objectives
- Illustration for web, print, and concept design in both digital and traditional mediums
- Graphic design for Web and Print

technical skills
Graphic Design

• Proficient with: Google Sketchup, Photoshop CS5, Illustrator CS5, Fireworks CS5, Dreamweaver CS5, Flash CS5, and InDesign CS5.
• Knowledgable in formatting and presentation for print and production for advertisement and graphic design.
• 6 years of experience in layout and interface design for web.

- Proficient with HTML, CSS, FLASH, Java Script, and C. Knowledge of PHP.
- Experienced in content management systems: Wordpress, Tiny Portal, Joomla, Drupal, and Cute News.

Illustration

• Proficient in use of: Oils, acrylic, watercolors, ink, graphite pencil, and charcoal.
• Professionally trained in: portraiture and painting from life.
• Advanced proficient in Digital painting techinques using Adobe Photoshop CS5 and Corel Painter XI.

professional experience
October 2011 - Present Ideal Brand Marketing
Pasadena, CA
Lead Graphic Designer / Art Director
Design and create concepts for web and print. Art direct photography for product advertising.

September 2011 Teachers Assistant
Pasadena, CA
Teachers Assistant to Alex Schaefer
Assist teaching responsibilities with Composition and Painting at Art Center College of Design.

2009 – Present Freelance (Baka Media)
Solvang, CA
Designer and Developer
Freelance web developer for small business web sites as both graphic designer and web publisher.

June 2005 – Medseek
August 2005 Solvang, CA
Paid Graphic Design Intern
Paid summer internship with Medseek, a medical based web development firm as a graphic designer where I gained experience designing and "cutting" layouts to be coded.

education
Art Center College of Design
Pasadena, CA
Illustration - Entertainment Design Focus, B.F.A.
2010 – Present.

Santa Barbara City College
Santa Barbara, CA
Graphic Design, B.A. (incomplete)
2009 – 2010. One year of courses in basic graphic design theory and print practices.

California Polytechnic State University San Luis Obispo
San Luis Obispo, CA
Computer Engineering, B.S. (incomplete)
2007 – 2009. Two years of Computer Engineering at Cal Poly SLO gaining experience with programming in C and introduction to object oriented programming in Java.