1220 Hayes Street, Apt. #7
To work with a thriving team where I can utilize my experience in Illustration and Production to deliver powerful, high-quality Character Illustrations and Game Assets while contributing to the success of the company.
Contract Illustrator/Designer, Packaging Production Artist
San Francisco, CA
October 2010–Present
AppaAppa
Illustrated characters and GUI for iPhone application. Produced all assets, managed graphics implementation.
University Games
Responsible for character design, game asset illustration, packaging design, and production.
Accomplishments: Managing multiple, rigorous deadlines for game asset delivery. Illustrating in a variety of styles to meet look-and-feel of a range of concurrent projects. Managing protracted licensor content and legal revision cycles that advance at varying speeds - for different licensed projects across seven program managers.
Lab Zero Concepts
Illustrated characters and environments for online marketing system.
Dynacraft BSC, Inc.
Lead Designer/Illustrator, Packaging Production Manager, Production Artist
American Canyon, CA
June 2003–October 2010
Developed logos/illustrations for retailers' adult, juvenile bicycles. Also created product design and color ways for licensed product bicycles, scooters, etc. Accountable for illustration/design of all product lines. Packaging production lead.
Accomplishments: Refined asset creation/filing/retrieval process, speeding up the design process approximately 40% for each individual bicycle design. Created and revised bicycle design production methods for over 170 different models through use of templates. Also created packaging design production method for over 55 different form factors/licensors.
Privacyactivism.org
Lead Illustrator/Animator, Manager, Production Artist
San Francisco, CA
January 2003–June 2003
Responsible for producing CARABELLA Digital Rights Management Flash interactivity: illustrated and designed characters, defined interactivity, developed graphic user interface, storyboarded, and animated. Managed illustrators and Flash/Java developer.
Accomplishments: Designed lead characters to lead attorney's satisfaction. Guided interactivity through multiple unexpected layers of approval and revision, often exceeding original scope. Lead process of bug-checking, collating results, implementing fixes.
DigitalThink, Inc.
Lead Animator/Illustrator, Flash Developer, Production Manager
San Francisco, CA
March 2000–January 2003
Developed Flash interactivities from prototype to final publish. Illustrated and animated characters/props/backgrounds, produced flash ActionScript, and developed user interface. Collaborated with directors and writers, led 12 animators, storyboarded.
Accomplishments: Produced e-learning interactivities for marquee clients: McDonald’s Corp., KPMG Consulting, Citibank. Played vital role in developing interactivities from wireframe to illustrated prototype to animated finished product.
Freelance Illustrator, Senior Designer, Production Artist
San Francisco, CA
January 2000–January 2003
KPMG Consulting, Tenet, Aspect, Cisco, Knight-Ridder Tribune News, J. Walter Thompson, Tonic360
Character Design, Flash Games, Character Animation, Vector Illustration, Game Design, Game Development, Artist Management, iPhone Application Production, CSS Editing, HTML Editing, Flash ActionScripting, Moderate Written/Spoken French
EXTREME PROFICIENCY in Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator
PROFICIENCY in Adobe InDesign, Adobe Flash
School Of Communication Arts Certificate, Computer Animation, 1999
North Carolina State University, Bachelor of Arts, 1990 - Communication: Film, TV Production, Writing For Electronic Media
Rhode Island School Of Design/Society Of Newspaper Design Workshop Fellowship, 1990
Poynter Institute Design and Typography Workshop Fellowship, 1989
