Freelance Graphic Designer
• Designing professional print ready graphics for multiple clients
• Recent projects include: yellow page advertising, logos, billboards, flyers, postcards and business cards
State Journal-Register - 2011-2012
Graphic Designer
• Designed newspaper ads
• Created mulit-page insertion supplements
DexOne, AT&T Yellow Pages Sale Agent - 1994-2011
Graphic Field Artist
• Produced a wide variety of advertising for clients, over 3000 per year, consistently 25% above quota
• Developed advertising concepts with internal and external clients
• Exclusively responsible for all the speculative art of the top sales people in the division
• Proficient in all facets of Illustrator, including creative use of photos, fonts and color
• Photoshop skills include scanning, color correcting, clipping, working with layers, text and effects
• Skilled with typography and the use of white space
• Designed posters, calendars and other marketing material
Thomas Printing, Inc. - 2008
Graphic Designer
• Responsible for letterhead, envelope, invoice and logo design
Catholic Times Newspaper - 1988-1994
Graphic Layout and Design
• Responsible for layout of weekly newspaper using Quark desktop publishing
• Created new advertising for multiple clients each week
• Designed new masthead and page format for the newspaper
• Designed specialty page layouts
• Worked directly with printing company creating brochures, calendars and logos
Technical Skills
• Adobe Illustrator • Adobe Photoshop • Adobe InDesign • Dreamweaver • Fireworks• Quark • Acrobat • Final Cut Pro • Flash • Word • Excel • PowerPoint
• Macintosh and PC Platforms