Art Director Graphic Designer

EXPERIENCE

Drzigzag Maginarium, Stone Mountain, Ga 30083 2000-Present

Creative Director/3D Specializing

Multi discipline in the design industry: +30 years. As an Maginarium freelance contract Artist: I have pro-from Illustrator, Graphic Designer, Art Director, and 3D Digital Artist. I have use my skill set for over 30+ years from print to website to prototyping. I have Excellent interpersonal-skills with attention to details and problem solving, to produce the best graphics for the clients needs, from product Branding, Print, Multimedia, Animation, Video, 2D/3D and Web/UI.

• Digital Media, IllustratorArtist, Digital Photography in 2d and 3d motion graphic, Animations, 3D modeling, Desktop real-time videographer, web development digital publishing, package designs, storytelling and copywriting.

• Digital photography Color correction for digital media using RGB/CMYK color model image repair tools, curves, levels, clone stamp, magic wand, dodge & burn, image size, cropping, canvas size and layer styles applied.

• Large format digital color printing, CD-ROM, Video’s, DVD’s, prints, internet/web UI UX Designs.

AVA Couture - Marietta, GA October 2018 to July 2019 Art Director/Designer

• Work closely with the Director of Marketing and Communications and advertising agencies on the creation, coordination and completion of marketing campaigns and additional creative needs.

• Develop high-quality and effective creative that accomplishes desired outcome.

• Coordinate with vendors and agencies to ensure that all deadlines are met and that appropriate creative is delivered for each initiative.

• Develop creative to meet internal departments’ needs, including design, proofing and delivery of files.

• Oversee video production projects to enhance delivery of video content online.

• Digital awareness with a focus on the call to action and the ability to track performance.

• Make recommendations to adjust future creative based upon performance.

• Support event efforts through creative development.

• Develop presentations as needed.

• Comfortably work across various mediums, including digital, search engines, social media, website, print, email, text, video and others.

AirSage, Inc. 400 Embassy Row, Suite 100 Atlanta, Ga. 303***-****-**** Art Director/Designer

Responsible to Design and develop AirSage top 100 citys of coverage Maps. Creating, planning, organizing, implementing and control of the media process within the department in print and PDF format. Using Adobe Creative Suite Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Premiere, Acrobat. Macromedia: Flash CS3, Dreamweaver CS3. Contact 14mo. Project. www.AirSage.com Accelerated Learning Group, Lilburn, Ga. 30047 www.learngroup.net 2003-2005 An Instructor /Trainer in many of today's most popular applications like; Adobe Creative Suite Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects, InDesign, GoLive, Premiere, Acrobat. Macromedia: Flash, Dreamweaver MX 2004 and Apple Final Cut Pro. And other software as needed training in cities such as: Chicago Illinois, Atlanta Georgia, and Washington DC Graphic Designer (NGI) - Atlanta Ga. www.ngiusa.com 2002-2003 Responsible for running the color department that includes preflight files all jobs and postscript files for digital printing. Typesetting, layout, graphic design, digital scanning file for color correction in RGB Color model image repair tools using curves, levels, clone stamp, magic wand, dodge & burn, image size, cropping and canvas size for large format digital color printing. Had to counsel customers and use technical troubleshooting. This also includes using large format color mounting, laminating and finishing. I'm very proficient on Macintosh/PC various scanner, HP 5000, HP3000, HP 800, Epson Canon 1045, CLC900, EDOC Color Rip, 5.6 Onyx Raster Graphic Rip. Multimedia Production/Development Sertus Software – Raleigh, N.C. 2000-2001

Responsible for the designs and developments of a new web base software GUI- graphical user interface, workflow concepts and interface standards for the business objectives of end-users and translates those objectives to a balanced mix of good technology using Flash, Live Motion and usability in the Web site interface. Studio Manager (Sandler & Recht Communications) — Durham, N.C. 1995-1999

Responsible for day to day service of the Creative Department which produced over 2000 disk release jobs per year. Production assemble digital pre-press file to clients, vendors and printers. These jobs were layout for prints, scanning, retouching, bar coding software for packaging, format posters, PDF jobs (Client as Glaxo Welcome), Scanning 35 mm slides, training, interactive/presentations, file maintenance, equipment/software, web and research. The most challenging part was training personnel for production of digital graphic designs and Illustrating in Quark X Press, InDesign and Photoshop.

Production Manager (Digital Resolutions DPI ) – Irving, Texas 1994-1995

Responsible for the Production Graphic Design and Digital Photography Studio using the Sony Sep. 2000 Digital Studio Camera, (only 3 in the USA at the time) and Sony Sep. 1000 Digital Studio Camera that also includes preflight files all jobs for digital photography and printing at JC Penny’s. Typesetting, layout, graphic design, digital scanning files for color correction for digital media using RGB/CMYK color model image repair tools: curves, levels, clone stamp, magic wand, dodge & burn, image size, cropping and canvas size.

Digital Design (Williams and Graham) - Dallas, Texas 1994-1995

Responsible for handling trapping issues and troubleshooting Digital Prepress/ Imaging for film output.

Mac Production/App Specialist (Beckett Publications) – Dallas, Texas 1990-1994

Production designer responsible for book cover layouts, logos letterhead, brochures, promotional advertising, rendered designs. Also to provide necessary files for Barcode assemble in digital pre-press packaging. Layout specifications for production of digital graphic designs and illustrations and Seven print magazines for Beckett publications: Baseball, Basketball, Football, Hockey, Minor league baseball, and other books and magazines and prototype 3D modeling. Education:

Grambling State University - Grambling, Louisiana

Technical Drafting/Bachelor of Science

Dallas County Community College - Tx.

Construction Management

Wake Technical Community College - NC.

Alias Studio Skills: 3D CAD

Applications Proficient:

Layout & Design: AffinityPublisher, In Design CS,

Quark X Press, PageMaker, Acrobat (PDF), Microsoft Excel, Power Point, Word, Keynote and Pages

Imaging: Adobe Photoshop CS, AffinityPhoto,

Illustration: AffinityDesigner, Illustrator CS,

Multimedia: Flash MX 2004, After Effects,

Motion 2.0, File Maker Pro 4.0 Calvary1.5.3

Animation: Flash MX 2004, Live Motion 2.0 (like Flash) 3d: Plasticity, Blender 3-D, Cinema 4D, Shade 3D, KeyShot Web: Dreamwaver, Figma, Framer, Hype4,

Video: Final Cut Pro, Motion 2.0, Cavalry, After Effects, Premiere Pro, DaVinci Resolve 19.0

Utilities: Norton Utilities, Toast 6.0, Fontographer 4.4, Flight Check, Apple Script Studio

Game Engine: Unity and Unreal Engine

OS: Window, NT 4.0, Macintosh OS

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