Well… I am just a deviant trying to fit in. Need I say more?
Oh yeah, I dig on Vanilla Ice Cream too…
Owel… still testing the waters as to where this curriculum vitae shall take me to…
HOGAR, Raymond R.
"RED"
9044 Hormiga St., Brgy. Olympia,
Makati City, Philippines 1207
(63) 916-5958245 / (63) 2-8990519
To be part of a graphic and multimedia design team that provides direct and indirect training and would bring out the optimum potential of its members.
EDUCATION
2002-2005
De La Salle – College of Saint Benilde
Bachelor of Arts in Multimedia Arts - Graduate
2544 Taft Avenue, Malate, Manila, Philippines
*** CANDIDATE for CUM LAUDE
Recipient of First Honors awards on 1st, 2nd, 3rd terms 2002-2003; 3rd term 2003-2004; 1st term 2004-2005 and 2nd term 2005-2006; Second Honors awards on 1st term 2003-2004 and 2nd and 3rd term 2004-2005 and 1st term 2005-2006.
2000-2001
University of Santo Tomas
Bachelor of Science in Commerce
Espana Avenue, Sampaloc, Manila, Philippines
Part of the top 5% amongst the entrance examinees.
WORK EXPERIENCE
April 2007-Present
Lead Web Designer / Usability Expert [In-training]
DirectWithHotels Ltd., Inc.
3rd floor Gloria Building,
109 Aguirre St., Legaspi Village, Makati City, Philippines
Responsibilities:
- Tasked to conduct a weekly check-up on other portfolio designers on group tasks.
- Facilitate project pegging that may be conceived during designer sessions.
- Motivate portfolio designers into coming up with fresher ideas day in and day out.
- Lead the usability experts’ team in technical consultation with other service units.
- Continue supporting the regional portfolio being handled as a Web Designer and all other tasks that maintain the 40 Hotel websites under that particular region, which are the Visayas and Mindanao group of Philippine Islands.
July 2006-March 2007
Web Designer / Usability Expert
DirectWithHotels Ltd., Inc.
4th floor Regina Building,
100 Aguirre St., Legaspi Village, Makati City, Philippines
Responsibilities:
- Come up with design studies and concepts for Hotel Websites under the Visayas and Mindanao Philippine Region.
- Maintain the 40 Hotel Websites by updating information such as texts and images.
- Maximize the full potential of the Websites as they get propagated in the internet and gain popularity through proper search engine-friendly initiatives such as adding text contents that are detectable by search engine spiders, re-designing buttons and offline marketing services among other things.
- Facilitate portfolio initiatives on design such as eNewsletters and E-Mail Marketing.
- Do client-facing at times when technical expertise is advised to elucidate the clients with the nature of the business.
- Interact with third party/ies on situations where the clients want to have an additional support in coming up with a marketable design for the Hotel.
- Act as a point person in times when the project manager is not around to facilitate customer assistance tasks.
January 2005 - April 2006
Freelance Graphic Artist and Assistant Production Designer
For Ohmar Mendoza, Freelance Production Designer for TV Ads
FILM Experts, Incorporated
Finlandia St., San Isidro, Makati City, Philippines
Responsibilities:
- Facilitate graphic design presentations to be shown during the pre-production stage of the television ad conceptualization.
- Facilitate graphic design elements as part of the entire set look.
- Assist during the making of the actual set by purchasing physical objects that are vital in the production.
- Assist during acquisition and fitting of proper costume for the talents and measuring the body types.
- Assist during the actual shooting on attending with the director’s needs on props and costumes.
- Facilitate liquidation and return of purchased props and costumes after the production stage.
September 2005 - December 2005
Contributing Artist
WWW.YEHEY.COM
38/F Discovery Center
#25 ADB Avenue, Ortigas Complex Pasig City, Metro Manila, Philippines
Responsibilities:
- Draft images that signify a particular season.
- Animate the drafted images for web propagation.
- Come up with at least ten designs to be uploaded.
May 2005 - June 2005
Apprentice Cover Page and Layout Artist
Homelife Magazine
Society of St. Paul, St. Paul Publications Office
St. Paul Ave., San Antonio Village, Makati City, Philippines
Responsibilities:
- Report to the Editor-In-Chief and the Senior Layout Artist.
- Layout the entire forty-eight (48) page June 2005 issue of the magazine.
- Gather images from photo banks that would custom-fit the design for this particular issue.
- Conduct research works on the previous designs to align with the feel, tone and mood to be set on this new issue.
- Enhance images that are worn out and those that are in dual-tone by cleaning up and adding colors to the illustrations.
April 2005 - May 2005
Apprentice Graphic and Layout Artist
Alliance Francaise de Manille
209 Nicanor Garcia Ave., Bel-Air II, Makati City, Philippines
Responsibilities:
- Report directly to the Marketing Head of the Center.
- Brainstorm on the look of the campaign that is set to be launched.
- Design studies for folders, brochures, video club posters, magazine ads and website.
- Gather necessary images for the layouts through the center’s photo collection.
ORGANIZATIONAL INVOLVEMENT
June 2004-March 2005
Public Relations Officer
Lasallian Ministry Office Student Ministers
Facilitates the general publicity of the ministry’s activities.
