PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Daniel Garcia has over 16 years of design experience and strives to provide his clients with exceptional custom creative work including: email templates, newsletters layout, logo development, web design, photography, video production, blog writing, brochures, business cards, stationeries, product packaging, and more.
Education
California State University, Fullerton
Communications/Advertising, B.A. — 2019
Orange Coast College
Marketing, A.S. — 2015
Professional Roles
Director of Marketing
Wallin & Klarich, A Law Corporation
Directs multiple simultaneous marketing activities from campaign development through implementation and control phases ensuring KPIs and desired outcomes are achieved throughout.
Devises and executes email marketing campaigns, including automatic/triggered messages when relevant based on client life-cycle activities.
Manages third-party marketing and website development agency to continually optimize 7 websites for SEO & SEM traffic and ensures desired results are achieved.
Art Director
Palm Springs Photo Festival
Managed a team of graphic designers tasked to ensure all event material and signage was updated and produced in accordance to new branding guidelines specific to the 14th year of the week-long festival.
Identified scope for each project and collaborated with internal teams to maintain project timelines, internal processes and deliverables.
Co-authored the official PSPF XIV showcase video alongside celebrity photographer and festival director, Jeff Dunas.
Marketing Strategist
Skin Cancer & Reconstructive Surgery (SCARS) Center
Assisted physician practice management company exceed their fundamental goals of increasing sales and growing their patient bases.
Partnered with third party partners as needed to implement social strategies to grow audience and engagement, including but not limited to Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, and Yelp.
Provided actionable insights to continually optimize the patient acquisition costs across all channels, improving engagement and repeat visits.
Branding & Visual Communications Strategist
Appearance Center of Newport Beach
Ensured a consistent and effective brand message throughout all marketing campaigns for a reconstructive and cosmetic surgery facility.
Aligned all marketing creative to a single brand standard, ensuring brand imagery and tenants shine through in a consistent manner across all digital touch-points.
Developed an internal video production function to bridge the gap between high-budget television production and current static creative capabilities.
Other Experience:
Staff Photographer - ThePier.Org
Daniel Garcia was part of the media team for Los Angeles based reggae-rock publication ThePier.org, photographing live music festivals and special events.