Resume: Last updated (11/20/05)
ANTONIO GABRIEL ABAD ABAD IV

Address:
119 Benavidez street
Apartment G
Pinaglabanan

E-mail:
[email protected]

Cellphone:
(0917)5346853

CARREER OBJECTIVE
  To obtain a communication arts related job with personal and professional growth potential.
To be recognized in the field of mass communications and/or film production.

LONG TERM OBJECTIVE
  To be able to contribute in sharing Filipino Culture and Mythology through
Film or Television as a medium.

 

WORK EXPERIENCE
SENIOR GRAPHICS ARTIST / ART DIRECTOR
- ABS-CBN GGLOBAL Limited

Part of Advertising creative team for designs of fliers, websites, logos, banners.
Designs OBBs and logos for shows and specials. Conceptualized, storyboarded, art directed, and assisted in direction of numerous television commercials as well as audio-video productions.

 Previous Work
JUNIOR GRAPHICS ARTIST- ABS-CBN International
Graphic artist for print and video materials.

MANAGEMENT TRAINEE CUM CASHIER - Sari Sari Store
Alabang Town Center
, franchise  

TELEPHONE MYSTERY CALLER - Bank of the Philippine Islands
Served as the “Telephone Mystery Caller”, a project of the Total Quality Department of Bank of the Philippine Islands for three consecutive years.
Successfully created awareness  for the new project of monitoring the way employees answer the telephone.

ARTIST / COLORIST - Sarrangolla Magazine
Colored artwork for the children's magazine.

Also assisted in the layout and design of posters used in Saranggola Party.

 

 

EDUCATION
1999 - NEW YORK FILM ACADEMY
Intensive Film Workshop held in University of California, Los Angeles.
Made 3 short films using 16mm within a span of 4 weeks.
Made an additional 3 other personal shorts within the same span of time.
Films currently still in 16mm format. No VHS copies available. 

1994 to 1999 - DE LA SALLE UNIVERSITY
Bachelor of Arts degree in Liberal Arts.

Major in Mass Communications, March 1999.
Dean’s List:
1st Term 1995-1996
2nd Term 1996-1997  

1990 to 1994 - DON BOSCO TECHNICAL INSTITUTE MAKATI
High School
Diploma, March 27, 1994
Awards:
Consistent, Conduct Award.
Loyalty Award  

OTHER WRITING AND VISUAL ART RELATED ACHIEVEMENTS
CURRENT OCCUPATION
Numerous projects require visual skills: Storyboards, Concept design, Advertising campaigns. Television teasers, Product plugs and AVP.  Recently accomplished a musical ad campaign that garnered One Billion Pesos worth of revenue in North America.

POET - Poetry.com
Submitted poem selected to be included in book published.
Book released internationally.

POWERPOETS - Powerbooks
Poetry Events.

Organized and hosted poetry reading events for Powerbooks for a little over a year.

THIRD PLACE, ONE ACT PLAY IN ENGLISH
THIRD PLACE
, ONE ACT PLAY IN FILIPINO
14th Annual De La Salle University Literary Awards
Won Bronze medals in said categories.  

GUEST SPEAKER (BASIC CARTOONING) - PHILIPPINE INNOVATIVE EDUCATORS
Gave a lecture on basic cartooning and the importance of the visual medium in teaching to various teachers and educators from through out the country.

 HONORABLE MENTION, ONE ACT PLAY IN ENGLISH
13th Annual De La Salle University Literary Awards.
Only one to win an award in said category.

MULAT, FREEHANDS VISUAL ARTISTS’ CIRCLE
Multi-media presentation of the Visual and Practicing Arts’ Unit held in College of Saint Benilde.
Assisted in stage design and musical accompaniment using ethnic and tribal instruments.

ARTIST and WRITER - BEST STAFFER AWARD, MALATE LITERARY FOLIO
Wrote short stories and plays for publication.
Attended basic creative writing workshops and lectures on fiction, poetry, feature writing. 
Assisted in directing poetry readings and play productions. 
Illustrated various works.

OTHER ACTING ABILITY 
ACTOR and ASSISTANT DIRECTOR.
- TATLONG PASADA
Acted and assisted in direction of a trilogy of plays.
Two runs, both filled at peak capacity.
Handled creative direction of props and stage design.
Assisted in training and blocking of actors.
Won BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR in Dramafest.

