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Objective
A
hard worker, forward-thinker and extremely adaptable in new environments and changing
situations, I am constantly looking for creative work in the areas
of art direction, leadership, conceptual design, graphic design,
cartooning, character design, illustration, web design, animation,
, storyboarding, show design, signage, ad writing, copy writing
and even music.
Computer
Skills
Type 75 wpm, 100% accuracy. HTML, Flash, some Action Scripting,
some Director Lingo. Familiar with multiple platforms and network
environments.
Applications:
QuarkXPress; Adobe InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, Acrobat,
Dimensions & Pagemaker; Macromedia Flash, Fireworks, Dreamweaver,
Director/Shockwave, Soundedit 16, Freehand, & Fontographer; CorelDraw;
Kai Power Tools, KPT Vector Effects, Convolver & Bryce; Microsoft
Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Publisher & Fox Pro; Ray Dream Studio
Fractal Design Painter; Dramatica Pro; Palm OS and Desktop
Traditional
Skills
Quick Sketching, Storyboarding, Cartooning, Character Design,
Conceptual Design, Interior/Architectural Design, Illustration,
Rendering, Layout & Paste-up, Amberlith Overlays, Logo Design,
Inking, Rough Comps, Type Specification, Typography, Stat Camera
Operation, Darkroom Procedures, Copy Writing, Advertising & Packaging
Design, Silkscreening, One & Two Color Offset Press Operation,
Press Checks
Work
Experience
The
Designory, Long Beach, CA
Interactive Team: Senior Production Artist / Art Director
(Interactive Production Manager)
- freelance: 10/05 - 01/06,
fulltime: 01/06 -
present
Art Director for many Nissan projects. Design
and production for Nissan 2007 website redesign, Nissan Shift_2.0 campaign, Infiniti homepage animation design, Next Generation Shopping Tools (Nissan and
Infiniti), 2006 Infiniti website refresh, 2007 & 2008 Nissan and Infiniti model year
website updates and quarterly online sales events. Also on Sea
Island website team. Performed front-end Flash prep. Managed vehicle Model Year Updates, vehicle 360s (exterior and interior), shot list databases, copy decks and
version control updates. Managed three talented production artists and interfaced with internal and third party
HTML, java & Flash developers.
Westone
Laboratories, Inc. Colorado Springs, CO
Art Director/Webmaster/Senior Designer - 5/01 - 9/05
Responsible
for complete company Internet image. Art direction and maintenance
of six websites. Flash animation. E-commerce solutions. Also scheduled,
placed, concepted, wrote and designed print ads. Managed PR &
ad budget for Music Products. Some cartooning.
LSCI
Interactive (now 30dps), Colorado Springs, CO
Art Director/Senior Designer - 10/99 - 05/01
Responsible
for the total print image of the company. Awarded a 2001 Colorado
Springs ÒAddyÓ Award for LSCIÕs marketing kit. Flash animation
for Web and CD-ROM (Director) inclusion. Web design for database-driven
sites. Marketing media. Press Releases. Signage. Sound editing.
Character design. Voice over. Multimedia script writing. Creative
direction. Troubleshooting as needed. Creative interaction with
clients. Clients included Focus On The Family, Cook Communications,
Ad Infinitum, Bibles for the World, TeamShare, Navigators, PRACO,
The U.S. Space Foundation and Biological Sciences Curriculum Study.
Galapagos
Studios, Inc. Colorado Springs, CO
Art Director - 1/99 - 10/99
Responsible
for the companyÕs total print and Internet image including product
design. Duties included print buying, color seps, press checks
and design of all company advertisements. Also scheduled, storyboarded
and art directed catalog photo shoots. Concepted and designed
top-selling T-shirt designs, mentored interns and designers, and
managed up to five freelance designers at a given time. Separated
all T-shirt designs.
White/Carhart
Productions, Los Angeles, CA
Co-writer,
Illustrator/Cartoonist & Principal - 10/95 - 11/98
Co-writer,
co-devloper, character designer and illustrator for the development
of animation and live action properties suited for television,
comic strips and other media.Developed three properties, one adult
primetime (animation or live action), one after school (animation)
and one childeren's property (animation). All properties are still
looking for a home.
