CONTACT INFORMATION

Name Paola Cimenti
Email mail[at]paolac.it


PERSONAL INFORMATION

Date of Birth 27/03/1979
Place of Birth Rome
Nationality Italian


EMPLOYMENT

EMPLOYMENT
March 2008 - Present CMC Markets (London)
ROLE: Web and Print designer
CMC Markets is a company that offers a range of financial services both to private customers and to institutions, such as banks and brokers. In case that the client is an institution, he becomes a partner and has the chance to distribute these services under his brand. My role is to customise products by following the partner’s identity.
Re-branding usually includes: website, e-mail templates, sets of flash and GIF banners, sets of application forms and, in some cases, leaflets and print adverts.

September – November 2007 Adviva (London)
ROLE: Contractor as an in-house designer
Responsibilities included managing Adviva’s identity through the production of graphic material, from stationery to corporate advertisers, individual product direct mails and the Adviva media pack. 

March 2003 - August 2007 EZA (Rome)
ROLE: Designer: advertising, publications and web.
During these years I gained a broad variety of experience. Although I have worked in different areas such as web design and desktop publishing, my main focus is managing the corporate identity of small businesses through their advertisements. I also design business cards and company headed papers.
I am experienced with Adobe Indesign and mainly use it to create art catalogues. The most impressive work I produced with this tool was Pagine Lago, which is the equivalent of the Yellow Pages for the northern provinces of Rome.
The graphic tool I am most familiar with is Photoshop. I use it for many applications, ranging from photo editing to creating invitations.

2002 Pierre (Rome)
ROLE:Advertising and publishing designer.
My main task was dealing with Stimacasa, a magazine about property.
During this work, I furthered my knowledge of Quark X-press and Adobe Photoshop.
I also designed some advertisements for small business activities.

2001 - 2002 Datakey; ASIA (Rome).
ROLE: Web designer in two different IT companies.
In Datakey, I mainly worked with Microsoft Frontpage in order to develop web pages.
In ASIA, I studied HTML and used web tools as Macromedia Dreamweaver and Flash for realizing web pages.