Work History

Creative Director
Pulse Mobile, San Francisco CA
October 2005-present
Responsibilities include creation of downloadable visual content for mobile phones, including animation and illustrations. Also: UI and web design, graphic design and marketing collateral, and Flash animation. Also some scripting and recording of character voices.

Graphic Designer
SEIU United Healthcare Workers, Oakland CA
April 2003-October 2005
Responsible for design and production of all literature, promotional material and signage for 130,000-member healthcare workers union. Projects included magazine design and illustration, website design, production of direct mail for political campaigns, newspaper advertisements, and creation of collateral for organizing campaigns.

Assistant Production Director/Graphic Designer
San Francisco Examiner, San Francisco CA
February 2001-March 2003
Designed ads and marketing materials for daily newspaper and oversaw the workflow of the ad department's evening shift to ensure press deadlines were met

Contract/Freelance Animator and Graphic Artist
San Francisco, CA
August 2000-October 2005
Work was created for Wells Fargo Bank, Carnegie Hall (Rolling Orange multimedia), Shockwave.com, the Science.com, ImagineEngine, Bristol Publishing Enterprises, the Catholic Diocese of Oakland, In the Bag Marketing and Design, and All Business.com.

Flash Animator
Spunky Productions, San Francisco CA
January 2000-July 2000
Animated Flash cartoons to be exhibited on Shockwave.com and Spunkytown.com. Responsibilities included animating, directing, storyboarding, writing and character design.

Junior Graphic Designer
Creative Resolutions Design and Typesetting, Oakland CA
January 1999-December 1999
Designed and asked the senior designer a lot of questions. Clients included Bank of America, Wells Fargo, Blue Cross/Blue Shield, Irwin Home Equity and the Port of Oakland.

Junior Graphic Designer
Blue Design, San Francisco CA
1998

Radio Announcer/Marketing Coordinator
K92/WXLK-FM Roanoke VA
1995-1996
Hosted daily radio show, coordinated promotional activities for radio station.

Cartoonist/Graphics Editor
Collegiate Times, Blacksburg VA
1992-1996
Drew twice-weekly comic strip, edited comics page, produced info graphics and editorial cartoons for campus newspaper

Education

Bachelor of Fine Arts, Illustration
Academy of Art College, San Francisco, CA
February 2001
Completed a second degree in illustration and animation

Bachelor of Arts, Liberal Arts and Sciences/Communications
Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University, Blacksburg, VA
December 1995

Liberal Arts degree included cognates in art, English, Spanish, and biology. Member, Phi Beta Kappa honors society.

Skills

I work in

HTML and CSS
Fireworks
Flash and Actionscript
Dreamweaver
Photoshop
Illustrator
InDesign
QuarkXPress
Pencil and oil paint