RESUME
Originally from Paris, France, I bring over 25 years of experience in the fashion and luxury brand industries, specializing in advertising campaigns, publishing projects, and exhibitions. My career spans creative leadership, technical expertise, and a deep understanding of prepress workflows for both digital and traditional print production.
As an experienced manager, I’ve led creative teams on high-profile projects, delivering exceptional results across digital printing, photo retouching, digital proofing, and color management. My technical proficiency extends to all aspects of traditional prepress, including analog proofing and commercial printing, making me a versatile and valuable asset for any creative, advertising, or publishing endeavor.
SPECTRAFLOW EAST, NEW YORK | 03/2018 - Present
COLOR MANAGEMENT SPECIALIST
With a deep understanding of the leading Color Management software solutions, provide and implement extensive support across all devices to help photographers, printmakers, advertising agencies and artists into achieving perfect color reproduction.
Offer and develop solutions to optimize time spent on color matching, speed up design cycles, and reduce costs.
Work closely with many of the top industry vendors such as EFI, GMG, Onyx, Epson to deliver first rate support and stay up to date on the latest product releases.
PARSONS SCHOOL OF DESIGN, THE NEW SCHOOL, NEW YORK | 09/2018 - 06/2022
GRAPHIC & ADVERTISING DESIGN INSTRUCTOR
Provide eduction and instruction for visual communication concepts and tools, fundamentals of typography, graphic design and layout, as well as digital skills.
INTEGRAL KOLOR LLC, NEW YORK | 09/2017 - Present
ART DIRECTION, CREATIVE TEAM MANAGEMENT & PRINT PRODUCTION
Consulting/Freelance for Pierre Balmain, Rosewood Hotels, IDEXT, Jamal Igle & Co, Annie Leibovitz Studio, Wednesday Agency, Alta Image NYC, 127Productions, StudioDangin, Verishop, Bespoke, General Idea.
Integral Kolor llc provides many services similar to a large advertising agency, but with the attentive one-on-one approach of a small business, while using a holistic approach to the various challenges clients may face.
Freelance onsite/offsite: Design and manage post-production of media placement and delivery of final assets for ads, digital media and printed materials.
Print production for Fine Art books: production, art direction, retouching, layouts.
Consulting: Provide leadership and guidance towards continuous improvement of print workflow options, software, hardware and personnel education and training recommendations.
Key achievements
Fall 2018: worked one-on-one with Annie Leibovitz and Phaidon publisher on Annie Leibovitz, At Work (Phaidon, 2018) 3rd Edition. Directing and delivered flawless press-ready files.
BOX SERVICES LLC - NEW YORK | 1999 - 09/2017
KiDS CREATIVE - NEW YORK | 2007 - 09/2017
PRINT PRODUCTION & TEAM MANAGEMENT
Over the years working at Box Services and its sister company KiDS Creative, I executed design projects for multimillion dollar advertising campaigns. I skillfully directed the production of diverse collateral marketing materials, including over-sized POP materials, press kits, catalogs, magazine inserts.
Managed schedule of post-production, media placement and delivered final assets for ads, digital media and printed materials for Calvin Klein, Coach, Louis Vuitton, Balenciaga, Vera Wang, Lanvin, Lancôme, Alexander Wang, Alexander McQueen, BCBG, Bébé, Donna Karan, Michael Kors, Diane Von Furstenberg, Cover Girl, Gerg Jensen, Jones New York, David Yurman, Uniqlo, Chloé, Reed Krakoff, Tommy Hilfiger.
Spring/Summer 2017, for Rosewood Hotels, Hôtel de Crillon (Paris, France) 360º launch, created and designed with the Lead Art Director mood boards, presentations, print & digital layouts. Managed post production and media buy deliverable for Rosewood global brand and Crillon Hotel.
From 2014 to Fall of 2017, worked closely with Lead Art Director and Vera Wang team to establish a passionate new brand vision, consumer-facing architecture and campaign strategy (Fashion, Wedding, Home and white labels). Supervised and generated all aspects of processes and scheduling of post-production, media placement and release of all the final deliverable.
From 2013 to 2016 for the re-branding of Balenciaga, assisted the KiDS Creative design team with presentations, Lookbook, and assets management. Worked closely with the Balenciaga team on the release of all their national and international collaterals (Over 250 assets per season).
In 2013, collaborated with Lancôme Hypnôse for Alber Elbaz new launch. Color managed and prepared files for their press kit (pop-up book), supervised and delivered their advertising campaign (fashion magazines pop-up inserts).
