IN THIS ISSUE:
Hot Talent
Featured Talent This Week
That Bit at the End - "From Nigeria With Love"
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HOT TALENT
If June 21st is the longest day of the year, then what do you call the April 14th, the day before taxes are due?
That can be a fairly long day, wouldn't you say?
December 21st is allegedly the longest night, but if you ask most kids they'll tell you it's night before Christmas.
Before you get back to your baffling date book, we invite you to look at this straightforward e-mail, chock full of amazing Aquent Talent, funny bits, and a friendly phone number at the end.
It may be the least confusing thing on your calendar today.
Enjoy!
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FEATURED TALENT THIS WEEK
Patrick T. - Sr. Online Business Development Manager
Jason A. - Art Director
Yan J. - Flash Developer
Justin L. - Interactive AD | Creative Director
Jess W. - Marketing/Project Manager
Marc P. - Front and Back End Development
Phuong N. - Sr. Print Designer
Evan S. - Interactive Designer and Developer
Robin C. - Production & Graphic Design
Duho Y. - Interactive Art Director
John J. - Administrative Assistant
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Patrick T.
Sr. Online Business Development Manager
Patrick is a Sr. Business Development Manager with 10 years of experience in the online space with standout companies such as Citysearch, Experian Interactive Media, and Business.com.
He was recently Business Development Manager at Experian, overseeing many of their large-scale partnership and affiliate programs for personal finance, auto insurance, education, and lending verticals. Throughout his career he has developed and managed a number of advertising models including CPA, CPM, CPC, and Pay-for-Placement.
Patrick has a solid track record of consistently exceeding quotas, growing business exponentially, and winning numerous sales awards for his outstanding work!
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Jason A.
Art Director
Jason has over 10 years experience in print design, art direction, and layout and originally hails from The City of the Big Shoulders (that's Chicago, if you're wondering). His style is edgy, contemporary, and chock full of life!
In his role as Art Director at CFQ Media, he redesigned and rebranded an unknown, poorly designed sci-fi magazine and turned it into the phenomenally successful Geek Magazine. Because of his amazing work, and marketing and advertising savvy, they made him Creative Director.
Jason is also a terrific hands-on Designer and Illustrator whose true value comes in bringing his branding and advertising know-how to each and every project.
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Yan J.
Flash Developer
Yan is a rockstar Actionscript Developer with extensive AS2 and AS3 experience as well as back-end development knowledge. His more than 6 years of programming includes extensive experience with the design, prototyping, and development of n-tier object-oriented rich media Web applications using Flash, ActionScript, PHP, D/HTML, XML, JavaScript, CSS, and ColdFusion; database design and development for MySQL and SQL Server; designing, prototyping, and developing user interfaces using contextual design methodologies; and much more!
Most recently he was working on an AS3 application for The Walt Disney Internet Group, updating the Disney global registration functionality, adding new features to global registration, and adding mobilization features to registration flow. Before that he was at Crew Creative working on The Dark Knight, Hellboy 2: The Golden Army, Watchmen, TLC: The Singing Office, and Bourne Conspiracy, The Game.
He's also an AS2 and AS3 Game Developer to the max, creating a number of games for MTV. And when we say a number, we mean one every day!
If you need action, then call us about Yan!
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Justin L.
Interactive AD | Creative Director
With over 8 years of experience in Art Direction and Design, Justin possesses not only the talent to lead projects from concept to design to production, but the hands-on skills to make sure every piece of the project comes off beautifully.
Having worked for the likes of Time Inc, Yahoo!, & three startups (including 2 award-winning Green ones featured on The Oprah Winfrey Show, Ellen, and Good Morning America), he's a self-starter, an outside-the-box thinker, and a real mover and shaker.
During his time in LA over the last 6 years, he's worked with such well-known brands as American Idol, Billboard, CBS Interactive, Discovery Channel, Dr. Pepper, FOX, GreenDimes, HBO, Hasbro, HULU, MARVEL, (RED), and T-Mobile, just to name a few.
Justin really brings a sense of humor and motivation (as well as stunning creative direction) to his work every single day and he's looking for the right company to take to their creative team to the next level!
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Jess W.
Marketing/Project Manager
Here's a great marketing professional with a solid blend of both content generation and project management skills.
