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Objective

I am looking for a job as a new media graphics professional, where I can use and enhance my skills to enliven a Web site or other new media extravaganza.

Experience

8/96 to 6/97      New York Now      New York , NY

Graphic Artist

Web Graphics

  • I designed story illustrations and section, title and navigation graphics to meet the daily needs of a growing Web site.
  • I designed Web pages for contract clients.
  • I am an expert in creating high-quality, low-bandwidth graphics with the appropriate color palette.

HTML

  • I coded stories and sections in state-of-the-art HTML.
  • I am an expert in tables, frames, forms and in cross-platform and browser incompatibilities.

Animation

  • I am an expert in high impact and low-bandwidth GIF animations.

Multimedia

  • I have created client presentations in Macromedia Director, and I am familiar with Lingo programming for Director.

Web Photographs

  • I am an expert in optimizing photographs for Web use by scanning, cropping, retouching, color correction and color enhancement.

1994 to present      Penney Design      New York, NY

Freelance Graphic Artist

  • I created a major Web site of 45 pages for the New Bedford Whaling Museum in New Bedford, Mass.
  • Other jobs include fundraising posters for The Early Childhood Center and identity graphics for Hovey Archival Research, also in Manhattan.

Programs

I am equally comfortable on both Mac and Windows platforms:

  • MacOS, Windows 95, Windows 3.x, DOS.
  • Photoshop, Illustrator, Freehand, Debabelizer, BBEdit, Gifbuilder, Director 5, Quark, Premiere, Flash and 3D Studio.

Education

1994–1997      School of Visual Arts      New York, NY

  • Studies in graphic design with John Rea, Skip Sorvino and Scott Wadler.

1971–1975      Boston University School for the Arts      Boston, Mass

  • B.F.A. in Painting.

Other

Exhibiting Painter and Sculptor

  • One-person exhibitions 1985, 1986, 1987 and 1989.
  • 1992 Yaddo Fellowship.