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LEONIDAS BERTSOS
GRAPHIC DESIGNER +
WEB DESIGNER
LEONIDASBERTSOS.COM
[email protected]
203 671 8573
INTERNSHIP
CBS Corporation,
Spring 2010
Project Manager for
CBS Website
/ Worked closely with VPs to develop
strategic information architecture
/ Played integral role in website
redesign by providing research,
advising team leaders and
designing structural comps
French Institute
Alliance Française,
principal, Philippe Apeloig
Summer 2009
Interactive Designer /
Assistant Graphic Designer
/ Worked with Philippe Apeloig
to design Flash web banners
to promote annual festivals
and programs
/ Designed catalogs, posters,
brochures, and event flyers
StudioWorks,
principal, Keith Godard
Summer 2009, January 2010
Graphic Design Apprentice
/ Designed environmental graphics
and invitations for exhibitions
in France
/ Designed magazine ads for
Time Out New York
Honeywell
Summer 2007
Web Developer Intern
/ Designed a fold-out way finding
brochure for a historic museum
/ Worked in a team to create
online product catalogs
/ Approved print work on press
/ Created Flash and HTML versions of an instructional guide
CURRENT PROJECTS
/ Designing a website using Flash
to showcase the photographer’s
body of work; creating menus
that disappear to allow for an
immersive art-viewing experience
for the user
/ Designing a custom WordPress
website for a Glamour magazine
editor, writer and blogger
/ Designing an iPod/iPad compatible
website for a popular Connecticut
restaurant
/ Maintained and updated web sites on the Internet and Extranet
EMPLOYMENT
French Institute
Alliance Française,
August 2010
Freelance Flash Designer
/ Developed a Flash web banner
for non profit organization’s
fall festival
Rena Shagan Arts,
July 2010
Freelance Web Designer
/ Updated firm’s existing website
while keeping current format
/ Implemented Lightbox 2 and
edited JavaScript menus
/ Troubleshot design problems
on existing CSS
EDUCATION
Chelidonia Villas
September 2009
Freelance Photographer
/ Photographed villas to portray the
accurate experience of staying at
each unique property
/ Digitally retouched photographs
to produce rich and high
quality images
NYC Green Car
October 2008
Freelance Graphic Designer
/ Created a promotional brochure for hybrid car service
Barry University
Summer 2006 – Fall 2007
Graphic Design Lab Associate
/ Assisted students with problemsolving and software execution for school assignments
/ Troubleshot software and hardware
issues in the digital computer lab
TECHNICAL SKILLS
Fashion Institute of Technology, Computer
State University of New York
Dreamweaver, Flash,
Illustrator, InDesign,
Bachelor of Fine Arts
Photoshop
/ Graphic Design
May 2010
Photography
Associate in Applied Science
Large format & 35mm
/ Communication Design
/ Darkroom experience
Magna Cum Laude
with b/w film developing
Spring 2008
and printing skills
Nottingham Trent University
United Kingdom
Study Abroad Program
/ Graphic Design
Fall 2009
Barry University
Miami, FL
/ Graphic Design Major
Fall 2005 – 2007