Professional Experience
Freelance Designer – 1991 to present
As a freelance designer, I work for a variety of clients in a wide range of capacities. Responsibilities vary greatly with each assignment. In all cases, it is important to work quickly and accurately, often with little direction, and to be adaptable to differing schedules, procedures and environments. Some of the types of work that I have been involved with include:
- producing advertising, collateral and packaging design,
- designing magazines, annual reports, newsletters and catalogs,
- creating linked and interactive Adobe Acrobat files and forms for electronic and web distribution,
- producing direct mail,
- preparing highly accurate, electronic files for printing,
- retouching photography and constructing photographic montages,
- designing and programming HTML e-mail documents and basic web sites,
- interacting with and placing content using WordPress and multiple client/e-mail CMSs,
- creating technical illustrations, charts and graphs.
Art Director/Production Coordinator – 1989 to 1991
Letven/Diccicco, Inc. (currently DDCworks), Horsham, Pa.
As an art director at one of the Delaware Valley’s fastest growing advertising agencies, I was charged with the following:
- supervising desktop publishing, mechanical production and comp assembly,
- creating advertising and collateral design,
- hiring and supervising freelance artists,
- researching and implementing the use of new software for design and production,
- scheduling and trafficking jobs between design, production and account services.
Designer – 1986 to 1988
Thomas J. Paul, Inc., Jenkintown, Pa.
Worked on a creative team that produced point-of-purchase, display, packaging, and collateral design for national and
local clients. My responsibilities included:
- producing layouts and mechanicals under strict time constraints,
- creating comps for photography, television and client presentations,
- supervising freelance mechanical artists.
Assistant Art Director – 1984 to 1986
Commodore Business Machines, West Chester, Pa.
As a member of a two-person department, I created layouts for all editorial sections of Commodore Magazine, a monthly
consumer, 128-page publication. During each production cycle, I was responsible for:
- designing editorial articles and all monthly department pages,
- organizing type, photography, illustrations and advertisements,
- hiring illustrators and photographers.
Education
University of Delaware – 1984
Visual Communications – Bachelor of Science
Business Administration – Secondary Emphasis
History – Minor
Program Proficiency
Adobe InDesign, QuarkXPress, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Acrobat
I also work in the following programs as needed: Microsoft Word, Microsoft PowerPoint, Adobe Dreamweaver and Adobe Flash.