EDUCATION____________________________________________________________________
American Animation Institute (Currently Attending), North Hollywood, California
Completed various courses including Life Drawing, Character Design, Acting for Animation and Storyboarding.
Imperial Valley College, Imperial, California
Completed courses in Psychology, Philosophy, Speech, English, Art History and Life Drawing.
EXPERIENCE____________________________________________________________________
Quicksilver Printing, 16909 Parthenia Street, Suite 101A, North Hills, California 91343
Graphic Design & Layout Artist: (40 hours a week) September 1999 - Present
Layout and design for wide variety of jobs including corporate IDs, newsletters, programs and more.
Responsible for 4 color gang run every 3 weeks. Includes: Laying out 4 color run, trouble shooting and color correcting customer files, designing custom cards, collecting and troubleshooting for film output.
Troubleshoot Mac G4s, Agfa Flatbed Scanner, Umax Powerlook III Scanner and several Peripheral Items.
Lay out jobs and write up work orders for film output.
Supply customer service and tech support to 4 color customers and anyone needing computer and/or application support.
Proficient in industry standard computer applications: Adobe Illustrator®, Adobe Photoshop®, Adobe ImageReady®, QuarkXPress, Adobe Pagemaker®, Adobe Acrobat®/Distiller®, Adobe Dimensions®, Adobe Streamline, Omnipage Pro, Microsoft Word, ATM Deluxe, and Macromedia Flash.
Mac OSX experienced.
Imperial Printers, 430 Main Street, El Centro, California 92243
Art Director: (40 to 45 hours a week) December 1995 - September 1999
Assigned and directed jobs within the art department.
Customer rep/counter sales.
Supplied hand drawn artwork.
Layout and design for a wide variety of jobs, including: continuous forms, medical superbills, corporate IDs, full color programs, brochures, flyers and more.
Pasted-up camera ready art to be shot to film.
Proficient in industry standard computer applications. (mentioned above)
Ran film and RC Paper to Agfa Proset 9550 Imagesetter, made contact prints on 26-1K Mercury Exposure System, and processed the lot on an Agfa Rapiline 43 Processor.
Responsible for trouble-shooting three workstations that included (2) PowerMac 9600s, PowerMac 7100, Mac Quadra 840, Umax Powerlook Scanner, Epson Expression 636 Scanner, Laserwriter 600 Printer, Epson Stylus 600 and Epson Stylus 3000 color printers.
Various Freelance Assignments
Including:
Two sequential stories for ZOWIE! comics, presented at Wizard World Los Angeles 2004
Interactive Training Video CD-Rom for Frontier Airlines
Posters and Signage for Boy Scouts of America
16 page comic for ZOWIE! comics, presented at San Diego ComiCon 2003
Various product label coverups
Website creation, including banners, buttons and splash pages for various clients including
www.ZowieComics.com and www.ArtsyFartsyStudios.com
Various caricature commission
Various logo creation and company branding |