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DANIEL GARCIA

My goal is to empower creative, driven professionals that inspire me to do better work.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

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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:

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Command Photographer -

U.S. Army Office of Public Affairs

Daniel Garcia was granted special clearance by ISAF Regional Command South to photograph and document life in a military field hospital in Kandahar, Afghanistan in 2011.

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.

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Above: Daniel Garcia with his press pass at California Roots Festival 2012

Above: Daniel Garcia with his press pass at California Roots Festival 2012

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