To say that my professional experience has required wearing multiple hats on a daily basis is an understatement. My hats wear hats.

Having worked exclusively in small and mid-sized agencies has granted me the opportunity to cover a wide gamut of skills, allowing me to satiate my constant appetite for knowledge. I’m just as comfortable in print design as I am behind a camera or with HTML/CSS. This has also granted me the unique ability to be able to communicate on the same level with designers, vendors, photographers, directors, and developers.

Experience

DESIGNER – CONNELLY PARTNERS

October 2010 – present

Working alongside art directors in developing concepts and designing traditional and digital advertising campaigns, branding and collateral, as well as managing photo shoots, illustration & preparing files for production

 

DESIGNER & FRONT-END DEVELOPER – SMITH&JONES ADVERTISING

January 2008 – October 2010

Responsible for a wide variety of design and development from concept to production; including: print advertisements, branding, collateral, publication design, websites, packaging, email newsletters, banner advertisements, SEO, SEM, photography, and color correction

 

PRODUCTION ASSISTANT – ROSSJACOB PHOTOGRAPHY

January 2007 – March 2009

Photography, on location assistance (location scouting, lighting, prop buying), photo retouching, wedding album design, collateral design, digital asset management

 

FREELANCE DESIGNER, PHOTOGRAPHER, & FRONT-END DEVELOPER

January 2006 – present

Working with small clients to produce branding, collateral, and websites

 

Skills

EXPERT

• Adobe InDesign
• Adobe Photoshop
• Adobe Illustrator
• Pre-press production
• Photography
• HTML(4/5) & CSS(2/3) development
• Search engine optimization
• Working in Mac, Windows, and Linux environments
• WordPress theme development

 

NOVICE

• Mobile web development
• PHP
• JavaScript
• Version control using Subversion or Git
• Apache web server management
• Fontlab
• Adobe Premiere

 

BEGINNER

• Ruby on Rails
• ActionScript 3.0

 

Education

THE NEW ENGLAND INSTITUTE OF ART

2004 – 2008

BS, Graphic Design (3.8 GPA)
 

 

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