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PROFESSIONAL BIO - RESUME

Freelance Consultant
Media-Resources.com
Nashville, TN
October 1997 to the present

Currently, I am an independent contractor providing internet design and development services for a number of corporate clients in the Nashville, TN area. I have assisted these clients in many ways, from making simple content revisions and additions, to providing them with a complete, turnkey website makeover and redesign, RealAudio and hosting solutions. I work on Macintosh and Windows platforms, and test my pages for Firefox, AOL and Internet Explorer browsers on both platforms.

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Creative Director
Acuity Marketing Communications, Inc.
Franklin, TN
September 1992 until October 1997

I was a Creative Director at Acuity Marketing for a little over 5 years. My responsibilities included design for print (including extensive Photoshop compositing and color correction for publication), but also producing video tapes for sales, marketing and training purposes for a number of clients.

Acuity Marketing Communications I acquired experience using Adobe Premier to digitally edit and master client videos and relied heavily upon Adobe Photoshop and Macromedia Freehand to generate graphic elements for these video projects. Additionally, I was deeply involved in designing and creating content of web-based projects for a number clients; such as ArchitectureSouth magazine, The Jones Company, and Crescent Resources.

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Art Director
WSMV Television
Nashville, TN
March 1990 until August 1992

Recruited for the Art Director position by WSMV, my responsibilities for nearly 2-1/2 years included design and execution of station projects - planning, scheduling and project assignments, supervising design staff, and budgeting for art department expenditures.

WSMV channel 4 Television In this capacity, I coordinated on-air video graphics and print projects for the station and oversaw the installation and implementation of two Unix-based videographic design computers. To facilitate the growing print production requirements of the station, I initiated the purchase of desktop publishing tools in 1991. I oversaw this Macintosh-based system for use by both the art staff and sales department.

Video graphic projects included design work for Spotlight on Country with Demetria Kalodimos, produced locally and sold for national syndication, and the Miller & company show which featured Dan Miller for a national cable audience on The Nashville Network. Of course, there was heavy emphasis placed on designing the station on-air look, and daily news and promotion projects, as well.

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Senior Designer
WBTV Television
Charlotte, NC
August 1985 until February 1990

WBTV channel 3 television I produced news graphics at WBTV from August 1985 until February 1990, and was promoted into the senior designer position in October 1988. My duties there included daily coordination with news department management to facilitate planning and execution of news and sports graphics; including topical over-the-shoulder visuals, maps, production backgrounds and animated pre-production for news stories. Other responsibilities included font and logo creation, as well as designing, producing and supervising post-production for special show openings and station promotion.

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Cameraman; Producer; Lighting Director
Jefferson-Pilot Teleproductions
Charlotte, NC
April 1978 until August 1985

JP Sports My duties evolved over 7 years experience with the production company as a video cameraman, commercial producer, and lighting director. For much of that time, there was no in-house design position at JPT. While performing the duties of my position, I also began to create video graphics and animation for commercial and industrial clients, as well as for JPT's regional sports programming. I was directly responsible for developing and updating the graphics package for their coverage of Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) and Southeastern Conference (SEC) basketball and football network coverage. I took the opportunity to combine a love of design with production insight to become a production problem-solver, and fill a need within the company.

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College of William and Mary in Virginia Education
The College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia, B.A. Theatre & Speech. Emphasis on scenic and lighting design, television and sound studio production.

The Poynter Institute, St. Petersburg, Florida, Broadcast Videographics Seminar

Photography Workshops with veteran nature photographer Byron Jorjorian

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