Andrew Bartel

Current

• Interactive Art Director at Freelance

Past

• Interactive Art Director at Campbell Mithun
• Interactive Art Director / Flash Animator at Cengage Learning
• Graphics Lab Instructor at UCLA

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Education

• Golden West College

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Industry

Marketing and Advertising

Websites

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Andrew Bartel’s Summary

Skills
Over sixteen years art direction and brand development experience, specializing in interactive, major photo shoots, and team management but with a broad basis in all forms of creative development including print and television. Skilled working with companies of all size from huge iconic brands to starting up small business campaigns with regional focus.

Brands
Verizon Wireless, Walmart, Partnership for a Drug Free America (Above the Influence), National City Bank, Mitsubishi Electric, H&R Block, Option One Mortgage, City of Anaheim, Cengage Learning, and more.

Andrew Bartel’s Specialties:

Expert knowledge of: Flash, Actionscript 2 & 3, Photo Shoot Art Direction (including photographer and model direction), Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, Dreamweaver, After Effects, Premiere, Acrobat, Bridge, and QuarkXPress.

Andrew Bartel’s Experience

• Interactive Art Director

  Freelance

  (Marketing and Advertising industry)

  1993 — Present (16 years)

  Conceptualize and execute from beginning to end a wide variety of different projects, including; interactive concepting & creation, development of creative brand strategies & logos, identifying marketplace trends, advertising campaigns, collateral design & layout, trade show theme & graphics, photography & photo art direction, book design & layout, music composition & recording, and television concepts & art direction.

• Interactive Art Director

  Campbell Mithun

  (Public Company; Marketing and Advertising industry)

  January 2005 — February 2009 (4 years 2 months)

  Conceptualize, design, and oversee interactive, major photo shoots, print, and TV for iconic national accounts. I spearheaded the creation of a new media group through art directing, animating, and team management. Previously the office outsourced all interactive work, my efforts creating this new group resulted in developing a critical revenue stream that increased gross profits, enhanced key capabilities offerings, and a thrilled client for the quality of the creative. I’ve been entrusted to manage teams of up to 20 people on big start-up projects, including; creative, animation, production, and photography teams.

• Interactive Art Director / Flash Animator

  Cengage Learning

  (Privately Held; Publishing industry)

  2001 — 2004 (3 years)

  Create rich, interactive, instructional web sites based on four-color text books for the Shelly Cashman Series through Course Technology, including the number one selling text book for the world at that time, Discovering Computers. I concepted ideas and built Flash for the sites, including; overall look, navigation, instructional guides, games, and animated glossary terms. As the second-in-charge web developer, I directly managed and art directed a team of four Flash programmers in addition to my own animating. I worked consistently under high priority and short turn around deadlines.

• Graphics Lab Instructor

  UCLA

  (Educational Institution; Research industry)

  2001 — 2002 (1 year)

  Train groups of post-graduate students in a lab environment on various graphics programs, including; Photoshop, Illustrator, and Dreamweaver. I led these groups through class situations to simulate real work environments.

Andrew Bartel’s Education

• Golden West College

  AA , Music

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