Michael Petrash

advertising and marketing for a broad range of industries. * Clients include:

Flexsteel Baker Hughes and Halliburton I worked on corporate Powerpoint presentations. Centerpoint was a freelance project to create and design one of their corporate quarterly newsletters, using Indesign, which I have been using exclusively since 2005. Flexsteel was a full-time contract position, where I worked directly with the Creative Director to create and design posters, brochures, logo designs and other collateral. We worked together on designs and I gave my creative feedback during the creative process. With all of these companies, I was required to follow their branding standards, and cohere to them.

Work onsite with production team in creating and editing marketing collateral for Randall's and Albertsons. Worked directly with buyers on creating ads. When Albertson's had corporate offices in Katy, Texas, I contracted with them, working with buyers to design and create advertisements.

Contract Graphic Designer and Production Artist in advertising and marketing for a broad range of industries. * Clients include: BMC Software, Stanford Financial Group, Pennzoil, Shell, Freed Advertising, JWT Advertising, Adplex, G4 Design and Webb/Mason. * Majority of work with BMC Software including the design and production work on direct mail pieces, brochures and magazine ads. * Became designer for BMC Software newsletter including working with an Editor/Writer, and handling all of the creative design, production and direction of photo shoots. * Production Artist contractor at Freed Advertising and worked exclusively on Auto newspaper ads and direct mail projects. * Graphic Design contractor at Pennzoil for their International Division with tasks such as helping develop and create multi-language packaging.