Create marketing materials for various clients, including: Media Kits, TV Commercials, DVD Creation, Documentary Films, Flyers, Pamphlets, Business Cards, Posters, Web Graphics, CD Cover Design, Stationary, Video Graphics, Logos, and other artistic creations.

·        Current TV Producer CJ 07- Present   MTV segment “Adam Sandlers Last Laugh”11/98

Northeastern Plastics – Graphic Designer                                                                     Feb. 03 – Present

·        Graphic design and pre-press preparation of artwork for pantone ink screen printing and CMYK offset digital printing. Provide complete design and manage projects from rough concept to final product for multiple clients in the plastic card printing industry.

·        Produce artwork using Illustrator, Freehand, Corel Draw, Quark, InDesign and Photoshop.

·        Operate the in-house art department, including vector art creation, logo recreations, color correction/conversion, trapping, typesetting, PDF proofs.

TOEFL Kaplan, Inc. –  Freelance Writer                                                             August 02 – October 03

·        Write college level reading and lecture passages covering diverse educational subjects.

·        Creation of digital artwork consisting of diagrams, charts, graphs and various learning aids.

Holland Management Inc. – Computer Specialist                                                 March 01 – May 02

·        Responsible for all computer/technology installation/upgrades and repair for 14 remote locations.

Record Publishing – Graphic Designer                                                                     March 00 – March 01

·        Designed ads for 8 local newspapers and community guides in B/W, CMYK & Spot Color.

·        Mastery of Multi-Ad Creator 2 and QuarkXPress for producing ads ranging from one column inch to full-page, full-color layouts. Extensive use of Adobe Photoshop for scanning and editing photos for press in B/W and CMYK color.

NASA Lewis Research Center –- Freelance Writer/Producer                                          June 98 – June 99

·        Responsible for scriptwriting, visual presentation and planning for video production of various projects. Highly efficient with the Avid digital editing software.

·        Operating Systems: Mac X, Windows XP/ VISTA

·         Software: Quark, Adobe Suite (Photoshop, Premier, Illustrator, Acrobat, After Effects, InDesign, Pagemaker, GoLive), Macromedia Flash and Freehand, Animatek World Builder, Corel Draw, Multi-Ad Creator 2, MS Office - Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint, Various Video Editing Programs

BA Communications/Electronic Media, The University of Akron

Double Minor in General English/Creative Writing, The University of Akron

Buckeye Local High School, Rayland, Ohio