Art Director at Forex Capital Markets, LLC
Greater New York City Area
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- Art Director at Forex Capital Markets, LLC
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- Graphic Designer at Hoy Newspaper
- Web and Graphic Designer at e-Portfolio, New York City College of Technology
- Web developer (Internship) at M. Shanken Communications, Inc.
- Graphic Designer at Klemtner Advertising Inc. (Internship)
- Education
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- NEW YORK CITY COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY
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Antonio Calixto’s Summary
I have been a Graphic and Web designer for 5 years, with a goal to provide individuals and businesses with an excellent quality of online and print advertising solutions.
My main objective is providing eye-caching creativity along with detail-oriented products, that accomplish all successes in print and online campaigns.
I have been responsible of the direction and production of Print and online Advertising that have ran worldwide in well-known magazines, newspapers and websites. Including, but not limited to the fallowing:
Newspapers Print Advertisement:
Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal, LA Times, New York Times, New York Metro, am New York, New York Newsday, New York Post and Hoy Spanish News Paper.
Magazines Print Advertisement:
Yachting, Trader Monthly, Strategy + Business, Forbes Life, Harvard Business Review, Business Week, News Max, Stocks & Commodities, Active Trader, and The Trader’s Journal.
Online Web Advertisement:
Bloomberg, Yahoo Finance, CNN Money, Reuters, MSN, AOL, Google, FXstreet, DailyFX, and Go Currency.
Web Design, Posters, Logos, Brochures, cover letters and newspaper design layouts.
SKILLS: MACINTOSH OS X & PC: WINDOWS XP
• DESIGN APPLICATIONS: QuarkXPress 7, Adobe PhotoShop CS3, Adobe Illustrator CS3, Adobe InDesign CS3, Adobe Acrobat Professional, Adobe Acrobat Distiller, PitStop, Professional, Extensis Suitcase 10.1, FreeHand, Director MX, KnockOut 2, Swift 3D, Microsoft Power Point and Microsoft World.
• WEB-RELATED APPLICATIONS: For PC and Mac, Macromedia Dreamweaver CS3, Macromedia Flash CS3, Adobe ImageReady CS, BBEdit, Atlas suite of software solutions for digital advertising campaigns), hand-coding HTML, CSS and background in basic JavaScript & DHTML.
• VIDEO EDITING APPLICATIONS: Fin Final Cut Pro 3.0, and Adobe Premier.
Antonio Calixto’s Specialties:
Graphic Design, Web design, Multimedia design (Online Rich Media Advertising) and Photography
Antonio Calixto’s Experience
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Art Director
Forex Capital Markets, LLC
(Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Financial Services industry)
May 2005 — Present (4 years 3 months)
Art Director (Forex Capital Markets). Responsible for direction and production of color or b/w print advertising designs layouts. In addition I am also responsible for the development of banners, buttons, skyscrapers, pop-ups, and rich media for FXCM. Last but not least, I optimize Atlas (suite of software solutions for digital advertising campaigns) with all online banners Advertising campaigns. At the same time I keep organize all hard copies of banner layouts in binders for compliance records.
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Graphic Designer
Hoy Newspaper
(Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Newspapers industry)
February 2004 — April 2005 (1 year 3 months)
Responsible for direction & production of color and b/w Advertising Designs for Hoy Publications LLC, New York's Spanish-Language Newspaper. To convert colors files (cmyk/pms), photo-scanned, made editorial changes to text and retouched PhotoShop images. At the same time I am also responsible of development of new concept designs for new supplement pages of the newspaper and Prototypes for future advertisement.
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Web and Graphic Designer
e-Portfolio, New York City College of Technology
(Education Management industry)
September 2001 — April 2004 (2 years 8 months)
Responsible for teaching students with the use of different web and print media applications at the e-Portfolio, New York City College of Technology department, for production of HTML files and Graphic art designs. At the same time I am also responsible for direction & production of the (Posters, Newsletters, and flyers) Graphic Design work and web Design (http://eportfolio.citytech.cuny.edu).
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Web developer (Internship)
M. Shanken Communications, Inc.
(Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Media Production industry)
June 2002 — September 2002 (4 months)
Responsible for the production of html files, photos canned, made editorial changes and retouched Photoshop images.
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Graphic Designer
Klemtner Advertising Inc. (Internship)
(Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Graphic Design industry)
January 2001 — August 2001 (8 months)
Photos canned, made editorial changes and retouched PhotoShop images.
Antonio Calixto’s Education
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NEW YORK CITY COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY
BA , Communication Design , 1999 — 2003
* Bachelor of Technology Degree in Communication Design, October 2003.
*Associate Degree in Applied Science In Art and Advertising Design, With Honors, January 2002.
* Grade Point Average: 3.51.
*Dean’s List: Fall 1999 and Fall 2001.
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Antonio Calixto’s Interests:
Web Design, Animation, Film, Graphic Design, Programing, Illustration, Photography, Art, Computer, Technology, and Audio.
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