*****@**************.***
Grant Yurada
Art Director / Creative Designer / Front End Developer
Costa Mesa, CA 92627
I am interested in the Art Director position. At your convenience, I'd appreciate the
opportunity to discuss the position and my candidacy with you. You can find my resume
attached to this e-mail.
I am looking to bring my ability to consistently deliver high quality work on time,
mastery of Adobe, motivated worker, creative edge, great attitude and team player
internally to succeed in an inside creative position.
Pertinent experience and skills for the posted position include:
*The power of design. I ve pitched designs and campaigns for DevicePharm, Abbott
Medical Optics, RW Face, Iverson, UCI, Floseal, Del Taco, Mazda, and many more.
These campaigns were for online media and various marketing such as email
marketing, rich media online banners, flash banners, micro-sites, web sites, and viral
marketing.
*The ability to reach key audiences. As a creative designer, I have to think out side the
box and work with the client as well as my team. I pay close attention to details, the
audience, what the design is for. My diversity of designs can go from grunge to clean
and corporate.
*I have worked with many companies small and large designing clothing lines for Green
Day, filming pro skateboarders, taking professional photography for large car part
clients, working in print shops, designing for publications, re-skinning software, and
most important designing and developing websites for various companies.
*B.S. in Interactive Media and Web Design. I also have experience in professional Video
and Photography.
*Relevant computer skills (Photoshop, Illustrator, SEOs, Google products, Delphi 2009,
Audition, After Effects, DVD Studio Pro, Final Cut Pro, Flash, Dreamweaver, Fireworks,
HTML, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery, HTML5, Microsoft Office are a few).
*Good listener...Solid work ethic...Desire to excel...Meet deadlines...Enjoy a fast-paced
environment...Extraordinary factual recall...
I'd love to find out more about the position you're looking to fill, and I would welcome
the opportunity to tell you how my skills and ideas can benefit the position that is right
for me. I can be reached at 714-***-**** or *****@**************.***.
Thanks for your consideration; I look forward to hearing from you soon!
Sincerely,
Grant Yurada
Grant Yurada Creative Designer
714-***-**** *****@**************.*** KastingDesigns.com
To be a part of a progressive company that will allow me to utilize and develop my skills and
Objective
knowledge of interactive design while helping to obtain the company s overall goals and
objectives.
DevicePharm Irvine, CA Janurary 2010 July 2010
Experience
Art Director / Web Design / Interface Design / Print Production / Multi Media
Designed/Developed Websites for Medical Companies
Designed Web, User Interface, Flash Applications, Micro Sites, Direct Mail, Internal Documents
Knowledge and know how of CSS, HTML, PHP, jQeury, Web Standards
VPI.net Irvine, CA July 2009 August 2009
Web Design / Interface Design / Application Design
Designed Websites for various entertainment TV shows
Designed logos, widgets, Flash games, micro sites, interface layouts
American Trans-Data Corp. Santa Ana, CA Feb 2009 June 2009
Art Director / Web Design / Front-end Development / Software Design
Designed and Develop Websites for Coach Charters
Designed Skins and functionality for Desktop Applications for POS and ticketing systems.
Software Development Design and Brain Storming.
Doner Advertising (main client: Mazda) Irvine, CA April 2008 December 2008
Interactive Designer / Art Director
Assist in creating concepts for ad campaigns
Create web banners, micro sites, email blasts, web design
RCH Designs Huntington Beach, CA April 2007 October 2007
Interactive Media Producer / Photographer / Art Director
Product photography, multimedia design, web design, video editing
Tattooed Steel / Steel My Heart Huntington Beach, CA June 2006 December 2006
Interactive Designer
Created designs to be lazered on to steel bracelets
Developed interactive catalogs to be mailed on CD-ROM
Designed print catalogs for trade shows and mailers
Steady Clothing Santa Ana, CA September 2002 April 2005
Graphic / Clothing Designer
Managed the art department
Designed clothing samples in Photoshop, created fashion catalogs for print, photographed
clothing for catalogs and web
Education The Art Institute of Orange County 2005-2007
B.S. in Interactive Multimedia with an emphasis in Web Design
Skills Technical/Production
Photoshop, Illustrator, Audition, After Effects, DVD Studio Pro, Final Cut Pro, Flash, Dream
weaver, Fireworks, HTML, CSS, jQuery, Ajax, HTML5, JavaScript, Microsoft Office,
Photography, Videoagraphy
Freelance
Kasting Designs Costa Mesa, CA 2005 Present
Clients Justin Warn Tattoo Melinda Myers Music Tres Noir Optics Aved Memory National
Engineering Rock Rebel Kalguard Existence One Graphics 24seven Biocell Newport
Tattoo Various rock bands White Memorial Hospital
Salary Requirements (history)
Device Pharm
Multi Media Design and Front end Development
$70,000 a year
American Trans Data Corp.
Web Design and Front end Development
$45,000 a year
Doner Advertising
Creative Design/UI Design
$60,000