ALEXIS GREEN

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87 06 25 0024 084

JOZI GIRL

GLOBAL CITIZEN

JOIE DE

VIVRE

GIRLY GIRL, BUBBLY, WILD,

FASHIONISTA, ENTREPRENEUR,

HOMECOOK, ANIMAL LOVER,

HOOKED ON INTERNET

& SOCIALITE

25JUNE 1987

ALLURE

ARDOUR

SENIOR GRAPHIC AND WEB DESIGNER

INSPIRATION

ADVERTISING

BUSINESS

COUTURE

GRAPHIC DESIGN

WEB DESIGN

PHOTOGRAPHY

RETOUCHING

ILLUSTRATION

FINE ARTS

MUSIC

BEAUTIFUL CREATIONS

FASHION

DRAWING

PAINTING

MAKING THINGS GORGEOUS

RE-TOUCHING

ACHIEVING THE IMPOSSIBLE

SPEED

GRAPHIC DESIGN, BRANDING, BASIC MARKETING,

WEBSITES & PHOTOGRAPHY

Advertising is my absolute passion, conceptualising & being able to execute each & every project myself is something to be proud of. A highly talented individual in various areas, pushing to excel beyond each project, never accepting anything less than perfection. Looking to expand my advertising experience, marketing, further my brand building knowledge, whilst feeding my hunger for learning about management for future entrepreneurial work.

SALARY EXPECTANCY - R22 500 (Web) / R18 500 (Design) before tax (R16 650/ R13 600 - expected outcome).

I DO WHAT I LOVE

& LOVE WHAT I DO

ART IS NOT ABOUT THINKING SOMETHING UP.IT IS THE OPPOSITE - GETTING SOMETHING DOWN.~ JULIA CAMERON: THE ARTIST’S WAY“

EXPERIENCE TIMELINE

EDUCATION

2003-2007 MICA & JACKS PAINT 2006-2015

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SEEKINGPERMANENT, CONTRACT,

FREELANCING OR RETAINER

2008SWITCH

2009-2010TLA TALENT MANAGEMENT

2009-2010BUBBLEGUM

2010-2012CULINARY & SCHULPHOEK

2012-2013YOUNG & RUBICAM

2014SABATICAL

2015MONEYWEB & ADLIP

SECONDARY

BOKSBURG HIGH SCHOOL

TERTIARY

U VAAL UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY 1ST YEAR

U INSCAPE DESIGN COLLEGE 2ND YEAR

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PROUD TO HAVE STATED

WORKING FROM THE

AGE OF 16 FREELANCE

FREELANCE

FREELANCE

FREELANCE

PERMANENT

PERMANENT

ENTREPRENEURIAL

PROJECT PART TIME

REFERENCES

SKILLS

BUBBLEGUM

DYLAN GREEN

082 312 2298

DYLAN@BUBBLEGUM.CO.ZA

BOSS

BRUCE K.CANTRELL

IN LONDON

INFO@BRUCEKCANTRELL.COM

CLIENT

MONEYWEB

SASHA PLANTING

083 266 5882

SASHA@MONEYWEB.CO.ZA

EDITOR

LANGUAGES

(spoken & written)

English

Afrikaans

SOFTWARE

Extensive knowledge

Adobe - CC

Photoshop

Illustrator

Indesign

Wordpress

Microsoft; word, Excel & Powerpoint

Basic

Adobe – CC

Dreamweaver

Flash

Fireworks

After effects

Premiere Pro

CAMERA

5D Mark II

WINDOWS 10 - I7

WORK ON BOTH MAC & PC

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STUDENT JOB

2003-2007MICA - JACKS PAINT

DISPLAYS, CASHIER, ADMIN, DISPATCH, SALES

R60/HRWeekends, Public Holidays & Holidays

Worked through high school, univerosty & college

Love for advertising grew

Passion for people

Understanding of business

Dedication to be the best

Won best cashier from Visa competition country wide

RESPONSIBILITIES

Cashier

Retail displays

Admin & stock

I DO WHAT I LOVE

& LOVE WHAT I DO

FREELANCING

2008SWITCH

BELOW & ABOVE THE LINE ADVERTISING - DTP & DESIGN

R200/HRTime period - 2 weeks

Learnt to work quickly, efficiently, under pressure

Have fun but work hard

RESPONSIBILITIES

Sabaru: Billboards, magazine ads, newpaper ads

Baracuda: Packaging X7

Sanlam: Promotional material concepts, presentations on the campaign

Werksmans: Internal documentation; newsletters, letterheads

BMW: Billboards, magazine ads, newspaper ads

Newspaper: Calendar design

I DO WHAT I LOVE

& LOVE WHAT I DO

$$$ NO SALARY $$$Experimented with business over week nights

& Weekends.

