Computer Skills

• PageMaker
• Photoshop
• Illustrator
• Microsoft Word
• Web Page Design

Creative and Technical Skills

• T-shirt design for Rock and Roll groups and diverse businesses and non-profit organizations
• Production of art from original concept and layout through color separations ready for printing
• Illustration using watercolor, gouache, pen and ink, colored pencil and acrylic mediums
• Page layout/magazine production
• Creating advertisements, logos and brochures
• Exceptional eye for colors and details
• Overseeing and ameliorating press runs
• Photography

Administrative Skills

• Proficient in training and motivating staff artists and free-lance artists
• Competent at coordinating multiple projects, with a high standard of quality control
• Able to conceive and apply new and effective procedures, forms and work flow systems
• Accomplished liaison for meetings, trade shows and conventions

Communication and Clerical Skills

• Capable of writing with excellent command of English grammar and spelling
• Adept at writing articles, biographical sketches and press releases, proofreading and editing
• Successful and effective interaction with diverse clients and associates
• Superior analytical and organizational skills
• Archive management

1997-2000

Creative Director for Fitnotes Magazine and Bay Area Brides & Grooms Magazine
Livermore, California

1993-1997

Art Director and Production Manager for Garage Graphics
Walnut Creek, California

1992-1993

Promotions and Publicity Manager for Concord Jazz, Inc.
Concord, California

1988-1991

Art Director for Andy's Tee Shirts
Concord, California

1980-1988

Art Director (1985-1988), Assistant Art Director (1981-1985), Graphic Artist (1980-1981)
Winterland Productions
San Francisco, California

• Web Page Design, Computer Graphics, Computer Applications
  Regional Occupational Program, Pleasant Hill, California
  
  
• Internship as Assistant Producer for "The Informed Viewer" television show
  KFCB, Channel 42, Concord, California
  
  
• Periodical Productions, Communications Career Training
  Diablo Valley College, Pleasant Hill, California
  
  
• English Literature/Fine Art
  University of California, Santa Cruz, California
  
  
• De Anza College
  Cupertino, California