Creative Producer at Nickelodeon Virtual Worlds Group
Greater Los Angeles Area
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- Creative Producer at Nickelodeon Virtual Worlds Group
- Director of Creative & Online Production at Kabillion.com
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- Co-Founder & Creative Director at 'Adup'teyshun, Inc.
- Lead Designer - Licensed Merchandise at Neopets, Inc.
- Education
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- California College of the Arts
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Leslie Saiz’s Summary
Creative Director with over 10 years of professional graphic design experience in the fashion, print, consumer products and youth online industries. The past three years have been spent developing and producing COPPA compliant, avatar and community based web sites for tween and teen users.
Leslie Saiz’s Specialties:
- Merchandise Development
- Packaging Design
- Tween Market
- Online social networking
- GUI Design
- Online COPPA Safety & Moderation
SOFTWARE:
Adobe Photoshop, ImageReady, Illustrator, Acrobat, Indesign, QuarkXPress and PageMaker. Macromedia Flash8, DreamweaverMX and Fireworks. Microsoft Excel, Word and Powerpoint.
Leslie Saiz’s Experience
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Creative Producer
Nickelodeon Virtual Worlds Group
(Internet industry)
August 2009 — Present (4 months)
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Director of Creative & Online Production
Kabillion.com
(Internet industry)
February 2007 — Present (2 years 10 months)
Director of Creative & Production for Kabillion, a multi-platform network for kids. Responsible for conceptual development, design and production of all user experience and social networking components for kabillion.com. Oversee the online production team, which includes a staff of in house and outsourced artists, designers, flash and PHP programmers.
• Strategically plan and conceptualize user experience, including avatar creation system, games, live monitored chat, user polls, and user ambassador system
• Admin design, for safe and streamlined site moderation of social networking applications.
• Set and maintain production schedule for online team
• Online marketing, create opportunities within the site’s content and experience for immersive advertisement and sponsorships with relevant partners
• Brand development, design, style guide creation, establishing identity for on and offline markets. -
Co-Founder & Creative Director
'Adup'teyshun, Inc.
(Internet industry)
February 2005 — February 2007 (2 years 1 month)
Creative Director and co-founder of ‘Adup’teyshun, Inc., a web based development studio focused on creating tools and strategies to help client’s build brand recognition and awareness through online communities and gaming solutions. ‘Adup’teyshun, Inc. was purchased by Mike Young Productions within a year. The ‘Adup’teyshun team was then transformed into Kabillion.
• Conceptualized and documented online experience for prospective client’s IP, outlining deliverables, budget and timeline for site development
• Designed and developed client web sites, worked with flash and PHP programmers to direct and create site functionality
• Set and maintained production schedule to meet client deadlines -
Lead Designer - Licensed Merchandise
Neopets, Inc.
(Privately Held; Entertainment industry)
May 2002 — February 2005 (2 years 10 months)
Lead Graphic Designer, working directly with Vice President of Merchandise to develop programs for toy, apparel and stationery licensees. Managed the graphic design team working in collaboration with Neopets artist, vendors and licensees to create and develop the Neopets brand offline.
• Neopets style guide design and development
• Retail and event signage for in-store events and merchandise promotions
• POP and packaging design for licensed and Neopets produced product
• Merchandise designs for a variety of Neopets product
• Promotional designs for McDonald’s Happy Meal promotion 2004 & General Mills Cereal Box 2003
• Advertising design for print and web based email promotions
• Web interface design for Neopets web portal services
Leslie Saiz’s Education
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California College of the Arts
BFA , Graphic Design , 1993 — 1997
Additional Information
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Leslie Saiz’s Interests:
Drawing, Painting, Printmaking, Paper Maché, Sculpture, Reading, Facebooking
Leslie Saiz’s Groups:
Self Help Graphics & Art
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CCA ALUMNI - California College of the Arts Alumni
Leslie Saiz’s Honors:
Emmy® Winner “New Approaches – Daytime Children’s” Kabillion - I Got a Rocket, 2007-2008
La Opinion Newspaper – Mujers Destacadas, March 2009
Leslie Saiz’s Contact Settings
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