Nicolas Barajas

Current

• Staff Assistant at The New York Times

Past

• Fellow at The Poynter Institute
• Marketing Intern at Performance Systems
• Communications/Development Intern at Media Access Project

• Managing Editor at The Ithacan

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Education

• Ithaca College

Connections

68 connections

Industry

Design

Websites

• My Website
• My Portfolio

Nicolas Barajas’s Summary

A print designer with experience in both editorial and promotional/marketing. A web designer comfortable with all aspects of the process, from concept to completion, code to content. Interested in editorial design and mainly front-end web development.

Nicolas Barajas’s Specialties:

HTML, CSS, information architecture, branding

Nicolas Barajas’s Experience

• Staff Assistant

  The New York Times

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; NYT; Newspapers industry)

  June 2008 — Present (1 year 6 months)

  Part-time news design and pagination in daily and weekly sections, including Business Day, Sports, and Metro.

• Fellow

  The Poynter Institute

  (Non-Profit; Newspapers industry)

  May 2009 — May 2009 (1 month)

  One of 40 selected to the Poynter Fellowship for College Journalists. Spent two weeks in intensive multimedia and journalism training; researched, reported, and produced a multimedia journalism piece.

• Marketing Intern

  Performance Systems

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Management Consulting industry)

  February 2008 — June 2008 (5 months)

  Created marketing materials for promotional campaigns and road shows, including posters and banners.

• Communications/Development Intern

  Media Access Project

  (Law Practice industry)

  May 2007 — July 2007 (3 months)

  Completed a front-end redesign of the mediaaccess.org website and transitioned years of static content into a modern content management system (Textpattern).

• Managing Editor

  The Ithacan

  (Design industry)

  August 2006 — May 2007 (10 months)

Nicolas Barajas’s Education

• Ithaca College

  B.S. , Communication Management and Design , 2004 — 2008

  Worked as design editor, managing editor, and online editor of The Ithacan. Worked on the first Year in Review, an end-of-year retrospective publication. Graduated with a minor in web programming.

  Activities and Societies:

  The Ithacan, Year in Review, Senior Class, Park Design House, Communication Management and Design Student Association

Additional Information

Nicolas Barajas’s Websites:

• My Website
• My Portfolio

Nicolas Barajas’s Interests:

Typography, design, semantic markup, cooking, beer

Nicolas Barajas’s Groups:

National Association of Hispanic Journalists

•    Ithaca College Roy H. Park School of Communications
•    Ithaca College Alumni Group
•    Web Standards Design + Development
•    Poynter Institute College Fellowship Alumni

Nicolas Barajas’s Contact Settings

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