Art Director with diversified experience in print and web design, illustration, project management, and on-site photo shoot art direction. Creating total entertainment packages, blending visual with editorial excellence and directing winning creative teams. Click here to download a hard copy of this resume.
Expertise includes:
- Magazine/Publication/Book Design
- Project Conceptualization and Management
- Branding, Packaging and Logo Design
- Freelancer and Vendor Management
- Image Manipulation (Adobe Photoshop Certified Expert)
- Digital Resource Management
- Photo shoot art direction
Technical skills include:
- Adobe PhotoShop, Illustrator and InDesign
- Adobe Golive, Dreamweaver and Flash Pro
- MS Office Suite proficient
(Word, Excel and PowerPoint)
- HTML 4 and CSS
- Quark XPress
- SiteGrinder proficient
- Mac OSX 10.5.7 proficient
- Windows XP and Vista proficient
January 2009-Present Creative Director,
Idea MechaniX, Conway, MA.
Directing a major freelance Design and branding firm in Western Massachusetts. Services include conceptualization of program and
product design and structure for print and web, professional teaching and training. Click for client list.
- Direct conceptualization of program and product design and structure for print and web. Whether it's a conceptual tune-up or a major overhaul, or a ground-up build, we have the tools, experience and imaginationto make bad ideas into good, and good ideas into great.
August 2007-January 2009 Design Director, Great Source Education Group
(a division of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt), Wilmington, MA.
Managed staff of Senior Designers and external design vendors in the creation of full K-12 Supplemental education programs. Identified as a High Performance Employee.
- Led design department's conceptualization of program and product design structure, visual experience and functionality in high-profile supplemental titles such as Math In Focus: The Singapore Approach (K-5).
- Created engaging, intuitive experiences, supportive of content, and defining and promoting "heart and soul" of product through wayfinding elements, program visuals and packaging.
- Coordinated and executed redesign of the Houghton Mifflin Harcourt branding and identity, through new logo suite and usage guidelines documentation.
- Developed and presented structured training in division-wide Adobe upgrade, providing instruction in workflow-specific benefits in upgrade of InDesign, PhotoShop and Acrobat Pro. For more detail click here.
- Executed Redesign of the Houghton Mifflin Harcourt logo. Developed HMH logo usage guidelines, palette,
font standards and usage restrictions for logo suites across multiple business units. Click to download guidelines.
April 2007-August 2007 Art Director, Aqua Leisure Industries, Avon MA.
Managed staff of Senior Designers and Associate Art Director in the creation of dynamic youth and consumer-oriented packaging for recreational product lines.
- Redesigned logos and identity for Aqua Games and First Fitness product lines.
- Implemented catalog design with Sales and Marketing departments from conceptualization through implementation and printing at Hong Kong arm of corporation.
- Supervised redesign and coordinated launch of consumer web site, aqualeisure.com.
March 1997-April 2007 Managing Art Director,
Channing Bete Company, Inc., South Deerfield, MA.
Managed staff of Senior Designers and Illustrators in developing innovative custom publications. Directed and designed initial prototype products and establishing specific design guidelines for product rollout.
- Prototyped, art directed and developed product design standards for booklets, folders and magazines from initial concept through final rollout. Defined graphic identity for 4-color magazine lines.
- Produced clear and uniquely designed folders, posters and magazines for national customers such as Affinity Health Plan, United Healthcare, the U.S. Army, U.S. Navy, U.S. Marines and U.S Air Force.
- Supervised and coordinated testing, training and rollout of all program upgrades, including Adobe CS and CS2 Design Suites, Microsoft Office suites, and all operating systems upgrades.
- For more detail click here.
January 1996-March 1997 Sr. Environmental Graphic Designer,
Development Design group (DDG), Baltimore, MD.
Supervised staff of Environmental Graphic designers in keystone department of prestigious Baltimore, MD architectural firm.
- Designed and developed signage and structural-design elements for architectural presentation packages and environmental graphics. For more detail click here.
January 1986-January 1996 Editor and Art Director,
Marvel Comics, New York, NY.
Edited numerous high-profile, creator-owned comic series including Clive Barker’s Hellraiser, Ted McKeever’s Metropöl, and the internationally renowned Moebius and Akira series. Edited, designed and coordinated launch of Razorline imprint, seven monthly titles created by Clive Barker. Directed design for all series logos. For more detail click here.
- Produced and directed critically acclaimed, award-winning series, Marvels, and launched franchise of painted comics, Tales of the Marvels. For more detail click here.
- Revitalized lagging sales through conceptualization, formation and design of Alterniverse imprint, encompassing the best-selling specials The Last Avengers Story, Inner Demons and monthly series What If.
Education:
- Adobe Certified Expert (ACE) in Photoshop, 2004
- School of Visual Arts, 1989.
- BFA, Communications Design/Illustration, Minors: English and Art Ed., Pratt Institute, 1986
- Also attended:
Photoshop World Conference
(2005, 2007, 2009) |
Rochester Institute of
Technology (1997) |
Seybold Print Conferences
(2000, 2001, 2003) |
Robert McKee Story Structure Seminar (1995) |
AMA Management Seminars
(1997, 1998) |
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