Senior Graphic Designer
Resume:
MICHAEL COLE
Address: *** ***** *****, ********* ****, Texas 78148
Phone: 210-***-****
Email: ******@******.***
SENIOR GRAPHIC DESIGNER
QUALIFICATIONS PROFILE
Award-winning, creative, and innovative professional, with more than 20 years of experience in all phases of design production, multimedia, animation, graphic, as well as marketing layout and communications. Possess comprehensive background in creating innovative and dynamic designs with emphasis in concept, detail, and style bringing projects to full fruition. Gained reputation as reliable and flexible communicator, with adeptness in understanding the needs of clients. Exemplify proven ability to see the big picture in a project; equipped with outstanding work ethic and unsurpassed dedication to consistently produce remarkable results. Currently hold a DoD TS/SCI Security Clearance.
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
Graphic Design, Layout, and Editing ~ Advertising and Promotions ~ Brand Management ~ Innovative Marketing Strategies Development ~ Video Editing and Direction ~ Client Relations and Negotiation ~ Business Optimization ~
User Interface Design ~ Quality Assurance ~ Strategic Planning and Implementation
CAREER HIGHLIGHTS
- Conceptualized successful graphics design across multimillion-dollar contract bids, working directly with authors and engineers to create a compelling story within tight deadlines.
- Successfully completed graphics development for 50 proposals in 2013 alone, with many valuing $250M to $500M.
- Earned selection to expertly design graphics for billion-dollar contract bids.
- Displayed unsurpassed expertise in generating graphic designs; thus, consistently receiving high marks from proposal bid reviewers.
- Demonstrated in-depth expertise in developing and maintaining web pages.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
L-3 Communications, San Antonio, TX
Senior Graphic Designer 2004–Present
- Leverage expertise in designing graphics and handling multimedia projects, from concept to completion.
- Show effectiveness in creating relevant images, covers, and CDs in full coordination with proposal writers and staff.
- Generate top-notch creative marketing materials, such as posters, trade show panels, brochures, and advertisements.
- Took charge of creating and updating multimedia training and documentation programs for company products and services which were adapted and implemented worldwide.
- Provide paramount support in all office graphics designing and printing needs along with logos, icons, interfaces, white papers, charts, animations, briefing slides, business cards, holiday cards, floor plans, murals, and CDs.
Titan Corporation, San Antonio, TX
Senior Multimedia Developer 2001–2004
- Facilitated the development of custom multimedia products which supported marketing, training, and documentation.
- Lead the innovative design of various marketing brochures, trade show panels, and posters for the division along with high-quality graphics for proposals and white papers.
- Capitalized on in-depth expertise creating briefing templates and created images for various briefing slides.
EARLIER CAREER
Senior Multimedia Developer BTG, Inc., San Antonio, TX 1996–2001
Multimedia Interactive Courseware Developer U.S Air Force-Information Warfare Center (AFIWC), San Antonio, TX 1994–1996
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Online Visual Interface Design-Influent Technical Seminars Adobe Illustrator Macromedia Director 6.0 Advanced, 5.0 Level I, II, and Icon Author Training Metacard OJT Supervisor Course-Instructional System Design Applied to the WorkCenter
TECHNICAL ACUMEN
Operating Systems Mac OS X/9/10 Windows XP/ME/2000/NT/Vista/7
Software Adobe Creative Suite 1-6 (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Acrobat Professional, Flash, and Premiere) Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, and PowerPoint) MS Visio Virtual Proposal Center
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