Professional Summary

Love working with Ui and web design. Innovative and deadline-driven Graphic and UI Web Designer with 15+ years of experience designing and developing user-centered digital/print marketing material and web design from initial concept to finish. Looking for career as a UI Web & App Designer. Have over a year in working with AI. I've used the power of AI technology to enhance my design process, leveraging it for tasks like graphic design, illustrations, coding, and layout optimization.

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EDUCATION:

ART INSTRUCTION SCHOOLS, INC.
1981-1982
Minneapolis, MN
Art Courses studied 1982
Successfully completed Art instruction home study course. Specializing in cartooning and Illustrations.

CHENANGO TEC CENTER, Graphic Design
1995 - 1996
Norwich, NY
Successfully completed the Graphic Arts/Printing Program

UDEMY Web Design and Development Courses
2021-2023
Refreshed a lot of my skills by taking extra courses in the last few years on Figma UI UX Web & App Design and HTML, CSS and Javascript.

Professional Experience

Graphic Designer and Web Developer
June 2016-2022
DR Dave’s RV and Trailer Repair, Norwich, NY
Created logo and advertising designs, Car magnets, Flyers and Posters. Created Web Pages for business from 2016-2023. I did the all the research for the business website. Worked with online web design and hosting apps such as: Godaddy, Wix, Weebly, Github, Firebase and Wordpress. Have been improving and learning more design and front end skills every chance I get. I did research on other RV and Camper Repair sites and designed my site to be more user friendly and look better than the competition. This caused our company to be one of the most successful business in our area. Can use a very large variety of Linux, Windows and Mac programs.
Linux: (Ubuntu, Xubuntu, Backbox, Manjaro, Fedora) Bluefish 2.2 (html editor),Figma, Locofy, Anima, Gimp (photo and graphics editor), Inkscape (Illustrator & vector software), Blender (3D software) Natron, Visual Studio Code, and
Sublime Text.
Windows 7, 8, 10: Microsoft Office, (Word, Excel, Power Point), Open Office, Norton.
Mac OS : Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, After Effect, Acrobat Pro, QuarkXPress.



Graphic Designer and Pre-Press Technician
March 2005 - July 2007
ADS Creative Consulting, Norwich, NY
Hands on experience in all aspects of graphic design and developing innovative and effective marketing materials including: the development of innovative designs and layout to promote product/services for brochures, newsletters, flyers, catalogs, package design, posters, Pre-press, logos, cartoons, multi-media, interactive CDs, web-pages and 3D animations. Also worked on many trade show promotional materials using Posters, banners, displays and booth designs.
Programs used were: Adobe Creative Suite
1. Adobe Photoshop
2. Adobe Illustrator
3. Adobe indesign
4. Adobe Acrobat Pro
5. Strata Studio Pro (3D software)


Graphic design specialist
June 2000 - March 2005
Norwich Pennysaver, Norwich, NY
Hands on experience in flyer design. Worked with database technology. Experience in designing and laying out sales flyers and placing art, photos, and text. Also created some personal cartoons and logos for some customers. Programs used were:
1. Photoshop
2. Illustrator
3. Indesign
4. QuarkXPress


Graphic and Web Designer
March 1998 - 1999
Paragon Solutions, Norwich, NY
Experience in Computer Operations and System Troubleshooting including: software and hardware installation/configuration, MAC system troubleshooting, installing/configuring peripheral equipment including scanners, video capture devices, printers and data storage/retrieval systems and setting up local area networks. PC to MAC file conversions. Video and audio file conversions. Worked on different web designs for different customers. used Photoshop, Illustrator, Pagemaker and Adobe Pagemill.