
Art Director / Self Employed
Kansas City, Missouri Area

Art Director / Self Employed
Kansas City, Missouri Area
DESIGN MASTERY
I am the white lotus of digital design. As a digital professional with over 15 year’s experience, I am on a quest to find that perfect opportunity or placement where I can utilize all my creative and technical skills while maintaining a strong and devoted work ethic.
TRUE MULTI-TASKER
I have worked on multiple projects from inception to application, including corporate branding, packaging design, web to print, brochures, variable data printing, style guide design, print production, screen-print and embroidery production, simulated process color separations, web design, open source development and much more.
INFRASTRUCTURE JEDI
Stellar IT skills and experience with 50+ user windows local area network, with emphasis on PC setup, diagnosis, repair and level 10 backup and disaster recovery schema. I wrote phenomenal process and procedures for corporate implementation of personal computers and software. I created a flawless virtual and remote access system for hardware & software troubleshooting, tier 2 technical support and virtual training under workgroup and active directory systems.
Expert in Adobe Creative Suite 3 + 4
Digital Photography, Color Correction and Pre-Press Ninja
Interactive Design and Programming Using Director, Premiere, After Effects, Media 100 iFinish 4 Systems, Avid Express.
(Self-Employed; Design industry)
April 2009 — Present (4 months)
I am a digital designer specializing in web, print, interactive CD & DVD authoring, video editing and post production special effects. Web & Portal interface design and development. Open source junkie!
(Apparel & Fashion industry)
May 2008 — April 2009 (1 year)
Responsible for all catalog design and layout, magazine ad design, print and screen print production. Pioneer of simulated process films and artwork for full color screen print production.
(Design industry)
2006 — 2007 (1 year)
Responsible for all brand design and management. Design and production of all marketing and print collateral.
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
March 2002 — February 2006 (4 years)
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)
January 2000 — February 2004 (4 years 2 months)
Complete media direction, brand management, corporate web design and print marketing. Maintained strict brand guidelines for in house design team.
10 years professional design experience producing creative for the Military, Government, Technology, Entertainment, and Financial sectors.
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; MSFT; Computer Software industry)
June 1998 — October 2000 (2 years 5 months)
Create and deliver full motion digital video and post production special effects for Microsoft' new E-Business Solutions, which included Navision, Axapta, Changepoint, Siebel, and Pivotal key marketing initiatives, web sites and print collateral.
CW , Visual Communication , 1998 — 2000
1993 — 1996
AA , Commercial Art , 1990 — 1993
HS , 1985 — 1990
graphics / web design, interactive CD & DVD authoring, adobe creative suite 4 master. simulated process screen print film seperations
Adobe Certified, CEC (certified e-comerce consultant), A+ Certified, I-Net+, MCP (microsoft certified professional), CEB, and WCSB.