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Employment History

11.06-current

The Navicor Group (an inVentiv health company),
Westerville, OH

Associate Art Director, Art Director

Effectively implemented layout and design solutions, following the direction of the team Associate Creative Director and Group Art Supervisor, using computer and/or traditional production skills in a full service pharmaceutical advertising agency specializing in ocology and immunology.

• Provide multiple solutions to each assignment, taking into account any/all restrictions included in the creative brief and/or direction.
• Lead design development of three detail aids which became key focus for following sales materials, including direct mail, tradeshow displays, promotional items and package design.
• Directed contract employees, illustrators and photographers towards design solutions as needed.
• Assisted multiple teams in development of interactive presentations for tradeshows.
• Developed an understanding of the science and market dynamics of assigned product(s) by attending all required in-house courses within one year.
• Act as final review for all projects to establish consistency and quality within the brand.
• Outside of my scope, I frequently perform as interactive designer, photo-retouch artist, and coding small websites.

11.05-11.06

The Navicor Group (an inVentiv health company),
Westerville, OH

Contract GraphicDesigner

Full-time contract-based freelance designer. Working with several teams I "filled-the-gaps" as layout artist, photo retoucher, designer, art director, and was consulted in conceptual development for new business pitches.

11.99-7.05

Sevell+Sevell, Inc., Columbus, OH

Senior Designer/Art Director

• Design of website and print media, and the coordination of projects through completion.
• Build relationships and work with clients such as Duffy Homes’ print advertising; logotypes and collateral for Dominion Homes; brochures and trade show displays with Sunpower, Inc., and bi-annual mailers for the National Restaurant Association.
• Provide knowledge and resource in all aspects of web design, including estimating, recommending hosting, and domain management.
• Function as Project Manager, coordinating and -recruiting programmers and other team members, for web-based projects which included Duffy Homes, Rickenbacker International Airport, Floyd Browne Group, Lorz Communications, and Tobacco-Free Ohio.
• Administrate and troubleshoot network of Macintosh workstations, as well as maintain daily backups. Create organizational databases to track projects and schedules.
• Responsible for the design and maintenance of company website.
• Work miracles as necessary.

Skills:

I am very comfortable learning new skills, and quickly adapt to new software. I am also comfortable managing several projects simultaneously.

• Proficient in the following applications (from 1.0-present):
• Adobe Photoshop
• Adobe InDesign
• Adobe Illustrator
• Microsoft PowerPoint
• Hand-coding (X)HTML/CSS
• Web Accessibility and optimization

Experienced in the following applications:

• Macromedia Flash and Dreamweaver
• FTP applications
• Large miscellany of shareware and freeware to enhance productivity and creativity.

6.90-5.99

GTR Advertising, Inc., Cleveland, OH

Art Director

• Art Director managing two other designers in a very high-volume environment.
• Designer of recruitment advertising presentations, collateral pieces, trade and display ads for companies such as Applied Innovations, Allied Signal, Avery, Bank One, Wendy’s, and The Limited.
• Self-taught in HTML, began creating client profiles as a new revenue stream and worked on GTR website.
• Achieved high proficiency in Macintosh applications such as PageMaker, QuarkXPress, Photoshop, FreeHand, Adobe Acrobat and FileMaker.
• Also learned to maintain, troubleshoot and backup Macintosh workstations and network.

6.87-12.89

RBA, Inc., Wadsworth, OH

Designer/Production Artist

• Designer and production in a variety of areas including package designs for Hy-Ko Manufacturing, retail signage for Things Remembered stores, trade ads and logo designs for local companies, and 3-D store models for Cole National Key kiosk designs.
• With in-house 4-color printing capabilities, worked closely with pressmen on quality control and production.
• Also worked as typesetter on Varityper machine.

7.86-6.87

Art American Printing Plates, Cleveland, OH

Production Artist

• Very high-volume keyline and paste-up, and negative stripping for flexographic plate making.
• Horizontal stat camera & darkroom experience.

Freelance

Association for Consciousness Exploration

Design Director and Event Organizer
Over the course of the past 15 years designed packaging for over 100 audio cassettes, updated the logotype, created ACE website presence and the design and production of festival mailers, program books and advertising.

Collegiate Job & Internship Fair

www.cjif.org
Worked with committee members from Ohio State, Capital University, Ohio Dominican University and others to create informational website and online mailing list.

Ohio Biological Survey at The Ohio State University

www.ohiobiologicalsurvey.org
Design and coding of online resource for inter-institutional consortium of 115 Ohio colleges, and other organizations.