EDUCATION
Savannah College of Art and Design - Savannah, Georgia
Bachelor of Arts, Graphic Design • June 2002
EXPERIENCE
• Accurate Lithograph - Bluffton, South Carolina
June 2002 - October 2003 - Graphic Designer/Customer Service
Offset Printing Company • Print Sales • Pre-press • Customer Service
Design that included work in advertising (local and national), company ID,
brochures, event programs and monthly publications
• Image is Everything - Savannah, Georgia
October 2003 - March 2005 - Production Manager & In House Sales Manager
Large Format and Digital Printing Environment • Production Manager
Print Sales Manager • Speciality in TradeShow Design • Offset Brokering
• Gulfstream Aerospace (Freelance) - Savannah, Georgia
March 2004 - February 2007 - Graphic Design (Print)
Freelance Design on projects including advertising, tradeshow elements,
manuals, boarding passes, general departmental brochures
• Savannah College of Art and Design - Savannah, Georgia
March 2005 - Current - Senior Director of Creative Services
Manage quality, budget and scheduling with all outside vendors used to produce creative products for the SCAD. • Responsible for all print production and vendor realtionships • Project management with clients/departments on special projects and events • Projects include a wide range of production process from large format, web, offset, digital, trade show production and merchandising.
• Supervise Traffic Department which is repsonsible for maintaining all creative trafficing/scheduling for 75 staff members across 5 creative diciplines, and 4 locations both domestic and international: Print, Web, Video, Photography, Customer Service and Advertising.
• Responsible for vendor relationships and all print needs at SCAD-Hong Kong. Coordinate print projects and installations for SCAD Hong Kong and all events supporting the college in that location.
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• Red Door Design Group, Inc
Established in January 2007 • Owner/Creative Principal
Services include: Graphic Design both for Print and Web, Marketing Consultation, Photography Restoration and Mural Painting.
Clients include the companies mentioned above, as well as University of South Carolina, IMEDIA, Third Wave Digital, Jambo Safari, American Red Cross: Midwest, CobbleStone Connections, Boys and Girls Club of Savannah
www.onereddoor.com
SKILLS
• Hand rendering and presentation skills
• Proficient on both MAC and PC Platforms
• Photography experience in shooting and creative styling
• Project management of magazine style publications
• Project management of event-based printing and multi-media needs
• Creative management experience
• Customer service experience
• Identity development
AWARDS
2009 CASE Award for: SCAD Viewbox, CIDA Catalog, SCADWorks Magazine (Production Director)
2009 Gold ADDY: Jambo Safari Brochure (Design)
2009 Gold ADDY: Best in Show for SCAD Fashion Catalog (Production Director)
2008 Silver ADDY Award for COX Media Diversity Advertising Campaign (Design)
2007 GD USA American In-House Design Awards : Production Manger for 5 winning publications * Fashion 2007 catalog * The Magazine (Fall 2007) * Furniture design and industrial design catalog
* Sequential art anthology: "Discovered" * Marcus Kenney catalog
2007 Gold ADDY Award for WMA Architects Brochure (Design)
2007 Gold Ink Award for production of the Savannah Film Festival
Call for Entries Brochure
(Production)
2006 CASE Award for SCAD Alumni Connections semi-annual publication
(Project Management)