Charles Pabst

Current

• Writer at FreelanceSwitch
• Creative Director at Charfish Design

Past

• Design Manager at Starbucks Coffee Company
• Curtainwall Designer at Benson Industries

Education

• Portland State University
• Delphi

Recommended

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Connections

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Industry

Graphic Design

Charles Pabst’s Summary

I'm a graphic and web designer, professional blogger and marketer. Most of my time is spent designing, tweaking code by hand and writing content.

My expertise lies in:

- Photoshop
- Fireworks
- InDesign
- Illustrator
- Blender 3D
- Flash
- PHP, CSS and XHTML

Charles Pabst’s Specialties:

My specialties:
- Wordpress templates
- Static sites with valid code
- Logo design
- Professional written content

Charles Pabst’s Experience

• Writer

  FreelanceSwitch

  (Writing and Editing industry)

  November 2007 — Present (2 years 1 month)

  FreelanceSwitch.com is a site about freelancing, time and project management and basically making it as a freelancer. The posts I write describe my methods of running a successful design company.

• Creative Director

  Charfish Design

  (Public Company; 1-10 employees; Graphic Design industry)

  January 2003 — Present (6 years 11 months)

  I founded Charfish Design in 2003. Through Charfish I create websites, blogs, logos and print designs for clients all over the world.

• Design Manager

  Starbucks Coffee Company

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; SBUX; Retail industry)

  September 2001 — 2007 (6 years )

  At Starbucks I drew/designed about 150 stores. They ranged from Edinburgh, Scotland to New York City, and all up and down the west coast.

• Curtainwall Designer

  Benson Industries

  (Public Company; 201-500 employees; Architecture & Planning industry)

  December 1999 — December 2000 (1 year 1 month)

  Benson Industries creates cladding systems for skyscrapers and highly unique buildings. In my time here I helped design exterior systems for the Millenium Tower and Experience Music Project (EMP) in Seattle.

Charles Pabst’s Education

• Portland State University

  1994 — 1998

• Delphi

  1989 — 1992

Additional Information

Charles Pabst’s Interests:

Reading, writing, design, new technology, entrepreneurship, investing, marketing, consulting

Charles Pabst’s Contact Settings

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• new ventures
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