KiDS Creative was rewarded with Clio Award for best advertising Campaign for Alexander McQueen 2013. Worked closely with the client to release all their national and international collaterals (Over 100 assets) for their 2013 to 2014 campaigns.
FINE ART
Handled design, post-production, color work and deliverable for renowned art books and exhibitions
In 2017, worked closely with Annie Leibovitz and Phaidon publisher on Annie Leibovitz, Portraits 2006-2015, (Phaidon, 2017). Color managed the entire process, reviewed all the images with the artist, and worked closely with the Phaidon’s team to ensure optimum reproduction of Annie Leibovitz’s photographs.
From 2016 to 2017, spearheaded finalizing the design of Guy Bourdin, Untouched, (SteidlDangin, 2017). Single-handedly color managed the project and delivered press-ready files to the publisher.
In 2016 for the second edition of Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Felix Gonzalez-Torres (SteidlDangin, 2nd Edition 2016), reformatted the complete book using the newest layout and printing processes to ensure perfect reproduction. Prepped and delivered press-ready files to the publisher.
In 2015, monitored and color managed Frances Ha, Frances Ha, A Noah Baumbach Picture (SteidlDangin, 2015) book. Extracted stills images from the movie, color managed and processed files for the final book printing.
Re-processed, color managed and delivered the complete Guy Bourdin, A Message For You (SteidlDangin, Second Edition 2013) book to be compliant with newest printing processes.
Worked closely with the design teams, artists and publishers on the following books: Roni Horn, Exhibition Catalog (Glenstone Foundation, 2016-17), Roni Horn, My Gifts, a Selection 1960-2015 (Limited edition 2016), Roni Horn, Th rose prblm (Steidl, 2016), Fashion Eye, Miami Guy Bourdin (Louis Vuitton Editions, 2016), Roni Horn, Hack Wit, (Steidl, 2015), Philip-Lorca DiCorcia, Hustler (Steidl 2013).
Output and color managed fine art prints for various exhibitions, including Ron Horn The Selected Gifts (1974–2015) Foundation Beyeler, Basel (2016) and its 7 additional editions; Jean Pigozzi Johnny’s Pool (2016-17) Gagosian Gallery and editions; Various editions for Guy Bourdin, Adam Bartos, Annie Leibovitz, Roni Horn.
WORKFLOW IMPLEMENTATION & TRAINING
Provided leadership and guidance towards continuous improvement of workflow options, software, hardware and personnel education and training recommendations.
Staying abreast of newest technologies and a constant search for streamlining workflow, allowed me to implement color management procedures and automation for the retouching, designing and Prepress departments, saving hundred of hours of labors and increasing quality across various platforms.
Generated QC procedures across departments, developed and maintained graphical standards, templates, and resources.
In addition of overseeing the day-to-day operations of the department staff and equipment, many of my responsibilities included processing and managing orders for ad releases, and special projects. Generated estimates, and billing, oversaw the hiring, terminating, and training of new staff.
SKILLS
Expert in images editing, photo retouching, and artworks
Outstanding hands in using latest design and editing software (Presentations Layouts, Print Design)
Print & Color Management
Excellent knowledge & creation of typography
Post Production
Art Leadership Skills
Ability to visualize and implement client’s needs
Workflow Implementation and Upgrade Planning
Team Management: Staff Inspiration, Hiring, Training & Development
SOFTWARE
Adobe Suite CC In Design, Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere Pro, After Effect, Acrobat DC, Bridge
Quark Xpress
Color Management: GMG, PrintFactory, EFI XF, Onyx, Creo, i1Profiler, Curve4, Profile Maker, Monaco, Color Burst, Fuji
Microsoft Suite
QuickBook, Harvest, Accelo, MIS, DEAR
CERTIFICATIONS
07/2019: G7 Expert Certified
04/2018: GMG Profesional certification (ProofControl, OpenColor, ColorPlugin, ColorServer)
09/2018: Fiery proServer and Fiery XF 7.0 Professional Certification
EDUCATION
Bachelor of Fine Art Paris-Vincennes VIII University France
Native French Speaker
PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE
BOX LLC, Prepress Director, 2001-2007
BOX LLC, Prepress Manager Assistant and Photographic Laboratory assistant, 1999-2001
Creative Services Specialist Paris, France, 1995-1998
Fine Art Instructor Paris, France, 1994-1998