WORK EXPERIENCE
Kobie Marketing, St. Petersburg, FL – September 1999 to Present
Senior Art Director. Designed print materials for loyalty programs and
direct mail for MBNA, Verizon, Cellular One, Aerial, American General Finance,
etc. Web design for mbnaperks.com, kobie.com and loyaltyrenovators.com.
Art directed photo shoots, handled print buying and press approvals.
R.V. Brandau Marketing, Inc., Holiday, FL – May 1999 to October 1999
Senior Graphic Designer. Primary design responsibility was Nokia, Latin America. Design projects include telephone and sales kit packaging, brochures, posters, collateral and POP designs. Worked with bilingual copywriters to translate English into Spanish for the Latin American market.
ForeFront Direct, Clearwater, FL – July 1998 to May 1999
Senior Graphic Designer. Responsibilities include concept and design of
magazine advertising, direct mailers, card decks, trade show posters and web
banners for computer based training products. Other responsibilities include,
press approvals.
Excel Communications, Dallas, TX – October 1994 to June 1998
Supervisor of Graphic Services. Developed and managed in-house design
department. Responsibilities included consultation, supervision and coordination
of computer graphic design operations. Concept, layout and design of multi-level
marketing sales tools, monthly newsletter, brochures and direct mail. Also
responsible for managing brokers/printers, color separators and photographers.
M-USA Business Systems, Dallas, TX – October 1988 to October 1994
Art Director/Designer. Responsibilities included concept, design and layout
of consumer and trade advertising materials, direct mail, catalogs, trade
shows displays, packaging and documentation for computer software and instructional
videos. Managed all outside suppliers including printers, color separators
and photographers. Art direction of in-house photography.
Graphic Artist for Video Department. Responsibilities included design,
layout, computer animation, digitization and graphics for computer training
videos; preparation of accompanying documentation and production of diskette
tutorials.
Pirtle Design, Dallas, TX – January 1988 to May 1988
Graphic Artist. University of North Texas Internship Program for college credit.
EDUCATION & COMPUTER
University of North Texas
Bachelor of Fine Arts in Advertising Art, May 1988. Minor in Advertising
St. Petersburg Jr. College
HTML, September 2000
lynda.com
Macromedia Design Classes, May 2001
Photoshop World
Photoshop Seminar, August 2004
Apple Macintosh
Indesign, Quark, Photoshop, Illustrator,
Dreamweaver, Fireworks, HTML, CSS and Microsoft Office
