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education

BFA, 2000–Dec. 2004, University of Minnesota Duluth, Degree in Graphic Design.

employment

February 2007 through August 2009
    Freestyle Interactive, San Francisco, CA
    Held position of Senior Designer specializing in advertising. Clients include EA, Boost, Adidas and Luna.
    Responsibilities Included:
    . Prototyping, designing and producing interactive web ads.
    . Working with client's feedback and applying it for creative approval.
    . Researching new and innovative ways to make our work more cutting edge and our overall process more efficient.

January 2006 through January 2007
    Agency.com, San Francisco, CA
    Held position of Interactive Designer specializing in advertising. Clients include Lexus, Miller, Ask.com and Fisher Price.
    Responsibilities Included:
    . Concepting, designing and producing interactive web ads.
    . Presenting creative to client for approval and/or feedback.
    . Updating existing creative to keep them relevant.

January 2005 through November 2005
    Freelance Graphic Designer, Duluth, MN
    Held responsibility for all design, production and delivery of work done for clients. I specialized in web, print and video projects.

August 2004 through November 2005
    Ripsaw News, Duluth, MN
    Held responsibility of webmaster and designer at a local independent news publication.
    Responsibilities Included:
    . Updated web site with articles and comics from the publication.
    . Designed several acticle layouts for each issue.
    . Designed an email newsletter layout and sent it out weekly.
    . Designed a separate car advertising page used to generate profit for the magazine.

Summer 2003/2004 through May 2005
    Elite Tinting and Graphics, Duluth, MN
    Share head of sign shop duties for a local vinyl graphics business. Clients included Como Oil, Waste Management and Halvor Lines Inc.
    Responsibilities Included:
    . Worked with employees and clients in creating solutions to design problems.
    . Oversaw projects from initial contact with the client thru completion.

2001 – 2004
    Audio Visual Department, University of Minnesota Duluth
    Shared group responsibility for the operation of the AV Department.
    Responsibilities Included:
    . Assisted students and faculty with a variety of audio visual equipment.

past projects

Duluth Homegrown Music Festival 2005 Website and Print, 2005 (Freelance)
    Organizers of a local annual music event in Duluth hired me to design and produce a website that explained the festivals nature and featured each and every band that played at the event. The site is now the most comprehensive database of Duluth musicians on a single website. The job of designing the posters, T-shirts, schedules and back stage passes was also given to me. All designs for the festival incorporate the overall visual theme of the festival.
http://www.duluthhomegrown.com/

Sun Solutions Inc. Website, 2005 (Freelance)
    A local residential window tinting company hired me to make them a corporate style, clean and easy to use website. I used simple HTML and images to create a straight-forward and understandable website that all users could access and understand.
http://www.sunproblems.com/

Black-eyed Snakes Website, 2005 (Freelance)
    A local band hired me to build them a new website to promote themselves. I used my best skills in Flash to put together something fresh and new. The band members perform like four possessed musicians summoned by the ‘blues’ devil. I designed the site to visually illustrate that in a unique way.
http://www.blackeyedsnakes.com

30music.com Magazine
    With content from 30music.com I designed an entire (40 page) magazine showcasing their best interviews, reviews and feedback. I used a unique post modern and slightly underground style to visually represent the indie music they review. A full color and nearly square sized format was used.

UROP for Post modern Film Production, 2004 (Student Work)
    A friend and I received a $1,400 grant from the University of Minnesota’s Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) to create a film based on post modern concepts. The project was fully funded and took place from July 2004 to December. 2004.

Vote a Revolution Website, 2004 (Student Work)
    Five fellow students and I produced the website for a class project titled “Vote a Revolution”. The project was directed at young voters in hopes to increase their awareness of voting responsibilities. Our class was divided into web, video and print groups. I was the main web developer in the web group. My responsibilities included constructing the website and playing a large role in the sites visual design.
http://www.bpdesigner.com/votearevolution/

Design Online ‘04 Website, 2004 (Student Work)
    A friend and I had the honor of designing the exhibition website for the first annual Design Online competition. The competition was organized and designed entirely by UMD students. In addition to the exhibition website, I also designed the Call for Entries website, which was used to inform people about the Design Online ‘04 event.
http://www.d.umn.edu/art/sdo/online_exhib/

scholarships

Raymond W. Darland Art Scholarship, 2003–2004
Marshall, Caroline Scholarship, 2002
Budden, Phillip Scholarship, 2002–2003
Alliss Scholarship, 2000–2002
Lyon, Howard Scholarship, 2003 Academic Scholarship, 2000–2001

awards and achievements

Cum Laude Honor at Graduation Ceremony, 2005
    I received this honor for having an overall GPA higher than 3.65 while attending UMD.

“Best in Show” in the Design Online 05 Event, 2005
    An edgy post modern music magazine I made based on the website 30music.com won the top prize in the Design Online ‘05 show. The event was organized by students and then judged by three specially selected UMD alumni.

Departmental Honors, 2004
    Two students and I, by faculty vote, received the distinction of “Departmental Honors” in graphic design. I received the award on my graduating semester.

Web site accepted into American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA) “Exhibit A” Competition, 2004
    The AIGA of Minnesota held and interactive web site competition. The Design Online ‘04 web site was accepted as one of four projects in the educational category.

One piece accepted in the UMD Student Show, 2004
    The UMD Student Art Show is an annual event composed of UMD student art and design pieces from throughout the year.

Poster Published in “Take Back Your Time” Book, 2003
    As part of a Graphic Design class project, the entire class designed posters for possible acceptance into a book about the American tendency to overwork. My poster was chosen and printed in the book “Take Back Your Time” by John de Graaf.

Two pieces accepted in the UMD Student Show, 2002

skills

General: Creative thinking, critical thinking, multitasking, effective communication, illustration, and sketching.
Computer Skills: Operating Systems: Windows 95–XP, Mac OS 9–10, MS-DOS.
Programs: Macromedia Dreamweaver, Flash and Fireworks, Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, In Design and After Effects, Final Cut Pro HD, Swift 3D, Quark,
Audacity, GarageBand, Microsoft Word and FlexiSign.
Computer Languages: Actionscript 1&2, HTML, PHP, Javascript and CSS.