Design Management

Summary: Advance my career in graphic, multimedia, web design and

animation in the interactive industry

EDUCATION

. AAAS Digital Interactive Media - Multidimensional Media Design &

Authoring/Web Design & Certificate, Digital Illustration and Animation

(8/2010) - Shoreline Community College

. BA Writing/Communications (layout & design), Photography Minor (Fine

Arts) - Maryville College

. Intro Flash 8 - Seattle Central Community College

. Project Management for Design in a Day - School for Visual Concepts

SKILLS (MAC & PC)

Expert -CS4 Dreamweaver, Flash, Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign,

Acrobat; Powerpoint, Word, iWork

Intermediate -AfterEffects, Actionscript, HTML coding, Maya 3D,

Sharepoint, Visio, Excel, Strata

WORK EXPERIENCE

RED CANDY DESIGN (Freelance) - Seattle, WA; Harrison, TN

3/09 - current Web/mobile Designer Small Business Clients

. Design, build and launch client websites

. Manage all aspects of customer-client relationship

. Design and build mobile websites and html email flyers

HIDDEN CITY ENTERTAINMENT - Seattle, WA

6/09 - 08/09, 6/10 - 8/10 Flash Designer Intern Online

Entertainment

. Design and tweak online game assets in Flash

. Collaborate with team of flash designers, developers and director

. Gain knowledge of online game beta and final launch process

WASHINGTON MUTUAL (WaMu, now J.P. Morgan Chase) - Seattle, WA

9/01 - 1/09 Graphic & presentation design, material production management

. Executive presentations - create and execute top-level management

slidework

. Product Management - Recognition Program collateral; media website;

Employee Communications

. Event Stage Management - slidework design/execution; a/v; stage

direction; travel nat'l/intn'l

. Design and print/web publish major design projects of all types

. Handle negotiation, production, distribution, coordination of training

materials nationwide.

. Develop/maintain tracking/order systems, w/sharepoint, maximizing

production & efficiency

AEI MUSIC NETWORK - Seattle, WA

4/99 - 10/01 Production Artist Marketing

. Production/prepress, including high-end retail CD packaging, monthly

catalog, collateral

. Design corp. stationery/powerpoints; images processing; web design/flash

animation

. Vendor management - high resolution artwork scanning, film output, color

proofing

THE EASTSIDE JOURNAL - Bellevue, WA

6/97 - 4/99 Ad Designer

. Design ads for daily and weeklies; Scanner, pre-press output ; Temp.

supervisor of 5-person team

JET (Japan Exchange Teaching) Program - Japanese Gov., Nemuro, Japan

7/95 - 7/96 Asst English Teacher/ culture ambassador

AWARDS

. 2010 Scholarship winner - Puget Sound Chapter for Society of Technical

Communicators

. Silver, Award for Graphics Excellence '08 Graphic Arts and Craftnet

Awards - International Assoc. of Printing House Craftsmen, Inc. (IAPHC)

VOLUNTEER

JETAA Pacific Northwest Chapter (PNWJETAA), Seattle, WA

9/08 - current PNWJETAA Executive Advisory Board

6/05 - 5/06 JETAA International Public Relations Team

. Develop collateral; spearhead worldwide branding initiative

7/04 - 6/05 JETAA USA Co-Country Representative

. Coordinate 18 US Alumni Chapters (12,000 members)

2/02 - 1/04 PNWJETAA President

. Event planning - '03 National Conference '03-'05 Career Coaching

Seminars

. Lead volunteers and represent a 280 member Chapter

ASSOCIATIONS & GROUPS

AIGA, Professional Graphic Artists Association

Seattle Flash Users Group

Graphic Artists Guild

Phi Beta Kappa

Japan Exchange Teacher Alumni Association (JETAA)

Online News Association (ONA)

References available upon request

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Resume for Jeff Huffman Online portfolio

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