Summary
Highly creative, process oriented production artist with a solid and wide ranging background in photo compositing and reproduction, digital imaging, printing, and custom publishing industries. High degree of problem solving ability and strong organizational skills. Experience includes positions as a photo technician, prepress operator, photographer, retouching and compositing artist, digital media production and video production artist. Rare combination of artistic talent and technical aptitude.
Professional Skills
- Print production with Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign and Acrobat
- Photo color correction and retouching with Camera RAW and Adobe Photoshop
- Photo manipulation and compositing with Adobe Photoshop
- Color Management and ICC Profiling
- Tablet and iPad publishing with Adobe Digital Publishing Suite
- Variable-Data Printing with InDesign and Fusion Pro
- Web production with Adobe Dreamweaver, HTML5 and CSS3
- Email newsletter production with Umbraco CMS and Mailchimp
- Video production and DVD authoring with Final Cut Pro Studio 7
- 3D visualization and animation with Cinema 4D
- Mac OS X and OS X Server administration
- Software development with CVS, Subversion and BBEdit
Legacy Skills
- Film scanning, retouching and reproduction
- Mac OS 9 system administration
- Photo-mechanical composition and reproduction
- Brisque 3 RIP, Rampage and Creo Printergy prepress software operator
- Adobe PageMaker, Macromedia Freehand, Fontographer and Fireworks, QuarkXpress
- Fuji DTP output device and Sapphire slide output
- Epson & Encad large format Inkjet printers with Onyx Postershop 4.0 Client / Server
Employment
True North Custom Publishing, 2004 - Present
735 Broad Street. Chattanooga, TN. 37402
(423) 266-3234 • truenorthcustom.com
- Senior Production Specialist
- Video Production Specialist
- Digital Product Specialist
Chattanooga Printing and Engraving, 2001 - 2004
110 Somerville Ave. Chattanooga, TN. 37406
(423) 266-6166 • chattprint.com
- Prepress Operator
- Digital Imaging Specialist
- Graphic Artist
Jones Printing, 1999 - 2000
2205 Dodson Ave. Chattanooga, TN. 37406
(423) 624-3355 • jonesprinting.com
- Prepress Operator
- Digital Imaging Specialist
- Graphic Artist
Colorchrome Atlanta, 1993 - 1999
3174 Marjan Drive, Atlanta, GA. 30340
(404) 321-0009 • colorchrome.com
- Digital Imaging Specialist
- Graphic Artist
I.S.I. Photoservices Inc., 1992 - 1993
Atlanta, GA (No longer in business)
- Photo Technician
- Composite Reproduction
Bradley Screenprint, 1991 - 1992
Greensboro, NC (No longer in business)
- Graphic Artist
- Film Stripper
Additional Experience
PCGen, 2003 - Present
Open source software initiative • pcgen.org
- Board of Directors (over content) 2004-2011
- Data programmer
- Output programmer (pdf and html)
- Documentation writer (html)
- Graphics and Interface designer.
Education
Atlanta College of Art
Atlanta, GA 1987 - 1991
Major in Photography, Minor in Printmaking. BFA
North Carolina School of the Arts
Winston-Salem, NC 1985 - 1987
Visual Arts.
HSD
References
References available by request