I am a strong visual artist who knows how to work with typography and graphics. I have worked heavily in the publishing industry (magazine, newspapers, newsletter and tribute journals). I have developed excellent layout and typography skills. I have a great eye for aesthetics and a strong sense of composition and color theory, and I am able to follow a style guide. I am quite detail oriented and like keeping things organized. I have a natural understanding of time-line, story boarding and animation. I have worked on many tight deadlines. I work quite well in a high-energy environment. I am also can hand code in HTML and CSS. Plus I am able to read code and manipulated it.

My formal education includes training in painting, drawing, sculpting, design and art history. I majored in graphic design with minors in film, video art and photography. I have worked on many large projects. I have created websites that have brought in more clients with my understanding of how the audience responds to a user interface. My clients/employer have always liked the fact that I can design quickly. I only start the project once I have confronted all the variables first.

Hollywood Weekly Magazine
Red Cross
Made to Inspire

•DESKTOP PUBLISHING
InDesign
Photoshop
Illustrator
After Effects

•WEB DESIGN
Flash
Dreamweaver
Fireworks

•WEB PROGRAMMING
HTML, CSS, XML
JavaScript (jQuery)
(Mobile jQuery)
ActionScript 3.0
PHP (Basic)

•PRE-PRESS
Color
Separations
Imposition

•ART SKILLS
Drawing Skills
Stop Animation
Photography

•KNOWLEDGE
AJAX XML/XSL PHP/MySQL
Wordpress Wireframes Flowcharts Apps


EXPERIENCE

Hollywood Weekly - Publishing
Freelance Art Director … February 2009 - October 2011
•Website cleaned up CSS and layout
•Designed and laid out the magazine
•Designed covers of magazine

Made to Inspire(Retail)/Terra Traditions(Wholesale)
Contract Art Director … August 2006 - October 2008
•Worked with programmer to finish website
•Took photos of merchandise to upload to Shopping Cart
•Worked on monthly sales e-newsletter
•Designed several photo album covers

CAM Business Solution - IT
Contract Art Director ... February 2004 - March 2006
•Built website from start to finish
•Designed all sales material

Leisure Publications - Publishing
Part Time Production Coordinator ... July 2002-August 2003
•Ad Pre-flight
•Special advertising section layout
•Coordinated with sales staff and dummied magazine

Design Tank - Design Firm
Graphic/Web Designer ... February 2000-January 2002
•newsletters, schedule calendars and tribute journals
•Photoshop artist and scanner
•Able to manipulate clip art in Illustrator
•Tracked all job assignments from start to finish
•Communicated with clients
•Built Web pages both in WYSWYG and Code

Los Angeles Jewish Times - Publishing
Contractor Production Manager ... June 1999-February 2000
•Page layout for 36-page weekly paper
•Paper design, editorial placement and graphics
•Scanned and Retouched photos
•Designed and Re-built Ads

Concern Foundation - Non Profit
Freelance Production ... April 1999 - June 1999
•Page layout and design for 250 pages
•300-page tribute journal, annual fund-raising block party
•Responsible for every aspect of the job
•Designed several sections
•Built Ads, Scanned and touched-up photos


Internships

Production/Graphic Artist ... June 1998 – June 1999

Southern California Sports
•Scanned and touched-up photos
•Built ads
•Laid-out classified section

Barbara Fields Buying Office
•Designed report magazine for Jr. clothing line vendors
•Designed an invitation for a fashion show
•Produced artwork in Adobe Illustrator

Education

Bachelor of Arts, Major Graphic Design

UCLA Extension
Programming Logic