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larue.cage@gmail.com Cell 917-420-6806
Marketing Management & Operations / Visual Design
Skills: Administrative & general operations management, client relations, sales support, executive
support, shipping/receiving, switchboard, visual marketing, and design. (Computer skills listed below)
Experience
Titles: Supervisor, Visual Marketing Designer, Executive Assistant
• Proficient in Photoshop, Digital Photography, MS Outlook, AS400, MS Word, PowerPoint.
Operations and Management of general office equipment. Experience with Excel and
Illustrator.
• Oversaw a multiple person staff. Created procedures that reduced overhead and increased
efficiency of day-to-day operations.
• Outlined and implemented creative themes for visual marketing in display, print, and media.
• Traveled for markets and to regional showrooms designing and setting up visual marketing
strategies.
• Worked as sales support for markets and daily showroom marketing, also managed client
relations, front desk and phone contact for company. This included composing
communications and company interfacing.
• Oversaw and implemented calendar schedule for appointments, travel, and executive support.
• Made reservations and ordered catering for events relating to marketing and sales.
• Maintained inventory control and product presentation.
(N.Y.C., Dallas, Boston, Phila., Atlanta, Miami, Atlantic City, & Hamburg Ger.)
Titles: Manager, Assistant Buyer, Sales Associate, & Designer
• Introduced new lines and created new departments in both wholesale and retail. Maximizing
and broadening sales potential. (i.e. Parasuco, Fossil, Avirex, Children’s wear, and gifts)
• Worked with Theatrical, Multi Media, & Fashion Productions. Resulting in high returns in
both promotional and direct sales. (i.e. Dallas Morning News–Fashion Section, Telegraph
Records, & Dallas Museum of Art)
• Designed Fashion, & Art Furniture lines sold in boutiques and fairs. Resulting in press from
the Dallas Morning News for my designs.
Work History
5/08 – Present LaRue View – Freelance photography & visual design
Elf Craft – P.R., marketing, administrative, and sales support.
Young Threads - Booth design & sales support.
Sistahs of Harlem – Graphic design.
N.Y. Board of Ed. – Yearbook program design & implementation.
6/93 – 4/08 Mazel Company – Showroom Supervisor/ N.Y.C.
Website: www.glidesociety.com/larueview Page 1 of 2

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Freelance Marketing/Photography/Graphic Design 2010 – 2011
Young Threads Contemporary Clothing- Visual Marketing & Sales- Fame/Javits (present)
Elf Craft Jewelry- Coterie/Javits, Stateside Market Strategies, Administrative Support (present)
Sistahs of Harlem- Lookbook for Spring/Summer line- Format & graphics (Feb./11)
Board of Ed./PS 84- Designer and Monitor of 5th grade yearbook (2011)
White Mountain Dance Festival- Photographic coverage (Spring’10)
Film set “Laura”- On set photographer (Fall’10)
Private Portrait/Portfolio work- Multiple clients (references available)- (present)
Additional:
Showroom and Freelance Mkts – Administrative, Marketing, & Sales Support
Jack Morris Co.- Children’s wear/ NYC
I.D.E.A.- Furniture Design/ Javits Mkt NYC
Albert Sherbarth- Art Furniture/ Javits Mkt NYC
C.T.I.- Textile Showroom/ NYC
Arnaud De Paris- Import Jewelry/ Dallas, Miami, NYC
Tableau- Clothing & Accessories Showroom/ Tx., N.Y., Fla., Ga.
Retail Mkt. – Management, Visuals, Buying
Eddris- Custom Shoe Design/ NYC
Pant And…-Clothing, Accessories, & Gifts/ Rockefellar Cntr. NYC
Eclectricity- Vintage and Contemporary Fashion/ Dallas, Tx.
Bealls Department Store/ Shreveport, La.
Designers
Units- Sandra Garret/ Dallas, Tx.
Marcia Francis/ Dallas, Tx.
(Worked as stylist, house model, artistic collaborator, and coordinator for runway shows)
Education, Training
High School Diploma Fair Park – Shreveport, La.
Certificates Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator
Additional Interests:
Art Photography, Design in Fashion and Furniture, Vintage clothing and Collectables, Sewing, Writing.
(Submissions of my work in the MTA Arts for Transit Program, Work exhibited in “New York Through
My Eyes” Underground Arts Collective) undergroundarts@groups.facebook.com
Go to www.sistahsofharlem.net to view graphic work Spring Lookbook
LaRue Cage-Hamme References available upon request Page 2 of 2