Hector Mercado

Work Experience

UBM Canon

Production Artist

Los Angeles, CA

August 2010 - May 2011

Duties include creation of ‘camera ready’ figures for the companies large family of publications. Figures range from simple callouts, to highly technical electronic schematics. Additional responsibilities include email newsletter production, web production, pagination, color correction, for publication and in-house marketing department.



Executive Mortgage Group

Marketing Director

Montebello, CA

February 2007 - 2010

Day to day responsibilities included e-mail communications for internal communications, as well as recruitment of new agents and branches.

Ongoing projects include updating and maintaining intranet with current information. A job highlight was redesigning of monthly newsletter, and reproposing content for both web and print format.



Daily Journal Corporation

Graphic/Production Artist

Los Angeles, CA

June 2004 - February 2007

Day to day duties included creation of newspaper display ads for various government agencies such as County of Los Angeles, City of Los Angeles, State of California, CAL TRANS, Orange County Transportation Authority (OCTA) to name a few.

Job highlight's include the visual development, for the County of Los Angeles, Office of AIDS Programs and Policy's. Media included was bus shelters, bus benches, newspaper display ads and launching of the re-branded web site.



La Opinión

Online Content Coordinator

Los Angeles, California

April 2000 - November 2002

Responsible for publishing daily editorial content on web site, as well as coordinated special content packages from Editorial and Ad Services departments.

Conceptualized and designed Dodgers and Galaxy channels that followed both Los Angeles teams; channels features included calendar of the entire season with recaps of individual games, photo galleries of selected games, and player bio's. Responsible for micro-sections for Latin Grammy's and the Academy Awards, coordinated content exchange with editorial departments from both the Los Angeles Times and La Opinión.


Education

Bachelor of Arts, Art – Design Option.

California State University, Los Angeles

Date of Completion 06/10

Los Angeles, CA


Associate of Arts Degree

Pasadena City College

Date of Completion 12/06

Pasadena, CA

Software

  • MAC and PC Platforms
  • Illustrator CS 5 and older
  • Photoshop CS 5 and older
  • InDesign CS 5 and older
  • Dreamweaver CS 5 and older
  • Flash CS 5 and older
  • MS Outlook
  • Drupal 6.0
  • xHTML/CSS/jQuery
  • Word
  • Excel
  • PowerPoint
  • Key Note
  • QuarkXPress