VOCATION
present (since 1995) – freelance creative direction & graphic design, located in the dallas area; designed for clients in dallas metroplex, georgia, maryland, california, washington & the united kingdom. clients include churches and christian ministries, theater companies, financial organizations, publishers, educators & musicians.
2002-present – first baptist dallas, downtown dallas, titles: graphic designer (hired), creative director (current, since 2006); created/designed brochures, logos, direct mail, newsletters (digital & print), catalogs, tv and web graphics, email marketing, signage, audio/video packaging; cameraman & video control room operator for recorded special events; voice overs for promotional videos; involved in the launch and promotion of a multi-million dollar building campaign beginning in 2011; directed/designed the development of new mobile app launched in Spring 2014, updated weekly; sustaining member of AIGA since 8/2017
1997-2001 – the urban alternative (the radio/tv ministry of dr. tony evans), zang blvd in dallas, titles: graphic designer (hired), senior graphic designer (at exit); created/designed brochures, logos, direct mail, newsletters, catalogs, tv and web graphics, audio/video packaging; copywriting (product descriptions in newsletters and catalogs); received “employee of the year” award in 1999
1995-1997 – quik print/qpr production, farmer’s branch and grand prairie locations; title: key operator, pre-press operator; bw/color copies, bindery, pre-press (operating itek camera producing negative film for 2–4 color separations for printing presses), desktop publishing
1994-1995 – kinko’s copies (currently known as fedex office), preston rd/northwest hwy location; title: key operator; bw/color copies, bindery, desktop publishing, customer service
EDUCATION
1989-1990, 1992 – american trades institute (ATI) for graphic illustration. learned basic floorplan design, typesetting, sketching, ad layout; graduated and returned to train in computer graphics (quark xpress, adobe illustrator, letraset letrastudio).
1986-1988 – wiley college in marshall, texas; major: mass communications. obtained fcc license and (briefly) worked as a radio personality for campus radio station.
SKILL
• adobe creative suite (indesign, illustrator, photoshop, acrobat)
• apple osx, ilife + iwork (imovie, keynote, pages)
• emma (email marketing), bluetoad (digital publishing)
• working knowledge of adobe xd, sketch, copywriting, & html
last update: january 2019
just within the past 4 weeks i’ve been getting my feet wet, or soaked, with a crash course in adobe after effects. now as long as i’ve been doing graphic design, this is one app i’ve been wanting to learn since 2001 (it actually hurts to type that; a shame it took me this long). thing is i had to learn it as a necessity for some upcoming projects at my job and a coworker who works primarily in video editing/production was so kind as to give me some basic training, boot camp style! now that i’m finally using it, my brain is tingling with ideas! once again, i know it to be true that you’re never too old and it’s never too late to learn something new and expand your skills!
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