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President/Creative Director. Concept, design and produce projects from sketch through production. Responsibilities include maintaining client needs, concepting, designing, and producing advertisements, brochures, billboard campaigns, corporate identities, and packaging. Clients include: SVSound, LLC., ITT Industries, Womacks Casinos, Concepts Restaurants, Water Works Car Washes, BrokenBoard Skate Co.

Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex

Worked concepting and designing packaging for existing brands, brand extensions, designed and created technical illustrations for user manuals and quick start guides, designed online user manuals, concepted and designed product displays, and produced 3D product, packaging and display renderings. Worked closely with New Product and Development and Engineering teams. Consulted regularly with manufacturing and packaging teams in China and delivered final press-ready artwork files.

Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States

Planned and executed complex electronic and conventional presentations for meetings with Program Managers and DoD clients. Created 1500+ technical illustrations and/or exploded views of systems for use in Interactive Technical Manuals and Repair Parts and Special Tools Lists. Developed work instructions and guidelines for delivery and archive of IETM and RPSTL graphics.

Designed and produced projects from concept through production. Responsibilities included maintaining client needs, concepting, designing, and producing advertisements, brochures, billboard campaigns and corporate identities. Clients included: Colorado Springs Housing and Building Association, Daniels Chevrolet, LSI Logic, Keller Homes, The Cliff House and Spring Transit.

Designed VHS and DVD packaging for PBS Home Video and promotional materials for HGTV.

Packaging Designer. Designed and produced projects from concept through production. Responsibilities included creating new product identity for specific target markets. Concepting, designing, and producing advertisements, brochures, and corporate identities. Producing dimensional, photo-realistic renderings from sketches for presentation purposes. Creating 3-dimensional mock-ups for product research.Clients included: Coca-Cola Company, Georgia- Pacific, Dr. Pepper-7Up, ConAgra Foods, Flowers Bakery, Paragon Trade Brands.