About

Ten years of experience in design and photography for print, video, and web; successfully built a freelance business; strong news and entertainment background.

Software

Photoshop, Dreamweaver, InDesign, AfterEffects, Studio Max, Premiere, Flash, Contribute, QuarkXPress, Illustrator, FreeHand, PowerPoint, Sound Forge, CorelDRAW

Experience

Olive Creative
August 2004 – Present
Freelance

Photography: News, Feature, Entertainment, Food, and Product

Clients include: Reuters, Newsday, Hard Rock Cafe, Condé Nast, Gannett (The Courier-Journal, Velocity Weekly, Derby Magazine), LEO Weekly (Louisville Eccentric Observer), The Voice Tribune, Prep Magazine, Caffe!ne Magazine

Web Design: Frontend design, HTML, CSS, Javascript, CMS, PHP, mySQL

Clients include: Kentucky Opera, Louisville Ballet, The Louisville Orchestra, Sunergos Coffee, River Fields

Kindred Healthcare
May 2002 – August 2004
Web/Graphic Designer

Design of and graphics production for Fortune 500 corporate-wide internet website with independent sites for over 350 facilities, use of over 1000 domain names, and over 10,000 pages of information (3900 unique), facility-specific photographs (over 900), unique copy, and personalized maps; updating existing corporate internet and intranet websites; design and production for intranet updates and additions including a web store used to process orders for everything from t-shirts to printed materials; layout and print buying for four different lines of business; PowerPoint presentations; photography; file conversion; PDF creation and maintenance.

FOX41 WDRB-TV, Great 58 WFTE-TV
November 1998 – May 2002
Senior Graphic Designer

Complete graphics packages for Great 58 WFTE-TV, FOX41 Newscasts (3), and various in-house programming; affiliate branding via tease bumps, promos, and IDs; animations for news stories (extremely short turnaround times); photography and/or videography for various commercial and in-house projects; daily news graphics including shoulder boxes, full screens, and maps; billboards, bus shelters, magazines, newspapers, etc.; prep work for commercial spots; web design; decision making, purchasing, installation, setup and maintenance of creative department’s computer systems and network.

V. G. Reed & Son
December 1997 – November 1998
Electronic Prepress

Preflighting, file preparation, form preparation, imagesetting, scanning, color correction, typesetting, design, camera work, stripping, plating, proofing, equipment maintenance.

Education

Murray State University
May 1997
Bachelor of Science
Fine Arts – Graphic Design/Photography