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Designer & Art Director Resume
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| Desired Industry: Graphics Design/Commercial Art |
SpiderID: 27276 |
| Desired Job Location: Fairfield, California |
Date Posted: 6/16/2009 |
| Type of Position: Full-Time Permanent |
Availability Date: 6/16/2009 |
| Desired Wage: $50,000 |
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U.S. Work Authorization: Yes |
| Job Level: Management (Manager, Director) |
Willing to Travel: Yes, Less Than 25% |
| Highest Degree Attained: Bachelors |
Willing to Relocate: No |
Objective:
Seeking a creative position as Art Director or
Designer with a studio, magazine or firm. To utilize
my strong print art directing, design, and
production skills, and transfer these skills to online
web projects. To continue growing creatively in my
field, and stay current by learning new print and
web skills and programs.
Experience:
• VON Magazine–Art Director. September 2003 to
February 2008 in Cordelia, CA. Freelanced art
directed, designed, illustrated and produced VON
Magazine, a monthly, 68 page, telecom trade
publication, from my North Bay home office.
Designed all templates for this new publication
from scratch. In addition created Book Covers,
Reprints, White Papers and House Ads.
• Freelance Designer & Art Director. March 1998 to
present throughout Bay Area & Sacramento.
Currently creating gift/paper Packaging & Trade
Show Graphics, Media Kits, Brochures, Annual
Reports and websites for Misumaru Corporation,
Coupon Spree & Summit Bank. Previously consulted
to art direct, design and produce collateral such as
trade magazines, brochures, print ads, book covers,
direct-mail, stationary ID, tradeshow graphics and
more for VON Magazine, VON Books, Packmate,
Star Wars Insider Magazine, Coldwell Banker and
other clients. This includes serving 3 months or
more in full-time, design positions at fmg
marketing, Golden Mailer, Dunlop Guitar
Accessories, Chevron, Forbes ASAP Magazine,
Sharon Till & Associates, TDC (The Doctors’
Company) and Access Dental.
• California Medicine Magazine–Art Director.
September 1996 to March 1998 in San Francisco,
CA. Art directed, designed and produced a four-
color, monthly, healthcare business trade
magazine. Redesigned entire publication from a
black & white tabloid format. Worked on special
supplements and in-house ads.
• ComputerLand Magazine/ComputerLand Catalog–
Art Director. June 1992 to December 1994 in
Pleasanton, CA. Duties included art direction,
design and production of a four-color, monthly
computer trade magazine. Later on art directed,
designed and produced a four-color, 100 page,
quarterly catalog, plus smaller slimjim catalogs.
Redesigned entire magazine and catalogs.
Education:
Bachelor of Arts in Graphic Design at CSUC, Chico.
General education and a minor in Fine Arts at CSUS,
Sacramento.
Skills:
Expert in most current versions of InDesign,
Photoshop & Illustrator CS, OS X, Safari,
QuarkXPress, Dreamweaver, Acrobat Pro and Word.
Have constant access to email, high-speed internet,
FTP and Toast. Other skills include prepress, color
correction, collage artwork, press checks, checking
blue lines and match prints, flightchecking, loading
to disk, creating PDF files, and using FTP. Used
Dreamweaver and Photoshop to design personal,
online, portfolio site, as well as other web sites.
Additional Information:
2002 Addies–Silver Award for Best Media
Campaign/DHL at fmg marketing, plus2 Bronze
awards. 1997 Maggies–Nomination finalist for Best
Feature in California Medicine Magazine. 1994
Maggies- Finalist of six nominations for
ComputerLand Magazine. Also participated in
judging of design entries. 1993 Maggies & Ozzies-
Maggie winner for Best Overall Design for
ComputerLand Magazine, plus three Ozzie awards
of Excellence, as well as two honorable mentions.
Reference:
Available upon request.
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