E X P E R I E N C E:
3/2006 – present
GRAPHIC DESIGNER (part-time)
M. E. Fox and Company, Inc., San Jose, California

6/2003 – 1/2006
GRAPHIC DESIGNER, Webmaster
SaigonUSA News (www.saigonusanews.net), San Jose, California
Designed-layouted and coordinated print production for weekly newspaper. Managed workflow and digital (files) archive system. Website designed and daily updated for online newspaper.

6/2002 – 5/2003
GRAPHIC DESIGNER
VCA, San Jose, California
Designed and oversaw production of print materials to promote public awareness of Multi-culture for a non-profit organization.

11/98 - 4/2002
GRAPHIC DESIGNER / SUPERVISOR
Media Factory Inc., Fremont, California
Responsibilities for graphic design, illustration and pre-press for CD, DVD covers, brochures, poster, print ads and web graphics-GIF animations. Worked directly with client from start to finish. Supervised in-house graphic department.

7/96 - 4/98
GRAPHIC DESIGNER / ILLUSTRATOR
Abbott Diagnostics, Santa Clara, California
Designed medical product labels, graphics for operating-reference manuals and product packages. Developed and established department procedures. Archived electronic files for easy retrieval for later use.

4/96 - 5/96
GRAPHIC DESIGNER
IC Magazine, San Jose, California
Designed and produced advertisings, promotional materials, editorial layout.

4/90 - 11/95
TECHNICAL ILLUSTRATOR / GRAPHIC ARTIST
SYBEX, Computer Book Publishing, Inc., Alameda, California
Created technical and graphic illustration for Sybex books using PC and Mac-based applications. Literally, produced over a thousand high-quality illustrations. Several key titles and best sellers were included: Novell’s Complete Encyclopedia of Networking, Easy Guide to Window 95 and Novell Press Series… Received great praise from authors and was asked specifically to create illustrations for their books. Provided computer graphic support for Desktop Publishing Department in editing/modifying graphic files to correct any problem as necessary. Coordinated schedules with Art Director for hiring freelanced artists. Organized and managed illustration workloads to insure deadlines were met.

11/94 - 2/95
GRAPHIC DESIGNER (freelanced)
LANimation, Inc., Avila Beach, California
Designed a multimedia presentation, “CNE Bootcamp”, on-line training materials for Certified NetWare Engineer-to-be.

1991
GRAPHIC DESIGNER (freelanced)
SYBAR Software, Alameda, California
Designed program templates and graphic interface for software.

E D U C A T I O N:
4/96 - 8/99
University of California Extension, Santa Cruz
Multimedia Design and Production Program. Software trained with hands-on instructions in Web Design, Director, Premiere, HTML.

1/87 - 12/89
California College of Arts and Crafts, San Francisco, California
BFA in Graphic Design. Additional courses in illustration and CAD.

9/83 - 12/86
Chabot College, Hayward, California
Studied Fine Arts and Architecture.

S O F T W A R E    S K I L L S:
Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, CorelDraw, Adobe ImageReady, PageMaker, Adobe InDesign, Adobe Dreamweaver MX, Adobe Flash CS3, Ulead VideoStudio, Windows Media Encoder, GIF Animator, Adobe Acrobat, Microsoft Word.

D E S K T O P    P L A T F O R M S:
Windows, Mac.