UPDATED: 06/16/11

Resumé

Education

    Kutztown University of Pennsylvania - Kutztown, PA
    B.F.A. Communication Design, May 2001
    Concentration: Illustration

Skills

    Exceptional knowledge of Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Fractal Design Painter, Quark XPress, Word Perfect, and Microsoft Word

    Working knowledge of Macromedia Flash!, and 2D animation

    Mac and PC platforms

    Innovative ideas and concepts, quick learner with good people skills, and trained in various styles of illustration. Known media include: ink, oil paint, watercolor, charcoal, graphite, and colored pencil.

Illustration Work Experience

    Summer 2004 - present
    Spot illustrations and character sketches for director Kevin Smith's www.newsaskew.com. Also currently working with screenwriter Barbara Herndon (writer of Rugrats in Paris) on several new cartoon properties currently being pitched to Cartoon Network, Nickelodeon, and Tokyopop.

    Summer 2004 - present
    Freelancer for Creative Strategies Group. Under the direction of CSG I have worked for clients such as:

    M&M mars - Product design
    Bazooka Joe - Freelance Illustration
    Topps - Product Design
    Merchant Bill of Rights - Character design/Animation stills
    PatientCentric - Character Design/Animation stills

    Summer 2003 - Fall 2005
    Member of a group of freelance illustrators functioning as Firefly Creative Group. Worked on independent projects such as graphic novel properties and children's books.

    Fall 2001 - Summer 2003
    Worked periodically for an affiliate of Tor book publishing, designing characters and cover for a book that was to be released the following year. Also pencil and ink work for a set of comic books based on the series.

    Summer 2001
    Worked for John Kocon Illustration to produce a series of how-to illustrations for Do It Yourself magazine. Also was comissioned to illustrate a children's book titled "The Zoo" to be sold on E-Books.com.

    Summer 2000
    Created an ink drawing of a team of characters that was then colored and printed to be used as a promotional piece for the website www.crusadersltd.com.