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Education
BACHELOR OF FINE ART, Class of 1999 Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA.
ILLUSTRATION, SKETCHING, 1994 –1996 Art Center at Night, Pasadena, CA
ADVERTISING ILLUSTRATION, Summer 1993 Otis College of Design, Los Angeles, CA
Experience
Nov 08 — Nov 09 LEAD DESIGNER
–DELUXE DIGITAL STUDIOS
Created menu designs for various studios, and corporate identities for internal Deluxe Blu-ray projects, along with art directing/lead designs for Doremi movie trailer 30sec spot. These duties included pre-vis, animation fx and final compositing.
Feb 07 — Nov 08 SENIOR DESIGNER, ASSOCIATE ART DIRECTOR
–SCOPE SEVEN INC.
Created menu/animation systems, for titles like CSI, and Harry Potter & Transformers. I worked closely with designers, production artist and 3D artist to produce some of the finest titles available in DVD games. Ass. Art Direction on Harry Potter 2.
Jan 06 — Feb 07 MOTION & GRAPHIC DESIGNER
–B1 Media
Handled all aspects of graphic material for DVD boardgames. Including interface, layout and animation creation.
May 03 — Dec 05 SENIOR TECHNOLOGY SPECIALIST / BUSINESS PRINTING SPECIALIST / GRAPHIC DESIGNER
–FEDEX Kinko’s
Maintenance for operation hardware for three stores. Designed various collateral for small to mid-sized businesses.
Nov 01 — Aug 02 LEAD ART DIRECTOR — GRAPHIC & MOTION DESIGNER
–FMCG– FilmQuest Marketing Communications Group
Art directed and produced multimedia presentations, brand systems and print collateral for corporate accounts.
Oversaw a team of four artist in the production and implementation of the established look created by myself.
Oct 00 — Present FREELANCE DESIGNER — Client’s I’ve been fortunate to work with over the past 10 years
–MOSAIC STUDIOS
As part of a two man operation, I created 3D motion graphics, using only After Effects to create corporate videos for clients like SAP’s Green IT initiative.
–STRANGE SCIENCE INC.
Created visual effects and color correction for online webisode series.
–INMOTION PICTURES
Created visual effects for Mandy Perkins music video.
–BINARY DIGITAL
Created various promotional content for CD-ROMs and print work for Universal Pictures movie releases by working with the creative director for quick turn around projects. Other projects included the complete front end redesign of Virtual Premise online.
–CINEBAR ENTERTAINMENT
Trade show graphics for Toshiba Medical Equipment.
–FAMOUS FOOTWEAR & SHOES.COM
Graphic design for sub-brand campaigns, online advertisements and various interface elements.
–DISNEY INTERACTIVE
Interactive graphic design for featured Flash movie on Disney.com.
–PASSINGLANE INC.
Assisted in developing the brand identity for Spellbound Records.
Skill
Art Direction:
Excellent knowledge of visual communication, user experience and design basics.
Expertise in creating style guides and brand studies.
Enthusiastic about design; allowing me to better lead and inspire designers towards professional excellence.
Superior understanding of technical aspects, allowing me to create easy to produce products.

Production:
Full knowledge of the production processes for the following media:
– DVD menu systems
– Video design
– Print design
– Sound design

Web Design:
Flash, HTML & CSS generalist. Able to create and prepare graphics for the web using industry standard tools like Flash, Dreamweaver, Photoshop and Illustrator. Confident in creating front end, cosmetic content for any website.

Making pictures:
Digital Video
Photography

3D:
Matte Painting & Camera Projection
Modeling, animation & UV texture mapping using Nuke, 3dsMax & Maya

Typography:
Creation of fonts optimized for print

Video Editing & Compositing:

Adobe Premiere Pro, Adobe After Effects, The Foundry’s Nuke