I am an experienced graphic designer, having worked all angles of the trade: stripper; paste up artist; traffic manager; photographer's assistant; pre-press technician; production artist; designer; art director. I specialize in package design and production, and logo design.

AT&T, Ben & Jerry's, Black & Decker, Hershey Foods, Life Like Products, Martin Marietta, McCormick Spice, Medifast, Partners Imaging Centers, Philips Seafood, Procter & Gamble, WR Grace

B.S. Visual Arts University of Maryland Baltimore County

Experience

   Owner, creative director • PDM Design LLC
   October 2013 - present


    Senior Designer • Medifast Inc.
    May 2005 - September 2013
   
    Art Director for photoshoots,
    collateral design, package design,
    advertising design
   
    Adobe CS5 InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop
   

    Senior Production Artist
    Solo Cup Inc. Dec. 2003 - April 2005

    Pre-press department preparing and
    trapping art for printing. Assigned to premium
    products, primarily printing offset.
    Clients were mainly ice cream, sour cream and yogurt
    manufacturers, such as Ben & Jerry's, Blue Bell, Breyers,
    Dreyer's, Greens, Häagen Dazs...
    

    Illustrator, Photoshop, Freehand


    Graphic Designer • Harvey &     
    Daughters Inc. Sept, 1989 - Oct. 2003

    Graphic designer for design firm. Clients
    include Procter & Gamble, Black &
    Decker, McCormick, Hershey Foods...

    Illustrator, Photoshop, QuarkXpress


    Art Director Photographer's Assistant • Designers II
    November  1987 - September 1989

    Graphic designer and photographer's assistant art
    directing photo shoots for Graphic Design and
    Photography studio.
    Clients include AT&T, Black & Decker, Life Like Products, Martin Marietta,
    McCormick, Telemecanique.


    Traffic coordinator • Reliable Stores
    July 1987 - November 1987

    Acquired images, maintained image library and
    maintained all advertising traffic for furniture and
    jewelry store corporate headquarters.


    Paste-up artist • H&N Printing
    June 1986 - June 1987

    Created all mechanicals, for mid-size offset printer.
    Was also being trained as a back-up stripper.