Goodbye, Baseball. // Hello, Design. I wrecked my arm throwing curveballs in junior high, so I migrated to the journalism world, taking on yearbook in San Jose where I saw the Adobe triple towers go up on my drive to school. I grew up on the Creative Suite like kids in the 80’s grew up on Legos. In '96 and '97, I won two, back-to-back national silver medals in print design. I'm 29, and I'm still looking for the Gold.

My mission is to be masterful in communications and design, inspiring and invigorating the heart of who people are, providing fresh velocity to what they do.

In short, utter fulfillment.

Genesis Global Spiritual Center // 1. Custom Wordpress theme designed for a fresh, new perspective on religion and spirituality. Features include Wufoo form integration for contacting, prayer requests, and donations. People can also listen to the Reverend with flash imbedded audio archives.

Thrive Cafe // 2. Custom Wordpress theme designed to express the fresh, organic produced used in the cafe and the enlivened and inspired experience that people reported from incorporating a higher percentage of raw, live food in their diet. Thrive expanded rapidly with an educational department, storefront, and wellness center, so the site was redesigned to fold all the other business aspects into one cohesive domain.

Bishop's Best Gelato // 3. Hired to create the wraparound labels for 1qt and 1pint containers of raw, vegan gelato. Thought it's the smoothest, most delicious ice cream of its type in the Pacific Northwest, it had labels that expressed more of a small time, garage band, lemonade stand product. My labels were designed to express that classic gelato flavor-old world style, new world ingredients.

GM // Thrive Cafe.
July '09 - May '11
Seattle, WA
www.GenerationThrive.com

As General Manager, I was accountable for developing and creating the identity and culture for a brand new, raw, vegan organic cafe.

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• Designed and built a custom website using Wordpress.
• integrated online payment and registration system for culinary classes using Wufoo.
• Wrote the Mission Statement and collaborated on the company's other Core Documents including Operations and Employee Manuals.
• Brought daily totals from $800 to $2,300 in less than two years.
• Designed multiple releases of the menu.
• Invented multiple menu items, including the famous Garlic Cilantro God Sauce.
• Hacked open thousands of Thai Young Coconuts with a cleaver.

Creator, Publisher, Teacher // The Extraordinary GONZO.
September '05 - June '09
Gatewood Elementary // Seattle, WA

Hired by the Principal to build and orchestrate a creative literacy program designed to amplify the voice of children. I balanced the development of innovative, multimedia curricula, the integration of technology in storytelling, fundraising, grant-writing, volunteer-training and coordination and live performances at local coffee shops.

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• Designed and produced three, 40 page, 11x17, K-5th grade student-written tabloids called The Extraordinary GONZO, involving all 300 students during in-school hours.
• Designed and independently published Gatewood's first student-collaborative yearbook.
• Received an $850 smART Ventures Grant from the Mayor’s Office of Cultural & Arts Affairs.
• Coordinated two fundraisers: (1) produced GONZO t-shirts; (2) fortune cookies, custom written by GONZO students.
• Produced an 8 minute GONZO Documentary.
• Hired to launch The GONZO at two other elementary schools in Seattle.
• Created an accredited GONZO Service Learning course at the University of WA

National Service Member // AmeriCorps*.
September '03 - June '06
Gatewood Elementary // Seattle, WA
www.americorps.org

As director of The Gonzo after school newspaper project for at-risk and below standard K-5 readers, I renovated an unused classroom, transforming it into a multimedia studio for creative literacy. Guided by the schools theory of the Multiple Intelligences, I worked with the Principal and teachers to fuse music with language.

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• Wrote and received a $10,000 grant from ADOBE to launch THE GONZO, a creative literacy initiative.
• Designed and produced three, 8 page newspapers in an after school literacy program.
• Wrote and produced Dr. Seuss-like Hip Hop songs. Performed them with 4th/5th graders at assemblies and graduation.
• 2006: Awarded Top Prize for Hip Hop adaptation of Dr. Seuss’s The Lorax at the National Service Symposium.
• 2005: Awarded Top Prize for Spoken Word at the National Service Symposium in Portland, OR.

Web Design & Interactive Media // Art Institute of Seattle
January '08 - June '10
AA program // 6 of 8 quarters complete

Major focus of study: concept development, digital illustration, graphic design, and dynamic codewriting for the future in interactive web development:

• Specializing in HTML/CSS, Wordpress CMS custom theme integration and development, Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator
• Can effectively utilize and manipulate PHP and Javascript libraries such as jQuery and jQuery Tools

Graduate // Landmark Education
September '06 - present

Completed the Curriculum for Living, Introduction Leaders Program, and was a Course Supervisor for 1 year.

• Managed and supervised full time weekend courses for 100-200+ participants designed to empower and enable people in having those things that matter most to them, and in the process, leaving them transformed with more power, freedom, full self-expression and peace of mind.

B.A. // University of WA
Fall '99 - Spring '03

• B.A., Comparative History of Ideas
• Main area of focus // world religions and film.
• Studied abroad in London, UK, studying theater and religious architecture.

H.S. Diploma // Bellarmine College Preparatory
Fall '95 - Spring '99

• Editor-in-Chief, Carillon Yearbook
• '97, Silver Medal (Theme Design): JEA/NSPA national journalism convention (Phoenix)
• '96, Silver Medal (Theme Design): JEA/NSPA national journalism convention (Seattle)

Rev. Charles Hall // Genesis Global Spiritual Center
revcharles@genesis-global.org
download letter of recommendation

"Brian Enriquez consistently demonstrates those rare qualities of a 'star' performer and the drive that is the hallmark of a top leader. Anyone who sincerely desires to have their business endeavor catapulted in the direction of betterment will hire Brian Enriquez immediately." -Rev. C. Hall

Kimo Jordan // Supervisor, Thrive Cafe
kimo@generationthrive.com

Martha Tierney // National Director, AmeriCorps*
marthaltierney@gmail.com
download letter of recommendation // passcode "mtierney"

"Brian's dedication, unwavering support and creative energy have transformed not only individual students' lives but also the entire school community." - M. Tierney

Darren Radu // Teacher, Gatewood Elementary
dradu@seattlepublicschools.org
download letter of recommendation // passcode "dsradu"

"Brian has shown evidence of his potential as an organizational visionary in innumerable ways. He has hatched, grown, coordinated and overseen the development of the Gatewood Gonzo--an after school multi-media literacy program that exploded expectations of what an after school program should be." - D. Radu