Jess has both in-house and agency experience and has led marketing initiatives within industries such as non-profit, education, financial services, and insurance. She has overseen full-cycle projects for print including brochures, student catalogs, newsletters, supporting documents, postcards, email campaigns, and special events promotions.
Jess just finished a contract at L.A. Care Health Plan where she received amazing reviews! While onboard Jess project managed large communication projects for print collateral and newsletters, provided communication to internal and external vendors, and worked with the creative team to ensure seamless completion of marketing projects.
An awesome Aquent Talent!
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Marc P.
Front and Back End Development
Marc is a fabulous Front-End Developer who has great HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, AJAX, C+, C++, MySQL, Drupal CMS experience (not to mention a background creating MySpace Applications and working in LAMP environments!)
He was most recently at interactive design firm The Groop, where he overhauled the content management system for Botanist Series.com. He also created applications for MySpace for My Wish List, which connected to an outside database and has AJAX interfaces. If that wasn't enough, he built XHTML validated front-end templates with Web 2.0 JavaScript frameworks like YUI, MooTools and Jquery.
Marc's a hot Front-End Developer who won't be available for long!
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Phuong N.
Sr. Print Designer
Phuong is a forward-thinking contemporary Print Designer who just moved to LA from NYC, where she was most recently Senior Designer at Arnold Worldwide. Some of her accounts included Hershey's, GlaxoSmithKline, US Tennis Association, and Nine West where she brought overall brand awareness through print ads, in-store graphics, environmental signage, and B2B collateral. Prior to Arnold, she was Senior Designer at Traveler magazine for Conde Nast.
In addition to being an expert in InDesign layout, she also creates original illustrations for all of her designs. And all Phuong's glowing references made sure to mention her fabulous work ethic and attention to detail.
She has a wonderful design sense in typography, design layout, and illustration and is sure to bring a unique look to any agency or in-house company that wants to be on the forefront of design!
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Evan S.
Interactive Designer and Developer
Evan is a talented Interactive Designer and Developer with a portfolio guaranteed to wow you!
He excels in Web Design and Flash animation, plus develops in AS3. His most recent work has been on interactive games and animated banners. At Nemo Design, Evan worked with a team of Designers and Developers on Nike 6.0, Smith Optics, and HP Blackbird. He was their go-to man when it came to designing and developing interactive Flash features.
Evan's skills are a rare mix of developing and delivering outstanding design.
Let us know if you're interested in seeing some of his sites!
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Robin C.
Production & Graphic Design
Over 11 years of experience in the graphic design world, Robin has terrific hands-on skills in both Quark and Photoshop coupled with a thorough knowledge of digital press.
Most recently managing a team of nine, Robin managed everything involved in the design and production of four-color monthly and bi-monthly magazines as well as tons of direct mail, signage, promotional materials, and CD/DVD packages. She can effectively lead a department under extremely tight deadlines and expertly handle both vendor negotiations and press checks.
Available for both freelance production and design work, she's got great credentials!
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Duho Y.
Interactive Art Director
Duho is an Interactive Art Director with over 10 years of industry experience. His experience ranges from product development to design to branding.
Most recently at Wasserman Media Group, he branded and concepted user experience products. He successfully implemented a custom creative process to brand a network of 40 sports Web sites including motocross.com and the martial arts site mmarated.com.
Prior to Wasserman, Duho served as Sr. Designer at Answer Financial and Creative Director at both MACH18 and Apollo Interactive. His experience ranges from visual design to user experience design, and some development.
We know you'll find his creative work, whether they be financial or community sites, are top scorers in the Web world!
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John J.
Administrative Assistant
Here's a stellar, senior-level, excellent Administrative Assistant who has worked for major players such as Disney, Kaiser Permanente, Nestle, and Warner Brothers!
John was most recently at Disney in their SOAPnet department, where his major duties included trafficking commercials and TV shows, sorting the timing of show segments and separation of commercials. Inside Disney he's worked for a variety of other departments including Buena Vista Home Entertainment, Feature Publicity Department, Disney Internet Group, Corporate, Imagineering, and Consumer Products.
At Disney he used their SAP database extensively and he's incredibly experienced in handling heavy calendaring/phones, complicated expense reports, invoices, travel arrangements, and data entry.
This guy is just the tops, and we know you'll love him once you meet him!
