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Oscar Recalde
100 Morehouse Drive
Fairfield, CT 06825
(203) 254-7900   C:(203) 556-9520
E-mail: oscar@orecalde.com

Summary
Senior Art Director/Designer with over 20 years of hands-on experience in advertising, direct response, branding and all facets of marketing communications. I have a successful record of creating major multi-media advertising campaigns for clients such as Fisher Price, Perrier, Pitney Bowes, Citigroup, and Mont Blanc. I’m comfortable with direct client contact, building and supervising creative teams, television production, and managing multi-million dollar efforts.

Experience
Creative Director/ Principal – O!Communications, Fairfield, CT (1995 -current)
Manage and operate a small, but full service agency, providing integrated marketing programs for clients including Intuit, Pitney Bowes, Lexis-Nexis, Citigroup, Ogilvy Healthworld, Grey Direct, Martindale-Hubbell, LexisNexis, American BioSciences, North Castle Partners, American Health Association, Lane Labs, Klaff’s Home Design, RealHome. American Homeowners Association, The Altimira Group, Liberty Life Insurance. Projects cover advertising, websites, collateral, packaging, identity, and brand awareness programs.

Associate Creative Director – Clarion Communications Inc., (Freelance)
Greenwich, CT (1994 -1995) Managed direct response creative campaigns for Chase Manhattan Bank, NYNEX, British Airways, ADT Security, Southwestern Bell, The Gillette Company, Blockbuster Video.

Sr. Art Director – Waring & LaRosa Inc., NY (1990 -1994)
Managed every facet of creative development and production of print and television advertising for Fisher-Price toys (a $40 million account. ) Created national and international campaigns for Perrier, Mont Blanc, Heublein, and Sunshine Bakeries (Cheez-It & Hydrox cookies)

Art Director – D’Arcy Masius Benton & Bowles, NY (1986 -1990)
Created and produced television, print and direct response advertising campaigns for Crest,
Scope, General Foods, Aleve, Entenmann’s, Formula 44, Richardson-Vicks, Clearasil,
Marine Midland Bank. Pitney Bowes, A&P, and U.S. Air Force.

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Computer Skills – Quark, InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, Acrobat, Apple Keynote

Education – Florida State University – B.F.A. / Visual Communications

Awards – Communication Arts, Art Director’s Club, ADDY, Creativity Magazine,
Print Magazine, International Advertising Festival.