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David Thompson
Art Director, Graphic Designer, Illustrator, Interactive Multimedia
Producer
5270 Harrison Road
Paradise CA 95969
530 877 4944
dave@dtstudio.com
www.dtstudio.com
Career Objective
Professional Skills
+ Planning, project management and direction of advertising and
marketing initiatives
+ Art direction, graphic design and layout through to pre-press
production
+ Web site design and production, interactive multimedia flash
presentations
+ Computer Illustration, 3D modeling and architectural rendering
+ Digital image editing
+ Online Interactive Acrobat forms and documentation
Employment History
Consultant, 2002 -
Present
I am currently working as a design and production contractor
of marketing communication materials including print advertising,
marketing literature, educational materials, interactive web
sites, and flash presentations.
Digex Incorporated, Interactive
Multimedia Designer, 8/1999 - 8/2002
As art director and media producer, I was responsible for project
management, art direction, design and production of executive
initiatives including: the corporate website, national print
advertising campaigns, and the corporate sales presentation.
I supported the VP and CEO's presentations for successful analyst
tour, venture capital initiatives, and several successful high-end
partnering initiatives, including: Microsoft, Sun, Nestle and
WorldCom.
GTE Internetworking, Interactive
Multimedia Designer, 10/1998 - 8/1999
Responsible for the design and production of the GTEi presentation
and component design. Supported CEO's, VP's and Director level
corporate sales presentations. Designed overall look and feel,
and produced final templates.
Steve & Steve Advertising,
Contractor Graphic Designer, 6/1994 - 10/1995
Working under the direction of the Art Director, I was responsible
for the layout, design refinement and final file preparation
of magazine advertisements, for AirSoft, Legato, State of the
Art and more.
Tandem Computers, Creative
Services Graphic Designer, 7/1984 - 7/1993
Responsible for the art direction, design, layout and production
of high quality corporate literature, event and program materials:
sales and marketing brochures, data sheets, booklets, direct
mail, newsletters, posters, etc. Responsible for project management,
designing within a budget, presenting concepts to clients and
working with outside vendors. Promoted three times. Three years
as International Art Show Committee Member.
Education
University of California, Santa Cruz Extension, 1990 - 1994
Certificate Program in Graphic Design and Visual Communication.
Coursework included: Design Principles, Design and Layout, Typography,
Grid Theory, Trademark & Symbol Design, Understanding and
Using the Creative Process, Poster Design, etc. Twice hired as
UCSC Teacher's Assistant for Production 2, and twice as Guest
Speaker for Graphic Design, Overview.
I served a two year term on
the Town of Paradise Design Review Board (2003-2005) I offered
design consultation leading to various business signage improvements
and made several suggestions for improving the process by which
the Town approved applicant's requests for federal grant money.
Computer Applications:
+ Adobe Photoshop
+ Adobe Illustrator
+ Adobe Premiere
+ Adobe Acrobat
+ Adobe GoLive
+ Adobe LiveMotion
+ Adobe FrameMaker
+ Quark XPress
+ KPT Bryce
+ MS Word
+ MS Powerpoint
+ MasterTrax (MIDI)
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