Capabilities Profile: Marketing Communications

• Strong and versatile web, trade show, and sales commu-nications professional. Graphic and visual designer for print and web, and copywriter, with experience in direct mail, business-to-business, and point-of-sale customer engagement.

• Excellence in promoting sales, supporting recruiting, brand management, and communicating to employees, clients, customers, and investors.

• Sought after and recognized for “out-of-the-box” think-ing, brainstorming skills and leadership, and creative solutions to communication challenges.

• Created marketing materials, presentations, and informa-tional graphics that earned companywide recognition as business builders.

• Established reputation for creative, response-generating headlines and advertising/marketing copy.

• Highly regarded ability to identify and highlight key mes-sages, and tighten, polish and improve presentations.

• Designer of external and internal web sites, landing pages, and complex cloud-based conditional forms.

• Volunteer social media and communications officer for local nonprofit organization; for a local educational organization, helped CEO establish worldwide reputation through creative communications.

• Reputation for coolness under pressure, meeting tight deadlines, and satisfying demanding CEOs, VPs, and division heads.

Capabilities Profile: Print and Graphics

• Storewide and point-of-sale posters, banners, and sign-age, shelf and aisle display units, and display packaging.

• Event, social and documentary photographer for news letters and social media. Art/creative direction of food, product, and live model studio photography. Digital and press proof color correction. Image retouching.

• Design and production of direct response campaigns for print advertising and direct mail. Have achieved response rates in excess of 3%.

• Technically correct reproduction files and imaging-ready production art for offset printing, flexographic printing, die cutting, and silkscreen production.

Tools and Applications

• Adobe Creative Cloud Suite (highly proficient in InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator and Acrobat; experience with Flash; experienced with Dreamweaver, basic knowledge of Pre-miere and After Effects).

• Microsoft Office Suite (highly proficient in PowerPoint, Word, and Visio, proficient in Excel and SharePoint; expe-rience creating and editing web pages in FrontPage, and training in Visual Studio, Access, Project, and Publisher).

• Expert in Keynote, QuarkXPress, and CorelDraw, and experienced in GIMP, Inkscape, iMovie, Camtasia Studio, and WordPress.

• Proficient in Constant Contact (web-based email market-ing and contact management solution).

Creative Communication for Business and Technology

Contact InformationDavid A. Kunkel

76 Heath Terrace, Buffalo, NY 14223 | Phone/Text: 716-316-7667 david.andrew.kunkel@gmail.com | www.linkedin.com/in/kunkeldavid | Portfolio: http://geedavey.tumblr.com

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