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627 9th Street • Ramona, CA 92065 • 760–787-0964 sheetsb@snuvo.com

Ski­lled graphic artist and tech­ni­cal illus­tra­tor with extre­mely varied task mana­ge­ment and design skills with a talent for adap­ting to varied requi­re­ments, see­king solid oppor­tu­ni­ties for desig­ning pro­ducts and con­su­mer mate­rials for mar­ket lea­ders in the tech­no­logy sec­tor of the grea­ter San Diego area.

Expe­rience

Free­lance Tech­ni­cal Illus­tra­tor and Graphic Artist — 1990 to Pre­sent
Tech­ni­cal illus­tra­tions for tech­ni­cal manuals, com­pu­ter ani­ma­tions, busi­ness ima­ges and logos, brochu­res,
bill­boards, book illus­tra­tion and publi­ca­tion, com­mis­sio­ned art­work, game boards, T-shirts, for­mal wear design, clip­per art, cata­logs, yellow page adver­ti­se­ments and publication.

Orange Book Direc­to­ries, Graphics Depart­ment — Ramona, CA — Jan 2007 to Oct 2008
Esta­blished a ground-up work­flow pro­cess requi­red by a company-wide con­ver­sion to new soft­ware. Adap­ted Adobe file for­mats to work within limits of Yellow Magic pro­prie­tary direc­tory buil­ding soft­ware. Crea­ted new print adver­ti­sing logos and dis­play ads to order, using customer’s input, for imme­diate com­ple­tion. Per­for­med per­so­nal print house press checks to com­plete seven com­plete full-color direc­to­ries. Trai­ned all emplo­yees in the com­pany to use the new process.

Free­lance Past Pro­jects and Employers

• Pho­tolynx Inc. Santa Ysa­bel, CA 2006–2007 — Graphic design, soft­ware tech sup­port.
• Write On The Edge, Inc. Vista, CA 2005–2007 — Tech­ni­cal Illus­tra­tor. Various clients inc­lu­ding:
– Hewlett-Packard Inc. — 15 user manuals
– Illu­mina Inc. — user manual illus­tra­tion
– Nano­gen Inc. — R&D illus­tra­tions
– Fas­tSoft Inc. –user manual illus­tra­tion
– Ether­tro­nics Inc. — user manual illus­tra­tion
• Cra­ne­Mor­ley Inc. Los Ange­les, CA 2000–2004 — Tech­ni­cal Illus­tra­tor. Various clients inc­lu­ding:
– Toyota Corp. — new model trai­ning manuals for 2001
– Honda Corp. — new model trai­ning manuals for 2001
– Motorcycle Safety Foun­da­tion — stu­dent work­book for 2001
• Manual Labour, Inc. San Diego, CA. 2001–2007 — Tech­ni­cal Illus­tra­tor. Various clients inc­lu­ding:
– Ikan Corp. — user manual illus­tra­tion 2007
– Nis­san Corp. — new model trai­ning manuals
– Sony Elec­tro­nics Corp. — ser­vice repair manuals
• Safari Video Pro­duc­tions — pac­ka­ging design for 13 video tit­les and pro­duct cata­log, San Diego, CA
• San Diego Tri­via — board game graphic design, San Diego, CA

Industry Skills

• Tech­ni­cal illus­tra­tion
• Audio/video pac­ka­ging
• Photo retouching, colo­ri­zing and res­to­ra­tion
• Graphic design
• Con­cept pro­duct design and pro­toty­ping
• Trai­ning design and imple­men­ta­tion
• Hand-drawn illus­tra­tion
• Com­mis­sio­ned art­work
• High visi­bi­lity yellow page and perio­di­cal ads
• Tech­ni­cal manuals
• Ima­ges, busi­ness iden­ti­ties, and logos
• Elec­tro­nic prin­ting pre­press and press checks
• Retail pac­ka­ging
• Adver­ti­sing media design and copyw­ri­ting
• Con­ver­sions of old for­mats to new

Appli­ca­tion Skills

• Adobe Illus­tra­tor & CS4
• Adobe Acro­bat and Pits­top Pro­fes­sio­nal
• PC or Mac plat­form
• Adobe Pho­toshop
• GIF and SWF ani­ma­tions from Illus­tra­tions
• Mic­ro­soft Office: Word, Visio, and Power­point
• Adobe InDe­sign
• Book Layout & Pro­duc­tion
• Image com­pa­ti­bi­lity with Yellow Magic
• Flash, Dream­wea­ver
• Web Ima­ges
• DHTML, lear­ning CSS & HTML

Career Achie­ve­ments

Esta­blished a ground-up work­flow pro­cess requi­red by a company-wide con­ver­sion to new soft­ware. Adap­ted Adobe file for­mats to work within limits of Yellow Magic pro­prie­tary direc­tory buil­ding software.

Edu­ca­tion
Asso­cia­tes Degree, Com­pu­ter Graphic Design — Platt College, San Diego, CA 1991
Cer­ti­fi­ca­tion, Graphic Design — Regio­nal Occu­pa­tio­nal Pro­gram, San Diego, CA 1986

9/10/2009