Résumé

Skills

• Understanding, implementing, and coordinating complex projects, with a focus on keeping a company’s corporate identity clear.
• Planning high quality projects on a restricted budget.
• Creating readable, informative type and supportive imagery focused on the needs of both the customer and the end user.
• Web page design, IA, production, and coding.
• Organizing complex jobs to allow efficient use of client files as well as easy storage and update.
• Excellent understanding of the printing and stripping process as well as trapping, imposition, and color separations.

Tools

Adobe InDesign, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Dreamweaver, Adobe Photoshop and ImageReady, Maxon Cinema4D, and Adobe Acrobat.

Experience

Instructor at the Northwest College of Art — May 2003–Present

Teach upper level Graphic Design courses including Web Design, Typography, and Advanced Design as well as computer courses and visual design history classes. Designed the 2007, 2008, and 2009 catalogs.

Production Design for Hornall Anderson Design Works Online — April 2000–May 2002

Worked with Senior online designers and developers to turn design comps into web pages, as well as print production throughout the company. Clients included Weyerhaeuser, Polygon Homes, MulvannyG2 Architecture, Mahulum Architects, Microsoft Merchandising, K2, Leatherman, Sonics, and Holland America.

Production artist for Werkhaus Communications — Aug. 99–Nov. 99

Worked with lead designers producing comps and final art for a variety of web sites including the Official Pokémon web site for Nintendo of America. Updated and maintained the transitional Werkhaus web site. Contract through Creative Assets.

2D Artist for Microsoft Entertainment Business Unit — Nov. 98–March 99

Designed and produced set-up screens and contributed to User Interface for Microsoft Flight Simulator 2000. Contract through Creative Assets.

Designer for TeamDesign —
April 93–August 98

Designed and managed Teacher and Parent Activity Guides for the Microsoft Kid’s group including My Personal Tutor, Encarta, and Creative Writer, as well as web based Teacher Activity Guides for Scholastic’s Magic School Bus. Also designed campaign materials for King County, Seattle Water, and the King County Commission for Marketing Recycled Materials. Other clients include Microsoft Press, Immunex, NeoRx, Corporate Council for the Arts, Quadrant Homes, and Pacific Rim Resources.

Education

A.A., Art Institute of Seattle, Visual Communications.

Internship with the Intiman Theatre, Spring 1988.

B.A., Gonzaga University, Fine Art and Broadcasting.

Junior year studied Art History in Florence, Italy.

References and Portfolio upon request