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Graphic Design Experience :
Experience since 1989 — graduating from hand lettered comps to the complex pre-press print production with Quark Express / InDesign CS2 PDF software. Multimedia design scripting experience in Adobe Flash Pro / Dreamweaver 8 web Development. Content creation of Illustrations and Logos using special Cartooning & Calligraphy skills.
Technical Writing Experience:
Experienced writer of “Customer Centered” ad copy that is also optimized for Web Search Engine Positioning.
Skilled at writing Creative Briefs & Node Maps for complicated Multimedia Projects.
Software Skills: Photoshop/ Illustrator Creative Suite CS2, Adobe Dreamweaver / Flash Pro 8
Prepress: QuarkXpress, Adobe InDesign CS2 & Silverfast AI / Color Calibration software
Hardware Experience : Windows XP Pro • Mac OSX • Canon G2 Camera Raw Photography • Epson 4800 transparency film scanner • Sony DV Camera / Non Linear Video Post Production

Hoffman Construction: Spring 1999. Assembled "HBeam" employee newspaper with re-designed logo & layout with the help of staff writer. Created 100+ page sales promotion documents on tight deadlines. Design production duties included creating graph charts, Powerpoint Sales presentations and flyers. 
KPDX Fox 49, Portland, OR : 1989 - 1990 Graphic Design Internship, Assisted Art Director with print promotion flyers.
Freelance Graphic Design & Illustration: 1976 - Present. Designed logos, business cards, flyers, signs and wrote ad-copy for small business clients.Such as menu & logo re-design for for Bower's Bakery. ( On the right ...)
Created numerous cartoon & caricature illustrations for newsletters & ads. In 1996, created caricatures for an AT&T Wireless sales award presentation. where I used a "hybrid" hand illustration & Photoshop techniques to produce "air-brushed" color composite caricatures.
Advanced Photoshop Skills & Pre Press Workflow:
M. Goldberg, artist Calendar & Archive Project
This project put my Photoshop skills to the test.
Artwork slides were scanned at high resolution, corrected for color, stretched images back to normal perspectives -- correcting from bad photo.
I used Silverfast AI to color calibrate my Epson scanner & optimize each slide's color range before editing in Photoshop. I finished project in Adobe InDesign / Acrobat..
Restored & archived artwork that was seemingly "lost" from very damaged 35mm slides.