Learnt the benefits & downfalls of

owning & running your own company

Importance of networking

How to win a client

RESPONSIBILITIES

Client meetings & Pitches

Bookings

Marketing & Branding: CI - Website, Business cards,

Email signatures, documentation, Social media.

Admin: Payments, Invoices, Book keeping, Filing and

Contracts.

PART TIME

2009-2010TLA - TALENT MANAGEMENT

BUSINESS ENTREPRENEUR, OWNERI DO WHAT I LOVE

& LOVE WHAT I DO

R9 000/MONTHOctober 2009 - April 2010

Adapt design style to match brief

Work alone confidently

RESPONSIBILITIES

DESIGN, LLUSTRATION, RE-TOUCHING, BASIC CODING, SOCIAL MEDIA

Matric Matters: DTP, Design & layout of the weekly

newspaper supplements

Social Media: Facebook & Twitter

TV: DTP

Educational textbooks: DTP, layouts, diagrams

Illustration: Character & layouts

LIBERTY - BOSTON - CASIO

DMZ

Emailer & Email signature

Design & Basic coding

PERMANENT

2009-2010BUBBLEGUM EDUCATIONAL DESIGN

JUNIOR/MID DTP GRAPHIC DESIGNERI DO WHAT I LOVE

& LOVE WHAT I DO

R15 700/MONTHMonth with incentive bonus’ & annual bonus

July 2010 - Novemeber 2012

Adapt design style to match brief

Work alone confidently

Work on Marketing Campaigns

FMCG Experience

MANAGE A JUN/NMID DESIGNER

RESPONSIBILITIES

PHOTOGRAPHY, DESIGN, ILLUSTRATION, RE-TOUCHING, SOCIAL MEDIA, WEB + DIGITAL DESIGN, AND MARKETING ASSISTANT.

PHOTOGRAPHY: Stock, Interior/Architecture,

Product/Lifestyle, Food, Events and Portraiture,

Styling of photo shoots of products, working close at

hand with a chef/cook for food styling as well.

Lastly editing of imagery (from basic to intricate).

DESIGN & ILLUSTRATION: DTP, Posters,

Advertisements, Corporate Identity, Billboards,

Promotional material, Show stand designs, emails,

Price booklets, Brochures, Packaging design,

Coffee packaging, Swing tags, Point of purchase and

Retail store design - campaigns or whether it

have been artworks for the interior or store fronts.

Numerous web developments. Signage for pop-up

restaurant/take-away.

PERMANENT

2009-2010CULINARY EQUIPMENT COMPANY & SCHULPHOEK

MID GRAPHIC DESIGNER, BASIC MARKETING. SOCIAL

MEDIA & PHOTOGRAPHER

1

I DO WHAT I LOVE

& LOVE WHAT I DO

MARKETING: Conceptualisation of Above and below

the line, assistant to supierior Liaising with

publications for features - supplying imagery,

assisting with show events; co-ordination, PR, content

creation & construction of the blog, the set-up of the

back-end of the main website. Plus continuing

to build the social media platforms; being Facebook,

Twitter, Linkedin and Pinterest. Price booklets;

myself having researched and discovering the

platform to render the booklets from an excel

perspective; unifying the company’s product

information from an administrative point directly in our

design programs. Thus enabling the departments

to work cohesively and cutting work flow by half

the time.

ADMIN: Liaising with suppliers for the retail stores and

head office for stock of all packaging needs.

Following up payments, quotations and seeing that

the tasks are carried out efficiently, unless taken

over by my superior. Registration of web domains and

redirections by Culinary’s host provider.

Printing production done internally; Coffee label

packaging, Company details, Food products,

Lacanche colour swatches, Price booklets, Company

profile, Architectural drawings. Management of

the iPad; converting videos and adding all business

trips for client communication. Creation of TV

Content for retail stores; Video conversations and

presentation (used for Hostex - show stand).

PERMANENT

2

2009-2010CULINARY EQUIPMENT COMPANY & SCHULPHOEK

MID GRAPHIC DESIGNER, BASIC MARKETING. SOCIAL

MEDIA & PHOTOGRAPHERI DO WHAT I LOVE

& LOVE WHAT I DO

Answering my managers telephone and relaying

information for the marketing division in her absence

when she was not in the office.

CODING: Emailers, Website (wordpress - blog), email

signatures. Having taught myself coding,

I carried out basic to slightly advanced tasks where

needed.

BASIC IT ASSIST: I helped within the company to

quickly assist mainly sales assistants; if their emails

went down, computer lagged, adding email

signatures. Working closing and communicating

directly with IT, if the problem could not be solved

easily, that they could then solve the issue at hand.

