Resume

SUMMARY:

• Graphic designer with more than 15 years of experience in providing print media, web design and social media expertise to public sector clients, private sector development firms, and large and small businesses.
• Bachelor of Arts in Visual Communication
• Experience with over 20 contemporary brands of design software
• Proven record of constant, creative output
• Provide professional design services and project management to internal and external clients and deliver a professional looking final product within tight deadlines

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

President – Bruce Publishing, LLC – Scottsdale, Arizona
2009 – Present

• Design and layout of print and digital media for clients/projects and proposals
• Create detailed 2-D color civil and architectural illustrations for use in client marketing exhibits, presentations, and report documents
• Create GIS maps/exhibits and store sensitive client data
• Design and maintain the client/project websites

Significant Project Experience:

• Premier Engineering Corporation Proposal Layouts and Graphics - Creative Media, Chandler, AZ
• Phoenix International Raceway General Plan Amendment and Rezoning Graphics,    Phoenix, AZ - (Teamed with Terraforma Design Group, LLC)
• Apache Junction Downtown Revitalization GIS, Creative Media and Web Development, Apache Junction, AZ - (Teamed with G&G Consulting, LLC)
• ACEC of AZ Conference Booth Banner Backdrop, Web Development and Creative Media, Phoenix, AZ
• ASU Fulton School of Engineering Pavements/Materials Conference Brochure Design, Tempe, AZ
• Terraforma Design Group Web Development and Creative Media, Tempe, AZ
• LLOYD Civil and Sports Engineering Web Development and Creative Media, Phoenix, AZ
• SMARTTraining, LLC Web Development and Creative Media, Scottsdale, AZ
• Singapore Math NOW! Web Development and Creative Media, Scottsdale, AZ

Graphic Designer – CMX – Phoenix, Arizona
2005 - 2009

• Design and maintain the CMX Community Foundation website
• Design and maintain the CMX Sports Engineers website
• Design and maintain the client/project websites
• Design and layout of print and digital media for multiple departments within CMX, including marketing, planning, water resources, sports engineering, survey, and construction management
• Implementation of Corporate Standards for logo design and usage
• Create detailed 2-D color civil and architectural illustrations for use in marketing exhibits, presentations, and report documents
• Standardization and implementation of the redesigned CMX logos.
• Work closely with the National Marketing Director to create various marketing collateral
• Member of the CMX Community Foundation Special Event Committee, working closely with other committee members to create print and website special event/fundraiser collateral
• Project management of design requests and special projects

Significant Project Experience:

• CMX Community Foundation Creative Media, Manalapan, NJ
• CMX, LLC Corporate Website, Phoenix, AZ
• CMX Planning Group Creative Media, Phoenix, AZ
• CMX Telecommunications Division Creative Media, Phoenix, AZ
• CMX Telecommunications Division Creative Media, Tampa, FL
• CMX Sports Engineering Creative Media, Phoenix, AZ
• Luke Air Force Base GIS and Creative Media, Glendale, AZ
• Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Phoenix, Endowment Book of Life, Phoenix, AZ
• Stetson Valley Phase II Upper Half Marketing Exhibits, Phoenix, AZ
• Harquahala Graphic Design Services, Maricopa County, AZ
• Legends Marketing Graphics, Casa Grande, AZ
• Entorno Design Services (99th Avenue and Indian School Road), Avondale, AZ

Independent Contracted Graphic Designer – Arizona State University, Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering – Tempe, Arizona
2005 - Present

• Design and layout of the Pavements/Materials Conference brochure, including preparation for professional press printing.

Graphic Designer – City of Scottsdale – Scottsdale, Arizona
1996 - 2005

• Provided GIS site location maps, parcel and aerial overlays, zoning maps, land use maps, and various other exhibits
• Made General Plan changes/revisions
• Created detailed presentations for use in City Council and Planning Commission public meetings for development cases such as Development Review, Use Permit, Liquor License, Zoning, Lot Splits/Ties, Abandonments, Annexations, Board of Adjustment, Master Plans, and General Plan Amendments.
• Worked closely with the US Postal Service, and emergency response divisions of the City to assign addresses to new residential and commercial parcels of land within the City's corporate boundaries. Provided hand drafting of new subdivision plats onto the City's right-of-way quarter-section maps using ink on mylar drafting equipment.
• A member of the City of Scottsdale Technology Partner group for the City of Scottsdale Information Systems Department, specialized in troubleshooting technology issues
• Project budgets and management of graphic requests and special projects
• Provided customer service in the Development Services Records Department, including issuing copies of development records, permits, improvement plans, zoning maps, water, sewer, and storm drain quarter-section maps, aerial photography, engineered site plans and architectural plans for residential and commercial projects.
• Member of the core design team for the City of Scottsdale website and internal Intranet site

Clerk Typist – PDS Technical Services – Scottsdale, AZ
1995 - 1996

• Contract employee for the City of Scottsdale
• Performed administrative and office management tasks for the City of Scottsdale Zoning Enforcement Department

EDUCATION/AWARDS:

• Bachelor of Arts Degree in Visual Communication - Collins College - Tempe, Arizona - May 2004
• Environmental Architectural Design - Scottsdale Community College - Scottsdale, Arizona - June 1997
• Presented with a Norman Rockwell plaque for "Outstanding Support" and a letter of appreciation from the Post Master and other members of the US Postal Service.