Isabella Amodei

Current

Senior Web Designer at Reitmans
Graphic/Web designer + Photography at Isablah

Past

Photographer / Web Designer at Groupe Dynamite
graphics editor at the concordian
Associate / Production at Dossier par Bureau en Gros

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Education

Concordia University
College Marsan

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Industry

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Isabella Amodei’s Summary

Professionals are hard to deal with. They always want the best, they train constantly in order to achieve more and they place their job in front of their leisure life. I've been doing that for years. But only because I deeply care about what I do and always try to reach for new goals in order to experience more and more. I've worked in Retail, Corporate, Freelance and on contract and I never stop learning.

As for professional experience, I've done a lot. Even though Photography is my passion, I enjoy doing Layout for print, Writing as well as designing for Web. My goal is to expand my knowledge in those fields in order to, eventually, start my own magazine.

Isabella Amodei’s Specialties:

Photoshop, Illustrator, Indesign, Flash, Dreamweaver, HTML, WEB 2.0, Nikon photography equipement

Isabella Amodei’s Experience

Senior Web Designer

Reitmans

(Public Company; Retail industry)

July 2009 — Present (5 months)
Graphic/Web designer + Photography

Isablah

(Design industry)

2007 — Present (2 years )

Design and conceptualization of websites for various clients that wished to have an online presence. Creation of their corporate I.D. through Design, Brand development, web site traffic growth, web site UI and advertising revenue. Developed brand strategy and statistics systems. Fashion, Glamour and Commercial photography as well as digital manipulation.
Photographer / Web Designer

Groupe Dynamite

(Privately Held; Retail industry)

July 2007 — July 2009 (2 years 1 month)

As a Web Designer, I am responsible of redesigning the websites' both brands (Dynamite and Garage) every season. Either it's changing colors schemes, artwork, and "mood", I do a lot of research and options to achieve my goals.

If need be, I also am responsible of coordinating with the developers or third party companies in order to create new sections/pages on the websites. For dynamite.ca, I create my pages from start to finish (xhtml/css/flash).

As a photographer, I take pictures for the collection of dynamite on a live model. Working with the videographer, we take a video as well and do the montage before placing it on the collections page. I also take pictures of various other products.

My position requires me to travel for the Garage brand as well. I work/brainstorm new opportunities with Marketing to get the brand's name known in the states. Then, I go to concerts and large events to take pictures/videos in order to retouch and place them on the garage website. These events are part of the celebrity lifestyle represented by the brand.
graphics editor

the concordian

(Design industry)

2006 — 2008 (2 years )

Desktop publishing of the weekly Concordia's newspaper The Concordian. I had to coordinate with the editor-in-chief and the section editors to do Artwork, the layout and the occasional writing for special sections.
Associate / Production

Dossier par Bureau en Gros

(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; Printing industry)

March 2006 — July 2007 (1 year 5 months)

My job was to work in production and to ensure that Printing/Binding jobs (orders) taken at Costumer service were done in time and with quality.
The job included producing jobs within the following categories:
Printing color/black and white, Large format, Mount on Foamcore/Board, Binding, Cutting, Perforating, Graphic Design (on appointement only) and more.

Isabella Amodei’s Education

Concordia University

Photography, Journalism 2006 — 2007

Activities and Societies:

Writing for the Concordian Newspaper for 1 year before moving on as a Graphics Editor for another year. My main responsibilities included the redesign of the school page, teaching the team about printing and color and copyediting.
College Marsan

A.E.C , Multimedia (Graphic Design), Photography , 2002 — 2003

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Isabella Amodei’s Interests:

Design, Valid CSS mark-up, playing Music with my band, Teaching (mentoring), constantly being involved in design/writing projects.

Isabella Amodei’s Groups:

The Concordian Newspaper (Concordia University)

Fashion Marketing & Digital Media Group (FMG): A Meeting Place for Fashion & Marketing Professionals
Photography Industry Professionals
Designers Talk
AIGA | the professional association for design
FOLIO: MediaPRO -- Magazine & eMedia Publishing Professionals
CREATIVE DESIGN PROS
Magazine
Graphic Design Professional Group
Freelancers & Self-employed - Montreal, Quebec
Société des designers graphiques du Québec