August 10, 2007

DESIGN EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

Multi-Disciplinary Design Professional, New and Traditional Media. Experienced with Institutional, Corporate, Branded Products & Services, Non-Profits, Emerging Company's, and Individuals.

Freelance-Strategic planning, creative services; Corporate Identity, Branding, Art Direction,Broadcast Design, etc.

Independent Director/Producer creating short experimental and documentary films

Corporate Identity, Branding, Art Direction,Broadcast Design and Production through Strategic Planning, Marketing, Media Buying
Clients:
Medical OffiCenter, Phoenix, Mesa, and Tempe, Arizona
DentaHealth, Maryland

Broadcast Design, Freelance
Suissa, Miller,Inc.,Venice, California, Manwich, Hunt-Wesson,

Art Direction + Design, Televison, Print, Outdoor, Direct, etc
Jon Byk Advertising, Brentwood, California
Clients: City National Bank, Beverly Hills, California, KJLH-102.3 FM, Los Angeles, California, Doctors Hospital Of Lakewood, Lakewood, California, Ontario Community Hospital, Ontario, California

Art Direction + Design,
Freelance
Chapman Direct, A Young Rubican Company, New York, New York,
Clients: AT&T, Reach Out World Launch

Art Direction + Design, Freelance
Teleflora, Inc.,Los Angeles, California,

Art Direction + Design, Televison, Print, Outdoor, Direct, etc
Smith, Kline, Beckman, Inc.,Irvine, California
Clients: Allergan, American Medical Optics, Beckman Instruments, and Herbert Laboratories

Art Direction + Design, Televison, Print, Outdoor, Direct, etc
David Visel & Associates, San Pedro, California:
Clients: AAA, Indian Head Water Companies, Sun West Bank, Lance Campers, AICOM (Computer Products), BDT (Buro und Detentechnik)

Art Direction + Design
Wilkerson Advertising, Los Angeles, California
Clients: Roland (Musical Instruments and Equipment)

Art Direction + Corporate Identity Design
Suissa Advertising, Inc.,Santa Monica, California
Corporate Identity for Suissa, Inc

Art Direction + Design, Televison, Print, Outdoor, Direct, etc
Satchi & Satchi/DFS (Dancer, Fitzgerald, Sample, Inc.), Torrance, California
Clients: Tatung Consumer Electronics, HealthCare USA, General Med, Liberty Care, AlpWater (Subsidiary of RC -COLA), Pioneer Stereo

Art Direction + Design, Televison, Print, Outdoor, Direct, etc
Dailey & Associates, Los Angeles, California
Clients: Great Western Savings, Knudsen Dairy, Peter Pan Peanut Butter(Hunt Wesson), KNXT (KCBS-2), Teleflora

Art Direction + Design, Televison, Print, Outdoor, Direct, etc
Weitzman, Dym & Associates, Washington, DC
Clients: Marriott Restaurants, D&F Furnishings, Potomac Power and Electric

TEACHING HISTORY

Adjunct Online Design Faculty
-Art Institute Online-Pittsburg, current-2007
Teaching Corporate Identity, Advertising Art Direction, Packaging, 3D Display and Package Design.


Tenured Graphic Design + Motion Graphics Professor

California State University Fullerton, August, 2004-1994

GRANTS
-University Planning Initiative Committee Grant awarded.
-California State University Fullerton University Planning Initiative Grant funded by CSUF President Gordon awarded.

UNIVERSITY AWARDS
-University Commendation for Outstanding Creative and Scholarly Activities

BROAD BASED TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Art 223A, Lettering and Typography, a foundational class
Art 323A, Graphic Design, junior-level graphic design
Art 323B, a sophomore-level design course
Art 483A, Special Studies, Graphic Design, a senior-level portfolio class
Art 483I, Graphics in Motion, a new media course
Art 499, Independent Study, Graphic Design, undergraduate
Art 599, Independent Study, Graphic Design, graduate
Art 503A, Graduate Problems, Graphic Design
Art 597, Graduate Project, Master’s Candidate final exhibition

All course offerings with the exception of Art 223A, Lettering and Typography included instruction and use of two or more software applications. Art 483I, Graphics in Motion, provided instruction and use of more than two or more intensive applications for animation, editing, compositing, sound design, building on the use of industry standard sofwtare applications, Adobe CS, Quark Xpress, and many others, along with the use of a variety of visual and audio, analog and digital capture vehicles such as digital video, super 8, 16mm,scanners, digital cameras,etc., and additional hardware such cd/dvd burners, beta, vhs, mini-dv, along with mixers,etc. It was a fully functional professional laboratory capable of capture from any source to any form and output.