PLAYWRIGHT, ACTOR and ASSISTANT DIRECTOR. - MASKARA
Acted, wrote and assisted direction of a trilogy of plays.
Assisted in direction of actors.
Headed musical direction to be used. 
Handled creative direction of props and stage design.

OTHER SPEECH OR ORATORICAL RELATED
CONSISTENT FIRST PLACER during ELEMENTARY and HIGHSCHOOL YEARS   in various Elocution, storytelling and oratorical contests.
 

SPEAKER - I SHALL RETURN: Martial Law Open Forum
Initiated and hosted an open forum on Martial Law.

GUEST SPEAKER (BASIC CARTOONING) - PHILIPPINE INNOVATIVE EDUCATORS
Gave a lecture on basic cartooning and the importance of the visual medium in teaching.  

SPEAKER, SPIRIT QUESTING
Asked to be a Guest Speaker on Spirit Questing and the unknown for CLA WEEK

LAYOUTING AND EDITORIAL SKILLS 
CURRENT OCCUPATION
Numerous projects require lay-outing skills: Monthly TV Program guide, Annual reports, fliers, billboards and website design.

ASSOCIATE EDITOR, BOSCONIAN JOURNAL - DON BOSCO TECHINICAL INSTITUTE MAKATI
Wrote numerous columns, began awareness on Administration-Student views and  made camera ready layouts for the School Paper.

TICKET and POSTER DESIGN, - TATLONG PASADA
Handled publicity and artistic design of marketing materials for a play trilogy.
 

 

 

 

SEMINARS AND TRAINING TAKEN TO SUPPORT OBJECTIVE
Grievance Handling Seminar
July 2005

Service Quality Seminar
March 2005

Epson Print Academy Seminar
September 2004

DIRECTORIAL APPRENTICESHIP
Under Director Ipe Pelino, GMA - 7

ATBP TEAMBUILDING SEMINAR
“7 Habits of Effective People”

MALATE CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP
Antipolo, Rizal  

MALATE POETRY READING
Latay-Panulaan sa Karimlan”  

3rd MALATE ORIENTATION SEMINAR
Pansol, Laguna

BASIC CARTOONING WORKSHOP
Attended a basic cartooning workshop held in Louie’s THX.

ATTENDED NUMEROUS SEMINARS AND TALKS ON VISUAL ART, SHORT STORY, POETRY AND FEATURE WRITING.
All held within campus, De la Salle University  

HIGHSCHOOL EDITOR’S GUILD OF THE PHILIPPINES LECTURES
Focused on effective editorial writing, newspaper layouts and the like.     

COMPUTERS, ON-LINE AND MULTI-MEDIA EXPERIENCE
DILIMAN online comicbook at http://www.geocities.com/dilimancomic
Independently produced online comic.   Began last October, 2002.

Currently ongoing with existing fan following.

WEB-PAGE DESIGN, Kumusta Kabayan
Designed website for Kumusta Kabayan, a television show for North American Filipino viewers. Site no longer online

WEB-PAGE DESIGN, created on-line site for ATBP.

TICKET and POSTER DESIGN, created tickets and posters to market play.  Site no longer online

PERSONAL WEBSITE found at http://surf.to/tobie
Received numerous AWARDS and was featured in STARTING POINT.  

FRESHMEN AND TRANSFEREES’ ORIENTATION
Assisted in the Computer and LAN-related presentation of the Orientation to incoming students of De la Salle University.
  Received a certificate of  MERITORIOUS HONOR FOR ATTENDANCE  

PHILIPPINES 2000 PRESENTATION
Held in Makati.

SOFTWARE PROFICIENCY
MACROMEDIA FLASH 4
ADOBE PHOTOSHOP 7.0
ADOBE ILLUSTRATOR 10.0
MS OFFICE 2003
COREL DRAW 5.0
ALDUS PAGE MAKER
ADOBE PAGEMAKER 6.5
WINDOWS98
NERO
IMAGE READY
INTERNET EXPLORER
NETSCAPE
HTML PROGRAMMING (using Notepad)
Uses both PC-Compatible and Macintosh G4 (OS 9.0)

REFERENCES
Available upon request

PERSONAL BACKGROUND
Born on April 25, 1977 in Manila, Philippines.
  Fluent in English and Filipino.

Interests: Drawing, Writing, Reading, Role playing games, Theater production, Desktop Publishing and Home Page Maintenance.  Blog writer and comic creator.

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