Chris Carothers

Email: abqp32@r.postjobfree.com

Address: *** ****** *****

City: Aptos

State: CA

Zip: 95003

Country: USA

Phone: 831-***-****

Skill Level: Experienced

Salary Range: $80,000

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CHRISTOPHER CAROTHERS

Information / Business Graphics Development

A resume summary- please call for a detailed history. 831-***-****

For a visual tour please look at my portfolio @ www.informationgraphics.biz & www.surfcitydesigns.com

1995 - Present

InformationGraphics (www.informationgraphics.biz) & Surf City Designs (www.surfcitydesigns.com)

Owner/Creative Director

Design, art and marketing services.

Marketing Communications.

HTML email campaigns and ad creation.

Custom art creation for brochures, banners, web and presentation.

Corporate identity packages: logo design, ICON development, web sites, PowerPoint.

Creation of informational business graphics for print and presentation.

Website content maintenance.

Partial clients list includes: McKesson Pharmaceutical's, VISA, Intuit, McGraw Hill, Benjamin Cummings, Riverside Publishing, Houghton Mifflin, Precision Graphics.

2009 - 2010

Adobe Systems

eCommerce Support Analyst, WWW eComm Marketing

Provide operational support for Adobe's 3 Volume Licensing stores in North America and Europe, managing a catalog of over 16,000 SKUs.

Day to day operational support for transaction errors.

Product catalog management.

Creation of new products for world-wide commerce.

Point person for troubleshooting store issues between internal stakeholders and external vendor.

2008 - 2009

Embarcadero Technologies

E-Commerce Operations Administrator

Site layout, merchandising, day-to-day product catalog management, site usability, global expansion and customer experience.

Manage new product introduction projects on the worldwide shopsites.

Reports and analysis on relevant sales, conversion and site traffic activity and report out on a periodic basis.

Manage and maintain product catalogs and setups (pricing, product structure, SKUs, descriptions, serial keys, download files, images) on the shopsite. Manage product lifecycle.

2001 -2002

InterTrade Inc.

Manager Marketing Communications

Created and managed integrated corporate marketing programs including email and phone campaigns.

Created direct sales marketing tools employing PowerPoint, Photoshop, Illustrator and web.

Managed sales and marketing pipeline.

Creation of informational business graphics for print and presentation, icon development.

Corporate web master.

Created custom art for corporate presentations and web, html email campaigns.

Redesigned corporate identity including logo, web site, data sheets, sales presentation and internal reporting documents.

1997 - 2001

Rainmaker Systems

Corporate Art Manager/Web Master

Responsible for maintaining consistent visual presentation of Rainmaker identity internally and externally from corporate presentations to company signage and brochures.

Maintained Rainmakers corporate web site, project managed flash development focusing on Rainmakers' CRP business process.

Creation of informational business graphics for print and presentation and icon development.

Created business flow diagrams for client acquisition to help explain Rainmakers' sales process.

Created PowerPoint presentations for business development.

Worked with Rainmaker clients (Novell, Sybase, NCD, FTP) as marketing manager to create and maintain "transparent extensions" of their web sites hosted on Rainmakers' server.

1995 - 1997

InfoPoint Inc.

Art Director/Web Site Developer/Marketing Manager

Developed, designed and created over 100 web sites for business in Santa Cruz County and surrounding areas.

Managed content for all web sites hosted by InfoPoint.

Managed customer relations.

Created custom art for web sites.

1990 - 1995

Santa Cruz Sentinel

Graphics Editor

Created editorial art and illustrations for all sections of the paper.

Designed special sections and page fronts.

Created information graphics, charts, maps and graphs.

1985 - 1992

UC Santa Cruz

Instructor - Science Illustration Program

Founded and taught in program - courses taught included:

Computer Graphics, Black and White Illustration, Airbrush and Color Techniques

1985 - 1990

Salinas Californian

Graphics Editor

Created editorial art and illustrations for all sections of the paper.

Designed special sections and page fronts.

Created information graphics, charts, maps and graphs.

1984 - 1985

San Francisco Examiner

Editorial Artist

Created information graphics, charts, maps and graphs.

Created illustrations to supplement news and features stories.

1983 - 1984

San Jose Mercury

Editorial Artist

Created information graphics, charts, maps and graphs.

Created feature illustrations for Science and Medicine section.

EDUCATION

1984 - 1986

San Jose State University

Illustration and Design program.

1982

University of California Santa Cruz

Science Communication Graduate Program - Split major of science writing and illustration.

Founded and taught in the Science Illustration Graduate Program

1977 - 1980

University of California Santa Cruz

BA Biology with an emphasis in marine sciences.

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