NEW MEDIA, MOTION GRAPHICS LABORATORY
I was responsible for all aspects of the laboratory design, from inception to completion. These activities included capabilities planning, software and hardware selection, budgeting, vendor selection, bidding, item inspection, scheduling and supervision of extended installation, invoice rectification, trouble shooting, and establishment of laboratory operating procedures.

MOTION GRAPHICS, NEW MEDIA COURSE
Art 483I, Graphics in Motion, a trans-disciplinary course that merged graphic design, traditional and digital film, animation, and sound design .

UNIVERSITY, COLLEGE OF THE ARTS, AND DEPARTMENT SERVICE
Faculty Advisor for three computer laboratories, serving on numerous area, department and university committees

-Chair for the Curriculum Committe, Motion Graphics, Computer Steering, Entertainment Art, Priorities and University Computer Technology committees.
-Graduate advisor, committee chair or member to numerous students
-Chair and member of the Graphic Design Comprehensive Graduate Area Portfolio Review, Curatorial Comprehensive Graduate Area Portfolio Review.
University Extended Education Advisory Board for the Motion Graphics, Computer Graphics, and Digital Design areas.

FACULTY MENTOR
Faculty Mentor, Educational Equity and Faculty Mentor Program

ADDITIONAL TEACHING EXPERIENCE

1995-1994, Graphic Design, Lecturer
California State University Fullerton,
-Art 223A, Lettering, Typography and Rendering
-Art 323B, Graphic Design
The courses emphasized principles of visual communication, design fundamentals, digital design.

Graphic Design, Foundations Program, Instructor
Watterson College, Sherman Oaks, California
-Two Dimensional Design
-Three Dimensional Design
-Basic Drawing
-Lettering and Typography
-Illustration, B/W & Color
-Marker Rendering
-Advertising Design

Instructor
University of California Los Angeles, Extension Program,Graphic Design Certificate Program
-Advertising Concept and Design.

PROFESSIONAL WORKSHOPS & SEMINARS ATTENDED

CONFERENCES AND SEMINARS

COLLEGE ARTS ASSOCIATION CONFERENCE, 2003, Annual Conference, New York

STUDIO ART OPEN SESSION: DESIGN, DESIGN EDUCATION FOR THE 21 CENTURY:
-The Liberal Arts in Design Education, Mary Donahue, Pratt School of Design and School of Visual Arts
-Design as Cultural Artifact: Teaching Design History, Ellen Lupton
-Seizing the Digital Future: Shaking the Foundations of Design Education, Candace Wolff Sanders, University of Rochester
-Virtual Drama and the Cyber School, Rebekah Higgins, Moore College of Art and Design,
-Paula Scher, Pentagram Design

SOCIAL SIMULATION IN THE DIGITAL DOMAIN:
-The Avante Garde as Software, Lev Manovich, University of California, San Diego
-Music Art, Paul Miller a.k.a. DJ Spooky, New York
-Whoa! FrankensteinÂ’s of (Virtual) Reality, Steve Dietz, Shorewood, Minn.
-Sayonara Diorama, Adrianne Wortzel
-Agents, Disembodiment, and Posthuman Transgressions in Simulated Worlds, Lynn Hershman, Marina Grzinc Mauhler, Institute of Philosophy ZRC SAZU, Ljublijana, Slovenia

COLLEGE ARTS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL CONFERENCE, COLLEGE ARTS ASSOCIATION IN LA
STUDIO ART OPEN SESSION:
-The Art of The Past in Recent Fiction and Film
-Dissolves And Jump Cuts: Representation Of Race In Contemporary Film And Video
-Crossing Boundaries: A Historical Perspective on Hybridization, Cultural Differentiation, Alienation, and Otherness in Interdisciplinary Performance, Installation, and Media Arts

SIGGRAPH, Los Angeles Chapter, April 8,1997, UCLA
-Where is The Talent to Power Our Industry’s Future?

