Senior Designer at Rave Wireless
Greater New York City Area
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- Senior Lead Designer at Rave Wireless
- Designer at Freelance (Self-employed)
- Past
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- Managing Member at Feed Your Shelf
- Lead Designer at Takkle
- Graphic Designer at American Greetings
- Graphic Designer at Rino Publicidade
- Education
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- The Ohio State University - The Max M. Fisher College of Business
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Robert Hewitt’s Summary
After graduation I worked for a prominent South American ad agency based in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Returning home to Cleveland, I then worked in the Creative Studio of American Greetings before moving to New York.
I've since created my own literary, social network, operating as its Managing Member and worked as Lead Designer for Takkle before accepting a position as Senior Lead Designer for Rave Mobile Safety (formerly Rave Wireless).
Robert Hewitt’s Specialties:
Web, print and UI design: proficient with Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, Keynote, Microsoft Office, Quark, Freehand MX, and HTML code; fluent in Portuguese
Robert Hewitt’s Experience
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Senior Lead Designer
Rave Wireless
(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)
August 2007 — Present (2 years 4 months)
*Oversee all B2B on-line marketing and print collateral
*Develop the user interface for both the corporate and student facing sites
*Manage the development queue and content for the ordering site
*Participate in product innovation and catalog evolution
*Contribute to all B2C marketing campaigns
*Expand the brand guide and ensure consistency across departments
*Work directly with clients to customize their UI -
Designer
Freelance (Self-employed)
(Self-Employed; Graphic Design industry)
January 2006 — Present (3 years 11 months)
Most recent graphic/web design projects:
- Moby Games, February '07
- Grad Groups, March '07
- Strong Data, July '08
- Outlookable, September '08
- Payfone, January '09
- Blogs Fit to Print, February '09
- Facebook Fifty-hand, June '09
- Electric Pipeline Corp, October '09 -
Managing Member
Feed Your Shelf
(Internet industry)
June 2006 — April 2009 (2 years 11 months)
* Dreamt up FYS and designed all subsequent imagery/layout/user-interface work for the project
* Pitched the project in its early stages, raising adequate seed-money to begin production
* Organized a team to realize the site, negotiating all terms of employment contracts and team schedules
* Oversee the budgeting and disbursement of all investment capital and the sale of additional shares
* Pitch the project to prospective affiliate partners and VC firms -
Lead Designer
Takkle
(Partnership; 11-50 employees; Graphic Design industry)
September 2006 — May 2007 (9 months)
* Led a complete site redesign, including a radical revamp of the homepage layout
* Chose fonts, Pantones and the majority of non-user-provided imagery across the site
* Created mock-ups for securing prospective partners, including Sports Illustrated
* Oversaw the storage, organization and distribution of digital files to team members
* Contributed to a branding initiative and wrote the subsequent branding guide
* Designed misc collateral from animated banner ads to print ads to widgets -
Graphic Designer
American Greetings
(Public Company; Consumer Goods industry)
November 2005 — September 2006 (11 months)
* Contributed to all phases of card development in the Inbound-Licensing Department
* Utilized the style guides of over 100 distinct properties, including those of Nickelodeon and Disney
* Worked in a variety of non-card mediums, including catalogs, stickers, party goods and product packaging
* Contributed logo designs and illustrations to the Licensing Design Studio for outbound properties -
Graphic Designer
Rino Publicidade
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Graphic Design industry)
January 2005 — July 2005 (7 months)
* Designed collateral for a variety of channels including e-newsletters, POP, event signage, and print ads
* Responsible for several multinational accounts, including Bridgestone Tires and Warner Bros. Consumer Products
* Acquired an understanding of electronic file preparation and 4/C printing process
Robert Hewitt’s Education
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The Ohio State University - The Max M. Fisher College of Business
BA , Marketing and Logistics , 1998 — 2003
While enrolled, I submitted a daily comic-strip of my own creation to the school newspaper, The Lantern. After my first year, I decided to branch out and succeeded in getting published weekly in twelve newspapers stretching from The Daily Collegian in Massachusetts to Ka Leo O Hawaii in Hawaii. At it's height the comic-strip was running 875,000 copies per week. Networking with a dozen publishers on a daily basis made for great experience.
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Robert Hewitt’s Interests:
I love travel. Some of my favorite cities are Buenos Aires, Ho Chi Mihn City, London and Rio de Janeiro.
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