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Artist, Graphic Designer, Illustrator, Photographer, Post-production
Denton, TX
Jan 2004 - Present (20 years 10 months)
Design:
Branding, logo design, album art, apparel, app brand and interface concepts, book layout, and package design.
Photography and Post-Production:
Primary and secondary shooter for weddings, engagements,
and other events. High-end photo retouching, fine art photography, portrait photography, and product photography.
Illustration:
Storyboarding, character art and design, book illustrations,
children’s illustrations, hand lettering, portrait and landscape
painting.
Consultation:
Graphic design and branding consultant, helping clients establish a brand and stay on brand. Helping to establish looks
in design and photography for various clients.
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Graphic Designer, Photographer
Flower Mound, TX
Jan 2016 - Jul 2020 (4 years 6 months)
Graphic Design:
Branded ministries and events and assisted in the church-wide rebrand. Branding and packaging for sermon message series. creating templates for internal use. Designing brochures, leadership, and curriculum books, apparel, banners, web, and social media graphics. Hand-lettered logos and designs.
Photography:
Responsible for shooting and editing photos for all events,
baptisms, and weekend services. Staff and Student Photography.
Post-Production:
Responsible for editing, retouching, and manipulating photos for various media. Created Lightroom presets to give photography a cohesive look throughout all usages. Assisted in color grading several videos.
Leadership:
Responsible for building, coordinating, and training a photography team of over 20 volunteers to photograph events across four campuses. Wrote curriculum and teaching our photography classes. Trained volunteers to edit photos. Wrote our post-production and processes manuals. Trained and managing design volunteers.
Illustration:
Character redesign for children’s ministry and created new poses, to be used in animation, print and other media. Illustrated backgrounds for kids camp. Illustration for apparel, and hand lettering.
Production:
Shot B-roll for videos
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Graphic Coordinator
Surprise, AZ
Apr 2011 - Oct 2015 (4 years 6 months)
Graphic Design:
Branded Radiant, the ministries within it, and RKZ Preschool. Responsible for branding and packaging for each sermon series; for example; series art, weekly hand out, slide templates, art for web, social media, stage design, and concepts. Responsible for setting up files for press and fabrication,
saving the church thousands of dollars a year. Responsible for creating InDesign templates and training departments on how to use them and the program, giving a cohesive look to all communication material within the organization. Responsible for designing brochures, journals, group curriculum books, apparel, novelties, fliers, mass mailers, and other marketing materials. Hand-lettered logos and designs.
Photography:
Responsible for shooting and editing photos for all events, baptisms, and child dedications. Responsible for print, web and social media, photography. Shot and retouched staff portraits. Shot photography for series art.
Post-Production:
Responsible for editing, retouching, and manipulating photos for various media.
Coordination:
Responsible for coordinating and training volunteers to photograph events and managing design volunteers. Regularly worked with vendors for print, signage, fabrication, apparel, and various items with design or brand on them.
Regularly worked with departments to meet their needs.
Illustration:
Character design for children’s ministry to be used in animation, print, and other media. Hand lettering.
Production:
Designed, managed, and assisted in set builds. Shot B-roll for videos. Operated free roam stage cam, mounted floor cams, and mounted remote cams for IMAG.
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Graphic Designer
Mount Vernon, OH
Aug 2007 - Aug 2010 (3 years)
Graphic Designer
Responsible for designing: ads daily, special headers, covers
for special publications, and page layout, editing photos for
stories and ads.
Responsible for preflight and pre-press of our paper, as well
other publications.
Illustrated a short series for a children’s column