Presently I am a designer at the Bomstein Agency. I have worked on accounts including Pulte Homes, FedDirect Credit Union, The Washington Capitals, The Baltimore Orioles, and Lindsay Cadillac.
Much of my recent work has been for the New England apartment management company, Dolben Incorporated. Each apartment project included a logo, brochures, stationery, signs, and a leasing office display. Although these projects had a similar format, the company still wanted to give each apartment complex a unique identity. This required a careful balance between keeping a consitent feel, while adding enough variety to make each community distinct.
While at The Bomstein Agency I have held several titles. I started out as a Photo Retoucher and was often called upon to do print production. Although my current title is Art Director, however I still prepare my own files for print and do much of the production work on my projects since The Bomstein Agency is a small company.
Education
- Continuing and Credit classes in web design and development at Montgomery College
- BA, Fine Arts, Towson University, 1997
- Continuing Education Graphic Design classes
at Maryland Institute of Art - Awards: Best Painting, Best Photograph 1997 Student Art Show
Software
- Expert knowledge of the following on both Mac and PC platforms:
- Adobe Photoshop CS3
- Adobe Illustrator CS3
- Adobe InDesign CS3
- Quark Xpress 7
- Adobe Acrobat 8
- Adobe Flash CS3
- Macromedia Dreamweaver 8
- Intermediate Understanding of the following on PC platform:
- Animation:Master 3D software
- Access 2007
- Web Languages
- XHTML
- CSS
- intermediate JavaScript and DOM scripting
- intermediate ActionScript 2
- beginning ActionScript 3
- beginning PHP
Work Experience
- 2005-2008 Senior Designer
- Responsible for the entire design process from conception to final output for ad campaigns, brochures, logos, web site layout, animated GIFs, indoor and outdoor signage, large scale vinyl banners, apartment leasing office displays
- Meet with clients to discuss projects
- Direct photographers on photo shoots
- Provide final approval of all proofs from printers and sign fabricators
- Direct sign and display fabricators during on-site installation
- Train junior artists and assign various production tasks to them
- Prepare files for final output
- Lead Creative Department in conversion from Quark to InDesign
- Create Flash web advertising
- 2003-2004 Designer
- Responsible for designing ads, brochures, logos, web site layout, animated GIFs, signs and large scale banners
- prepare files for final output
- 2001-2003 Production Artist
- Received design comps from creative and art directors and prepared them for various printing processes, including newsprint and high quality offset printing using Quark Xpress
- Converted ads into PDFs at various line screens using Adobe Acrobat to send to magazines and newpapers
- Uploaded ads to publications using Fetch FTP
- Continued to scan photo prints and negatives
- Retouched and color corrected scanned images using Photoshop
- Created maps, floor plans and other vector-based art using Illustrator
- 2000-2001 Photo Retoucher
- Prepared photos in various file formats including TIFF, JPG, and GIF
- Scanned and cleaned up black and white line art
- Scanned color negatives
- Retouched and color corrected photos using Photoshop
- Adjusted contrast of black and white photos for use in newsprint
- Checked final resolution of all photos before collateral went to printers
- Converted vector art into raster art for web use
- Maintained organization of both CD photo library and film negative library
- Worked with in-house photographer on studio photo shoots
- Took digital photos after departure of in-house photographer
- 1997-2000
- While working on my graphic design portfolio and taking continuing education classes in Graphic Design, I worked at several non-art related jobs including:
- Enterprise Rent-A-Car
- Pitney Bowes
- Crate&Barrel