Powerful visual communicator with a record of strong graphic design application looking to utilize experience, education, and creativity to satisfy a need for the right full-package designer.
Smith Western Co. – graphic designer / concept artist / illustration - Tacoma, WA (2006-2008)
Smith Western Co. is a family owned business which deals in manufacturing gifts and artwork for popular landmarks across the country. For instance, national parks, Vegas hotels, Local attractions and large chain retail. My duties amounted to creating artwork and blue-print concepts for 600+ gift products.
— Achieved Employee of the year in 2007
COX Media Group – graphic designer / animator – Atlanta, GA (2008-2014)
Designed and created over 2000+ animated and rich media advertisements and splash pages for COX Media Group, including multiple build-out sizes for each ad and even in-browser games; trained using effective workflows for creating, reviewing, and completing graphic design services for clients who advertise with TV stations, radio stations and newspapers owned by COX.
The Home Depot, Corporate – graphic designer / animator – Atlanta, GA (2014-present)
Duties include storyboarding concepts, animating and designing online advertising, presenting to clients who sell through The Home Depot. Creating seasonal event animations which are used in every online advertising channel company wide. Each day consists of working in teams to create brand-standard online advertising.
Application of design within brand standards for departments, seasonal events and workshops at The Home Depot
User Experience within advertising and rich media
Freelance – graphic design
A few examples of charity free-lance on the side when I feel like it:
Technical Skills
Skilled at grounding ideas and illustrating concepts clearly and effectively through preliminary sketches.
Gifted with the ability to envision and rotate 3D objects in my mind in order to better create realistic animations and 3D mapping
Adept understanding of how lighting and shadows are cast on objects
Digital concepting using artificial intelligence and next-gen apps with a tablet and stylus
Thorough understanding of Microsoft Office
Obsessed with Typography
File-type and file-size conscious when creating online products
Oriented with constructing animated graphic design in rich-media format environments such as Ad-interax, Celtra, RevJet, SpongeCell and Clipcentric.
Trained in working with rich media vendors such as Undertone, AdColony, Amnet and Scripps to create in-depth advertising campaigns.
Knowledge of SEO and construction of effective website advertising.
Lifelong computer training using both Mac and PC.
Extensive knowledge of relevant software packages such as:
• Adobe Animate
• Adobe Photoshop
• Adobe Illustrator
• Adobe In-Design
• Adobe AfterEffects
• Adobe XD
• Adobe Dreamweaver
• Z-Brush/Sculptris
• Blender
• ProCreate painting app
• Figma
• AI visual tools, Stable Diffusion + Controlnet + AnimateDiffusion
EXPERIENCE & WORK HISTORY
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The Home Depot, Corporate – digital designer / animator – Atlanta, GA (2014-present)
Duties include storyboarding concepts, animating and designing online advertising, presenting to clients who sell through The Home Depot. Creating seasonal event animations which are used in every online advertising channel company wide. Each day consists of working in teams to create brand-standard online advertising. Duties also include building brand pages for .com and setting up SEO, creating and presenting social media campaigns to clients and video editing for online advertising platforms.
COX Media Group – graphic designer / animator – Atlanta, GA (2008-2014)
Designed and created over 2000+ animated and rich media advertisements and splash pages for COX Media Group, including multiple build-out sizes for each ad and even in-browser games; trained using effective workflows for creating, reviewing, and completing graphic design services for clients who advertise with TV stations, radio stations and newspapers
owned by COX.
Smith Western Co. – graphic designer / concept artist / illustration - Tacoma, WA (2006-2008)
Smith Western Co. is a family owned business which deals in manufacturing gifts and artwork for popular landmarks across the country. For instance, national parks, Vegas hotels, Local attractions and large chain retail. My duties amounted to creating artwork and blue-print concepts for 600+ gift products.
— Achieved Employee of the year in 2007
Fidelity Attorney Services, PLLC – designer/content management – Kennewick, WA (2008)
Garden City Group – data entry – Seattle, WA (2006)
Meehan and Mayer, LLC – graphic designer / data entry – Seattle, WA (2005-2006)
EDUCATION
The Art Institute of Atlanta, Atlanta, GA (Jan. 2003 – March 2005)
Associate in Arts – graphic design
Gainesville Community College, Gainesville, GA (Sept. 2002 - June 2003)
Completed all graphic arts courses in high school