Experience

Bisla's Sports Bar & Rock Lounge
Title: Graphic Designer, 2009 – 2010
Duties: Creating collateral, both electronic and print, that supports the previously designed logo and identity. Website design, production, and maintenance. Menu typesetting, typeface selection, and preflight print preparation. Image creation for use on various media. T-shirt silk screen printing.

West Sacramento Friends of the Library (WSFOL)
Title: Graphic Designer, 2009 – present
Duties: Creation of an identity and print collateral for the WSFOL, a non-profit community organization. Maintaining strict project deadlines. Designing print pieces that accurately represent the WSFOL's mission while keeping in mind the strict budget that the organization adheres to.

Torus Marketing
Title: Graphic Designer, 2008 – 2009
Duties: Website design and production according to demanding timeframes and deliverables. Working in a team environment, taking direction; but also working alone and with little input. Creating HTML and CSS for a dynamic web 2.0 site. Identity implementation for nationally known brands. Creating concepts for approval by committee.

Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development
Title: Graphic Design Student Assistant, 2005 – 2006
Duties: Graphic Design and typesetting for interoffice and external publications, departmental business systems, and monthly window display posters. Calling for quotes and estimates. Working on multiple projects simultaneously while maintaining stringent deadlines. Photographing and digitally correcting content.

University Media Center, Electronic Distribution
Title: Globecaster Station operator / Master Controller of Cable Television Operations
2001 – 2008
Duties: Graphic design and implementation using the Globecaster video production and broadcasting suite. Observing guidelines to maximize viewer compression while creating a visually pleasing and clearly organized layout. Program switching and monitoring for SECC, channels 15 and 16 on local Sacramento cable. Setting up coordinates for the satellite downlink of live broadcasts. Programming semester long broadcast automation.

Copy Graphics Center
Title: Graphic Design Technician, 1999 – 2001
Duties: Client relations and customer Service. Business card and announcement design and production. Typesetting essays and theses. Operating various equipment including: networked copy machines, coil, tape, and comb binding machines, hard and soft laminators, and button press. Closing duties.

Education

California State University, Sacramento, Graduated May 2007
Degrees: Bachelor of Science in Graphic Design
Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy

Technical Skills

Photoshop, Illustrator, Indesign, Flash, Dreamweaver, Pagemaker, HTML, CSS, Globecaster broadcast suite, Microsoft Office, Microsoft PowerPoint, Novell Groupwise, Typing Speed: 59 wpm, Autopilot satellite software, Windows Event Manager.

Other Skills

Able to self motivate and work well alone, or in a group setting. Quickly adaptable to new technology. Knowledge of the photographic process and black and white 35mm film processing. Knowledge of the screen printing process.