Effective leader with comprehensive design, programming, and management skills. Worked directly with valued clients and vendors, including international. Strong commitment to team environment dynamics with the ability to contribute expertise as well as follow leadership directives. Background: interactive design and programming, branding, presentation design, publishing, digital 3D & hand-crafted models, project management, foreign travel/clients.

Experience

2002 - 2009

Digital Graphics Director // Dahlin Group - Pleasanton, CA

• Implemented new system (PDF workflow and library) for marketing materials, which improved the response time of the marketing team; brought company into “digital age”
• Streamlined all graphics operations by automating common tasks, improving efficiency and productivity, allowing more time for billable hours
• Planned and organized annual “Design Pinup” event; a prestigious presentation/meeting during which all offices present work done over the past year
• Modernized website resulting in estimated 10% increase in recruitment leads
• Started print billing system to recoup previously untracked and lost printing costs
• Maintained corporate identity & website, created brochures, websites, interactive presentations, 30 year book, flyers, 3D models, renderings

2000 - 2002

Multimedia Designer // Studio 4, Inc. - Mountain View, CA

• Designed high-end presentations using a clean 3D look, which resulted in one client offering the studio more work after their initial tryout period
• Designed web interfaces, icons, newsletters, PowerPoint templates & presentations, interactive Flash and Director pieces, and 3D models
• Developed Corporate Identity systems and brochures

1999

Broadcast Designer // CSUH CableNet TV - Hayward, CA

• Created advertisement slides for broadcast over the college cable TV station
• Updated class web pages
• Fimed & edited local CableNet productions

Freelance

Crossroads Trading Co. - Acrobat Forms
Duarte Design - PowerPoint presentation design
The Oya Group - Created icons in Illustrator, provided Macromedia Director lingo support
Sessums Engineering - Constructed a scale model for the major feature film “Men of Honor”, Production of a Mars landscape for the Disney film “Rocketman”
Ashlock Company - Created new website

Education

California State University Hayward //  BA Art - June 2000
MAJOR: Art, option in Multimedia - MINOR: Creative Video
Delta Chi Fraternity - Hayward, CA Chapter - Executive Board Member / Alumni Director

Skills

Software: Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects, Premiere, Indesign, Acrobat (with Javascript), Director, Flash, Dreamweaver, Fireworks, Softimage, 3D Studio Max, Media 100, Quark Xpress, Word, PowerPoint, Sketchup
Programming: Javascript, ActionScript, Lingo, CSS, DHTML, some PHP
Other: Sculpture, digital 3D and physical model creation
New Media Marketing: Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Search Engine Marketing (SEM), Cost Per Click (CPC), Cost Per Action (CPA)