• Strong background in traditional drawing and illustration methods
• 19 years of field experience in graphics - digital image manipulation, composition, retouching, correction, scanning, and restoration
• Web site design
• Demonstrated competence in Macintosh hardware and software troubleshooting.

Software Knowledge:

• Adobe Photoshop: 19 years
• Adobe Illustrator: 17 years
• Dreamweaver: 9 years
• Flash: 6 years
• Acrobat: 12 years
• QuarkXPress: 16 years
• QuickTime: 8 years
• MS Office: 10 years

Platform Proficiency:

• Macintosh: 20 years
• Windows: 13 years
• Linux: 6 years

Disciplines, Languages and Environments:

• Illustration: 21 years
• Digital retouching/image correction: 19 years
• Graphic Design: 16 years
• HTML: 19 Years
• Cascading Style Sheets: 5 years

Oct. 2009—Aug. 2012
User Interface Designer, Active Network | StarCite

• Design and build compelling customer-facing interfaces
• Promote design consistency
• Develop rapid iterations to match changing specifications and business needs
• Create print and electronic collateral in adherence with marketing branding guidelines

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Feb. 2002—Jul. 2009
Graphic Designer, Williams Lea/Merrill Lynch Alternative Investments

• Desktop publishing support in an investment banking environment
• Managed workflow and multiple deadlines utilizing a wide variety of graphics software in a cross-platform environment
• Created and updated financial marketing materials
• Developed and applied graphics standards while working within corporate branding standards
• Developed and implemented redundant backup procedures

I held this position from February 2002, originally through Pitney Bowes Management Services. When PBMS lost their contract in 2004, our staff was retained by the new contractor, Bowne. Bowne was subsequently purchased by Williams Lea, who maintained the contract until Merrill Lynch was purchased by Bank of America, and the site was closed.

1996—Present
Freelance Graphic Artist

Various design, branding, and web site clients including: Chelsea Dwiggins; Stone Soup; Temple Emanu-El; Ralph Frangipani Photography; Reach Productions; SMK Consulting; Bunn's Natural Foods; Yours4Less.com; Nursing Mothers Advisory Council; Doylestown Hadassah; Serenity Herbals; singer Heather Lynne; Highway Image, Intermarkets, and Ailanthus. Web design samples: smidgeonink.com, tadcastermilitia.com (current), sunblossomcondos.com (current), transitionandsocialchange.org (current) and the East Kingdom Rapier Combatant Compendium (production sample).

Dec. 1999—Jul. 2001
Graphic Designer/Prepress, Digital Color Graphics

• Member of three-person, computer-to-plate production team, working from client-supplied materials or original designs
• Scanning and image correction
• File management and backup
• Design, maintenance and e-commerce for web sites hosted through the company

Nov. 1998—Dec. 1999
Graphic Artist, Mothernature.com

• Managed production of digital product photography for natural-products e-commerce site
• Developed and maintained image workflow, maintaining corporate image standards
• Designed and illustrated a variety of special projects, including corporate desktop image, promotional gift basket photographs, and facility-specific signage

Feb. 1997—Oct. 1998
Digital Technician, Burton Photo Industries

• Part of nine-person, two-shift art department for large-format photographic service bureau
• Scanning, retouching, correction and prepress for film plotters and direct-digital printers
• Produced output from Cheetah RIP, IRIS inkjet, Fire100 film plotter, and LiteJet 5000

Jan. 1994—Dec. 1996
Creative Director, dMax/Gene Dwiggins Photography

• Responsible for multiple phases of image creation and manipulation of original photo composites (photography, scanning, retouching, prepress, color separation) using Photoshop, Illustrator, and QuarkXPress
• Member of beta programs for Adobe Photoshop 3.0, and DayStar Digital's ColorMatch & ColorSet Calibration products

Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona
Bachelor of Fine Arts, Specification in Drawing, 1993
Dean's Honor List, Athletic Honor Roll, Cum Laude
Member of National Champion Intercollegiate Archery team 1989-1993

Boy Scouts Of America
Eagle Scout, 1989
Team leader, Narragansett Council Junior Leadership Orientation Workshop, 1988-89
"White Stag" Junior Leadership training, 1988