Michael Post Email & Phone Number

Boyne City, Michigan

Design graphic layouts for aftermarket automobile gauges, including speedometers. Design customized graphics for instrument clusters in hot rods, race cars, and award-winning classic roadsters. Chief package designer and artist for booth displays, POP displays and sign graphics. Utilize Adobe Creative Cloud and Rhinoceros CAD software daily. Work with multiple four-color printing methods and equipment.

Charlevoix, Michigan

Handled online presence of hotels on multiple websites, including inventory management via database, marketed hotels & resorts B2C and B2B via traditional and social media methods (HTML email newsletters), responsible for website design, maintenance and service. Performed IT duties, personal computer support, and computer maintenance.

·Designed advertisements, tabloid and broadsheet newspaper pages using Adobe Creative Suite 3, including Indesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, and Acrobat. ·Designed from the template up, and produced the layout every week single-handed: 1. the weekend events magazine the GRAPHIC (36 pages) -- body copy, photo spreads, etc. -- while handling final copy editing & proofreading. Provided editorial content and photograph selection. 2. Layout and design of special insert sections to newspaper, 4 per month (6 pages each), including advertisements. Coordinated between copywriters, photographers, and editors to send the page to the press, using third-party software. ·Other work included creating Internet advertisements using Photoshop and Adobe Flash.

Learned sales techniques and skills to market life and health insurance to the Northern Michigan market.Worked in a high-accountability, deadline-oriented full-commission-pay environment.Booked 12+ appointments over phone and traveled 700 miles per week.Worked in 4-person team with manager and agents of lesser seniority. Participated in training of new agents.Top Ten Branch Sales Performance 2 months in a Row

Created numerous covers and labels for CDs and DVDs for customers, using software like Photoshop 6, MS Publisher 2003, and SureThing CD LE. Worked editing video projects, including weddings, promotional videos, and advertisements, using software like Final Cut Pro 3, Edius 3, and DVD Studio Pro. Answered phones, shipped packages, produced all media from computer file to saleable finished product.

Worked with Design Team Leader to create a simplified and logical site design and page layouts, producing thumbnail sketches before hand-coding HTML. Worked as primary digital photographer for websiteWrote pieces for inclusion in the review section of website and copyedited those of others. Skills used included: Adobe Dreamweaver, Art -drawing and illustrating, MS FrontPage, Adobe Photoshop.

Produced various front and rear 2-color labels for product line of wine bottles. Worked closely with client throughout project, producing proofs throughout design process for client feedback and adapting design to fit. Used manual pen-and-ink techniques as well as Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator. Skills used included: Art -drawing and illustrating, Adobe Illustrator.

Bfa, Graphic Design, Web Design, Art

Won Class Honors. 2 years of computer art (Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, Director, Flash). 3 years of Graphic Design study. Skills include.

High School Diploma, Design And Applied Arts

, Salutatorian Art classes taken for 4 years. Computer classes taken for 3 years, including programming (C++, Visual Basic) and Microsoft.

Bachelor Of Fine Arts - Bfa