James Gitlin
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About
Graphic Design, Digital Illustration and Photography are my specialties. A varied career working for different departments within NASA has given my portfolio a strong science & aerospace slant, but I have an equal amount of experience designing for pharmaceutical, medical, and educational companies.
Always searching for a better and faster solution to a problem has given me exposure to nearly every major design, illustration or animation program out there, but it always comes back to the same core packages. So of course, I am most proficient with the Adobe CS 6 suite. Photoshop, Indesign, Illustrator, Dreamweaver and Flash. Also very fluent in Fireworks, PowerPoint and Keynote. Outside the digital world, traditional drawing, sketching and visualization skills round out my repertoire. -
Education
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Bachelors Graphic Design, Radio Television & Film ProductionUniversity of Maryland College Park1985 - 1990
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Experience
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Senior Graphic DesignerFreelance Graphic Design ConsultantJun 2005 - Present (19 years 5 months)
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Graphic Designer (Consultant)Educational Testing Service (ETS)Jul 2011 - Apr 2012 (9 months) Created multimedia online tests to be administered to students. Responsible for stages of development from initial graphic design concepts to working prototypes.
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Senior Photographer (Seasonal)Lors Photography IncorporatedApr 2010 - Nov 2010 (7 months)
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Photographer (Seasonal)Lors Photography IncorporatedJul 2009 - Nov 2009 (4 months)
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Desktop Publisher (Consultant)Total Learning ConceptsJun 2008 - Dec 2008 (6 months)• Designed training materials and PowerPoint presentations for pharmaceutical companies for this division of Publicis Selling Solutions.
• Spearheaded a transition from designing print materials in Microsoft Word (!) to Adobe InDesign, created a new design workflow, and developed reusable templates and graphic libraries that increased efficiency and resulted in substantially better products and proposals.
• Helped to revamp the TLC company website, www.tlconline.com.
• Served such major clients as Johnson & Johnson and Shire. -
Senior Graphic Designer (Consultant)Altered ImageAug 2007 - Nov 2007 (3 months)• Developed and produced meeting materials and PowerPoint presentations for this family-owned design studio specializing in pharmaceutical companies and large events.
• Traveled to meeting sites to run presentations and oversee audiovisual delivery.
• Developed the brand identity and theme for a large-scale proposal to client Alcon.
• Served such other clients as Forest Laboratories, Johnson & Johnson, and Shire. -
Graphic Designer (Consultant)ETSMar 2007 - Jun 2007 (3 months)• Produced print and Web products such as books, brochures, fliers, and website banners and graphics for this educational publications company.
• Used Adobe InDesign, Illustrator, and Photoshop, as well as Quark Xpress. Worked closely with Web developers and designers.
• Designed promotional e-mails in Photoshop to be
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Art DirectorEducational Concepts in Medicine (ECM)Jul 2006 - Mar 2007 (8 months)
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Graphic Designer (Consultant)Strategic Edge CommunicationsJul 2005 - Jul 2006 (1 year)
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Graphic Designer (Consultant)ICMA-RCMar 2005 - May 2005 (2 months)
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Senior Graphic DesignerINFONETICOct 2004 - Mar 2005 (5 months)
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Graphic DesignerNCI Information Systems, Inc.May 2002 - Mar 2004 (1 year 10 months)
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Graphic Designer/AnimatorSpace Telescope Science InstituteJul 1996 - May 2002 (5 years 10 months)
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Graphic DesignerBDMJul 1993 - Jul 1996 (3 years)
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Graphic DesignerMADL/URFJun 1990 - Jul 1993 (3 years 1 month)
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