Resume

A quick overview of my skillsets, work experience, and education history.

Skills

• • Graphic arts: Illustration, character design, page layout and desktop publishing, digital image editing, print design.
• • Industrial Design: Designing and preparing files in raster or vector format for printing or CNC production.
• • Comic books and strips: Writing, story breakdown, page layout, illustration, ink and cleanup, digital lettering and coloring.
• • Traditional animation: Character animation, character layout, cleanup and inbetween, storyboard, story sketch, sheet timing.

Experience

• • Lead Designer
  Lightasmic, Inc.
  January 2007-present
• ⁃ Preliminary conceptual artwork, followed by production designs and vector files, for the construction and installation of holiday light shows at theme parks and zoos across the country.
• ⁃ Work on promotional brochures, mailers, and other print materials as needed.
• • Cartoonist, animation artist, designer
  Self-employed
  August 2011-present
• ⁃ Freelance design and animation for numerous companies and projects, including Knowledge Adventure, Dakota North Entertainment, Visual Story Tools, Mike Young Productions, Pepper Films, Funny Pages Press, and others.
• • Lead Animator/Character Designer
  Jumpstart - Knowledge Adventure, Inc.
  March 2000-June 2001
• ⁃ Animation, story and character development, and supervision for JumpStart and Spy Masters educational interactive CD-ROM games. Later worked in a freelance capacity to do story, artwork, and video editing of cutaway sequences in the Math Blasters educational interactive game.
• • Character Layout Artist
  Sony Pictures Entertainment
• ⁃ Character layout for the second season of Dilbert: The Animated Series.
• • Character Layout Artist/Animator
  Walt Disney Animation Studios
• ⁃ Character layout and animation for The Tigger Movie theatrical release and for Mickey Mouseworks (later known as House of Mouse) television series.
• • Art Director / Animator / Character Layout Artist
  Class6 Entertainment
• ⁃ Supervision and direction of interactive projects for Disney Online, Knowledge Adventure, and others.
• • Animator
  Vortex Media Arts
• ⁃ Character layout and animation and digital cleanup for The Simpsons Virtual Springfield CD-ROM for Fox Interactive.
• • Animation Assistant
  Last Laff Studios
• ⁃ Character cleanup and inbetweening for The Coots ’n’ Critter Christmas Special.
• • Caricature Artist
  SeaWorld Parks & Resorts Orlando/Kamen’s Art Shoppes
• ⁃ Worked as a caricature artist entertaining guests in the Orlando theme park.
• • Graphic Designer
  Easy Exit Information Guide
• ⁃ Desktop publishing, page layout, ad design, and pre-press film output for roadside information publications.
• • Production Manager/Layout Editor
  Press Enterprise, Inc.
• ⁃ Desktop publishing, page layout, and client ad design for the Eastern Pennsylvania Business Journal.

Education

• • Moravian College
  Bachelor’s Degree, Graphic Design and Advertising
  Graduated Magna cum laude, and with Honors
  September 1988-May 1992
• ⁃ Editor-in-Chief, Staff Cartoonist, The Comenian weekly school newspaper
• ⁃ Chairman, Art Committee, HUB Programming Board student activity organization
• ⁃ Co-founder, President, campus chapter of Kappa Pi Art Fraternity