, México City, México

Other activities

Former tennis pro, and member of the Mexican Selection Flag Football Team— five time World Cup Champions ; recognized as the MVP in the 2002 World Cup Competition

References    Available on request.