Résumé

Since 1988 I have worked in traditional and computerized gallery, print, and Internet markets for commercial and federal government clients. Projects include web site consultation, design, creation, and maintenance; traditional and digital illustration; gallery work; graphic design; presentation production; and writing. My work has appeared in several commercial publications. I hold a TS/SI clearance with lifestyle poly.

CURRENT EMPLOYMENT

Web Designer, Print Designer, and Illustrator, Mar 2000-present.

Clients include A&P Foods, ADg Integrated, Aquent, Black Oak Technology Group, Inc., Cueto & Reed, Doc-Side Veterinary Hosital, First Virginia Bank, Hughes Network Systems, iXL, James River Paper Co., Leading Edge Design & Systems, Lockheed Martin Corporation, Logistics Management Institute (LMI), SAIC, US Defense Department, Telenix.

PROFESSIONAL CATEGORIES: Multimedia, Web Page Production, Illustration, Graphic Design.

RECENT AWARD: LDS Museum of Church History and Art 5th International Art Competition, Salt Lake City, UT, Merit Award winner.

AFFILIATIONS: Zion East Foundation for the Arts, Macintosh Users Forum, Adobe Users Group, Bay Country Art Guild.

LANGUAGES SPOKEN: English, Mandarin Chinese

DESKTOP PLATFORMS: MacOS, Windows, Solaris

EXPERIENCE

SOFTWARE: Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, Acrobat, Streamline, ImageReady, InDesign, GoLive, and After Effects; Macromedia Dreamweaver, Flash, Fireworks, and Freehand; QuarkXpress; Microsoft Office; FileMaker Pro. Can hand-code HTML including forms, tables, and frames. No programming experience.

EQUIPMENT: Imagesetters, color copiers, film recorders, professional office print systems, large-format printers, CD imaging systems, flatbed scanning, digitizing tablets, scanners, and file, mail, backup, DNS, NIS, and HTTP servers.

DESKTOP PLATFORMS: MacOS, Windows, Solaris

TRADITIONAL TOOLS: Oil, airbrush, gouache, watercolor, pencil, ink, other. Paste-up and layout, silk screen printing, animation, paper product design.

WEB SITES

www.hns.com
Role: Illustrator, Web designer, graphic designer, interface designer, technical advisor, animator

Federal government
Role: Consultant, creator, and maintainer of many internal sites.

www.docsidevet.com
Role: Art Director, illustrator, Web designer, graphic designer, interface designer, technical advisor, animator

www.aptea.com
Role: Update online ads.

RECENTLY PUBLISHED ART

  • Adobe Illustrator 7 WOW! Book, by Sharon Steuer, 1998
  • Adobe Illustrator MasterWorks, by Sharyn Venit, 1997
  • Adobe Illustrator 6 WOW! CD, by Sharon Steuer, 1997
  • KPT Studio Secrets, by Ted Alspach, 1997
  • MacWorld Illustrator 6 Bible, by Ted Alspach, 1996

 

GALLERY SHOWS

  • LDS Museum of Church History and Art 8th International Art Competition, Salt Lake City, UT, Mar.-Sep. 2009.
  • LDS Museum of Church History and Art 7th International Art Competition, Salt Lake City, UT, Mar.-Sep. 2006.
  • Society of Illustrators Prevailing Human Spirit Exhibition, New York, NY, Jan. 9-Feb. 2, 2002
  • LDS Museum of Church History and Art 5th International Art Competition, Salt Lake City, UT, Mar.-Sep. 2000. Merit Award winner.
  • One-man show, Zion East Foundation for the Arts Gallery, Leesburg, VA, Feb.-Apr. 2000
  • Joint exhibit, Bay Country Art Guild, Ft. Meade, MD, Sep. 1999
  • One-man show, Bay Country Art Guild, Ft. Meade, MD, Jun. 1999

EDUCATION

Associate Degree, Art and Design, Ricks College, Rexburg, ID, 1976

Further Study

  • Studio Incamminati, Philadelphia, PA 2009
  • Illustration Master Class, Amherst, MA 2008
  • Kodak Center for Creative Imaging, Camden, ME.
  • Dynamic Graphics Educational Foundation, Peoria, IL.
  • Maryland Institute, College of Art, Baltimore, MD.
  • Smithsonian Resident Associate Program, Washington, D.C.
  • Brigham Young University, Provo, UT.
  • University of Maryland, College Park, MD.

PREVIOUS EMPLOYMENT

Senior Web Designer, Print Designer, and Illustrator, Aquent. Mar. 2000-Feb. 2002.

Technical Director, Multimedia Products Division, Dept. of Defense, Ft. Meade, MD. Mar. 1993-Mar. 2000

  • Manage in-house Ethernet network of mixed computer systems, including Macintosh, DOS/Windows, and Sun Microsystems. Research, test, recommend, write procurements for, install, network, maintain and troubleshoot multi-platform hardware and software configurations for graphics organizations at government installations worldwide. Assess newest technologies and their likely implementations; plan for future growth. Create and maintain networked databases. Top Secret SI clearance.
  • Create, test and implement interfaces for Web pages at all levels. Write, design, illustrate, and maintain Web pages, including fillout forms, faqs, image libraries, FileMaker Pro networked and Web-served databases, and technical references. Troubleshoot HTML. No programming experience.
  • Illustrate, design, advise and troubleshoot traditional and electronic projects for federal art department. Products include Web pages, CDs, fliers, pamphlets, posters, advertisements, signs, and more. Samples and references available.
  • Install and train on graphics and networking software.
  • Webmaster for secure government worldwide intranet and extranet among federal sites. Board member for various government Web entities.

Illustrator/Graphic Designer, Dept. of Defense, Ft. Meade, MD. Mar. 1988-Mar. 1993.

Create traditional and electronic illustrations, graphics, and layouts for fliers, pamphlets, posters, advertisements, signs, etc.