MACWORLD EXPO WORKSHOPS,Moscone Convention Center, San Francisco, California

CREATING ENTERTAINMENT TRACK:
-Smoke, Mirrors, and Macintosh
-Tuning Into Intertainment
-Audio, Sound, and Music Tools
-3-D Animation: Step by Step
-New Worlds of Expression with Digital Video
-Creating Multimedia Content for On-line and CD-ROM
-QuickTime VR (virtual reality)
-Career Opportunities for Digital Artists

EDUCATOR’S TRACK:
-Multimedia for Educators,Online Education


ACM SIGGRAPH: 22ND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMPUTER GRAPHICS & INTERACTIVE TECHNIQUES, Los Angeles
ACM SIGGRAPH:
ARTISTS/DESIGNERS SKETCHES:
-The Interactive Encyclopedia of Clamps
-Synthesizing the Wild
-Gigalopolis; The Art of Artificial Life Sensor
-Three-Dimensional Printing, A New 3D Key

EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS: College/University Track

EDUCATION

California State University Fullerton
- Master of Fine Arts, Graphic Design,Motion Design/New Media
- Master Of Arts, Graphic Design

Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, California
- Bachelor of Fine Arts, Advertising Design and Illustration

INTENSIVE COURSES, WORKSHOPS

American Film Institute, Los Angeles, California,
Professional Workshops:
-Motion Graphics with After Effects
-Basic Animation Techniques
-3D Tools and Concepts
-How to Storyboard for Film and TV
-Film Editing, Putting the Pieces Together

- Digital Post production,editing, compositing, A-Vidd Electronics,Professional Training

The New School, Department of Communication, Film Department, New York
-16mm Editing Workshop and Post production

The New York Film Academy, New York, New York, Total Immersion Workshop

Steve Gary’s Copywriting Workshop, Santa Monica, California

University of Southern California,The Institute of Advanced Advertising Studies, Marketing, sponsored by the American Association of Advertising Agencies,Los Angeles, California

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES, JUROR, CURATOR

Juror, SPACE, Student Poster Competition and Exhibition, The ACM SIGGRAPH Education Committee sponsored the computer graphics Student Poster Competition and Exhibition (SPACE). Selected posters exhibited at SIGGRAPH 2002.

Curator, "The Magic Lantern," a film and video exhibition sponsored by OCCCA, Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Ana, California

PRINT COMPETITION & EXHIBITIONS, COMMISSIONS, COLLECTIONS

UN-PROFESSIONAL,The Orange County Center for Contemporary Art (OCCCA), Santa Ana, California, Group Exhibition
-Girls, Girls, Girls, Bugs, and Kiss My Ass, from The Temporary Life Series, 26, 5x7 sequential, scratch-boarding drawings created on Magic Board, Reviewed.

PRINTS FROM THE STUDIO AT SELF-HELP GRAPHICS, FEATURING “BLACK & WHITE,” Galeria Otra Vez, Self-Help Graphics, Los Angeles,catalog

"And Things Went Just As Usual," a limited-edition print created for a portfolio of prints, "Black & White," at the invitation of Self-Help Graphics, Los Angeles.

PARKSIDE NATIONAL SMALL PRINT EXHIBITION, University of Wisconsin-Parkside, competition, Two prints of 79 selected from 838 submitted,catalog

BOSTON PRINTMAKERS NORTH AMERICAN PRINT EXHIBITION, Duxbury Art Complex Museum, Boston, juried exhibition. One of the oldest and most prestigious print societies in the United States, catalog

SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA CURRENTS, Guggenheim Gallery, Chapman University, Orange, Calif.,competition., Juror Jay Belloli, curator of The Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, California.

