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ABOUT

Howard A. Schwartz

Drexel University,

Philadelphia, PA

B.A. Degree, Graphic Design, June 1997

PROFESSIONAL CAREER

WSFS Bank, Philadelphia, PA, February 2022 to Present

AVP, Creative Services Manager

  • Manage creation of all advertising and marketing assets.

  • Manage creative project workflow and allocation of resources

 

SGK (Johnson and Johnson), Ft. Washington, PA, May 2019 to February 2022

Label and Packaging Design Project Manager (supporting Johnson & Johnson Consumer) 

  • Manage lifecycle of development of package and label design for Johnson & Johnson OTC self care products.

FibroGen Inc, San Francisco, CA, November 2020 to Presently supporting freelance

Web Designer (Freelance) 

  • Redesign and ongoing maintenance of corporate website (desktop and mobile). 

 

NFlection Therapeutics Inc., Wayne, PA, November 2019 to Presently supporting freelance

Web Designer (Freelance) 

  • Redesign and ongoing maintenance of corporate website (desktop and mobile). 

 

Aclaris Therapeutics, Inc. , Malvern, PA, November 2017 to Presently supporting freelance

Senior Graphic Designer (Freelance) 

  • Redesign and ongoing maintenance of corporate website (desktop and mobile). 

  • Develop branding and campaigns efforts. 

  • Provided graphic support to environmental/office and directional signage.

 

Williams Tag , Collegeville, PA, March 2019 to May 2019

Senior Graphic Designer (on site contract supporting Pfizer Pharmaceutical) 

  • Managed all aspects of graphic design support including brochures, HTML emails, web banners, GUI, and trade show graphics using sound business acumen.

Vanguard, Malvern, PA, April 2018 to March 2019

Senior Graphic Designer (Contract) 

  • Provided graphic and layout support for financial fund reports, investment white papers, and presentations.

Southco, Concordville, PA, August 2016 to March 2017, Presently supporting freelance

Senior Graphic Designer (Contract) 

  • Provide graphic support and layout for 500 page product catalog for eight languages. 

  • Provide graphic design support of presentation graphics, brochures, case histories, web banners, GUI graphics and trade shows graphics. 

  • Maintain website for three companies in eight languages. 

  • Provide photography support capture of new products for online and print collateral.

  • Developed forms and landing pages in Marketo.

Lockheed Martin, King of Prussia, PA, May 2000 to November 2015

Senior Graphic Designer 

  • Provide graphic support for companies internal and external needs. 

  • Creative design and output of exhibit graphics and specialty products for trade shows. 

  • Responsibilities include design and production of presentation graphics, advertisements, invitations, announcements, brochures, sell sheets, technical papers, case histories and logos. 

  • Coordination of in-house printshop and of outsourcing projects with vendors. 

  • Experienced in Microsoft Sharepoint development 

  • Provided event support of video and photography capture. 

  • Experience in multimedia and web design.

 

Art Director/Project Manager 

  • Acts as creative team Lockheed Martin idenity brand expert 

  • Conducts weekly staff meeting 

  • Coordinates/Delegate projects to team 

  • Project management 

  • Responsible for staffing of creative team 

  • Submits for weekly report of items of interest 

  • Developed fiscal budget with budget lead and responsible for providing financial reports to management 

  • Oversees the creation and maintenance of all relevant processes and procedures pertinent to Media Product Development 

  • Mentors junior & senior level designers to ensure their technical growth and productivity 

  • Maintains awareness of the latest design technologies and trends 

  • Acts as back-up to Multimedia Art Director

 

Department Customer Service Representative 

  • Acts as primary contact for creative team 

  • Provides customer service to customer base 

  • Conducts customer meeting 

  • Defines job requirements 

  • Develops estimate of work required to customers 

  • Oversee and manage projects including delgating assigned work, tracking timeline, budget and delivery

 

Team Lead 

  • Responsible for department budgets 

  • Responsible for department equipment, computers and software licenses 

  • Conducts department purchases 

  • Developed creative services target marketing plans and dentify new possible opportunities for team 

  • Conducts team member yearly appraisal reviews 

  • Research and recommend the latest cutting edge technology of color copy and digital production.

Hercules Incorporated, Trevose, PA, June 1997 to May 2000

Graphic Designer 

  • Provide support for marketing and business development. 

  • Responsibilities include design and production of presentation graphics, advertisements, invitations, announcements, brochures, sell sheets, technical papers, case histories and logos. 

  • Creative design and output of exhibit graphics for trade shows. 

  • Management of cataloging photography. 

  • Maintain and update all graphic materials. 

  • Developed production and graphic standards. 

  • Experienced in multimedia and web design. 

  • Coordination of in-house printshop. and of outsourcing projects with vendors. 

  • Image handling (photoCD, scanning, small/large format color). 

  • Manage the maintenance of all office computers and equipment. 

  • Research and recommend the latest cutting edge technology of color copy and digital graphics.

Banners, Signs Express, Trevose, PA, June 1996 to September 1996

Graphic Designer 

  • Designed type and layout for signs and banners. 

  • Operated computer plotter used for cutting vinyl. 

  • Constructed banners and signs. 

  • Applied vinyl to cars, trucks and buildings. 

  • Applied silk screen to signs.

University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, June 1995 to December 1995

Graphic Designer 

  • Designed numerous outdoor signs, interior signage, logos. 

  • Created slide presentations for the president of the university. 

  • Photographed and layed out magazine for incoming class. 

  • Designed posters for upcoming events on campus

PERSONAL LIFE

 

Howard resides in Phoenixville, Pennsylvania with his wife, Hope, and their two children, Avery and Samantha. Howard is a member of American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA) and National Association of Photoshop Professionals (NAPP).

 

 

 

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