experience
Seattle Weekly -Seattle
graphic
designer/ad production
March '07-present
graphic designer/marketing coordinator
February 2003-present
Branding development through design and layout of catalogs, direct mailers, ads and other collateral materials to promote clothing line.
Managed accounts and sales through filling orders-wholesale, retail and online. Preparation and participation in bi-annual tradeshow.
TG
International-Seattle
art
director/web
and graphic designer
April 2006-currently
freelancing
Designed,
developed and maintained website for developing small business. Maintained
and expanded identity through branding on brochures, ads, banners, direct
mailers, labels and all corporate
forms.
Staffed
by Creative Group and Filter Talent-Seattle
freelance
graphic designer
June
2004-present
Designing
branding identities and collateral including flyers, posters,
ads, cd art, menus, mechanicals, environmental signage and
websites.
Clients
include Amazon.com, Wizards of the Coast, San Francisco International
Airport and
Hornall Anderson.
Oak
Street Design Corporation-Chicago
graphic designer
May '00-currently
freelancing
Visual communication through window display. Specialized in customized promotions
through merchandising and creative graphics including menus, posters and flyers.
Kornick
Lindsay-Chicago
graphic
designer
April '01-July '02
Developed innovative corporate identities, branding systems and packaging solutions
for consumer products through production of manuals. Involvement with international
and domestic clients. Responsibilities also included proofing, price quotes,
recommending paper stocks and participating in
consumer
research.
Performance
Communications Group-Chicago
graphic design intern
May '99-January '00
Duties included scanning, color correcting, mock-ups, researching images, resizing,
organization of stock photo library and archiving.
freelance web designer
Tough Guy International
www.toughguyintl.com
Eccentric Wood
www.eccentricwood.com
Lighting & Power
Solutions
www.lpsolutions-inc.com
Bling
Bling Hostel
www.blingblinghostel.com
Safariland
Cafe
www.safarilandcafe.com
education
Columbia College Chicago
Bachelor
of Arts-Graphic Design
September '97-January '01
Dean's List
University
of Illinois-Champaign-Urbana
General
Studies
September '95-May '97
Dean's List
Shoreline
Community College-Seattle
Web design classes including Dreamweaver, Fireworks and Flash
Summer 2003
skills
Illustrator-Photoshop-InDesign-Dreamweaver-Acrobat
Streamline-Microsoft Office-HTML