COMMISSIONS

"And Things Went Just As Usual,"a limited-edition print created for a portfolio of eleven prints, Black & White, at the invitation of Self-Help Graphics, Los Angeles, California

WORKS IN COLLECTION
"And Things Went Just as Usual," 11”x11,” B/W, lithograph print, commissioned by Self-Help Graphics, for “Black & White,” a limited-edition portfolio of eleven prints.

Permanent Collection:
-University of California Santa Barbara, Caridad Project
-The Print Atelier Archive, Self-Help Graphics, Los Angeles, California
-In Private Collection

FILM EXHIBITIONS, COMPETITIONS, FESTIVALS

ALWAYSI.COM, (www.alwayi.com), continuous exhibition, Forbes magazines “Best of the Web” voted the site as "the best of the best."

RAPID EYE MOVEMENT,Faculty Art Exhibition, California State University Fullerton, group exhibition.

CIN(E)-POETRY FESTIVAL,Sponsored by Literary Television and the National Poetry Association, Inc., Brannan Theater, San Francisco, CA. An exhibition of video and film works addressing text and poetry, catalog.

INDIEKINO INTERNATIONAL INDEPENDENT FILM FESTIVAL (www.iiff.org), The first competitive international Internet film festival, Seoul, Korea.
-INDIE WING and HEAVEN Categorys, reviewed, catalog

PLUGGED IN, CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY BAKERSFIELD'S TODD MADIGAN GALLERY,curator, Kathryn Hackman, reviewed, catalog.

NASHVILLE INDEPENDENT FILM FESTIVAL AND COMPETITION, one of 275 films selected from 800 international submissions, catalog

WILLIAMSBURG BROOKLYN FILM FESTIVAL,WHITE AXIS COMPETITION, Brooklyn, New York,one of sixty-three films selected from 500 submissions, reviewed, catalog.

PALM BEACH INDEPENDENT FILM & VIDEO FESTIVAL, West Palm Beach, Florida,catalog

FLICKER, Los Angeles, California, Flicker is a national short film showcase, held in conjunction with “Maestro,” A Celebration of Media Arts Communities, The Association of Independent Video and Filmmakers, and The National Alliance of Media Arts and Culture, catalog

SANTA BARBARA CONTEMPORARY ARTS FORUM, Curator, Meg Linton, Santa Barbara, CA

ASU ART MUSEUM SHORT FILM & VIDEO FESTIVAL ON SECOND STREET, Santa Ana, CA.,catalog

ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY MUSEUM SHORT FILM AND VIDEO FESTIVAL,ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY ART MUSEUM, Nelson Fine Arts Center, Arizona State University. One of twenty-two films selected from 362 entries. Winner, reviewed, catalog

NEW YORK INTERNATIONAL INDEPENDENT FILM & VIDEO FESTIVAL, "The Best of the Fest, Los Angeles," Laemmle Theater, Santa Monica, one of 100 films selected from the 600 films exhibited in three prior festivals, catalog

CANYONLANDS FILM FESTIVAL, Moab, Utah,one of twenty-eight films selected from just under 300 hundred submissions, catalog

NEW YORK INTERNATIONAL INDEPENDENT FILM & VIDEO FESTIVAL,Clear View Cinema, one of 200 films selected from more than 700 entries, catalog

THE SPURGEON EXPERIENCE, “100 HUNDRED ARTISTS, 100 ROOMS,” Santa Ana, CA

AN EVENING OF INDEPENDENT FILMS AT THE HARTLEY HOUSE,New York

THE NEW SCHOOL INVITATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL, Tishman Auditorium, New York, Dr. Jeannie Youngson Award, Best in Show.
Jurors were Daniel Calvist, Propaganda Films, Jonathan Demme, writer and director, Ken Hamm, independent filmmaker, and Susan MacIntosh, producer, director, and writer.

