Objective
Steady employment in the graphic art & web design fields
Qualifications
Computer & Equipment Skills:
- Operates PC & MAC platforms, using:
Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, Pagemaker, QuarkXpress, Corel, Word, WP,
Excel, WWW
- Operates image scanning equipment & industrial cameras
- Learns new software programs quickly & proficiently
Graphic Design &
Web Page Production:
- Creates web page design
- Produces HTML code
- Posts, updates & maintains websites
- Color corrects & enhances photos
- Creates original custom graphics for any type project
- Revises existing artwork in any format
- Plans, designs, & presents project layouts
- Drafts architectural design & structural drawings
- Generates creative desktop publishing
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Illustration:
- Produces commercial advertising art, software covers,
book illustrations, maps, etc.
- Creates exceptional original freehand artwork for business,
home, & marketing strategies
- Captures individual personality in lifelike portraits & fine art
- Displays expertise in mediums: charcoal & ink,
pastel chalk, watercolor,
acrylics, airbrush, oils
- Creates innovative ideas; Depicts conceptual images into
visual art for 100% client satisfaction
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Administrative, Accounting & Other Skills:
- Researches projects thoroughly, works well independently & under
pressured deadlines
- Articulates superior English composition & report writing; Communicates
well with public
- Negotiates purchases, agreements, writes contracts; Markets promotions
with enthusiasm
- Develops organization systems, maintains records & job files neatly &
orderly
- Prepares grant packages, loan packages, & budgets for $12,000.00 to
$250,000.00 projects
- Manages full accounting, payroll, quarterly reports, year-end statements,
AP/AR, & collections
- Demonstrates attention to detail, ability to perform multiple tasks,
solves problems
- Learns & adapts to job routines quickly; Performs dependably
- Instructed youth in private art lessons, worked with developmentally
disturbed children & adults
- Worked 1-on-1 at an Elementary School as art therapist (under local
credentialed program)
- Successfully designed speculation homes, passed building codes, made
investments, & built homes
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Related Experience & Education
| Owner, Graphic Designer | | | | | | | Rose Illustration | | | | | | '88-Present |
| Graphic Designer, Drafter | | | | | | | IDS Services | | | | | | '96-'98 |
| In-House Illustrator | | | | | | | R.V. Advertising | | | | | | '93 |
| Illustrator, Designer | | | | | | | Greatwave Software | | | | | | '92-'93 |
| Land Developer, Vice Pres. | | | | | | | Redwood Mtn Co. Inc | | | | | | '91-'93 |
- Santa Rosa Jr.College -'96-'99
Web Page Certificate Program
- Santa Rosa Jr.College -'96-'98
Computer Graphics, Pagemaker, Desktop Design, Photoshop, Illustrator, System Back-Up, Virus Protection
- Graphic Arts Institute, S.F., merit scholarship -'96
Digital Prepress, Illustrator, Photoshop, QuarkXpress
- University of CA.,S.C., -'76-'80
Fine Arts & Psychology Dual Major
- Art College/Study of Still Life, Pasadena CA, -'76
merit scholarship
- CA. State University, Northridge -'75
Summer Art Merit Scholarship Program
- L.A. College of Art and Design, -'74
merit scholarship
- Hollywood Art Production School, -'71
merit scholarship
- L.A. Unified School District Art Scholarships, -'67-'72
received numerous merit awards |
Rose Illustration website address:
http://www.roseillus.com
References presented upon request
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