PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Lead Graphic Designer
- Incisive Media Publications, Philadelphia, PA, Winter 2008-Summer 2008
- Lead graphic designer for two regonal legal newspapers. Concept, design and execute sales marketing materials, including advertising flyers, house ads and promotional materials. Work directly with art director, marketing director and traffic director to ensure brand standards and market appropriateness of adversiting content. Relief production artist; maintaining fast-paced and accurate workflow under a daily deadline.
Assistant Art Director
- Penn State Industries, Philadelphia, PA, 2006-present
- Work in coordination with Art Director and Marketing Director to maintain corporate identity and create artwork for an international catalog/retail company. Illustrate and typeset product instruction manuals, labels, package designs, DVD and catalog covers. Photograph products and retouch images for catalog and website. Support sales department by preparing ductwork proposals for home/industrial wood-working shops.
- • Developed automatic generation of ductwork proposals; increased productivity by 200% and accuracy by 80%.
- • Designed and implemented product database to create consistency and uniformity in the production of labels and packages to enhance corporate recognition.
Freelance Graphic Designer
- Philadelphia, PA, 2000-2006
- Specialized in creating and implementing complete and appropriate, marketing and collateral for small businesses including: corporate identity, business cards, letterhead, display advertising, brochures, menus, posters and websites, including.
- • Altogether Better
- • Positivespace Philadelphia
Graphic Designer
- WVUD, Newark, DE, 2000-2003
- Designed and developed advertising for college-based community radio station including in-house advertising, logo and corporate identity. Responsible for the electronic recreation of student training manual.
Graphic Designer
- Community Publications Inc., Hockessin, DE, 2000-2002
- Worked in coordination with sales-representatives to design client-based advertising for five newspapers on a weekly production schedule. Lead cover designer for special advertising sections.
ADDITIONAL EXPERIENCE
Board Secretary
- PositiveSpace, Philadelphia PA, 2007
- Member 2003 – 2006
PositiveSpace is a non-profit artists group dedicated to creating a network of local artists to exchange ideas and resources, creating new opportunities for artists and integrating art into the community in which we live.
“Ave C” Jazz Radio Host
- WVUD, Newark, DE, 2002 – 2007
- 91.3 FM WVUD, the Voice of the University of Delaware, is the University's non-commercial educational radio station.
EDUCATION
- Bachelors of Fine Arts in Painting (2003)
- University of Delaware, Newark, DE
- Associate of Applied Sciences in Graphic Design (1999)
- Delaware County Community College, Media, PA
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
- 2006 "Standard Craft" Standard Tap, Philadelphia, PA
- 2006 “POST; Artists Member Show” Coral Street Arts House, Philadelphia, PA
- 2006 “Fishtasticon 2; Multimedia Event” M-Room, Philadelphia, PA
- 2005 “POST; Artists Member Show” Rocket Cat Cafe, Philadelphia, PA
- 2005 “Fishtasticon; Multimedia Event” M-Room, Philadelphia, PA
- 2002 “Warm Pop” University of Delaware Senior Thesis Exhibition, Newark, DE
- 1999 Juried Student Show - Delaware County Community College, Media, PA