CV Curriculum Vitae

Profile

I am an award winning Graphic Designer, who has been working in the industry for over four years. In addition to publishing, I have skills in web design and flash animation. I have worked with several companies in many different capacities. Most notably, building ads for Choices Markets and designing 2010 Olympic promotionals for the Royal Bank of Canada/Science World. I am comfortable working in both a collective and freelance environment. In 2006 I returned from two years living in Japan where I was employed by the KTC foreign language institute where I completed a series of illustrations for their cultural awareness program. I spent a brief term as Junior Designer at inEthos Graphics in 2007 and have currently been focusing my energies on my own career as a publisher. To date I have published three books with my Cloudscape comics group.

Expertise

Graphics Software
• Adobe CS3
• Quark Xpress
• Microsoft Office


Selected Experience

Editor/Publisher/Contributor
Cloudscape Comics, Vancouver BC
June 2007 - Current
• Completed Illustrated stories for press deadlines
• Coordinated other artists and took final book to press
• Built book layouts and did all prepress work

Junior Designer
inEthos Graphic Design, Vancouver, BC
Feb - Oct 2007
• Primary Designer of ad layouts for Choices Markets
• Overseen multiple jobs from concept to press
• Created intial logo, and website concepts

Illustrator (freelance)
KTC Foreign Language Institute, Nagoya, Japan
Feb-Oct 2006
• Conceptualized illustration ideas for cultural awareness component of new curriculum.
• Executed Illustrations for cultural awareness component to be distributed regionally.
• Created a full activity packet for Halloween curriculum which was distributed regionally.

Illustrator (freelance)
Royal Bank of Canada, Vancouver, BC
May 2004
• Created a series of original cartoons to be used as coloring sheets for a 2010 Olympic promotion.
• Designed and illustrated freestanding 3D photo op and saw to it completion for 2010 Olympic promotion.

Production Artist
Print and Run, Vancouver, BC
Oct-Nov 2002
• Laid out business cards for print in both digital and offset.
• Created PDF proofs of customers jobs.
• Created working mock-ups of desk calendars, contact directories and greeting cards.
• Created digital plates for offset printing.
• Created original layouts for catalogues.
• Prepared a Children’s book into signatures for output.
• Designed original logos and business cards.
• Scanned artwork for final printing.

Graphics/Web Designer
Profile Design, Vancouver, BC
May-Aug 2000
• Worked throughout the summer as part of the Youth Options BC program.
• Designed multiple printed jobs primarily using Quark Xpress.
• Worked in Macromedia Flash to design animated web page introductions for several different companies.
• Also instrumental in the re-design of the company’s web page.

Selected Projects

During my past employ and schooling I have
• Currently editing and publishing the Cloudscape Comics
• Published Funday Sunnies (Cloudscape)
• Published Historyonics: Stories Drawn From the Past (Cloudscape)
• Published Robots Pine Trees and Broken Hearts (Cloudscape)
• Conceptualized and executed illustrations for KTC foreign language institutes new curriculum (freelance).
• Illustrated, colouring book page for Royal Bank 2010 Whistler Promotion (freelance).
• Illustrated, designed and coordinated the production of 3D photo op sign for Royal Bank Canada/Science World (freelance).
• Designed corporate Identity and website for Placebo (freelance).
• Implemented layout for “Percussions de Guinee´ “ bus shelter ad (Ethos Design).
• Published illustration in BC “Write from the Heart” project (freelance).
• Winner of the Potters Vodka label redesign contest (Capilano college).
• Developed several multimedia web pages (Profile Design).
• Developed artwork and designs for mass production (Profile design).

Academic Background
Japanese Conversation levels 1, 2, 3 - Langara College 2003-2004
Certificate in Graphic Design and Illustration - Capilano College 2001
High school diploma - David Thompson Secondary, 1998

Citizenship
Canadian

References available upon request