- August 06 - December 09, IMG College, Lexington, KY
- Art direction, lead web designer, and front-end engineer for IMG's collegiate athletic properties including ncaafootball.com, ukathletics.com, texassports.com, utsports.com and mgoblue.com amongst others
- Hand code XHTML and CSS validated sites before handing off and working with both on-site and off-site developers
- Work in conjunction with partners at CBS Sports to make daily content and graphical updates to properties as well as to ensure properties are running optimally
- Efficiently turn around art requests as made by clients in a timely fashion and/or as dictated by circumstance; i.e. last minute press conferences
- Design and production of web ready art for existing and original products
- Design and optimization of art for email campaigns
- On-site multimedia streaming for the University of Kentucky's "Extreme Access" service. Responsibilities include live streaming of men's and women's sporting events as well as press conferences and coaches shows. Events are later optimized for archival streaming purposes via CBS Sports
- Capturing of audio events for ncaafootball.com including coaches interviews and weekly podcast "NCAA Football Insider"
- March 04 - July 06, Hudson Yards, New York, NY
- Scanning, color correction, and heavy retouch work for publications including; Architectural Record, Guitar World, Acoustic Guitar, Guitar One, Bass World, McGraw-Hill Education, Catalina, and Aviation Week. Color moves, detailed retouch, and silo work performed as needed and/or requested by client. Releasing high res images to clients and tracking images throughout production, from scan to hi-res customer release
- Heavy retouch, color correcting, and pagination for Time Life projects including Teen People, Time For Kids 2005 Almanac, Time Life Criminals and Villans, This Old House, Essence, and Real Simple
- Page processing and quality control for Business Week, Avaition Week, Architectural Record, and Engineering News Record. Running both lo-res and hi-res proofs on all pages and proofing pages for edit and workflow issues
- Ad processing for Business Week magazine. Taking client provided files and working them to comply with Schawk workflow
- Customer Service Represenitive duties for Business Week on closing nights. Includes taking in pages from customer, being in constant contact with the Business Week production manager, calling customer to resolve any problems, overseeing general workflow, and being last phase of quality control before releasing pages to print. This position also requires completing close reports and billing
- December 03 - February 04, Metro Media Technologies, New York, NY
- Internship in Mac department consisting of pre-production for billboard advertisements
- Emphasis on color correction of client provided art to meet client expectations when painted on MMT printers on various mediums. Client files worked on include Miramax, Macy's, SAK's, Hummer, Armani, and NBC among others
- August 03 - January 04, University of Kentucky, Chandler Medical Ctr, Dept of Marketing
- Internship where duties include design/layout of promotional print ads and banners including mailers, brochures, and stickers for the Chandler Medical Center
- Assisted in generating ideas for upcoming 2004 ad campaign
- Rebuilding and maintenance of archival system
- Freelance
- Art Direction, design and development of XHTML and CSS validated sites
- CD & LP packaging for recording artists Josh Freese and modwheelmood
- Photoshop retouching for print and online campagins
- gardening at night
- References
- Taylor MacDonald, Senior Web Developer at The Creative Department (Cincinnati, OH), 513-651-2901 x201
- Pat McGuire, Editor-in-Chief at Filter Magazine (LA, CA), 323-464-4217
- Marc Reyes, Creative Director and Owner of Crosshatch Creative (Berea, KY), 859-544-1891
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