Driven to spawn stimulating and tantalizing visuals that inspire and foster viewer engagement. With over 20 years experience working as a graphic designer for a daily news paper, Collaborated with a team, offering insight and troubleshooting aptitude for technical and design challenges. Provided valuable ongoing contributions and supported objectives by: Conceptualizing with editors and reporters. Designing creative illustrations and graphics for variety of stories featured on over 4.5K feature covers. Writing professional music previews and reviews in Movable Type for Advance website SILive. Creating and editing headlines, captions, and information boxes. Illustrator Cultivated ‘go-to’ reputation for freehand-drawing as primary illustrator for paper on daily deadline. Crafted award-winning illustrations which brought positive attention to newspaper at city and state level. Expanded portfolio by producing diverse range of special freelance projects, ranging from book covers, logos, posters, pamphlets, CD art, and portraits Conceptualizing | Illustration | Design | Layout | Photography | Calligraphy | Photoshop | InDesign Quark | Saxotech Citrix System Mediaware | Painter I Illustrator | Photo retouching | Movable type

Visual Communication Specialist Collaborative Problem Solver Skilled at Making Presentations Pop Creative print product designer trained extensively in using photographic images, self-generated art, and other established elements, including type and special treatments. Fluent on digital and print platforms, demonstrating forward-thinking initiatives, implementing manipulation of space, blending form and function, and achieving daily deadlines.