-- Summary
I am a driven digital arts professional with decades of work experience and training. This has given me solid abilities in communicating with imagery to attain a desired effect, pleasantly working with others through the processes.
Through my explorations and endeavors, I've been lucky enough to collaborate on design projects that range from modest beginnings to NASA and other notable govt institutions, many major financial and medical corporations, and numerous institutions of higher education. Designing, producing, and overseeing these projects has brought me all around the US and to a few other countries.
I hope to continue working remotely, growing, and learning in the visual arts field for the foreseeable future.
-- Work Experience
Art Director
TVsetdesigns.com
25 years total! Company changed names a few years ago
Charlotte, NC — 2012-2020
TVsetdesigns.com
25 years total! Company changed names a few years ago
Charlotte, NC — 2012-2020
Overseeing 2D and 3D project design, printing, web development, marketing, photography, and IT.
• Completed the design phase on more than a thousand projects, from museums to trade shows to broadcast
• Created templates and wrote programs to improve
efficiency and workflow.
• Continued studying emerging design, marketing
techniques, and technology.
Graphic Designer
Gelbach Designs, Inc.
Charlotte, NC — 2004-2012
Gelbach Designs, Inc.
Charlotte, NC — 2004-2012
Created 2D and 3D designs for a wide array of projects and uses.
Maintained computers, network, and printers. Handled large
format printing for exhibits, sets, signage, and more.
• 2D and 3D design on hundreds of projects.
• Learned, utilized, and maintained large format plotters and printers from Colorspan, Mimaki, and Durst.
• Built and maintained workstations, infrastructure, network, security, and functionality for IT.
• Created and maintained websites, marketing, and web
presence across social media and any sharing sites.
Project Manager
Gelbach Designs, Inc.
Charlotte, NC — 1996-2004
Gelbach Designs, Inc.
Charlotte, NC — 1996-2004
Welding, woodworking, painting, graphics, and
installation/dismantle on a wide range of projects, travelling both
in and out of the United States.
• Fabrication of exhibits, sets, signage, and more.
• Successfully executed a great number of installations
both nationally and internationally.
• Carried things hither to yon.
-- Abilities
• Extensive design and heavy lifting experience using Maya, Photoshop, Illustrator, and Lightroom. Experience using most of Adobe’s other tools, and Autocad. Skilled with Maya's inherent programming language and programming concepts.
• A great deal of mobile creative experience for quick designs and animations using Snapseed, Motionleap, Glitch Lab, Lens Distortions, 3DLUT, Glitch Video, Adobe’s Draw, Capture, Rush, Photoshop Mix, and Photoshop Express.
• Decades of designing physical exhibits, sets, structures, and graphics for broadcast studios, trade shows, museums, branded environments, sales centers, POS, showrooms, educational, and corporate communications.
• Complex Website Design and Development Processes. Fluency with HTML, CSS, Wordpress, and Shopify.
• Photography and Fine Art Photography. Product photography for sales driven websites. Model photography for products and accessories on models. Sports photography for roller derby and a couple bicycle clubs. Urban exploration mixed with light painting resulting in some gallery showings and a couple slideshow presentations.
• Experienced Project Manager, from concept to completion. I am accustomed to coordinating multiple sources and services from the initial sketch to the final results.
• Years of Client Relations, finding the fine line intersecting form, function, and budget.
• Experience with building and maintaining workstations, networks, and servers.
• Experience with intermediate robotics.