To provide my skill sets of design and illustration, to meet the needs of your business. With many years of working with multimedia solutions and a strong commitment to visual excellence for print and distance-learning products.

PROFILE
Experience: Many years of working with multi-media solutions and a strong commitment to visual excellence for print and distance-learning products

Creative: A highly creative professional capable of providing quality design and illustration experience for educational, retail, and marketing organizations
 
Results Driven: Organized, deadline oriented, flexible team player able to provide graphics efficiently

PC AND MAC TECHNICAL SKILLS
Illustrator, Photoshop, Flash, Fireworks, InDesign, Quark,
Adobe Acrobat, Microsoft Office

PROFESSIONAL HISTORY

1989 - 2025 
Freelance Clients 
American Dairy Association, Clark Builders, G.K. Graphics, Pampered Chef, Richard D. Irwin Publishing, Weber Cohn & Riley, Metal Monkey Brewing, Evil Horse Brewing, 10-56 Brewing Company, Hickory Creek Brewing Co., The Firkery.

March 2015 - 2018 
Graphic Designer (Freelance)
121 Creative Communications, Downers Grove, Illinois
• Produced promotional materials, brochures, and ads

November 2010 - December 2010 
Graphic Designer/Production (Part-time)
Quintessence Publishing, Hanover Park, Illinois
Quintessence is a global medical publisher specializing in dentistry.
• Provided page layout of large orthodontic title

June 1997 - April 2009 
Illustrator / Graphic Designer
Kaplan Professional, Chicago, Illinois
Kaplan Professional is a unit of the Washington Post Co., providing licensing, continuing education training, certification, and professional development courses. 

• Handled design and production of art for 20 print and online titles per month
• Spearheaded an image archive, style guide resource, and production procedure manual, which decreased development cost by more than 25%
• Developed tracking and scheduling systems for 300 annual projects, delivered on-time and on budget

1995 - 1997 
Graphic Designer / Illustrator
Ben Franklin Retail Stores Inc., Carol Stream, Illinois
A national retailer of craft products
• Provided 60-100 high-quality drawings monthly marketing and production projects 
• Responsible for layout of 16 page monthly circulars and designing promotional signage

1994 - 1995 
Illustrator / Graphic Designer
Newark Electronics, Chicago, Illinois
A wholesaler catalog business of electronics
• Produced line art for 400-page electronic parts catalog
• Developed graphics for sales material of featured products from the catalog

1993 - 1994 
Production Artist
Bennett Brothers, Chicago, Illinois
A fine merchandise retail store and rewards catalog company  
• Provided design and production support for the Bennett Brothers Blue Book catalog and monthly marketing material
• Produced custom corporate Reward booklets on a tight deadline

 
EDUCATION
School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
Bachelor of Fine Art in Visual Communications/Illustration, May 1989