Graphic Design Professional
Charlottesville, Virginia Area
Graphic Design Professional
Charlottesville, Virginia Area
Quality driven graphics specialist with significant experience creating high-end technical illustrations, cleanly designed & highly professional presentations and publications, exciting new identities and peripherals, and dynamic & search-optimized websites.
Particularly interested in working with large projects, specifically interested in designing, formatting, and illustrating books and technical manuals.
Fluent in CS2 and Office products. Ability to handle large amounts of material smoothly and efficiently.
(Educational Institution; 5001-10,000 employees; Higher Education industry)
November 2008 — Present (1 year 1 month)
Part-time faculty- responsible for teaching Adobe Creative Suite and basic design skills to entry-level graphic design students.
(Graphic Design industry)
June 2006 — Present (3 years 6 months)
Independent graphics contracting.
Design of identity packages, print materials, and websites for various clients including and not limited to: Extreme Exposure Media, Hawksbill Accounting, KitchenArt, Lexington Seminar, L’Italia Restaurant, PluraPage,
Shenandoah Chiropractic,Top Bead Welding, Valley Blox, Valley Home Inspection, Wharton, Aldhizer and Weaver, PLC.
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Graphic Design industry)
May 2006 — August 2007 (1 year 4 months)
Production of numerous landscape and hardscape design plans for distribution to clients. Final designs are used as scale representations in preparation and implementation of the final product.
Design and management of all promotional materials including logo, website, signage, direct mail, letterhead, forms.
Job planning and management.
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Aviation & Aerospace industry)
April 2002 — May 2006 (4 years 2 months)
Production of thousands of high quality vector illustrations of aircraft and aircraft systems, structures and powerplants.
Research of a multitude of parts manuals, technical handbooks and photographs with hands on access to aircraft and aviation training aids for the purpose of accurate representation.
Art direction, job planning and management.
Layout design for all core publications.
Design and management of promotional materials including logos, direct mail, letterhead, forms.
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Printing industry)
June 2000 — April 2002 (1 year 11 months)
Production of vector graphics for output on flexographic printing plates.
Packaging graphic design.
BS , Fine Art , 1995 — 1999
Technical Illustration, Publication Design, Website Design, Identity Design