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.