Hot Talent
Featured Talent This Week
That Bit at the End - "From Nigeria With Love"
__________________________________________________
HOT TALENT
If June 21st is the longest day of the year, then what do you call the April 14th, the day before taxes are due?
That can be a fairly long day, wouldn't you say?
December 21st is allegedly the longest night, but if you ask most kids they'll tell you it's night before Christmas.
Before you get back to your baffling date book, we invite you to look at this straightforward e-mail, chock full of amazing Aquent Talent, funny bits, and a friendly phone number at the end.
It may be the least confusing thing on your calendar today.
Enjoy!
__________________________________________________
FEATURED TALENT THIS WEEK
Patrick T. - Sr. Online Business Development Manager
Jason A. - Art Director
Yan J. - Flash Developer
Justin L. - Interactive AD | Creative Director
Jess W. - Marketing/Project Manager
Marc P. - Front and Back End Development
Phuong N. - Sr. Print Designer
Evan S. - Interactive Designer and Developer
Robin C. - Production & Graphic Design
Duho Y. - Interactive Art Director
John J. - Administrative Assistant
__________________________________________________
Patrick T.
Sr. Online Business Development Manager
Patrick is a Sr. Business Development Manager with 10 years of experience in the online space with standout companies such as Citysearch, Experian Interactive Media, and Business.com.
He was recently Business Development Manager at Experian, overseeing many of their large-scale partnership and affiliate programs for personal finance, auto insurance, education, and lending verticals. Throughout his career he has developed and managed a number of advertising models including CPA, CPM, CPC, and Pay-for-Placement.
Patrick has a solid track record of consistently exceeding quotas, growing business exponentially, and winning numerous sales awards for his outstanding work!
__________________________________________________
Jason A.
Art Director
Jason has over 10 years experience in print design, art direction, and layout and originally hails from The City of the Big Shoulders (that's Chicago, if you're wondering). His style is edgy, contemporary, and chock full of life!
In his role as Art Director at CFQ Media, he redesigned and rebranded an unknown, poorly designed sci-fi magazine and turned it into the phenomenally successful Geek Magazine. Because of his amazing work, and marketing and advertising savvy, they made him Creative Director.
Jason is also a terrific hands-on Designer and Illustrator whose true value comes in bringing his branding and advertising know-how to each and every project.
__________________________________________________
Yan J.
Flash Developer
Yan is a rockstar Actionscript Developer with extensive AS2 and AS3 experience as well as back-end development knowledge. His more than 6 years of programming includes extensive experience with the design, prototyping, and development of n-tier object-oriented rich media Web applications using Flash, ActionScript, PHP, D/HTML, XML, JavaScript, CSS, and ColdFusion; database design and development for MySQL and SQL Server; designing, prototyping, and developing user interfaces using contextual design methodologies; and much more!
Most recently he was working on an AS3 application for The Walt Disney Internet Group, updating the Disney global registration functionality, adding new features to global registration, and adding mobilization features to registration flow. Before that he was at Crew Creative working on The Dark Knight, Hellboy 2: The Golden Army, Watchmen, TLC: The Singing Office, and Bourne Conspiracy, The Game.
He's also an AS2 and AS3 Game Developer to the max, creating a number of games for MTV. And when we say a number, we mean one every day!
If you need action, then call us about Yan!
__________________________________________________
Justin L.
Interactive AD | Creative Director
With over 8 years of experience in Art Direction and Design, Justin possesses not only the talent to lead projects from concept to design to production, but the hands-on skills to make sure every piece of the project comes off beautifully.
Having worked for the likes of Time Inc, Yahoo!, & three startups (including 2 award-winning Green ones featured on The Oprah Winfrey Show, Ellen, and Good Morning America), he's a self-starter, an outside-the-box thinker, and a real mover and shaker.
During his time in LA over the last 6 years, he's worked with such well-known brands as American Idol, Billboard, CBS Interactive, Discovery Channel, Dr. Pepper, FOX, GreenDimes, HBO, Hasbro, HULU, MARVEL, (RED), and T-Mobile, just to name a few.
Justin really brings a sense of humor and motivation (as well as stunning creative direction) to his work every single day and he's looking for the right company to take to their creative team to the next level!
__________________________________________________
Jess W.
Marketing/Project Manager
Here's a great marketing professional with a solid blend of both content generation and project management skills.
