SUMMARY
A creative professional with over 15 years experience as a graphic artist. Print and web skills. Excellent drawing and traditional arts skills. Experience as both art director and artist. Successful track record of award winning work.
Experience in:
• Dreamweaver, Flash, Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Strata 3D • Art direction
• Daily and project planning meetings • Courtroom sketching
• Quick study of new software • Writing and researching
EXPERIENCE
SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER, Daily newspaper
April, 2001 - March, 2009, Seattle, WA
Graphic Artist, Illustrator
Created illustrations and graphics for news and features stories. Wrote and researched information graphics. Attended planning and budget meetings.
Learned Strata 3D expanding art department’s graphic capabilities.
Filled in for art director when needed to allow more flexibility in her schedule.
THE PRESS-ENTERPRISE, Daily newspaper
1998-2001, Riverside, CA
Graphic Artist, Illustrator
Created illustrations and graphics for news and features stories. Designed pages for features sections.
• Filled many roles, designing pages, creating graphics and illustrations, making art department
more versatile and useful to other departments.
• Kept art department up to date with current trends in design and new software by attending
conferences.
THE NORTHERN COLORADO BUSINESS REPORT, Bi-weekly business publication
1995-1998, Fort Collins, CO
Art Director
Created original design for start-up business newspaper. Created art for bi-weekly publication
and other projects. Managed advertising and editorial departments.
• Of three competing business papers area the NCBR was the only survivor the first year. Also
won a silver medal for design in national competition for business newspapers.
Created style book to keep a consistent look throughout the paper.
Handled pre-press and Mac troubleshooting, saving money on outside tech services.
ARTIST, THE CHRONICLE-TELEGRAM, Daily newspaper
1993-1995, Elyria, Ohio
Graphic Artist, Illustrator
Created illustrations and graphics for news and features stories.
Brought graphic capabilities to small paper with limited resources.
Won several awards bringing added recognition to paper.
EDUCATION
Bachelor of Arts in Art from the University of Nebraska, Lincoln Minors in Architecture and Art History
COMPUTERS
Photoshop, Illustrator, Indesign, Dreamweaver, Flash, Strata 3D, Freehand, Quark, MS Office, Painter
Mac and PC
AWARDS
Society of Professional Journalists Best of the West
The Society for News Design
The Associated Press