Quick Interview: view Salary range: $65,000 to $80,000 Willing to relocate: Yes Years of related job experience: 14 Highest degree earned: Bachelor's Degree Languages: English, some Spanish Software: Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, Flash, InDesign, Quark Xpress, Keynote, Microsoft Word
FiveChairs introduces a creative professional of 15 years, particular in the areas of magazine layout and design, custom publishing, web layout and design, logo creation and marketing campaigns in web and print. In addition, this outstanding candidate is proficient at copywriting, photographing and editing, having written and shot articles for Maxim.com and Blender.com, and American Profile and Music City News Magazines.
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
Organization: Please reach us for these details! Location: Franklin, TN Job title: Art Director Years and months employed: 1 Year(s) 6 Month(s) Responsibilities: Creative Director in charge of creating and producing Hometown Hotties magazine, Art Director in charge of creating and illustrating viral online content and in-house marketing campaigns such as Hometown Hotties contest, Social Media Director in charge of Maxim and Blender's Facebook and Myspace presence
Organization: Publishing Group of America Location: Franklin, TN Job title: Senior Art Director Years and months employed: 9 Year(s) Responsibilities: Supervised the design & execution of 3 national titles with 10 million circ each, two of which were monthly and one weekly: American Profile Magazine, Relish Magazine, Spry Magazine. Additionally conceived and executed design for 3 national custom publications with 1 million circ each: NBC’s The Peacock Magazine, CMT’s Life Set to Music Magazine and Texas Profile. Won 12 Apex design awards during 9 year tenure.
Organization: Gannett, Inc. Location: Nashville, TN Job title: Acting Managing Editor/Art Director Years and months employed: 4 Year(s) 6 Month(s) Responsibilities: Art Director, Acting Managing Editor & Digital Imagist for Music City News and The Gospel Voice magazines—200,000 combined circ. Promoted 4 times in 4 1/2 years. Supervised entire design while designing cover and features. Managed two designers, one editor and two interns. Successfully re-designed Music City News for younger appeal and more subscriptions. Wrote monthly Internet column, “Net Worth." Devised monthly pagination and deadlines to accommodate ads and features, and determined cover and feature stories.
Hired photographers and art directed photo shoots. Photographed features for publication. Conducted monthly press checks at Quad Graphics in
Thomaston, Ga. Created ads regularly for major advertisers in
each publication, including: Curb Records, Mercury Records,
Billy Ray Cyrus & more.
EDUCATION
Institution Name: University of Tennessee Location: Knoxville, TN Degree earned: Bachelor's Degree Major/Concentration: Studio Fine Art Year Graduated: 1995