Freelance
Graphic Designer, Long Beach, CA
01/98 - 11/98
See partial client list below.
Internet
Exchange International, Inc., Newport Beach, CA
Senior Designer/Concept Designer/Web Animator - 02/96 - 01/98
Responsible
for concepting, rough sketches and storyboards of animated Internet
advertising and Web pages. Ultimately responsible for the look
of the page or ad and execution of final production. Clients included
Toshiba America, Toshiba Disk Products Division, Canon Computer
Systems, and NEC Computers. Some collateral print material.
Carol
Wior, Inc., Bell Gardens, CA
Art Director - 10/93 - 02/96
Responsible
for the image of the company and its four divisions. Designed
and produced all collateral material including print buying, color
seps and press checks. Also responsible for designing and placing
aIl magazine advertisements. Created pencil and computer assisted
concept art and storyboards to present new ideas to clients such
as Eddie Bauer, Lane Bryant, Nordstrom, Home Shopping Network
and FredrickÕs of Hollywood. Other responsibilities included creative
input and storyboarding of video & photo shoots, photo selection,
managing photo library, video editing, copy writing, photo & runway
prop design, packaging, themed interior design and signage.
Platt
College, Irvine/Newport Beach, CA
Teacher Assistant - 08/93 - 08/95
Lended illustration and design skills to students to increase
their understanding of creating comps, designing logos, etc. Responsible
for traditional design and computer graphics workshops.
Douglas
Aircraft, Long Beach, CA
Expediter - 03/89 - 03/92
Responsible for inventory control, parts handling and illustration
of presentations.
AMC
Theatres, Long Beach, CA
Supervisor - 02/86 - 03/89
Responsible for operating projectors, inventory control, customer
service, cash handling, ad placement, illustration, paste-up and
layout.
Freelance
Clients Include:
Acme Domestic Agency, Anderson & Anderson Insurance Brokers, Aon
Consulting, Bank of America, Best Ideas Go, Bredrin Daddys, Celebrations,
Coast Glass, Commercial Kitchens Inc., Crane Morely, Wendy Creamer,
Dekra-Lite Inc., The Designory, Document Systems Inc., Doner,
Douglas Aircraft, FMC Communications, Fraterna Rosa, Galapagos
Studios, Gary Annis Organization, Goldstar Entertainment, Grin
and Bear It Photography Studios, Grinder Restaurants, G.S.M. Enterprises,
Headley Mechanical, Holiday Headliners, Hunter Barth Advertising,
Internet Exchange International Inc., Investor's Business Daily,
Kiana Tom, Bridgette Koan, L J Promotional Products, L & M Spa,
Legends, LFS Benefits, Lockwood & Associates, Mac Rescue Graphic
Design, Near-Cal Corp., Open Arms Community Church, PacifiCare,
Pikes Peak Writers, Pikes Peak Writers Conference, Quickstart
Technologies, R & A Cabinets, Ramada Inn, Saralinda Subbiondo,
Sunrise Medical, Symmetree, TD Enterprises, Team2U, 30dps, Thomas
Register, Unilab, Upstream Marketing, Law Offices of Alfred Visco,
and Woodchuck's Gunsmithing.
Internships
Silicone
& Synapse, Irvine, CA
Production Artist, Designer
Designed
and animated cartoon video sprites for NES, SNES, Sega, Amiga,
Mac and IBM video games.
Dinamation
International Corporation, Irvine, CA
Illustrator, Production Artist
Designed
and rendered cartoon versions of established dinosaurs, illustration,
signage, paste-up, assembled PR sheets and kits.
Education
Platt
College, Irvine, CA
Graphic
Design & Computer Graphics;
Certificate for Outstanding Performance 1992, Diploma 1993.
Long
Beach City College, Long Beach, CA
Journalism
& editorial artwork;
Certificate for Outstanding Performance 1989.
R.
A. Millikan High School, Long Beach, CA
Graphic
Arts & Journalism; Medal of Merit for Industrial Arts,
Medallion Award, Diploma 1986.
Affiliations
Pikes
Peak Writers
Secretary,
Webmaster and member of the Board of Directors until 09/05.
Grace
Be Unto You Outreach Church
Bass
player, vocalist, alternate worship leader until 09/05.
References available upon request.
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