PROFILE

• Twenty-seven years experience as a successful professional freelance iIlustrator specializing in translating complex concepts into images that communicate and entertain.
• Offers full range of visual communication services: design; illustration; comic strips and characters; and web-based animation and design.
• Particular skill in creative communication of abstract concepts to sell BtoB and BtoC products and services.
• Specializes in the collaborative process, adding value to clients through design and development of images and output that generate results in the marketplace.
• Provides sophisticated conceptual illustrations to many industries, including software, telecommunications, financial services, management consulting, legal services, corporate communications, packaging, consumer publications, editorial commentary, tourism and advertising, and other applications.
• Experienced project manager, team collaborator, and team leader and motivator.
• Excellent client/stakeholder relationship management skills.


SKILLS AND PROFICIENCIES

Artistic Media Electronic Media
• Pen and Ink • Photoshop
• Hand lettering and specialized type • InDesign
• Watercolor • Flash
• Gouache • Dreamweaver
• Design and layout • Illustrator
• QuarkExpress
• FrontPage

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

January 2000 to Present
Launched RAGmedia. RAGmedia licenses images to the Greeting Card, Publishing, Advertising, Corporate markets and works on commissioned illustration for the publishing, corporate, and advertising markets.
Website: www.ragmedia.com



January 1999 to Present
Established the company CommuniCharacters with partner writer Robin Brecker. CommuniCharacters produces and licenses comic characters and comic strips and provides comical communication services for the corporate and advertising marketplace. Website: www.communicharacters.com – note: also designed and developed entire website.

September 1999 to 2001
Created Hatman, a comic strip syndicated by I-Syndicate.

February 1999 to Present
Developed Mental Image, a single panel cartoon strip syndicated by I-Syndicate.

1980 to the Present
Professional freelance illustrator for a diverse range of national and international clients from a wide variety of industries, most notably, publishing, and advertising. Color and B&W style illustrates concepts in a humorous, sophisticated way. Particular strength is the ability to transform complex concepts into drawings that succinctly communicate with appropriate audiences. Work appears in a multitude of formats, including newspapers, magazines, print advertising, marketing and informational brochures, trade show displays, video sales tools, books, posters, displays, software and product packaging, internal corporate communications and electronic media.

1983-1984
Chief Graphic Designer, Wallace Floyd Associates, Boston MA
Head of the Graphic Design department at Wallace Floyd Associates, architects/planners. Instituted department responsible for marketing and internal publications support, producing client presentations, portfolio project collateral, and various other design needs.

REPRESENTATIVE PROJECT ACCOMPLISHMENTS:

• 2000: Illustrator for on line greeting card company, Print Quick.
• 1999-2000: Illustrator for The Girl Scouts of America leadership and member manuals and magazine.
• 1999-2000: Illustrator for The New York Times Special Advertising Sections for Online Shopping.
• 1989 to 1999: Sole Illustrator for Prism, an Arthur D Little quarterly journal of cutting edge management techniques. Illustrations explored themes such as Leadership and the Accelerating Organization; Building Global Capability; Creating The High Performance Company.
• 1999: Illustrator for Help! My Apartment Has a Dining Room, published by Houghton Mifflin. A sequel to 1996 project to illustrate Chapters Publishing title Help! My Apartment has a Kitchen!
• 1996 to 1998: Advertising campaign for Foamex International that promoted their foam products to numerous industries. Included in the campaign were drawings for trade ads, point of purchase displays, annual report, and various brochures and posters.
• 1996: Illustrated video for Regis Retirement on the subject of investing.
• 1996: Illustrated Drawings and Hand-lettered Titles for an Electronic Interactive Game exhibit for Macmillan Publishers.
• 1995: Illustrated major campaign for the 3M Corporation to advertise their electronic storage cartridges. Project included large (5ft.X 10ft.) trade show displays and extensive print ads and collateral.
• 1994: Illustrated ½ page comic for MAD Magazine.


CLIENT LIST

3M IBM
Arthur D Little Inc Inc. Magazine
Atlas Zeutschriften Verlag (Vienna) Lockheed Martin
Burston Marsteller Marsteller Advertising
Cahners Publishing Motorola
Chapters Publishing Notre Dame Magazine
Chicago Mercantile Exchange OppenheimerFunds
CIO Magazine Random House
Computer World Regis Retirement
Delaware Investments St. Gobain
GalaxyOnline.com Tennis Magazine
Girl Scouts of America TIAA-CREF
Golf Digest The New York Times
Hale and Dorr, LLP Wall Street Journal
Hill Holliday Washington Post
Houghton Mifflin Publishers Worth Magazine
Marian Heath Greeting Card Co.

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Fine Arts, The University of Connecticut, 1978

OTHER ACTIVITIES

President, Graphic Artists Guild, Boston Chapter, 2000-2002
Member, Massachusetts Media Interactive Council
Instructor, Design and Illustration, the Art Institute of Boston, 1992/1993

REFERENCES: Available upon request