RESUME

EXPERIENCE

2008-Current: Graphic Designer - Zumiez Marketing

Graphic designer for the in-house marketing department at the Zumiez home office, creating signage and promotional materials for their 400+ nation-wide stores. Duties include working with other members of the marketing team to see a project through from the brainstorm phase to completion. Projects vary from multi-level promotions with partner brands, in-store autograph signings, contests, and special events. Also worked on the yearly summer “Zumiez Couch Tour”, which brings live skateboarding, bands and more to 12 cities across the US and “100K”, a thank you party for the store salespeople, held yearly in Keystone, CO, and regarded as one of the biggest in action sports.

2007: Graphic Designer - Zumiez Private Label

Contracted to work at the Zumiez home office, in their private label clothing department. While there, work included creating graphics and prints, through illustration and photo collage, for their men’s and women’s clothing lines. Designs would vary based on current trends, and be applied to many products; from t-shirts and hats to jackets and snowboards. A number of the designs went on to be weekly number one sellers.

2006-12: Freelance Graphic Design

A variety of projects including, album cover illustrations, promotional band posters, flyers, t-shirt illustrations, logos and personal art sales.

2006-07: Graphic Designer - 'The Planet' Magazine

The Planet is a quarterly publication put out by the Huxley College at Western Washington University. The designers are responsible for placing photos and copy provided by the students into interesting and coherent layouts.

2005-06: Seasonal Work at Premier Agencies

Worked in the art prep department, assembling school handbook pages using InDesign and in-house software. Duties included making sure files were print-ready, laying out text, and image correction.

SOFTWARE PROFICIENCY

Adobe Photoshop CS4 | Adobe Illustrator CS4 | Adobe InDesign CS4
Familiar with: Flash 8 | Dreamweaver 8 | Basic HTML & CSS

ADDITIONAL SKILLS

Illustration | Screen Printing | Stenciling | Painting

ARTWORK DISPLAYED

•The B Gallery - Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA
•Bison Bookbinding & Letterpress - Bellingham, WA
•The SoapBox - Bellingham, WA
•Fantasia Coffee - Bellingham, WA
•Porchlight Coffee - Seattle, WA

EDUCATION

2002-07: Western Washington University

Graduated with a BA in Graphic Design. Classes included Graphic Design I & II, Typography I & II, Illustration, Design for the Web, Publication Design, Design Production, Professional Practices and Screen Printing.

2000-02: Skagit Valley College

Running-start classes in Adobe Photoshop, Premiere, Illustrator and Macromedia Flash.