Jess has both in-house and agency experience and has led marketing initiatives within industries such as non-profit, education, financial services, and insurance. She has overseen full-cycle projects for print including brochures, student catalogs, newsletters, supporting documents, postcards, email campaigns, and special events promotions.
Jess just finished a contract at L.A. Care Health Plan where she received amazing reviews! While onboard Jess project managed large communication projects for print collateral and newsletters, provided communication to internal and external vendors, and worked with the creative team to ensure seamless completion of marketing projects.
An awesome Aquent Talent!
__________________________________________________
Marc P.
Front and Back End Development
Marc is a fabulous Front-End Developer who has great HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, AJAX, C+, C++, MySQL, Drupal CMS experience (not to mention a background creating MySpace Applications and working in LAMP environments!)
He was most recently at interactive design firm The Groop, where he overhauled the content management system for Botanist Series.com. He also created applications for MySpace for My Wish List, which connected to an outside database and has AJAX interfaces. If that wasn't enough, he built XHTML validated front-end templates with Web 2.0 JavaScript frameworks like YUI, MooTools and Jquery.
Marc's a hot Front-End Developer who won't be available for long!
__________________________________________________
Phuong N.
Sr. Print Designer
Phuong is a forward-thinking contemporary Print Designer who just moved to LA from NYC, where she was most recently Senior Designer at Arnold Worldwide. Some of her accounts included Hershey's, GlaxoSmithKline, US Tennis Association, and Nine West where she brought overall brand awareness through print ads, in-store graphics, environmental signage, and B2B collateral. Prior to Arnold, she was Senior Designer at Traveler magazine for Conde Nast.
In addition to being an expert in InDesign layout, she also creates original illustrations for all of her designs. And all Phuong's glowing references made sure to mention her fabulous work ethic and attention to detail.
She has a wonderful design sense in typography, design layout, and illustration and is sure to bring a unique look to any agency or in-house company that wants to be on the forefront of design!
__________________________________________________
Evan S.
Interactive Designer and Developer
Evan is a talented Interactive Designer and Developer with a portfolio guaranteed to wow you!
He excels in Web Design and Flash animation, plus develops in AS3. His most recent work has been on interactive games and animated banners. At Nemo Design, Evan worked with a team of Designers and Developers on Nike 6.0, Smith Optics, and HP Blackbird. He was their go-to man when it came to designing and developing interactive Flash features.
Evan's skills are a rare mix of developing and delivering outstanding design.
Let us know if you're interested in seeing some of his sites!
__________________________________________________
Robin C.
Production & Graphic Design
Over 11 years of experience in the graphic design world, Robin has terrific hands-on skills in both Quark and Photoshop coupled with a thorough knowledge of digital press.
Most recently managing a team of nine, Robin managed everything involved in the design and production of four-color monthly and bi-monthly magazines as well as tons of direct mail, signage, promotional materials, and CD/DVD packages. She can effectively lead a department under extremely tight deadlines and expertly handle both vendor negotiations and press checks.
Available for both freelance production and design work, she's got great credentials!
__________________________________________________
Duho Y.
Interactive Art Director
Duho is an Interactive Art Director with over 10 years of industry experience. His experience ranges from product development to design to branding.
Most recently at Wasserman Media Group, he branded and concepted user experience products. He successfully implemented a custom creative process to brand a network of 40 sports Web sites including motocross.com and the martial arts site mmarated.com.
Prior to Wasserman, Duho served as Sr. Designer at Answer Financial and Creative Director at both MACH18 and Apollo Interactive. His experience ranges from visual design to user experience design, and some development.
We know you'll find his creative work, whether they be financial or community sites, are top scorers in the Web world!
__________________________________________________
John J.
Administrative Assistant
Here's a stellar, senior-level, excellent Administrative Assistant who has worked for major players such as Disney, Kaiser Permanente, Nestle, and Warner Brothers!
John was most recently at Disney in their SOAPnet department, where his major duties included trafficking commercials and TV shows, sorting the timing of show segments and separation of commercials. Inside Disney he's worked for a variety of other departments including Buena Vista Home Entertainment, Feature Publicity Department, Disney Internet Group, Corporate, Imagineering, and Consumer Products.
At Disney he used their SAP database extensively and he's incredibly experienced in handling heavy calendaring/phones, complicated expense reports, invoices, travel arrangements, and data entry.
This guy is just the tops, and we know you'll love him once you meet him!
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