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The Newsletter of Aquent's Available Talent
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IN THIS ISSUE:
Hot Talent
Featured Talent This Week
That Bit at the End - "Lowlights"
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HOT TALENT
Today we're throwing beads off our balcony to prove Mardi Gras isn't just for the folks down in the French Quarter.
Hey, we hit someone! He's shouting something... is he speaking in Cajun? French?
Wow, with all that wild gesturing and shouting, it looks like he's really getting the Mardi Gras spirit. People really go gonzo for these necklaces.
Crazy, because they're so cheap the day after the event.
While we liberate ourselves of this box of 2,000, you can catch up on four great Aquent Talent who really know how to Laissez Les Bon Temps Roule!
In the Marketing and Creative sense, that is.
Follow the links for profiles, samples, and resumes...
As always, enjoy in moderation!
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FEATURED TALENT THIS WEEK
Joel P. - Studio Manager | Production Art
Meina C. - Senior Graphic Designer
Stacey L. - Product Manager
Haigo M. - Project Manager
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Joel P.
Studio Manager | Production Art
A highly skilled Studio Manager, Joel is an impressive team leader always ready, willing, and able to pitch in with his hands-on production skills when the need arises (as he proved time and again on our on-site Amgen team).
With a thorough understanding in all the graphic apps, he's well-versed in creating and supervising any kind of electronic mechanicals from ads to brochures to trade show booth graphics. He has ad agency experience from Grey Advertising, BGM and Rapp Collins where his accounts included Bank of America, DirecTV, Honda, Vons, Taco Bell, Genentech, IDEC Pharmaceuticals, and dozens more.
Reviews, goal setting, spot-color, client interface, estimating job costs, team management, design...
You name it, he's got it!
Check out his on-line Aquent profile!
Desired Work: Temporary & Permanent
Professional Categories: Creative Department Management, Graphic Design, Other Print Design and Production
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Meina C.
Senior Graphic Designer
A beautiful portfolio and a depth of experience in high-end, high-impact work, Meina has worked with several LA design agencies including Muse Cordero Chen, ReVerb, Worthington, Margo Chase, and Lorraine Wild.
Armed with strong hands-on skills in Quark, InDesign, and Photoshop, she's worked on strategic and creative concepts, execution, and production management for identity systems, brochures, environmental graphics, style guides, and design presentations. Other work includes Web sites, apparel design, packaging, product development, and complete marketing systems for high-end real estate ventures.
Be sure to check out samples of her work on her Aquent profile, then call us for more!
Desired Work: Freelance & Permanent
Skills: Adobe InDesign, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, QuarkXPress
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Stacey L.
Product Manager
A motivated marketing pro with experience in consumer/trade marketing and sales, Stacey's last 6 years have been focused in Home Entertainment consumer packaged goods marketing at Warner Home Video, Paramount Pictures, Metro Goldwyn Mayer, and 20th Century Fox.
Her comprehensive expertise encompasses global marketing, strategic/business planning, budgeting, new concept/product and brand development, project management, advertising, promotions, online marketing, PR, market research, packaging, POS, merchandising, and relationship building.
With an MBA from Syracuse and exceptional skills in prospecting, profiling, client acquisition, extensive client development, and consultative selling, she's ready to be your brand's biggest fan!
See her on-line Aquent profile!
Desired Work: Freelance & Permanent
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Haigo M.
Project Manager
With a whopping ten years of project management and traffic experience, Haigo has both agency and in-house experience to keep projects moving and come in under budget.
At DIRECTV, Amgen, Teleflora, and Warner Music, he handled marketing, ad and media campaign management, project management, budget planning, research, logistics, production of marketing materials, and more. At Indigo Bates, he was both Traffic Department and Media Manager, supervising 2 to 3 large projects at a time, the largest (Aviko, Eastern Europe) with a budget of $4 million.
His excellent rapport with customers helps keep projects on track through numerous revisions and prevents both communication tribulations and budget overruns.
He can handle anything from print media to Web design for 5 to 50 (or more!) projects.
Shouldn't one of those be yours?
See his on-line Aquent profile!
Desired Work: Freelance & Permanent
Skills: Microsoft Project, Media Buying, Media Planning, Media Sales, Media Strategy, Advertising/Account Management, Accounting, Administration, Adobe Acrobat, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe PageMaker, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Streamline, AutoCAD, CorelDRAW!, Customer Service, HTML, LINUX, Macromedia Dreamweaver, Macromedia Fireworks, Macromedia Flash, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows NT, Microsoft Word, Outlook Express, QuarkXPress, Real Video
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THAT BIT AT THE END
"Lowlights"
Attn: Editorial and Subscription Depts.
