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IN THIS ISSUE:
Hot (Rocks) Talent
Featured Talent This Week
That Rockin' Bit at the End - "Blogmento"
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HOT (ROCKS) TALENT
What would you say if we told you we were giving away 60GB iPods to the first 10 people who call us?
You'd probably call us great big liars.
And you'd be right, because not only has management refused to let us give away iPods, they keep telling us they won't pay for the ones we just bought for ourselves.
Oh well.
If you happen like iPods, though, you'll love our Talent. All of whom hold well over 6,000 GB of information on everything from Photoshop and design to product development and project management.
That's better to put in your company's back pocket anyway, right?
And follow the links for profiles, samples, and resumes.
Rock on!
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FEATURED TALENT THIS WEEK
Jennifer R. - Creative Management | Product Development
Karine H. - Production | Graphic Designer
Adriann M. - Project | Account Manager
Gerald D. - Proofreader
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Jennifer R.
Creative Management | Product Development
Jennifer was most recently Director of Visual Merchandise at Skechers U.S.A, where she led the point-of-purchase, gift-with-purchase, and promotions programs for all wholesale accounts for the past 5 years.
And no, we haven't asked her if we can get a discount.
Armed with massive experience in product development, sourcing, manufacturing and materials management, and event planning, she was responsible for the development of corporate POPs, premiums, and promotions for 16 global brands and managed a staff of 7. Her background includes vendor negotiation/relations, composing creative briefs, extensive coordination and trafficking, purchasing, and creative budgeting (she helped reduce her department's budget from $6M to $1.5 in one year).
And "Can Do" is her middle name!
See her on-line Aquent profile!
Desired Work: Freelance and Permanent
Professional Categories: Brand Management, Merchandising, Product Management, Promotions, Production Management
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Karine H.
Production | Graphic Designer
A superstar from our Amgen engagement, Karine worked wonders as a Print Production Artist on product launches, trade shows, product information brochures, style guides, etc. in a fast-paced, heavy deadline-driven environment.
With over 10 years of production and design experience, she's worked in just about every industry from magazine to beauty for companies like Intel (formerly Xircom), Creative Age Publications, Applause, Werner Publishing, Aware Products, and more.
She has excellent hands-on skills and comes highly recommended from our whole team!
See her on-line Aquent profile!
Desired Work: Freelance & Permanent
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Adriann M.
Project | Account Manager
With a formal education in graphic design, Adriann is a Project | Account Manager with extensive hands-on graphic skills and a broad understanding of the creative world.
At Parlour Wood in London, she managed healthcare and transportation accounts overseeing all strategic development as well as the tactical implementation of all printing and communication collateral including packaging, magazine ads, brochures, catalogs, banners, day planners, and more. Her background in design helps negotiate the choppy waters from brief to print and facilitates relations with the client and design studio. She is well able to handle a multitude of projects and has creative management experience.
She's open to relocation and comes highly recommended!
See her on-line Aquent profile!
Desired Work: Permanent
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Gerald D.
Proofreader
Previously Deadline Proofreader at Vertis (formerly AdOut), working extensively with L.A. Times, Daily News, and Daily Breeze, Gerald knows the meaning of "I need it ten minutes ago".
Able to handle fast-paced environments and tons of volume, he not only has speedy and accurate proofreading skills, but he's also a professional magazine copyeditor, desktop publisher, and large format specialist to boot.
If you've been looking for Proofreader who knows Quark isn't just another elementary particle...
You finally found him!
See his on-line Aquent profile!
Desired Work: Freelance & Permanent
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THAT ROCKIN' BIT AT THE END
"Blogmento"
You'll have to bear with me on this, I'm blogging from my phone at Ralph's Grocery Store.
I have been here what seems like forever and now I am lost, lost, lost...
Aisle 3: Bread, Chips, Snacks, New Age Beverages.
New Age Beverages? What are those?
I came in here to get soda for my Poker Night and I am being driven crazy by the way they categorize these aisles. Do you suppose, for once, they could do something smart and make a national classification system (ala the Dewey Decimal System) for grocery stores? Just so you wouldn't have to wander through a dozen aisles then back again looking for Diet Yoo-hoo?
This just in: New Age Beverages are Perrier and Jolt.
Hurrah for the New Age with its crystals, pantheists, and zany beverages.
Soda. Soda.
I'm on Aisle 4: Frozen Foods, and still no sign of the soda.
Have you noticed the variety of frozen pizzas currently available? It takes up two whole freezer sections. Rising pizza, cheeseless pizza, microwavable pizza, quinoa pizza, Mexican pizza.
Mexican pizza? Oh, it's got chipotle chilies.
Right. Mexican pizza.
I just asked someone who was counting frozen pizzas where the soda was, but apparently he doesn't work here. He is wearing a uniform and counting pizzas in the frozen section, how could it be he doesn't work here?
And, more importantly, how can I get a job like his? Great job to have in the summer, I bet.
Oh, jeez, here comes Bob from Finance...
:(
I had to tell him I'm on my lunch. My lunch, Bob! Mine! I might as well ask you how you got out of your Thursday morning meeting.
So what if I'm taking an early lunch? I'm getting pizza for my Poker Night!
Wonder what kind of pizza the guys want?
Cheeseless looks good. Huh, Mexican pizza. I wonder what's on it?
Yum, chipotles.
Perfect. Done!
:)
Just asked some guy counting the pizzas where the checkout was. Bizarre, not only did he not know, he looked at me like I was some kind of weirdo.
Well "dude", you've just made it into my blog via my Blackberry, see how you like that!
>;->
Oh, shoot, here comes Bob from Finance. What's he doing here? Well, he's certainly not going to interfere with me buying food for Poker Night, I'll tell you that.
You know, Bob always gives me attitude when I say hi to him. I don't know why I bother doing it at all.
:-o
I don't know who the heck just threw these pizzas in my cart, but it's not funny. Now I have to get by this guy loading up pizzas in the freezer to put these babies back.
And then go pick up some chipotles for Poker Night.
Aren't chipotles just smoked jalapenos? Where do you suppose they put them at Ralph's, in the Ethnic Food or Canned Vegetables aisles? Since they're not technically a vegetable (are they?), maybe they're considered "ethnic". (How is it Irish isn't considered ethnic anymore? What's the cutoff for being considered ethnic?)
You know what'd be great? If they invented some system so you could find any food item in any store across the nation.
Dill pickles: Aisle 17! Crenshaw Melons: Aisle 2!
That'd be fantastic. I could probably make a million bucks inventing something like that.
They could call it the Foodie Decimal System.
Shoot, I'm going to have to ask this pizza stacker where I can find the pokers for my Fireplace Night. Can't make a fire without pokers.
I don't know why the heck I ever decided to throw a Fireplace Night in the first place. Why do I let people talk me into this stuff?
>:\
I'll have to upload pictures of this angry pizza stacker when I get back to the office (btw, just saw Bob from Finance wandering down aisle 14. Wonder how he got out?) Anyway, Mr. Pizza just shouted a stream of expletives you would not believe and I refuse to repeat on this public blog.
That must be the worst job in the world, right? Probably makes him furious, stacking frozen pizzas all day. (BTW, they've got like a hundred different kinds now, chipotle, quinoa, cheeseless. Really crazy stuff. The Mexican pizza is loaded with chipotles.)
It might just be that guy, you know? Pizza stacking actually sounds like a job I'd get a kick out of. Great summer job.
And you know what? He didn't have a clue where the fireplaces would be.
Can't find a thing at this store.
I wonder if Bob over there knows.
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Tim Donnelly
Roadie
Aquent
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