I have been fortunate to work for and with great people. I leave the commercial world with great memories of my days with Hamilton Partners and Engine Company 1 (now Chemistry Club). They were great places to work because the quality of the people and work they produced made it a joy to come to work every day.And now for something completely different...Much remains to pursue in the music of Bach, philosophical ideas, and a study of my family history.Thanks for the Memories,Dennis Cress

I recently purchased a 440 page book online that was in both ePub and PDF formats. For structural reasons the ePub was almost impossible to read on an iPad. Both formats were poorly designed and lacked rudimentary navigation. As a proof of concept I extracted the text and graphics from the PDF and restructured the book in InDesign for readability and content presentation specifically for an iPad including hyperlinked contents, bookmarks, index, and a simple link from any page to the contents page. This is the kind of project that interests me.For the last twenty years of my career I have worked for advertising and marketing agencies as a Photoshop image retoucher and Production Artist on ad campaigns, catalogs, packaging, and OOH. But my real love is the printed book. A lot of that has to do with the fact that I was a printer and typesetter for the first part of my career and have never gotten the feel of the printing press, darkrooms, film emulsions, and ink on paper out of my system. A digital book should reflect that same care for structure and readability. I think that shows in my InDesign long documents.I now live in rural West Sonoma County and have no desire to commute to the city every day. Some might call that retirement, but living on 5 acres with wildlife, a garden, chickens and sheep is not a life of leisure. Even so, I have all the tools necessary to work from home and can always make room for another digital project.

20 years of digital image retouching based on a traditional photographic film editing background. Digital and print production art, for a multitude of advertising projects; as well as final asset production for a variety of online and mobile digital projects. Current digital project is the design, custom photography, and development of www.thomaspenders.com.

Final Print mechanicals for magazine ads and OOH bulletins.

Delivery of final Photoshop, InDesign, and Illustrator assets.

Digital asset production.

Digital asset production for mobile devices.

Clients: SF 49ers, Monterey Bay Aquarium, Rubio's, Noah's Bagels, Mozilla.

Clients: Microsoft, HP, Radio Shack.Photoshop image compositing and color retouching. Managed digital photography studio for the production of product photography.Managed color workflow and ProofMaster RIP

Managed production workflow and provided application support for IT department.

Clients: Nestle, Oral-B, Chevron, Wells Fargo BankPhotoshop image and color retoucher.

Transformed a traditional graphic arts curriculum into a functioning Electronic Publishing program. Classroom was an educational hybrid combining a printshop with 2-color Hamada Press, Darkroom, and bindery, with a full Macintosh computer lab of 23 computers. Students learned to design and prepare work for the printing process.Classroom was located on the UNM-Gallup Branch in NW New Mexico.