Senior Graphic Artist at Covidien, Owner of Birdsall Graphics & Web Design
Greater Denver Area
- Current
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- Senior Graphic Designer at Covidien
- Owner at Birdsall Graphics & Web Design
- Past
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- Graphic Designer - Contractor at 3t Systems
- Graphic Artist IV at Ball Aerospace
- Graphic Designer at Gardner Signs
- Studio Assistant at Icelandic Design
- Web Master at National Semiconductor
- Senior Technical Illustrator at StorageTek
- Education
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- Regis University
- North American School of Drafting
- University of Northern Colorado
- Art Institute of Colorado
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Robin Birdsall’s Summary
Currently holding Government Issued Top Secret Security Clearance
Proficiencies:
CAD/CAM Systems:
SolidWorks
ProEngineer on Silicon Graphics Interface
GraphTek
Applicon
CADVance
HTML Programming/Javascripting/Macromedia:
Flash
Director
Dream Weaver
Adobe Framemaker
Prima Vision
Graphic Design:
CorelDraw
Adobe Photoshop
Adobe Illustrator
Adobe Premier
QuarkXPress
PhotoPaint
Desktop Publishing:
Word
Excel
Adobe Pagemaker
In Design
- Proven success in defining customer requirements
- Effective facilitator of cost-effective, quality driven production
- Ensuring specification conformance
- Expertly skilled in the use of advanced Computer Aided Design tools
- Customer interfacing to map business requirements for product design
- Coordination of design activities
- Determination of project equipment and manpower needs
- Acquisition of technology resources
- Scheduling of subcontractors and vendors
- Maintenance of product engineering change records and documentation for product design, assemblies and testing
- Ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements through interfacing with governmental officials and agencies
- Generating manufacturing instructions in the assembly and operation of electronic products
- Web site design instructor for DaVinci Institute
Robin Birdsall’s Specialties:
Professional Graphic Designer, Marketing, Advertising, Web Developer, CAD/CAM, Techinical Illustrator, Flash Developer.
Robin Birdsall’s Experience
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Senior Graphic Designer
Covidien
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; TYC; Medical Devices industry)
March 2008 — Present (5 months)
Branding development, product labeling and documentation.
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Owner
Birdsall Graphics & Web Design
(Privately Held; Myself Only; Design industry)
January 2000 — Present (8 years 7 months)
Graphic and Web Design, reprenting clients through professional advertising, Multi Media marketing and adviertising.
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Graphic Designer - Contractor
3t Systems
(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
November 2007 — February 2008 (4 months)
Web application user interface design and product development working directly with developers and product marketing, and web site design using HTML, XML, PHP, MySQL, Flash, CSS, Javascript, Sharepoint and DotNetNuke. Responsible for HTML mock-ups and designs for web based applications. Working with Sharepoint UI design for 3tsystems developing look and feel, Icons, branding, workflow, usability and overall issues of implementing Sharepoint and DotNetNuke portals for internal and external clients.
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Graphic Artist IV
Ball Aerospace
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; BLL; Defense & Space industry)
January 2005 — November 2007 (2 years 11 months)
Developed concepts for graphic designs meeting stringent corporate requirements and standards. Refined and finalized designs for use in proposals, presentations, corporate internet and intranet web sites. Online course development for Ball’s Employee Online Training and Learning Center using SQL and Flash.Completed designs on schedule to support proposal submittals, PDR and CDR presentations.
• Scheduled changes to corporate web sites
• Developer for the following Ball Aerospace internal web sites: HR, NDS, IDMS, OCI, Rec Stop, Publication Services Assisted with weekly Frontpage updates
• Developer for the Ball Aerospace external Tactical Electro-Optical Sensors web pages
• Maintenance of the Kepler Gallery Web site -
Graphic Designer
Gardner Signs
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Marketing and Advertising industry)
March 2002 — December 2004 (2 years 10 months)
Managed the design of large illuminated displays and electronic messaging centers meeting customer requirements and specifications and in compliance with installation site and electrical regulations. Developed graphic display concept. Upon customer approval; selected structural materials, designed support structure, analyzed structure design for manufacturability and designed electrical installations. Prepared assembly drawings using CorelDraw software.
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Studio Assistant
Icelandic Design
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Design industry)
November 2001 — March 2002 (5 months)
Designed product catalog layouts. Managed studio organization, designed product displays.
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Web Master
National Semiconductor
(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; NSM; Semiconductors industry)
March 2000 — November 2001 (1 year 9 months)
Designed all graphics for and maintained the Information Appliance System Validation Intranet web site. Designed and maintained the Longmont National Semiconductor branch web site. Successful completion of the Information Appliance System Validation Intranet site allowed clients to see real time test results ensuring high quality products. The highly successful branch web site ensured the timely exchange of information between the Longmont branch and its customers and employees.
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Senior Technical Illustrator
StorageTek
(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; STK; Computer Hardware industry)
December 1981 — February 1999 (17 years 3 months)
Created 3-D models of components and highly complex electronic assemblies using Applicon and ProEngineer software with Silicon Graphics technology. These models were utilized to facilitate all phases of the production process including: exploded views and detail drawings for manufacturing process Instructions; detail dimensioned drawings used in specifying workmanship standards, schematics, Operator’s Guides and service manuals. Established documentation standards in compliance with ISO requirements.
Designed ad campaigns and animated videos for marketing using CorelDraw software. As a member of the recognition council, designed award certificates and invitations.
Robin Birdsall’s Education
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Regis University
Certificate of Professional Development 1991 — 1992
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North American School of Drafting
Drafting 1984 — 1985
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University of Northern Colorado
1982 — 1984
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Art Institute of Colorado
Advertising 1980 — 1982
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Robin Birdsall’s Interests:
Singing, Skiing, Teaching, Reading
Robin Birdsall’s Honors:
Who's Who of Professionals - May, 2000
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