December 2002-Feb 2006
Student Minister
Lasallian Ministry Office
Aids in the liturgical readings and liturgical music conducted during Masses.
June 1995 - Present
Member
Hearts of Jesus and Mary Choir
Our Lady of Lourdes Chapel, Makati City
Leads the community in rendering liturgical music during Holy Mass.
SEMINARS AND CONVENTIONS ATTENDED
August 2007
SIPOC Process Mapping
Speaker: Mr. Angelo Mangalindan, Senior Business Analyst, DirectWithHotels, Aguirre St., Makati April 2007
Usability: A Key to Success Speaker: Ms. Mimi Knowles, Usability Expert, ComQual CGB Bldg, Aguirre St., Legaspi Vill., Makati
December 2006
Graphika Manila 2006
Speaker: Mr. Joshua Davis, Graphic Design Guru, SM Mall of Asia, Pasay City
November 2005
Photojournalism and Photo Essay
Speaker: Mr. VJ Villafranca, College of St. Benilde Auditorium
October 2005
Graphic Design in the Music Industry
Speaker/s: Electrolychee (Bru and Marcus Shiro), College of St. Benilde Auditorium
October 2005
Song Composition and Sound Scoring
Speaker: Mr. Robster Evangelista, College of St. Benilde Auditorium
September 2005
Trends in Experimental Cinema
Speaker: Mr. Michael Brynntrup, College of St. Benilde Auditorium
May 2005
Basic Orientation Seminar (BOS)
Lasallian Ministry Office
Kuhala Bay Resort, Cardona Rizal
December 2004
Asia-Pacific Lasallian Youth Congress 7
Sai Kung Peninsula, Hong Kong
July 2004
Leadership Training Workshop
La Salle Villa, Tagaytay City
April 2003
7th Return to Vaugirard
University of Saint La Salle, Bacolod City
OTHER AWARDS RECEIVED
December 2007
The Collabrador Award (The Collaborative Award)
The DirectWithZimmies Award is given to the Zimmie who places a premium on collaboration.
DirectWithHotels Brand Awards
DirectWithHotels Christmas Party, Mag:Net Café, Bonifacio High Street,
The Fort, Taguig City, Philippines
September 2005
Kapitulo Ni Lucas (Video)
adjudged as the Best Multimedia Thesis
with a GPA of 3.77 (approx 96.5%) 2nd Term, AY 2005-2006,
SDA- MMA, De La Salle - College of St Benilde;
Malate, Manila, Philippines
Screened at the 2005 eKsperim[E]nto International Film, Video and New Media Festival, Manila, Philippines; 2006 Gawad CCP for Film and Video (Students Category), Manila, Philippines.
July 2005
Scholastic Second Honors Academic Year 2004-2005
HONORS CONVOCATION NIGHT
Grand Ballroom, Angelo King International Center, De La Salle - College of St Benilde
Malate, Manila, Philippines
July 2004
Outstanding Student Minister Service Merit
GAWAD SINAG-TALA
Augusto Rosario Theater, De La Salle - College of St Benilde
Malate, Manila, Philippines
April 2004
Lunod Sa Kawalan (Video)
Best in Art Direction/ Cinematography ; Freedom of Expression Award, ASTIG Video Citations,
SDA-MMA De La Salle - College of St Benilde
Screened at the 2004 UP Cineastes Invitational Film and Video Open;
2005 eKsperim[E]nto International Film, Video and New Media Festival; Manila, Philippines
2006 Gawad CCP for Film and Video (Students Category); Manila, Philippines
2004 Kamarikutan Pagdiwata Film Festival; Palawan, Philippines
July 2003
Scholastic Top Ten Academic Year 2002-2003
HONORS CONVOCATION NIGHT
Augusto Rosario Theater, De La Salle - College of St Benilde
Malate, Manila, Philippines
PERSONAL BACKROUND
Born on September 17, 1982 and youngest of four siblings. Fluent in both English and Filipino languages. Proficient in using Adobe Photoshop, Pagemaker, Premiere; Macromedia Fireworks, Dreamweaver and Flash; Sonic Foundry Sound Forge and Vegas. Knowledgeable in Adobe After Effects & ImageReady; Macromedia Director; Shockwave Maya 5.5; Autodeskviz & Architectural Desktop. Also, familiar with sub-programming use of PHP. Willing to work in an environment that would hone different skills related to multimedia development and other related discipline as part of the revolution of the industry.
REFERENCES SHALL BE ISSUED UPON REQUEST
Hi there, this is a great blog. I enjoyed reading your posts. You mentioned you attended some song writing seminary,ayt? Do you have any sample of your sound designing works? Any how, your website designs are fabulous, I’d like to collaborate with you soon. Just hit me up.
Thanks for visiting my blog!
I actually attended some sound design classes in school which gave me the opportunity to hear the industry giants talk. However, my music files [not too many] have been corrupted since my computer at home unfortunately crashed.
I am currently doing just web design though Id like to consider other multimedia fields as well.. And yeah, am also interested to collaborate with you. Just contact me anytime!