Graphic Designer/Artist

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Brad Norman
4424 Wilmington Pike
Kettering, Ohio 45440
513/438-3000 (office)
513/299-4590 (home)


Dear Sir/Madam,

As a graphic designer/artist, my goal is to make a strong
contribution to the success of a progressive organization such as
yours. You may find my resume of interest.

For the past 20 years I have served as graphics administrator with
a broad range of tasks. My skills are quite diverse, as you will
note from my resume. A few of my major accomplishments in this
position include:

- Developed and produced company trade show displays and
materials

- Coordinated activity and directed photography for creation of
the company's primary advertising brochure

- Conceived and created a series of technical illustrations
detailing all components of a jet engine exhaust nozzle

- Conceived, designed, and created advertisements for national
magazine

- Acquired and became self-proficient in numerous computer
graphics software programs including but not limited to:
CorelDraw, Arts & Letters Editor, Pagemaker, Aldus Photostyler,
and Microsoft Word.

Graphics Administrator 10 years

Determine the most efficient and cost effective manner of
reproduction of all company requirements for graphics, presentation
materials, illustrations, photography and signage. Support of
Marketing functions with respect to trade show displays, design,
preparation and placement of magazine advertisements, 4-color and
B/W advertisement literature. Use/evaluate various methods of
microcomputer graphics hardware/software. Design and product
brochures, reports, forms and other publications as required by
various other departments.

Technical Illustrator 6 years

Determine and accomplish pertinent views for explored view
isometric, dimetric, trimetric and perspective parts drawings.
Vector graphics computer generated, pencil and pen/ink drawings.

Advertising Production Manager 4 years

Collection and compilation of information and assignment of duties
necessary to effect re visions and updates of all company
literature. Purchase 4-color printing, color separations,
translations. Distribution of new and revised literature and
maintain inventories. Primary contact with all departments for
preparation and revisions of all company-related forms/documents.
Coordination and expediting for in-house printing facility.

technical Illustration Supervisor 4 years

Determine number and type of drawings necessary to illustrate all
company parts and service manuals. Collect resource materials and
assign duties to illustrators. Check finished illustrations and
compile associated parts lists. Order printing for finished
manuals. Write service bulletins and operations manuals for
company manufactured equipment.

Free-lance Artist 21 years

Contracted with various companies for brochure design and
production, illustration, corporate identity preparation,
architectural rendering, and sign design/painting.

Education

1965-1968 Purdue University, Major in Industrial Illustration
1968-1972 US Air Force Project Transition Training in Technical
Illustration
1972- Graphic Standard Institute, Pictorial Drafting -
Correspondence course

Computer Experience

Hardware
- IBM PC 80386 and 80486 compatible computers
- HP Laserjet 4 laser printer, NEC LC890 Postscript printer, HP
Paintjet color printer, and various graphics capable dot matrix
printers.
- Microtek Scanmaker IIXE
- Practical Peripherals
Fax Modem

Software
Vector Graphics Drawing:
- CorelDraw 4.0
- Arts & Letters Editor 3.12
- Micrografx Designer 3.1
- Professional Draw 1.0

Miscellaneous:
- Aldus Pagemaker 5.0
- Aldus Photostyler 1.1
- WinFax Pro 3.0
- Fax Works 3.0
- Word for Windows 2.0
- Word Perfect/Windows
- Legacy 1.0
- Excel
- Quatro Pro 4.0
- PerForm Pro
- Formtool Gold
- Dr. Halo, PC Paint, Windows
Print, and other paint programs.
- Norton Utilities, Norton Commander, Norton Editor

Career Objectives

My design is to obtain a position with a progressive company that
strives for Graphic Excellence in a technology-oriented
environment. The company I seek will be interested in staying at
the forefront of multimedia presentations and desktop publishing
and be willing to invest in that technology to achieve and maintain
leadership.