Summary of Qualifications

Veteran of agency environments and dealing with clients ranging from one-person shops to Fortune 500 companies. Creative power-house with technical training and know-how to execute creative properly. B-2-B and B-2-C experience across the spectrum in industries including: biotech, law, oil and gas, state/government, finance, retail and others. Inspires co-workers and raises the bar of work in all regards. Will 'figure out how to make it work' everytime.

Education:

1991 Oklahoma State University, BFA Degree in Graphic Design, Stillwater, Oklahoma
1988 Midland College, Associates Degree - Midland, Texas

Experience:

Present

Sharp Microelectronics of the Americas. - Camas, Washington:
October 2012 - present

Managing the content, updates and design for multiple sites with traffic from various countries spanning primairily the continents of Asia, North America, South America and Europe. Maintaining the intranet site.
Drupal 6.28 theming including custom Jquery, css, html and php templates.
User management utilizing Knowledge Tree software

Charles Schwab Inc. - Austin, Texas:
March 2010-August 2012

Worked in front-end development and digital production for a variety of campaigns consisting of HTML emails and landing pages. JQuery, CSS, HTML and Javascript made up the core technologies utilized.

Freelancer - Austin, Texas:
July 2008-March 2010

Provided design for a variety of clients including websites and various print jobs. Tools used included Dreamweaver/Photoshop/Illustrator/Flash CS3/4, InDesign CS2/3, Quark 7, Cinema4D, After Effects 6.5, Cascading Style Sheets(CSS), HTML, minor PHP and some JavaScript.

Interactive Lead - LTA - Austin, Texas:
Nov. 2006-July 2008

Responsible for all interactive and web work (All Macintosh based)
Conceptual design and development in HTML, CSS, ActionScripting (2.0) and video conversion/integration where applicable. Some JavaScripting where helpful.
Extensive use of DreamweaverCS3.
Conducted high-end retouching for print ads, designed print ads, signage and storyboarding for TV utilizing PhotoshopCS3 and AfterEffects 6.5.
Created a broadcast .30 second spot entirely in After Effects 6.5 and contributed to two others.
Helped various employees learn more about their tools and contributed to many print projects.

Senior Art Director - Mark Deitch - Burbank, California:
Jan. 2005- Oct. 2006

One of four Art Directors in a loop that produced one of five different monthly full-color publications using InDesignCS2, PhotoshopCS2 and Illustrator CS2
Handled new web work, including some interactive trade show work, conducted small changes on existing sites, and some print design. Fireworks, Dreamweaver, BBEdit, TextWrangler, CSS, HTML, ActionScript2.0 and Cinema4D were the main software packages utilized at this position.

Art Director - Canon Communications - Los Angeles, California:
Oct. 2003 – Jan. 2005

Directed the editorial and special feature sections of Medical Product Manufacturing News utilizing InDesignCS2, Illustrator CS2, PhotoshopCS2, Cinema4D and QuarkXpress 6.
Designed a trade magazine with Chinese language usage using InDesignCS2.
Created editorial illustrations/charts, some tradeshow graphic work with IllustratorCS2, PhotoshopCS2 and Cinema4d.

Guest Instructor: Advanced Advertising - Nossi College of Design - Nashville, Tennessee:
May 2003 – Aug 2003

Taught the Advanced Advertising class to seniors using provided text, but self-generated curriculum.

Senior Art Director - The Focus Group - Houston, Texas:
June 1999 – May 2002

Handled print and web/interactive work for various clients including Loomis, Fargo & Co., TeleCheck, Texas Instruments and Shell Oil. HTML, Fireworks, Flash and JavaScript were the tools most utilized.
Created interactive promotions in Flash
Received Macromedia Flash Training.
Worked on tradeshow graphics and ads.

Art Director - Logic Design - Houston, Texas:
August 1998 – April 1999

Print design for and various high-tech, oil and gas and finance clients, such as Haliburton, Caterpillar, and Mitsubishi utilizing QuarkXpress, Photoshop and Illustrator.
Completed one of the first 100% Flash sites on the world wide web.

Art Director - Ferrell and Spell Advertising - Tyler, Texas:
July 1995 – August 1998

Branding and design for various clients in a variety of industries.
Created the current logo and the first website for Temple-Inland using hand-coded HTML.
Tradeshow graphics and collateral materials.
QuarkXpress, Illustrator, Photoshop and hand coded HTML.

Artist/Pre-Press - Hudson Printing and Graphic Design - Longview, Texas:
September 1994 – July 1995

Conducted pre-press and trouble shooting client files for high-end output
Designed in catalog and ad work.

Design Specialist - Brookshire Grocery Company - Tyler, Texas:
November 1991 – September 1994

Full circular newspaper design, in-store posters and signage and slide shows with QuarkXpress, Illustrator and Photoshop.

Primary Assets

Conceptual abilities
Design
Leadership through creative inspiration
Adobe Creative Suite: Dreamweaver, Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, Fireworks
HTML / hand-coding
JQuery
CSS
Websites, banners, microsites, email campaigns
After Effects
Cinema4D
DVD Studio Pro
Macintosh OS system trouble-shooting
Windows 98/XP/Vista experience
Photography

Awards / Honors

Summit Award, Bronze for iPod Flash promo.
APEX Award of Excellence for custom publishing magazine.
Inclusion in Big Book of Logos by David Carter.
Various awards through AAF in Houston Ad Federation.
Juror for Oklahoma State University Student Art Show. Evaluations given to senior portfolios.
Special Judges Award for Outstanding Creativity.
(East Texas Advertising Federation 10th district)
Addy award for Agency Christmas promotion. (East Texas Advertising Federation 10th district)
Silver, Bronze and Merit awards from the East Texas Advertising Federation 10th district
1st place in Graphex competition - Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Work completed for:

Apartial list includes: Sharp Electronics, Charles Schwab, Activision, Pixar, Blizzard, JC Penney, National Recording Academy of Arts& Sciences, All Star Guitar Night, Symantec, Sybase, Gibson Guitars,Loomis, Fargo & Co., Mitsubishi Caterpillar, Shell Oil, ShellChemicals, Solvay Polymers, BMW, TeleCheck, Temple Inland, Texas Parks and Wildlife, Texas Instruments, Good Samaritan Hospitals, Los AngelesPolice Protective League, Los Angeles Sherriff's Association, and CanonCommunications.

Additional work samples available at:

www.thumbslinger.com