I’m always looking for an opportunity to influence the world around me through creative expression and design. Download a current PDF of my resume.
Technical Skills
Adobe CC (Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator, After Effects, XD), Axure, HTML/CSS/LESS/SASS, WordPress, Drupal, Umbraco, Bootstrap, Foundation, Adobe Audition, Google Ads, Facebook Ads, Google Analytics, Google Data Studio, Google Tag Manager, Miro, LucidChart
Creative Experience
Edge Webware
Digital Marketing & Operations Manager
2013-Present
Projects Included: Concept, design, and follow-through of websites. Implementation of sites through HTML/CSS/LESS/SASS and on CMS’ like WordPress, Drupal, and Umbraco. Website maintenance. Motion graphics and Flash-based animation. Mobile app design. Wireframing and UI/UX. Clients include HSD Metrics, DARKOH, Indy Cylinder Head, Reconstructionist Radio, WSRI, Mills Park Hotel, NiteLites, Ohio Green Works, and CBD Advisors. Digital Marketing and SEO Services.
U! Creative
Digital Marketing & Project Manager
2013-Present
Projects Included: UI/UX design and wireframing, project specification documentation, and information architecture. HTML/CSS/SASS/LESS implementation and editing. WordPress, Umbraco, and other CMS installation, editing, adjustments, etc for clients such as Cassano’s, Pies & Pints, Kings of Chaos, Rhodes College, The Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation & Institute, TaleMed, Hampton Fitness, Toxic Waste Candy, MobileBrochure, Callisons, Cedar Fair, and CareSource. Digital Marketing and SEO Services.
ThinkTV & CET (Public Media Connect)
Art Director
2007-2013
Projects Included: Concept, design, and follow-through of all newspaper ads, posters, banners, flyers, collateral, curriculum kits, board presentations, signage, and any other print design needed; web design and maintenance for specific projects; photography at events. Coordinate with vendors.
Aibrean’s Studio
Principal
2003-Present
Projects Included: All designs, from start to finish, including CD’s, collateral, branding, website design, implementing content management systems, flyers, emailers, photo retouching, and posters for clients such as La Corporacion Muzic, Vision Marketing Group, Rex Lumber, Profound Logic Software, and Jim Crotty Photography. This is a freelance-based business which I have developed over the years and I work with the business owners almost always directly.
imaginenation | Cho Creative | David K. Burnap Advertising
Contracted as Graphic and Web Designer
2004-2007
Projects Included: Packaging for Titleist, newspaper ads for 2nd Swing, and point-of-purchase display rendering | Flash animation design, flyers, posters, corporate collateral, direct mailers, brand guidelines, and other informational items for Ferrari, LexisNexis, NCR, Girl Scouts, Reynolds and Reynolds, and Standard Register | Website design and maintenance, poster and flyer design, copy writing, and other web and interactive materials for AIDA, AAA Ohio, and Trimble Engineering.
Write on Target
Graphic and Web Designer
2005-2006
Responsible for graphic/web design which included layout design and formatting for benefit packages, direct mail, flyers, posters, and logo design. Clients included MeadWestvaco, Circuit City, NewPage, General Cable, and Brunswick.
lightmode DESIGN FACTORY
Director of Visual Arts and Graphic Design
2004-2005
Assisted with several design projects and have represented the company when meeting with their clients. Responsible for concept work, logo design, and web design for lightmode as well as new hiring. Also maintained project management and coordinated meeting with clients and the company and with vendors.
American Cutting Edge and Better Tools
Creative Director
2005-2005
Managed all advertising/websites for both multi-million dollar companies. Created packaging, direct mail, flyers, brochures, and anything else needed.
inyourimage
3D Modeler/Graphic and Web Designer/Production Manager
2003-2004
Overseeing all that went on in the company including talking to concerned customers, updated status of orders, emailed customers product status and tracking numbers, answered phones, shipped and packaged orders, made the product, engraved the product, did web design work and updating, and make company literature.
Professional Education
The Modern College of Art & Design
Associate Degree of Applied Business in Advertising Art (2003)
Certifications
Google Ads
Certified in Search, Display, Video, and Shopping
Awards and Affiliations
Previously Member of: The Xenia Area Chamber of Commerce, AAF Dayton
Awards Received: Selection of two logos for publication in iheartlogos Season Three in 2013; Selection of logo for publication in LogoLounge Volume 7 in 2012; Emmy Nomination in 2011 (for You at the Zoo project), Best Instructional Media Product from the National Educational Telecommunications Association (NETA) in 2011 (for You at the Zoo project) and Best Teacher Professional Development in 2014, Bronze ADDY in 2007, 2008, 2011, 2012, 2013, and two in 2015 for work at Aibrean’s Studio; 2013 Bronze ADDY for work at ThinkTV/CET; Mercury Award Nomination in 2007;