summary
Motivated individual proficient in marketing and advertising design. Excellent initiative and skills enable flexibility to work individually or as part of a team, with critical and strategic thinking skills on a variety of advertising, marketing collateral, and publications.

skills
Proficient in: Microsoft Windows, MacOS, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe InDesign, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Acrobat, Adobe PageMaker, Adobe Dreamweaver, QuarkXPress, Macromedia FreeHand, and Microsoft Office software, design project management, and pre-press production.

education
The Art Institute of Seattle
Seattle, Washington
School of Design
Associate of Applied Arts

University of Oregon
Eugene, Oregon
School of Journalism and Communications


activities
American Institute of Graphic Arts

references
Available upon request.

experience
7/2006 - present
Mithun, Inc.; Creative Services Group
Seattle, Washington
Senior Graphic Designer

Design and development of concepts, templates and descriptive graphics for business development projects including proposals, statements of qualifications and presentations as well as other long form documents. Oversight and art direction of all business development materials. Coordination with other creative services team members on workload, branding and graphic standards. Acting as an educational resource to architectural staff on Adobe InDesign and Illustrator software. Coordinating project photography.

5/2005 - 6/2006
MulvannyG2 Architecture; Marketing Group
Bellevue, Washington
Graphic Designer

Design of collateral materials, trade show displays, advertising, and business development packages. Creating functional templates for proposal documents to be used by other marketing staff. Developing descriptive graphics for business development projects including proposals, statements of qualifications, and presentations. Coordinating outside vendors including photography, freelance designers, and printers. Preflighting files for printing. Proofing print jobs and attending press checks.

11/2001 - 4/2005
CH2M HILL; Technical Publications Group
Sacramento, California and Vancouver, British Columbia
Graphic Designer

Design of publication materials, advertisements, brochures, posters, presentations for various internal and external clients. Lead designer in developing concepts, templates, and descriptive graphics for business development projects including proposals, statements of qualifications, and presentations. Managing publications group workflow when editor is unavailable.

1/2001 - 11/2001
ClarkAshmore Advertising
Sacramento, California
Graphic Designer

Design of collateral materials, advertising, and identity programs for various clients. Preflighting files for printing. Proofing print jobs and attending press checks. Converting Photoshop and Illustrator files for the web.

6/1999 - 1/2001
CB Richard Ellis; Western Region Marketing Center
Seattle, Washington and Sacramento, California
Graphic Designer, Investment and Branding Specialist

Project management and design of 30 to 200 page investment summary books. Conceptualization and design of documents for training/internal promotion. Working with team of five designers to standardize local use of branding. Providing training on interactive marketing.

7/1997 - 6/1999
United Advertising Publications; Miller Freeman Group
Bothell, Washington
Imaging Technician

Checking in materials sent to production by design group. Troubleshooting QuarkXpress files for imagesetter output. Research of new techniques to improve workflow. Assisting in prepress and stripping.