Resume

About Me…

I am an experienced Graphic Designer and Digital Asset Management (DAM) administrator, with a background in both print & digital design and production.

Tools of the Trade

Creative Apps:
Adobe CC Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Acrobat, Dreamweaver, Premiere,
After Effects), Affinity Suite of Apps (Designer, Photo, Publisher), 3D Apps (Blender, SketchUp) 

Productivity Apps:
MS Office Suite (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, SharePoint, OneDrive, OneNote, Outlook) 

Internet Technologies: HTML, CSS, WordPress, Jquery 

CMS DAM Apps: Veeva (Custom CMS for DAM)

Other: Canva, Keynote, Google Docs, Jira 

Platforms: Mac OS & PC Windows

Employment History

2023 – Present
Freelance work as a Graphic Designer

Jul 2018 – Apr 2022
Tag. 
(Design & Branding Agency) Thousand Oaks, CA
Title: Digital Asset Management – Team Member
Responsibilities:

  • Processing digital assets, including print, internet, and video, into a custom CMS – Veeva archive.
  • Tagged and categorized assets and preformed reviews of legal usage rights documentation for intellectual property; including photos, illustrations, actors, music, and video.
  • Collaborated with internal teams to distribute digital materials internally and externally to suppliers and vendors. 
  • Generated reports using MS Excel & PowerPoint.

Oct 2017 – Jul 2018
Ernest Packaging Solutions
Thousand Oaks, CA
Title: Digital Asset Management – Team Member
Responsibilities:

  • Processing digital assets, including print, internet, and video, into a custom CMS – Veeva archive.
  • Tagged and categorized assets and preformed reviews of legal usage rights documentation for intellectual property; including photos, illustrations, actors, music, and video.
  • Collaborated with internal teams to distribute digital materials internally and externally to suppliers and vendors. 
  • Generated reports using MS Excel & PowerPoint.

Oct 2012 – Oct 2017
Aisle 9 Group / A Division of Ernest Packaging 
(Design & Branding Agency) Thousand Oaks, CA
Title: Senior Production Designer
Responsibilities:

  • Layout design & production on various projects; including packages of all kinds, POP displays, flyers, brochures, posters, tradeshow booths, websites, and video projects.
  • Product categories included foods, beverages, cleaners, sporting goods, cosmetics, pharmaceuticals, first aid, housewares, hygiene, etc.
  • Press check services performed onsite for printed projects.
  • 3D models and renderings created for packaging, displays, and tradeshow booths – also used to help vendors create specs and dielines for various projects and the 3D renderings were used in marketing materials.

Feb 2005 – Oct 2012
The Vyant Group, a Division of Marfred Industries
(Design & Branding Agency) Thousand Oak, CA
Title: Senior Production Designer
Responsibilities:

  • Production and design services for print, internet, and other digital media related projects for various product categories and performed onsite press checks as needed.
  • Generated reports using Microsoft Excel & PowerPoint.
  • Note: Marfred Industries purchased Gateway Arts and created “The Vyant Group”. (see previous date)

Jan 2004 — Feb 2005
Gateway Arts
(Design & Branding Agency) Thousand Oaks, CA
Title: Production Designer
Responsibilities:

  • Production and design services for print, internet, and other digital media related projects. 
  • Note: Gateway Arts was purchased by Marfred Industries (see next date)

Nov 2003 — Dec 2004
Contract Work
(Aquent Partners Talent Agency) – Thousand Oaks, CA
Title: Production Artist
Responsibilities:

  • Onsite contract worker at a pharmaceutical company named Amgen, in Thousand Oaks, CA.
  • Production Design services for company branded products which included print and digital materials. Strict product guidelines and production procedures were followed to insure quality control and accuracy on all projects.

2002 — 2004
Contract Work
(Aquent Partners Talent Agency) – Los Angeles & Ventura, CA
Title: Production Artist & Designer
Responsibilities

  • Aquent Partners represented me in various contract positions as a Production Artist and Designer. I worked for various clients within this time period.

Jan 1999 — Nov 2001
Nestlé
(Internal Design Department) – Glendale, CA
Title: Production Designer
Responsibilities

  • Performed Design & Production services for various projects including packaging, large format printing, poster mounting, print buying, and press checks.

Education

California State University Northridge (CSUN)
(Northridge, CA)
Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA); Studies included graphic design, illustration, painting, photography, life drawing, and video production.

Moorpark Community College
(Moorpark, CA)
Art and Design courses for the completion of a Bachelor of Fine Arts at CSUN.

Learning Tree University (Certificate Program)
(Los Angeles, CA)
Web Design Certificate Program with courses in Dreamweaver, Flash, Information Design, HTML, and CSS.

Additional Training (Online Training Courses)
Studies included:

  • Web Design Courses: Dreamweaver, HTML, CSS, JQuery/Java script, Bootstrap, WordPress
  • 3D Modeling Courses: Blender, SketchUp
  • General Graphic Design Courses: Adobe Creative Suite refresher courses

Royal High School (Simi Valley, CA)
Diploma – Emphasis in Art and Science