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about
As a designer, I've utilized my advanced skills with QuarkXPress and Adobe Creative Suite to create websites, banner ads, logos, business sets, brochures, display ads, yellow page directories and signage.
My career has included graphic positions in many prestigious organizations including NASA and BellSouth Corporation. I partnered Commercial Ventures Design Group to provide web, print, and promotional product design. Most recently, my position as Designer / Art Director at Tallapoosa Publishers led to more experience with employee management and workflow, editing, advertising, and multimedia design for web application.
In San Diego, I successfully launched a design agency, HollisCreative, and produced web and print products for major accounts including Better Business Bureau® yellow pages guides for San Diego, Nebraska and Seattle, as well as branding and development of GoingTo® hotel coupon guides.
"Always keeping up with the latest trends,
I strive to invent & perfect design through current technologies."
links
See my latest client site at
http://www.swisswatchesofsandiego.com
Other web site links include:
http://www.alexcityoutlook.com
http://www.lakemartinmagazine.com
skills
| QuarkXPress |
User Interface Design |
MS Frontpage |
Off-Set Printing |
| InDesign CS5 |
CSS / HTML / XHTML |
MS Word |
Pre-Press |
| Illustrator CS5 |
ImageReady |
MS Excel |
4CLR Process |
| Photoshop CS5 |
Fireworks CS5 |
MS Publisher |
Acrobat |
| Dreamweaver CS5 |
Flash CS5 |
MS PowerPoint |
Digital Photography |
professional experience
Designer / Art Director, 2000 - Present
HollisCreative • San Diego, CA / Atlanta, GA
• Complete production of yellow pages guides nationally for Better Business Bureaus®, including 7,000+ listing formatting, page layout, cover, and inline/display advertising.
• Responsibilities include design, layout, advertising, prepress and branding/design for Going To® Hotel Coupon Guides.
• Hires, trains and directs up to five full-time contract employees while maintaining business organization, payroll and bookkeeping.
• Schedules and plans client meetings and provides excellent customer service while meeting all deadlines.
Designer / Art Director, 2007 - 2009
Tallapoosa Publishers, Inc. • Alexander City, AL
• Primary duties included managing employees that produce advertising design and layout of daily newsprint publications.
• Conducted prepress checks, managed in-house offset printing, and facilitated monthly magazine production.
• Created promotions and marketing campaigns that included web design, multimedia and branded promotional items.
Designer / Creative Director, 1999 - 2000
Commercial Ventures • Provincetown, MA
• Directed a team of web/print designers to produce websites, banner ads, display advertising, posters, logos, brochures, large format signs/banners, promotional products, illustrations and architectural drawings.
Major Accounts Sales Team Support Graphic Artist, 1990 - 1999
BellSouth Advertising and Publishing Corporation (Now AT&T)
Atlanta, GA and Fort Lauderdale, FL
• Production and management of advertising for major accounts in BellSouth Yellow Pages.
• Creation of color/black and white ads using original photography, illustrations, logos and text, while consistently meeting optimum quota standards with high quality ratings.
Designer-Illustrator (Engineering Associate III), 1989 - 1990
NASA, Sverdrup Technology, Inc. • Stennis Space Center, MS
• Created illustrations and graphics in a variety of mediums from rough sketches or verbal instructions from clients for use in reports, presentations, and displays.
• Worked with designers, illustrators, writers and editors to develop effective presentations of complex concepts.
education
Mississippi State University, 1989
Bachelor of Arts degree with emphasis in graphic design and photography.
San Diego Continuing Education, 2000-2011
Ongoing Multimedia Education.
References gladly provided upon request.
2011
Website produced and maintained by HollisCreative.
All images are property of HollisCreative.
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