Objective :
To advance in my design career and gain more knowledge about my field.
Education :
B.F.A. in Graphic Design from Winthrop University, Rock Hill, SC.

Work Experience :
December 2005 - June 2008
Graphic Designer at Phase 3 Media
• Responsible for working with a number of different clients such as EarthLink, Simmons, Heineken, Glaceau, Turner Broadcasting, Woodward Academy and Porsche. Along with maintaining a professional design relationship with the client, we are required to know each client’s brand standards and to be able to design collateral within those standards without much instruction.
• Designers at Phase 3 are responsible for their design jobs from start to finish, from the initial quote and proposal to setting up files for production and checking pieces as they are finished. At Phase3 Media they have the facilities to print small and large format pieces including but not limited too: booklets, binders, brochures, vinyl banners, fabric, high quality solvent prints, wood, metal or Plexiglas.

January 2005 - November 2005
Category Advertising Coordinator at The Home Depot Corporate
• I was on a team of 5 people who were responsible for the front an back covers of the Sunday circulars for the entire country.
• We had to work with many different people to get these done, such as the product merchants, store vendors and off-set printers to make sure each cover was specific to it’s regional market.

Freelance work
2004 - 2008
• Logo design and brand identity for Containment Theory Records
• Web site design and hosting for Containment Theory Records
• Logo and brand identity/poster designs for Fernandina
• Wedding invitation design and production
• Logo design and brand identity for ‘Not Your Mamma’s Catering’
• Cover and inside layout for ‘Medieval Perspectives’
• Brand Identity for Winthrop University College of Art and Design
• ‘Ripe’ my senior class portfolio exhibition show which featured guest lecturer, David Carson.

Computer Skills : I currently work on the MAC OSX platform and am proficient in such programs as :
• Adobe InDesign CS3
• Adobe Illustrator CS3
• Adobe Photoshop CS3
• Adobe Dreamweaver
• Adobe Freehand
• Quark 7
• XMPie Variable Data Software

Awards :
• Recipient of the Dean’s Meritorial Scholarship for nine consecutive semesters
• Winner of the 2002 Weyerhauser Paper Cougar Student Design Competition and was published in Communication Arts Magazine.

Portfolio and References :
Paul Biniaz
Laura Connor