THE NEW SCHOOL FILM FESTIVAL,Tishman Auditorium, New York, finalist in competition.
Jurors included Amedeo DÂ’ Adamo, screenwriter, director, and NEH grant recipient. Stephan Fairchild, filmmaker, National Geographic Television, Discovery Networks, BBC, PBS, ReaderÂ’s Digest. Cindy Kiln, a film, and video artist, PBSÂ’s acclaimed series, POV.

THE SHORT ATTENTION SPAN FILM & VIDEO; VIDEO FESTIVAL, juried international traveling film exhibition, San Francisco, Berkeley, New York, catalog

THE TACOMA TORTURED ARTISTS FILM FESTIVAL, Tacoma, Washington, juried film festival, selected from 365 submissions, catalog

VIDEO POVERA, California State University Los Angeles Fine Arts Gallery.
An exhibition held in conjunction with area-wide festival hosted by LA. Freewaves, a regional multicultural media arts network of art organizations, schools, cable stations, programmers, and video makers promoting independent media as a tool for artistic and social expression.

CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY MEDIA ARTS FESTIVAL COMPETITION, California State University Long Beach

FLUX, California State University Fullerton, solo exhibition

BERLIN INTERFILM FESTIVAL, INTERNATIONALES KURZFILMFESTIVAL BERLIN,“MYTHEN UND MAGIE,” , competition, Three of the 250 selected from 600 experimental film, video and digital video works submitted worldwide. reviewed, catalog

IDENTIFYING THE VOICES, A CURSORY ATTEMPT TO DEFINE AN ART DEPARTMENT, California State University Fullerton,group exhibition, catalog

ART OR ENTERTAINMENT, Griffin Fine Art, Costa Mesa, Calif.,juried video exhibition, invitational.

Summer Arts Film and Video Festival, California State University, Long Beach, California

Annual Summer Arts, The Minor Theater, Arcata, California, Film Festival,theatrical screening

State of The Art, City Of Brea Gallery, Brea, California,group exhibition.

AWARDS: INDUSTRY, FILM FESTIVAL, EXHIBITIONS, COMPETITIONS

CLIO,Two Awards,Category: Television Commercials

TELLY,Two Awards,Category: Television Commercials

+NEW YORK INTERNATIONAL INDEPENDENT FILM & VIDEO FESTIVAL, "The Best of the Fest, Los Angeles," Laemmle Theater, Santa Monica, one of 100 films selected from the 600 films exhibited in three prior festivals, catalog

Movies on a Shoestring, THE ROCHESTER INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL,George Eastman House, Rochester, New York, Honorable Mention, catalog.

ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY MUSEUM SHORT FILM AND VIDEO FESTIVAL, sponsored by ARIZONA STATE UNIVERISTY ART MUSEUM, Nelson Fine Arts Center, Arizona State University. One of twenty-two films selected from 362 entries. Winner, reviewed, catalog

CIN(E)-POETRY FESTIVAL, sponsored by Literary Television and the National Poetry Association, Inc., Brannan Theater, San Francisco, CA., Best of the Festival, one of five festival winners.

NEW SCHOOL INVITATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL, Jurors were Daniel Calvist, Propaganda Films, Jonathan Demme, writer,director, Ken Hamm, independent filmmaker, and Susan MacIntosh, producer, director, and writer. Best in Show, Winner of the Dr. Jeannie Youngson Award, catalog.

THE NEW SCHOOL FILM FESTIVAL, Jurors: Amedeo D’ Adamo, screenwriter, director, and NEH grant recipient; Stephan Fairchild, filmmaker, National Geographic Television, Discovery Networks, BBC, PBS, Reader’s Digest; Cindy Kiln, film, video artist, PBS’s acclaimed series, POV. Finalist, invited to submit film to 19th Annual nvitational.

TACOMA TORTURED ARTISTS FILM FESTIVAL AND COMPETITION, Honorable Mention, Finalist.

CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY MEDIA ARTS FESTIVAL AND COMPETITION, LONG BEACH, Finalist

FOURTH ANNUAL SUMMER ARTS FILM AND VIDEO FESTIVAL, California State University, Long Beach, California, Finalist.