Graphic Designer Electronics Technician

PROFILE

**+ year creative career spanning multimedia and print design projects for some of the world’s leading brands/companies. Blend innovation with practicality and an unwavering focus on business results. Collaborate well with others to generate and execute ideas within tight deadlines. Versatile skill set drawing on creative and technical disciplines. Develop character models, package designs, interactive simulations, print ads, and corporate/brand identities. Comfortable working in Mac and PC environments.

DESIGN SKILLS

EXPERIENCE

STEELEWOLFE PRODUCTIONS, Dallas, TX / Nashville, TN 2005 – Present

Creative Director Graphic Design

Founded and grew this small full-service marketing agency whose mission is to provide exceptional design services to small and medium-sized businesses. Coordinate graphic design projects from concept through completion. Collaborate with clients to create vision, conceive designs, and meet deadlines. Expertly convert benefits to achieve client objectives. Coordinate freelance designers, consultants, and vendors to meet all project requirements. Manage operational, strategic, financial, quotations, and administrative functions.

Designed interactive tradeshow booth and six-page brochure with technical information for the iPhone 4.0 to showcase product’s new water resistant feature and redesigned case.

Created innovative celebrity-based print marketing campaign designed to grow major donor base for the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation.

Developed corporate identity and/or package designs for game developers, consumer product companies, event producers, restaurants, and radio stations.

Continued

WILL BRASHEAR, P2

FLIGHT SAFETY INTERNATIONAL, Dallas, TX 2011 – 2016

Graphic Designer

Collaborated with fleet Subject Matter Experts (SMEs), and training course instructors on the design and development of high quality curriculum, instructional multi-media (IMM) in conjunction with advanced-technology simulators for the world leader in professional aviation training and simulation systems. Mentored and trained other multi-media developers and played key role in the development of best practices. Notable clients included Quest, Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Metro Aviation, and

Project managed cradle to grave development of aircraft engine simulations approved by the FAA for instructor led presentations; imported Illustrator symbols into Flash, used Action Scripting to create interactivity for graphical user interface (GUI), and added menu to GUI for easy navigation.

Contributed to a multimillion-dollar contract win with major aerospace manufacturer based on high quality of engine and propeller animations as well as redesign of manufacturer’s schematics.

Key member of design team responsible for helping company land a 20-year, multimillion-dollar contract for design of the PC24 aircraft training programs for Pilatus Aircraft.

EDUCATION

MASTER OF ARTS (MA), DESIGN & MEDIA MANAGEMENT

THE ART INSTITUTE OF DALLAS, Dallas, TX (in progress)

BACHELOR OF SCIENCE (BS), VISUAL COMMUNICATIONS

WESTWOOD COLLEGE, Dallas, TX (2011)

ASSOCIATE OF APPLIED SCIENCE (AAS), FINE ARTS

NASHVILLE STATE COMMUNITY COLLEGE, Nashville, TN (2008)

Teaching:

Assisted teaching introductory Visual Communications courses to classes of up to ten undergraduate students as teacher’s assistant at Westwood College (2010).

Mentored sixth/seventh grade students for BigThought.Org, a visual and performing arts program that helps improve social skills and reduce problem behaviors for disengaged youth (2009).

MILITARY

TEXAS ARMY NATIONAL GUARD, Fort Hood, TX

ELECTRONICS TECHNICIAN

UNITED STATES ARMY, Fort Sill, OK

ELECTRONICS TECHNICIAN

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