Professional Experience, Resume, & CV

Multimedia Specialist

Wayne State University School of Medicine.     2004-present

• Creative design and problem solving skills that integrates development, design, production and operation of computer graphics and multimedia elements to support promotional and informational services and computer-based instruction for the School of Medicine at the University.
• Considerable personal interaction with clients to oversee and lead a variety of creative projects in a direction that reflects the goals of the creative problem that needs solving.
• Consistently meet budgets and deadlines while introducing innovative and original designs throughout the creative process.

Adjunct Faculty Instructor

Wayne State University James Pearson Duffy Department of Fine, Performing and Communication Arts.     Fall 2015, Winter 2017

• Instructed a 3-credit course that provided students a working knowledge of the Adobe Creative Suite software they will be using in future graphic design courses and is of crucial importance in relation to the development of design education.
• Created course content structure that included demonstrations, design projects and required readings, and critiques, which enabled students to develop graphic design computer skills that are necessary to integrate into the creative process.

Software Instructor/Web Designer

Tech Team Global.     March 1999 through June 2003

Successfully managed and coordinated business graphic design projects from concept to completion for internal projects

Master of Arts

Wayne State University, James Pearson Duffy Department of Art and Art History.     Concentration: Graphic Design. GPA: 3.92

The foundation of my graduate studies is considered to be substantially conceptual in description and my processes are no means intended to be traditional or standardized. This observable investigative progression enabled me to interpret my interests which enabled me to reflect upon my own processes and work as a designer. Throughout my experiences in graduate school I discovered the core significance of my process development, progression and practice lies unassumingly in the activity of research, experimentation, and most of all, creating. It is through that act of creation that I continue to question and sustain my imagination, which influences and motivates me as a designer and artist. I used this opportunity to understand how and what it meant to investigate and explore– to push the limits and to be experimental in a way that I had not done so before.

Bachelor of Fine Arts

Wayne State University, James Pearson Duffy Department of Art and Art History.     Concentration: Graphic Design. GPA: 3.65

The Graphic Design Program at WSU enabled me to become an innovative, intelligent and responsible designer. The program taught me to think broadly about design, to focus on the informational and problem-solving nature of graphic design and to visualize their design ideas. As a graduate of the program, I was prepared to work professionally with variety of opportunities in design– including areas such as publication design, multimedia design, instructional material design, package design, web page design and architectural signage.

Associate in Art

Henry Ford Community College.     Concentration: Graphic Design.

The graphic design program at HFCC taught me to establish the conceptual and stylistic direction for design projects and to orchestrate work. I also learned other disciplines related to graphic design such as typography, photography, illustration, prepress printing, web and interactive design.