It is with great regret that I write you today to cancel my subscription to your publication.
I have been a faithful subscriber to your periodical since I was a young boy (as my brother and sisters had been before me), but I can no longer find it in my heart or wallet to read what has come to pass for "literature" from your staff month after month.
You may consider this letter my official cancellation notice. Please refund the money for the remainder of the year's subscription as a check sent to my home address.
While I do have your ear, I would also like to take the opportunity to point out just a few of the many inconsistencies and poor journalistic practices which have led me to this heartbreaking decision. Perhaps in considering my suggested improvements, you could find it in yourselves to raise the bar for your magazine's standards back where it belongs. I am sure you will discover increased readership as a result.
Following herein are my notes for improving your publication.
Thank you for your time.
In Issue #335, the SEEK & FIND on page 11, is woefully outdated. You beg the reader to find five erroneous articles in your illustration of the farm. I found 50. The pigs are being fed out of a wooden trough (not corrugated metal), the chickens roam free range instead of being penned by the hundreds in a giant henhouse, and the old John Deere-style tractor depicted hasn't been used on a family farm since the 1960's! Has anyone in your office even visited a farm? Maybe if they did, they'd find modern farms are run more like corporations than this one you've chosen from the Walton's day.
In Issue #263, pg. 24, the dichotomous DOOFUS & VALIANT are at recess wondering whether they should heed Tommy Hillcrest's advice to shun the new boy, Billy Wolthrop. Hmmm, haven't we seen this before? Yes, we did indeed, in Issue #47, pg. 13! The only alteration I see is in the style of clothes the children are wearing. Other than that, this is indeed the same plot verbatim!! You may remember the hot water that advice columnist "Dear Abby" got into when she reprinted the same columns years later. Just a word to the wise... (I have, in fact, over 300 new plots for the strip on my DOOFUS & VALIANT fan Web site, should you be interested.)
Though the TIMBERBOOTS remains a house favorite, the plotlines and character development arcs have become mournfully lax in recent issues. Pa and Ma have been married for well over 40 years, yet we know little about the nature of their relationship. Have we ever heard them reflect upon the cold, hard fact that their family is completely made of wood? Do the TIMBERBOOTS children suffer from being different from other children? What are their thoughts and opinions on the lumber industry? Your team of writers has a myriad of storylines at their doorstep, yet they continue with the safe and familiar: Pa's latest inventions and family disagreements like who ate the last of the jelly.
Am I wrong in assuming that your JUMBLED WORDS section just keeps getting easier?
The FLANNERY TWINS continues to dumbfound me each month with its glaring errors and outrageous inconsistencies. In Issue #254, pg. 33, Flopsy informs Mopsy that their teacher, Mrs. Smith, is absent because Mrs. Smith's mother is ill. Pardon me?? The children's teacher is named "Mrs. Walker" as indicated in Issue #133. And Mrs. Walker cannot be visiting her sick mother, she passed away in Issue #28. This inaccuracy is just the tip of the proverbial iceberg. Many times the door to the twins' bedroom opens inward, other times outward; the chimney switches from right to left wantonly, sometimes in the same strip; and since Issue #310, their neighbor's house was replaced by an empty field!! Your band of illustrators and writers may very well be sending thousands of young children into psychotherapy well before they hit puberty!
Are your book selections always going to favor the Caldecott and Newbery Medal winners? Yes, your writer can do a quick look on the Internet for recent winners, but one would hope the man would actually go to a library to do some research.
I chipped a tooth recently performing your magazine's science experiment (Issue #359, pg. 12). I hope in the future you will warn your young audience that spinning around in circles until you experience dizziness may be unsafe if performed too close to a staircase.
As difficult as it may be for such a drastic change, I beg you to not anthropomorphize animals as you have since your magazine's inception. Try explaining to a young child why the illustrated bear on page 6 is wearing a shirt and tie and sitting at a dinner table while the real bear in the photo on page 24 is eating a live salmon. Try explaining it to your elderly mother. The plain fact is, a smart publication should practice caution before printing anything that could lead a child (or elderly adult) to set up a snack-laden picnic table for bears in Yosemite National Park. (A one hundred dollar fine, by the way.)
On a personal note, I have sent over two hundred illustrations into your publication, and I have yet to see one reproduced in your Kidz Korner. Do your illustrators feel intimidated? Remind them that it is competition that breeds excellence.
You may reach me for further comments via my previously mentioned fan site.
Should you need editorial assistance, as luck would have it, I am in between positions at the moment, and would welcome the opportunity to help out the youth in our country while picking up some extra cash.
Sincerely,
Jim Simons, PhD
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