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Frank Borges LL0sa
Falls Church, Va....
Office: 703/827-4006   Fax: 1-877-FRANK-FAx

REAL ESTATE EXPERIENCE

  
Frank1yRealty.com VA, MD, DC Licensed Real Estate Broker   2003- Present
NVAR's '03 Rookie of the Year (vs. 2000 agents), 250 listed homes in the first 18 months, totaling over $90M
10 agents work within the firm
Inman News 2009 Innovator of the Year
Featured 5 times in The Wall Street Journal , The Washington Post, BusinessWeek, SmartMoney, The Washington Times (see it) & Discovery Channel and interviewed twice on CNBC (see it)

EDUCATION

American University, Washington College of Law     May 2011
JD, pretty decent GPA.

University Of Virginia- McIntire School of Commerce     May 1996
Bachelor of Science in Commerce Concentration in Marketing, GPA:3.41/4.0
Lawn Resident honored (given to 40 student out of a class of 2,000), Atlantic Coast Athletic Honor Roll, Dean's List
UVa Track Team- 800 meter runner, received a partial athletic scholarship. Ran all 4 years, best time: 1:55.2

PAST INTERNET EXPERIENCE

NetFloppy.com- President & Founder   1998-May 99
Led a team of 4 to create the "World's First Free Virtual Floppy", a free web-based file storage
Initially targeted to the floppy-less iMac, then expanded to PC users
Featured on NBC (TV.com show), Bloomberg TV, various US & foreign magazines, papers and online articles
35,000 members in first 4 months. Starting capital under $1000, cash-flow positive within 2 months
Sold to Xoom, which was soon after acquired by NBCinternet

AdCritic.com- Consultant, Part owner, V.P. of Marketing 4/99-4/01
Slashed expenses by 80%, tripled revenues to become cash flow positive. #1 in TV Commercials Online. #1 in video traffic online (Feb 2001); 1M+ ads shown on peak days; (Sub)quired by AdAge magazine

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1Stop Stock Stock Photography MetaSearch- Owner and Founder March 98- 2005
A B2B leading design portal for art buyers. 1SS.com pulls together 10 major stock photo content providers into one seamless searchable site, thus saving art buyers hours
Agencies pay based on performance and the increased traffic has put 1SS.com 2nd only to Yahoo! in generating sales for some partners

Other Background Training:

Procter & Gamble- Brand Management Intern San Juan, Puerto Rico     Summer 94 & 95
Barnstorm X Eddie Adams Workshop 3,000 apply, 100 get in. Hosted by Pulitzer Prize winner NY. Fall 97
The Martin Agency- Workshop 300 apply, 15 get in. Learned the ins and outs of the ad world; created ads showed to clients including Coke  Richmond, Va-   Fall 95
Internet- Search engine optimization, User interface optimization, HTML programming

PHOTO EXPERIENCE

frankly.com photography - Freelance Photographer
Self assignments including the Bioluminescent Bay in Puerto Rico (published in 25x worldwide), and travel to Tibet, Cuba, Iceland, Turkey, Australia, Amazon, Greece, Israel, Thailand, Nepal, Belize, Europe & more
Assignments and stories for National Geographlc WORLD, National Geographlc Traveler and freelance work for The New York Times
Museum shows include National Geographlc in DC, and Smithsonian ('08)

Nowitz Photography - Photo and Marketing Assistant 10/96-6/97
Developing a marketing plan and a website to increase stock sales from a bank of 125,000 images
Assistant for National Geographlc WORLD Magazine assignments across the U.S. and Israel

Daily Olympian- Staff photographer at the Olympic Games August 96
Photo Assignments for the Atlanta Committee for the Games (ACOG). Covered Track, Cycling & Baseball and celebrities such as Gloria Estefan, Kenny Rogers, & Arnold Schwarzenegger

University of Virginia Corks & Curls Yearbook Photographer-92-96
Photo Staff Editor-Motivated 60 volunteers while personally contributed to 127 photos in 1995 edition
Advertising Director-Created position to develop ads targeting new markets and obtaining free publicity

1910 Print Company- Photographer & Owner- 1995-1997
Created, marketed and sold 2,000 special effect photographs of U.Va's Rotunda to the student body of 10k
Developed a public relations campaign including 5 articles and 5 covers
Wrote and illustrated 3 page story in Peterson's Photographic on how to sell photos

PUBLICATIONS and AWARDS

    40+ publications worldwide in 15 languages and several covers including:
  • National Geographlc World
  • National Geographlc Traveler- Contest winner with a shot of a monk jumping through fire (Jan 97 issue)
  • National Geographlc Traveler- Biobay photo Nov 06 issue
  • Conde Nast Traveler- Biobay photo Dec 06
  • Time-Life- Educational Packets on Greek Archeology Aug 97
  • Esquire, Travel & Leisure, Smithsonian, GEO
  • Photo District News- Featuring the biobay story in April 98
  • The New York Times- Editorial assignment / The Washington Post- UVa Balcony accident
  • Several Charlottesville, Va. magazine and newspaper covers


ADDITIONAL, PERSONAL INTERESTS, & RANDOM FACTS

Traveling to 30+ countries, rock climbing, ice climbing, sports photography, skiing, bobsledding, rollerblading, and chess

Born in Caracas, Venezuela
Parents are both Cuban