Experience
2000 - 2013
Skill Legend
🎨 Graphic Design
📸 Photography
🎥 Videography
🖥 Web Development
📱UX/UI Design
2000-2006
Elementary / high school
- 🎨 - 2000, Grade 6
- Obtained bootleg copies of Photoshop & ImageReady 6.0 & started learning Graphic Design
- 🖥 - 2001, Grade 7
- Discovered HTML on AsianAvenue.com and started learning how to code web pages
- 🖥 - 2002, Grade 8
- Discovered free web hosting sites to upload music and videos to enhance my AA page
- 📸 - 2003, Grade 9
- Took my first photography class and learned to shoot & develop Film in a dark room
- 🎨 📸 - 2004, Grade 10
- Learned how to edit photos and blend Photography & Graphic Design in Photoshop
- 🖥 🎨 - 2005, Grade 11
- Designed & coded my first real website - a Missy Elliott fan site!
- 🎨 - 2006, Grade 12 - Yearbook Club, designed a few pages in the high school yearbook before graduating
2007-2010
POST-SECONDARY I
- 👨🏾💻 - 2007 - George Brown College, Art & Design Foundation
- Dropped out
- Failed traditional drawing class two semesters in a row
- Learned a lot about digital design, print, photography & production design
- 🖥 🎨 📸 - 2007 - Freelance
- Designed my jfulgar logo & started my Freelance Career
- PHYBA - My first client, Designed T-shirts, Flyers & Magazines for my local filipino Basketball league I grew up playing in
- Club Promoters - Designed club flyers for events in downtown, Toronto
- 👨🏾💻 - 2008 - Hi-Line Gift Ltd.
- Through YMCA employment services, I was placed at Hi-Line Gift Ltd. for my first 9-to-5 Design role - Web & Graphic Designer making $10/hr.
- 🖥 🎨 📸 - 2008 - PHYBA
- Created a website & Facebook Page for the basketball league
- Learned Sports Photography and posted all my photos to it's Facebook page (a new feature at the time)
- Saw my photos become everybody's profile picture on Facebook
- 🖥 🎨 📸 - 2009 - Hi-Line Gift Ltd.
- Designed and coded an e-commerce website using DotNetNuke
- Learned Product Photography and honed my skills in Photoshop
- Designed Printed Product Catalogues & Digital Product Catalogues burned onto CDs
- Created and designed Brand Identities for different products
- 🖥 🎨 📸 - 2010 - FloraSeda International Inc.
- Designed and coded an e-commerce website using DotNetNuke
- Honed my Product Photography and Editing skills
- Designed Print & Digital Product Catalogues
- Created and designed Brand Identities for different product lines
2011-2013
POST-SECONDARY II
- 📱 🖥 🎨 📸 - 2011 - Humber College, Multimedia Design & Production Technician
- Enrolled back into school in hopes to land a better job and build a creative network
- 📱 🖥 🎨 📸 🎥 - 2012 - Humber College, Multimedia Design & Production Technician
- Designed my first Portfolio website: www.jeffreyace.ca
- Became a Peer Tutor to earn money during school and help my fellow students
- Joined the Sports Information team at Humber and worked as a Videographer across multiple sports
- Learned how to shoot & edit videos using Premiere Pro & After Effects
- Studied Mobile App design and learned what UX / UI really meant
- 📱 🖥 🎨 📸 🎥 - 2013 - Humber College, Multimedia Design & Production Technician
- Was the first intern at BNOTIONS as a UX/UI Designer: Created a light painting photobooth experience utilizing design, photography n technology
- Graduated at the top of the class, was invited to present work and discuss experience at a Humber faculty offsite with Deans, Program Coordinators and other faculty
- Designed a Digital Yearbook Web App experience that showcased our graduating class, and allowed students & others to digitally sign their yearbook page on an iPad or with a mouse on a Desktop.
- Redesigned my Portfolio Website: www.jfulgar.com