Resumé

Gino Verna
2200 Dickson Dr. #122
Austin, TX 78704
Phone: (512) 698-1226
Email:gino@ginoverna.com
Gino Verna Studios
www.ginoverna.worpress.com

An accomplished and talented professional with nineteen years experience in both the Executive Management and Design sectors. A leader adept at overseeing high-profile projects from conception to completion. Honored with numerous accolades, including several “American Graphic Design” Awards for branding and packaging design.

PROFESSIONAL STRENGTHS
Brand Management • Product Development and Management • Domestic and Overseas Production Management • Creative Consulting • Art Direction • Design • Photo Editing • Pre-press management • Color Correction

CAREER HIGHLIGHTS
Creative Services:
Provided varying levels of creative services and brand management for licensed consumer goods on for the following:
Alias (ABC) • Alien vs. Predator (20th Century Fox) • Andromeda (Tribune Entertainment) • Angel (Warner Brothers) • Buffy The Vampire Slayer (Warner Brothers/20th Century Fox) • Charmed (Spelling Television/Warner Brothers) • Crimson • (Wildstorm Comics) • The Crow (James O’Barr) • Dreary and Naughty (John LaFleur /Shawn Dubin) • Earth X and more (Marvel Entertainment) • Edward Gorey House (The Edward Gorey Estate) • G.I. Joe (Hasbro/Dreams and Visions) • Jericho (ABC) • Journey to the Center of the Earth 3D • (New Line Cinema/Walden Media), Justice League (DC Comics) • Hellboy (Darkhorse Comics/Revolution Studios) • Lost (ABC) • Rising Stars (Top Cow) •Robots (20th Century Fox) • Scooby-Doo (Warner Brothers) • Shrek (Dreamworks) • Smallville (DC Comics/Warner Brothers) • Supernatural (Warner Brothers) • The 4400 (ABC) • The Seeker: The Dark Is Rising (20th Century Fox/Walden Media) • The Sopranos (HBO) • Tomb Raider (Paramount) • Veronica Mars (UPN)

Production Management:
Manage all facets of design and production of consumer goods such as trading cards, statues, plush toys and other collectibles.  Coordinate with licensee, movie and television studios through the correction and approval processes.

Creative Consulting:
Creating and consulting on licensed properties such as books, action figures, trading cards, toys, and other collectibles. Develop packaging, direct mail order, business to business marketing materials and advertising.

Art Direction:
Responsibilities included supervising writers, photographers and illustrators.  Designed and produced comic book and movie licensed consumer goods (i.e. toys, statues, snow globes, lunch  boxes, calendars and lithographs). Managed a design team including a web programmer and junior designer.
Managed marketing and ad campaigns for the designed products.

Trade Shows/Booth Design:
Designing the look of trade booths, interacting with buyers, sellers, and fans at trade shows.

Photo Editing
Optimizes photographs for web or print including editing, color corrections, manipulation and customization. Adept in converting 2-D print images into 3-D anaglyph images to work with 3-d glasses.

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

Gino Verna Studios, Philadelphia, PA/Austin, TX, Freelance/Independent Contractor (1999-Present)
Clients Include: Rocket USA, Inkworks Trading Cards, Edward Gorey Estate, LaFleur & Dubin
Dynamic Forces, Pennsauken, NJ, Art Director/Senior Designer (1996-1999)

Peter Ancone & Associates, Pocopson, PA, Creative Consultant/Designer/Print Production (1994-1996)

Grant Marketing/Kingswood Advertising, Conshohocken, PA, Designer/Print Production (1994-1996)

Hire Knowledge, Philadelphia, PA Designer/Print Producti0n (1993-1994)

Independence Press, Philadelphia, PA, Designer/Pre-press (1993-1994)

The Type Connection, Philadelphia, PA Designer/Typesetter/Pre-press (1990-1992)

EDUCATION, ACHIEVEMENTS & ASSOCIATIONS

Art Institute of Philadelphia
Associates Degree, Sept. 1991
Major: Visual Communications
Minor: Illustration
Awards: A+ Portfolio and Perfect Attendence

• Dreary and Naughty optioned to Maverick Entertainment. Currently in discussions“Twilight” producer, Mark Morgan

• Buffy Evolution Trading Cards:  Winner of “Non-Sports Card of the Year 2001”, Non-Sports Update Magazine

• Various American Graphic Design Awards for Branding and Packaging Design

REFERENCES:
Available upon Request