SEAN HEMAK
Design Supervisor · Disguise, Inc.
La Mesa, CA
In My Own Words
• Specializing in creative direction, branding, advertising and marketing. • Over 15 years of professional management in creative fields. • Spearheaded projects with budgets ranging from $100- $10M. • Pioneered entrepreneurial assets yielding profit margins up to 400% • Keen ability to communicate client vision resulting in high quality creative work with brand continuity. • Coordinated projects with up to 15 major brand identities involved in a single project.
Work Experience
Design Supervisor
Disguise, Inc.2016 – Present
• Manage and oversee our team of designers, engineers, photographers and image re-touch artists while fostering an empowered creative culture. • Initiate direct daily correspondence and in-person conferences with top-tier brands such as Disney, Lego, Hasbro, Microsoft and more. Advised branding direction and negotiated asset usage for product design and packaging. • Delegate task directives for our overseas factories and suppliers. Accelerated and centralized communication to ensure proper guidance for time-sensitive solutions. • Prompted company-wide meetings to motivate and optimize processes, procedures and cross-training. • Created and executed streamlined processes for design templates, asset management, SOP and inventory to effectively reduce redundant workflow by 40%. • Organized and collaborated with licensors to capture R&D for consumer products based on actual costumes used in current film production. • Prototype and produce creative work such as design, storyboarding, photography and strategic concept boards.
Costume Designer
Disguise, Inc.2015 – 2016
• Costume graphic design for global brands and proprietary styles.
Creative Director
PSC Graphx (Pacific Service Center)2008 – 2016
• Conceptualized and implemented PSC Graphx, a new company division, which functions as an advertising/marketing agency and full-service graphics house. • PSC Graphx grosses $2 million/year and attracts an estimated 15-20% increase to incoming sales for other divisions within the company. • Functioned as Corporate Creative Director across six company divisions. • Lead our team of creatives with a portfolio of over 500+ accounts. • Successfully launched nation-wide advertisement strategies, campaigns and branding development for companies and organizations such as Pepsi, Franz, Major Soccer League and Goodwill. • Orchestrated, produced and prototyped creative work: graphic design, copy, AV content, custom website design, dioramas, architectural/structural plans and more.
Illustrator + Graphic Designer
Omnicide Records2002 – 2011
Lead designer for all layouts, photography and illustrations for all upcoming shows, productions and company identity.
Video Game Designer + Illustrator + Foley Compositor
The Solo Projects2009 – 2011
Create assets for Waste Land video game.
Graphic Designer + Animator
Intel2007 – 2008
Design, animate and produce marketing materials for Intel’s P1266 computer chip and wireless technology. I designed the main logo for this division of Intel.
Illustrator
Cackling Imp Press2004 – 2008
Design and illustrate pages for Hotrod Horror comic book anthologies.
Illustrator + Writer
Dark Horse Comics2008 – 2008
Write and illustrate The Haunted House by Creature Mountain.
Creative Manager + Lead Graphic Designer
Stellar Signs2007 – 2008
Lead graphic designer for all in-house projects. Manage employees and sub-contract work.
Creative Director
Pacific Truck Colors (PTC)2006 – 2007
Oversee and direct creative employee tasks, files, artwork, product application, import/export of graphics, and sub-contract work. Lead creator of designs, layouts, logos, advertisements, promotional material and automotive graphics for clients and PTC.
Graphic Designer + Illustrator
KISS / Kisstorysource2005 – 2006
Create design for the largest retailer of licensed and unlicensed KISS merchandise in the world. Design and promote images for KISS Army.
Education
Certificate in Industrial Design
Art Institute of Pittsburgh1995 – 1995
Certificate in Industrial Design
Practitioner of Neuro-Linguistic Programming
Association for Integrative Psychology2018 – 2018
Practitioner of Neuro-Linguistic Programming
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