multimedia | web site design | graphic design | periodicals | illustration | photography
Providing innovative advertising solutions in today's multimedia environment through web design, graphic design, magazine production, photography, illustration,
and promotional product design.
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If you are looking for a creative, motivated addition to your team,
I invite you to take a moment to review the following resume & portfolio web site.
Please contact me at 619.922.0281 for more info.
About Thom Hollis...
My career started within a graphics group for NASA, where I worked on presentations for government contract companies. I progressed into advertising with BellSouth Yellow Pages, and was promoted to lay the foundation for the Southeast Florida major accounts design team. After nine years of growing with BellSouth, I became a partner in Commercial Ventures Design Group in Provincetown, Massachusetts. There I directed and worked with other designers in web, print, and promotional product production. I've produced freelance web/print design under the business name HollisCreative, and my latest full-time position was print & web designer for T.P.I. Publishing, Inc.
Resume: Thomas G. Hollis, Jr.
OBJECTIVE
Opportunity within a creative, innovative company in which experienced web/print design, advertising/marketing skills, artistic/technical illustration and photography may be used in unique advertising concepts, providing profitable solutions for employer and clients.
STRENGTHS
- Optimistic, friendly attitude and respect for authority in the workplace.
- Dedication to project deadlines and team environments.
- Proven illustration capability, print design talent, and multimedia/web software ability.
- Complete production of newspaper/magazine periodicals and large "phone book" publications, including data formatting.
- Working knowledge of prepress and in-house offset printing.
- Specialize in direction as well as hands-on web site internet presence & graphic design, including logo and Ad branding.
"Always keeping up with the latest trends,
I strive to invent & perfect design through current technologies."
SKILLS
- Extensive career in using web & print graphic design, photography, illustration, and promotional product design to provide popular advertising for my client's target market.
- Professional background with IBM and Apple Power Macintosh; Graphic/Web design software programs include QuarkXPress, Adobe: InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, GoLive, Dreamweaver, Flash and Acrobat, Microsoft: Excel, PowerPoint, Word and FrontPage.
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
2000 - Present, HollisCreative, San Diego, CA / Atlanta, GA area. (Telecommute)
Freelance Print/Web Designer ; advertising design, web design, marketing & promotional campaigns, magazine production, corporate identity, and fine art illustration. Project list includes the production of yellow pages guides nationally for Better Business Bureaus and branding/design of Going To® Hotel Coupon Guides.
2007 - 2009, TPI Publishing, Inc., Alexander City, AL.
Print/Web Designer ; employee management, advertising design and layout of daily newsprint publications, prepress and in-house offset printing, advertising design of monthly magazine, web design & multimedia, marketing & promotional campaigns for T.P.I. and advertising clients.
1999 - 2000, Commercial Ventures, Provincetown, MA.
Print/Web Designer ; Manage, direct, and work with a team of graphic web/print designers to produce websites, display advertisement, posters, logos, brochures, signs/banners, promotional products, illustrations, and architectural renderings.
1996 - 1999, BellSouth Advertising and Publishing Corporation, Fort Lauderdale, FL. (Now AT&T)
Major Accounts Sales Team Support Graphic Artist ; Production and management of advertising for Major Accounts in BellSouth Yellow Pages for Southeast Florida. Design and layout of color/black and white ads using original photography, illustrations, logos, and copy on Macintosh and IBM computers. Consistently met optimum quota standards with high quality ratings.
1990 - 1996, BellSouth Advertising and Publishing Corporation, Atlanta, GA. (Now AT&T)
Graphic Artist ; Production of advertisements per clients' requests in BellSouth Yellow Pages for the four-state southeastern region. Design and layout of color/black and white ads using illustrations, logos, and copy created on the Macintosh. Hand lettering custom typefaces, paste up, proofreading. Consistently met optimum quota standards with high quality ratings.
1989, NASA, Sverdrup Technology Inc., Stennis Space Center, MS.
Designer-Illustrator (Engineering Associate III); Production of illustrations and graphics in a variety of mediums from rough sketches or verbal instructions from clients for use in reports, presentations, and displays. Work with designer-illustrators, writers-editors, and clients to develop effective presentations of complex concepts.
EDUCATION
Mississippi State University, 1988. Bachelor of Arts degree with emphasis in graphic design and photography.
References available upon request.
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