Design Designer

Mark McDougal . *** E. Villa St., #*, Pasadena, CA 91106

626-***-**** . cell: 310-***-****

E-mail: ****@*************.***

Portfolio website: http://www.MarkMcDdesign.com

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Senior designer with 20+ years experience in graphic communications and

graphic design, seeking collaborative employment in web and print design

for publication, development or marketing.

DESIGN SKILLS

APPLICATIONS: Dreamweaver, Flash, XHTML, CSS, ActionScript 3.0, JavaScript;

Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Quark,

MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint; Mac and PC platforms.

EXPERTISE: Page and section design, publication redesign; charts, graphs

and infographics; illustration, photo manipulation,

cartooning; writing, editing, proofing; large-format graphics,

creative team management.

Professional experience

July 2010 to present

Pearce Plastics, Inc., 1039 Lincoln Ave., Pasadena, CA 91103

FREE-LANCE WEB DESIGNER

. Design and coding of interactive website, including Flash and JavaScript

elements, for cosmetic container manufacturer.

October 2002 to July 2009

The Hollywood Reporter, 5055 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90036

Associate Art Director/Senior Designer

. Lead designer for informational graphics, charts, graphs and tables in

redesign of publication, 2008.

. Creating standardized templates for informational graphics in editorial

and features sections.

. Developing uniform style sheets, color palettes and master pages across

InDesign, Quark, Illustrator and Photoshop programs.

. Designer for 75th Anniversary sections, creating base template, layouts

and art for six-part feature section spreads.

. Lead designer for annual TV season wrap, studio summer and year-end wrap

sections and year-end obituary spreads.

. Lead designer for THR Esq., weekly electronic publication for the

entertainment legal community.

. Designer for awards sections (Golden Globes, Oscars), nominations and

award night spreads.

January 1999 to October 2002

Daily Journal Corporation, 915 E. First St., Los Angeles, CA 90012

Design Director/Managing Editor

. Redesign of Cyber Esq. publication from monthly tabloid to quarterly full-

color magazine.

. Redesign of California Real Estate Journal; integration of architectural

art and photography.

. Management of regional weeklies, assigning free-lance writers and

photographers in four western states.

November 1996 to June 1998

Magoo Art Services, 539 Marsh St., San Luis Obispo, CA 93401

Graphic Designer/Copy Writer

. Trade show graphics design, production and mounting; medical and

courtroom display design.

. Architectural graphic design, templated promotional materials, full

project proposal presentations.

. Business graphic design (logos, brochures, marketing), short-run

packaging/labeling design.

. Fine arts scanning, color-correcting and archiving of original works for

reproduction.

. Development and maintenance of digital-image archiving system for entire

client base.

ADDITIONAL EXPERIENCE

. Professional Theater Company Stage Management, Los Angeles Theater Center

. Free-Lance Writer, various regional publications, San Luis Obispo County

. Leadership SLO Graduate, Class V (yearlong training program for community

leaders)

. Director, Press and Print Campaign, San Luis Obispo County Supervisor Peg

Pinard, 1996 Primary and General Elections

. Graphics Editor, Five Cities Times-Press-Recorder, Arroyo Grande, Calif.

. Member, Governor's Advisory Board on Drug Abuse for the State of Alaska

EDUCATION

. California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo (five years) .

Major: Graphic Communications Design

. Pacific Conservatory of the Performing Arts (one season) . Course of

Study: Design for the Stage (full scholarship)

. New Horizons Computer Learning Center, Burbank, Calif. (six months) .

Course of Study: Abode Certified Expert, Web design

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