As well as assisting with the re-branding of Culinary

Equipment Company and having re-branded

Schulphoek Guesthouse with print media (Business

cards, Brochure and AD’s) plus having photographed

the Guesthouse (Schulphoek) along with its food.

PERMANENT

3

2009-2010CULINARY EQUIPMENT COMPANY & SCHULPHOEK

MID GRAPHIC DESIGNER, BASIC MARKETING. SOCIAL

MEDIA & PHOTOGRAPHERI DO WHAT I LOVE

& LOVE WHAT I DO

R1 015/DAYDecember 2012 - February 2013

Work on Global artwork key visuals

RESPONSIBILITIES

PICK N PAY

Lock-up & Print Ad

DTP, Design & layout.

360˚ COLGATE PALMOLIVE

Optic White, Slimsoft, Double Action, Protex, Palmolive, Kids Stickers, Kids Trade Presenter

DTP, Design & layout, Promo outfit, Show stands,

Research, Image Search.

INTERNAL

Internal YR SA Corporate Identity, Event invitations, Image search, Powerpoint presentations, Pitchdocumentations

FREELANCING CONTRACT

2012-2013YOUNG & RUBICAM - JOHANNESBURG

MID/SENIOR GRAPHIC AND WEB DESIGNER

+ PHOTOGRAPHERI DO WHAT I LOVE

& LOVE WHAT I DO

R22 500/MONTHFebruary 2015 - August 2015

Gained experience in publishing digital magazines,

blogs and developing microsites.

RESPONSIBILITIES

MONEYWEB

In-house graphic, web and digital design, working

with editors in JHB & CPT

MONTHLY MAGAZINES PUBLISHED DIGITALLY

DTP, Design & layout:

The Investor, conceptualise and design for both the

blog (Wordpress) plus digital magazine (Joomag).

Property Mogul, a monthly property investment

magazine that is published as a digital magazine

through Joomag.

MICROSITES

The investor, Inspiration Factory, The Money Expo, Exit

Conference, Top Private banks.

ADLIP

DTP, Design & layout: Presentations, flyer and banner.

FREELANCING CONTRACT

2015MONEYWEB

SENIOR GRAPHIC AND WEB DESIGNER

ASSOCIATE PUBLISHERI DO WHAT I LOVE

& LOVE WHAT I DO

$$$ DEPENDANT PER JOB $$$Freelance in my spare time to earn extra cash, never

interferes or conflicts with any current or past job.

Learn’t about client & project management. Experiment

with branding & web design. Learn new techniques and

discover trends.

CLIENTS

FNBCURIOUS PICTURESBUTTERLOVELIFETRAINLES DELICES DE FRANCEJUST ADDDEBBA’SLAVO FASHIONSBELLA DONNAATTRA CONSTRUCTIONSROTARYBRUCE K. CANTRELLROGER WELLSWUNDERMANAQUA ONLINE

FREELANCING

2006-2015ALEXISVERT

DESIGN - WEB DESIGN - PHOTOGRAPHY

ILLUSTRATION - RE-TOUCHING - FINE ARTSI DO WHAT I LOVE

& LOVE WHAT I DO

TLA - TALENT MANAGEMENTBranding & web design (wordpress).

NEAT & PUREHouse and Pet sittingBranding, web design (wordpress).

GIRL WITH SHOESBlog Bi-monthly magazineBranding & web design (wordpress).

ELANNude cocktail charity calendarRocco de Villiers, Bruce K. Cantrell & Piers BraybrookeDirector, Co-ordination, Assist with styling, Design, Marketing, Social media, Web design (wordpress).

CHIC DECONSTRUCTIONPhotography, Re-touching, Design & web design (Wordpress), Co-Ordination & Styling.

PRIVATE PROJECTS

I DO WHAT I LOVE

& LOVE WHAT I DO

PRINT PORTOFLIO

PDF MAGS OF ALL MY WORK Click to view online as Magazine (Culinary not incl.)Click to view my private PDF’s - Private & Culinary

DIGITAL PORTOFLIO

MONEYWEB

www.inspiration.moneyweb.co.za

www.investor.moneyweb.co.za

www.exit.moneyweb.co.za

www.themoneyexpo.co.za

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www.lifetrain.co.za

www.lesdelicesdefrance.co.za

www.twistedlemonagency.com

www.elan.za.org

www.girlwithshoes.com

www.neatandpure.com

PHOTOGRAPHY

www.alexisvert.com

Ensure to view on computer

(website has been hacked on mobile version,

busy getting it fixed)

PORTFOLIO LINKS

I DO WHAT I LOVE

& LOVE WHAT I DO

ALEXIS GREEN

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I DO WHAT I LOVE

& LOVE WHAT I DO

IMAGINE@

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+ 27 84 097 1670

ARDENTLY

CREATING

COVERT

BEAUTYIN

LIFE

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