To design, implement, and integrate brands across the entire gambit of marketing touch-points using both existent and conceptual delivery tactics in both interactive and traditional print, outdoor, and trade-show mediums.
07-01-07 to Current
Currently employed as a graphic designer / Digital Illustrator in Charlotte N.C. by Portland based advertising agency HMH. I work on several accounts under the Daimler Trucks North America & Freightliner corporations including Detroit Diesel, Sterling trucks, and Thomas Built buses. Other notable accounts are Continental tire and Crescent Communities. My current position is "Studio Artist" which is a hybrid position that entails Art direction and extensive digital illustration, photo-retoucing, digital compositing, and photography.
2006 to 2007
Triovisions is a Wilmington N.C. based creative shop that provides solutions from web to print to a.v. Working for a small shop that does everything in house produced some great opportunities to work in all mediums. I provided art direction for interactive, web, environmental, print, and publication design for accounts such as Atlanta based airport Hartsfield Jackson, Duplin Winery, Century 21, Intracoastal realty and Topsail Magazine.
2004-2006
I started my career freelancing for Raleigh based ad agency Rocket Burkhead and Winslow under the art direction or Rick Binger. I helped concept and produce 3D trade show and kiosk environments for Lowes lumber yard and CREE technologies using lightwave 3D. From there I freelanced for Maverick Marketing out of Cary N.C. and brought in several of my own clients to keep the bills paid.
2002-2003
A college epiphany to provide my online community with engines directly from japan turned into my first dot com venture hondahopup.com. I targeted a niche market that was on the rise way before the "The Fast and the Furious" hit the big screen. I offered around 3,000 products from which I drop shipped with my logo and invoice from a Cali based warehouse distributor. My big sellers we're imported engines from Japan in which I managed to hold google top 5 rankings for the most sought after engines. I later sold the website in order to focus my attention to school and design. Honda motors now owns the domain name, not sure what the plans for the site are but I got a good run out of it.
Art Direction, Digital Illustration, Graphic Design, Interactive Design, Interactive Development, CSS/HTML, pre-press, press checks, photography, retouching, Brand Strategy, Consumer Insight, and a highly developed facial recognition portion of the brain. I see faces in everything. Food, textures, coffee, boobs(JOKE).
Text Edit, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign, Adobe Flash, Adobe Dreamweaver, HTML, CSS, After Effects, Lightwave 3d, Adobe Image ready.
Degree in Digital Media from the School of Communication Arts in Raleigh NC.