Nina Contreras

- Plan and control the Website Design Program offered through the Marketing Department to support the financial professionals individual firms throughout the country by delivering effective graphic and web design services. - Responsible for all aspects of the website design process, from concept to implementation, and later on, maintenance and updates.

- Meet with clients and discuss their marketing needs to determine a strategy for advertising their products or services via internet, print, and/or video. - Research the markets for the diverse industries the customers come from and create a custom piece suitable for advertising their company to their target audience. - Organize materials collected from customers and implement the concepts into finished design pieces, web pages, videos and/or photographs.

- Responsible for managing multiple aspects of design projects, from concept to implementation. - Interact directly with customers via phone and e-mail by following-up on internet leads for graphic design and brainstorm with clients to determine their design objectives. - Research the markets for the diverse industries the customers come from and create a custom piece suitable for advertising their company to their target audience.

Presented USF-credit courses offered online in a streaming video format by performing the duties of a Technical director and Audio Operator. * Responsibilities as Technical Director: - Directed a live, unrehearsed television and web broadcast. - Oversaw production staff, operated robotic cameras, edited, rendered and ran credits. - Created advanced effects with a video character generator, chroma and wipes. - Updated the web page to include the most recently taped courses.

- Provided project and program support to the Director of Video and Documentary Projects. - Organized scripts, timelines, video and graphic databases to produce the Performing Arts Center’s marketing and institutional videos, television commercials, and the monthly television show, Center TV. - Video work involved filming, tape logging, video editing, designing slates and graphics, constructing animations, and creating DVD menus.

- Contributed organizational skills to support a first-time Director of Operations make the gallery the “Best of the Bay 2004” according to the Weekly Planet. - Managed the work schedule, by creating time and date management strategies for special and recurring events while efficiently analyzing data to build business agendas to help the team get their work done more effectively. - Fully redesigned the gallery's website, and created databases of gallery patrons, local businesses, and artists.

Electronic Media, Photography, Mathmatics, and Computer Programming.