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Art Director
Milwaukee, WI
Jan 2011 - Present (13 years 10 months)
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Freelance Designer
Brauey Design
May 2004 - Present (20 years 6 months)
Brauey, providing identity, packaging, print and interactive service and solutions.
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Graphic Designer
Equity Brand Design
Sep 2008 - Oct 2009 (1 year 1 month)
Design quarterly marketing solutions for Case Construction, Case IH and New Holland. In addition to developing brand identities and printed collateral I assisted in launching an interactive startup, RapidDraft. In this effort I defined RapidDraft's initial game caricatures, game play, game interface as well as flash development for the game.
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Interactive Design
SunAnt Technologies
Sep 2007 - Sep 2008 (1 year)
Working directly with clients to design and define websites that address the needs of the client and their customers. Working with established businesses and startups. Responsible for designs and proposals, creating web ready graphics, CSS, html and flash media. I am also responsible for managing projects, budgets and working one on one with customers through all phases of the project.
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Art Director
KD Interactive
May 2001 - Jul 2006 (5 years 2 months)
Developing print solutions for various industries. Types of print solutions include package design, trade show, print, corporate identity and art directing photo shoots.
Information Architecture:
Working with a team to define user interface strategies for website applications. Website development for various industries ranging from health care, real estate developers and manufacturers. Breadth of the website applications includes e commerce, user profile & content management. Design responsibilities include, design and layout of web pages, story board website flow and presentation of design & story board to clients. Dynamic website media integration with Macromedia Shockwave and Macromedia Flash software.
Developed on-line interactive games integrating Macromedia Shock Wave and Flash.
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Print Design
Tri-Ad Communications
Feb 1997 - Jul 2001 (4 years 5 months)
Developing print solutions for various industries. Types of print solutions include package design, annual reports and trade shows. Developed corporate identity and art directed photo shoots.
Interactive Design:
Implementing interactive projects from concept to completion.
Such projects include:
Cross platform CD- ROM's
Website Design
Macromedia Shockwave Games
Video Development.
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Print Design
Menasha Packaging
Jun 1998 - Mar 2001 (2 years 9 months)
Package and Point of Sale design for retail, wholesale and grocery chains. Primary
duties consist of concepts to final art for flexo, Litho, and combination printing.
Huffy Sports, Kimberly Clark, and Polaware were just a few clients that I represented.
Interactive Design:
Developed capabilities on CD for sales presentation at annual paper show in Menasha, WI. Included virtual tour of facilities and packaging gallery.
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Graphic Designer
Fine-Line Inc
Jul 1997 - May 1998 (10 months)
Produce by monthly sales publications for a variety of in house merchandise. Digital photography, color corrections, catalog layout and Customs T-shirt designs.
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Graphic Designer/Technical Illustrator
Magnetek
Jul 1995 - Jul 1997 (2 years)
Transformed engineer's drawings of circuit boards into orthographic (exploded views) drawings. Drawings consisted of circuits and chips that I color coded for quick identification.
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Graphic Designer/Illustrator Leader
Leader Cards
May 1995 - Aug 1995 (3 months)
Designed stationary for Paper Adventures, along with researching the market for new nitch designs.
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Production Assistant
Communicor, Inc
Apr 1994 - Aug 1994 (4 months)
Responsibilities included: Comprehensive layouts, scatters, cropping photographs, stats, logo design, key line, paste up, registrations, color mark up on tissue overlays, computer graphics, traditional illustration, silk screen printing and inspecting proofs.