The Fountain Group, LLC, working for
Raytheon Professional Services
Graphic Artist
2010 to 2011

Designed Flash-based educational and training software:

• Designed and animated stick-figure character for use in a number of user-interactive and demonstration animated sequences, including limited and fullbody character animation.
• Created text-based layouts using dynamic text elements.
• Coded custom components and interface elements for use in interactive exercises, using ActionScript 2.0.

Norseman Games, LLC
The Realm Online
Lead Artist/Artist/Animator
2003 to 2010

Designed and animated two-dimensional artwork in cartoon style:

• Minotaur (Bipedal human/bull hybrid)
• Fenris (Four-legged giant evil wolf)
• Basilisk (Six-legged lizard)
• Orcs (Player race, composed of switchable heads with multiple options for eyes, nose, mouth, eyebrows, and hair styles)
• Scenery Objects (Sandcastles, potted flowers, decorated event banners, pumpkins with carved faces, etc)
• Created promotional artwork, Redesigned existing characters, for use in advertising and merchandise.

Created self promotional website, including hand-edited WordPress layout and coding.

Created online advertising campaign for driving traffic to website.

Attended conventions as a working artist, selling prints and personal convention sketches.

• Motor City Comic-Con ’07
• Anthrocon ‘07, ’08, ’09
• GenCon ’08

Kendall College of Art & Design of Ferris State University (KCAD), Fall 2007 through Spring 2010

• Bachelors Degree in Digital Media: 2D Animation

Oakland Community College (OCC), Fall 2000 through Spring 2007

• Associates Degree in Liberal Arts

• Dean’s List, Oakland Community College, Winter ‘02 – Winter ’03
• KCAD Portfolio Scholarship for Portfolio Review
• President’s List, Kendall College of Art & Design, Winter 2008

Applications:

• Adobe Photoshop
• Adobe Flash
• Adobe After Effects
• Adobe Dreamweaver
• ToonBoom Animate
• Microsoft Office

OSs:

• Windows 3.1, NT, 2000, XP, Vista
• Mac OS X

Programming/Scripting:

• Java
• Visual Basic
• C/C++
• HTML
• CSS
• PHP