Position Desired:

Graphic Design & Pre-Press Production/Desktop Publishing Artist

Abilities:

• Package Design
• Web Page Design
• Technical Illustration
• Desktop Publishing/Typesetting/Production Art
• Desktop scanning of B&W and color images & computer photographic retouching
• Promotional Design of T-shirts and novelties
• Conventional design in markers, watercolors, airbrush and technical pens
• Pre-press production work for CMYK and spot color printing including DCS color separation
• Table Layout, Paste-up, and Color Stripping

Macintosh Computer Experience
Hardware set-up, software installation, file management and diagnostics
PROGRAMS
Adobe Illustrator CS5.5 & lower	Adobe Photoshop CS5.5 & lower	MS Publisher
Freehand 11	Adobe PageMaker 6.5/7	Suitcase/Linotype Font Explorer/Font Agent Pro
QuarkXpress 7/6/5/4.2	Canvas 3.5	RipIT imposition and printing software
InDesign CS5.5	Stuffit/Compact Pro	Dreamweaver
Go Live Cyber Studio	Adobe Bridge CS5.5	Flash
Resedit	Norton Utilities	Various scanning software

Employment Experience:

• Gravity. Production Designer for Secret, Sure and other brands as needed. Assistant Digital Quality Control
• Lohr Printing, Inc. Manager Pre-Press Production/Graphic Design/Desktop Publishing
• Fisher Design, Inc. Senior Production Artist/Color Separation/Photoshop
• Richard's Group Inc. Production Artist/Photoshop/Catalogs
• Unius Digital Web Artist
• Freelance Designer/Production Artist clients include: Creatives on Call, Candlelite, Crystal Creative, Benchmark, LPK, Kennedy & Associates, Effective Communication Solutions along with private accounts
• IA ASSOCIATES Technical Illustrator/Animator
• SOUTHERN GRAPHIC SYSTEMS Pre-Press Color Separation
  Computer Operator/Designer
• ADIA PERSONNEL SERVICES Desktop Publishing
• THRIFTWAY FOOD & DRUG Advertising Production Artist/Typesetting
• UNITED STATES AIR FORCE Graphics Technician: Technical Illustration, briefing aids, cartooning, calligraphy, cartography, flip charts and other artistic support as required

Education:

• ACADEMY OF COMMUNICATIVE ARTS. Desktop Publishing Design
• UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI Bachelor of Science
  Graduated Magna Cum Laude
• USAF LEADERSHIP SCHOOL Mountain Home AFB, ID
• USAF GRAPHICS TECHNICIAN CDC & OJT COURSES
  Shaw AFB, SC - Mountain Home AFB, ID - Osan AB, ROK

Awards and Accomplishments:

• HONORABLE KENTUCKY COLONEL
  presented by Governor Brereton C. Jones
• GOLDEN KEY NATIONAL HONOR SOCIETY
  University of Cincinnati
• GOOD NEIGHBOR AWARD
  Chamber of Commerce, Great Falls, MT
• USAF COMMENDATION MEDAL
  1st Oak Leaf Cluster 341st SMW Malmstrom AFB, MT
• LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT AWARD
  USAF Leadership School, Mountain Home AFB, ID
• 1st PLACE B & W MEDIA.
  USAF Tactical Air Command Art Competition
• WHO'S WHO AMONG HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS
  Norfolk Christian HIgh School, Norfolk, VA

Hobbies:

• Learning new software and systems on personal Macintosh
• Herbal gardening, bicycling, painting, sculpting and other visual mediums
• Playing hammered dulcimer, conga, didjeridoo, harp, recorders, and whatever stirs my fancy