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Summary

  • Visual artist with over 20 years of experience finding creative solutions to graphic design challenges.

  • Software experience includes Adobe Creative Cloud, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Capture, Adobe Dreamweaver, Adobe Lightroom, Adobe Animate, Adobe InDesign, Adobe Captivate, Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Inkscape, Krita, CorelDraw, ArtRage, and Rebelle.

  • Scanning, large format displays, documentation, video production, and front-end website editing.

  • Practical experience in instructional design multi-media production using photography, animations, and illustrations.

  • Meticulous and curious learner.

  • Ability in troubleshooting and innovation.

​Soft Skills

Intuitive, life-long learner, tenacious, caring, empathetic, artistic, musical, interpretative, and facilitative.

Experience

03/2024 - Present

Kiliuda Consulting LLC
Panama City, Florida
Visual Information Specialist

  • Design posters, postcards, logos, signs, brochures, flyers, magnets, mugs, displays, illustrations, PowerPoint templates by using original artwork, and Shutterstock subscription graphics.

  • Print posters, postcards, signs, brochures, flyers, displays on a variety of papers for both large format printer and the Xerox Digital Press.

  • Postproduction activities include the use of a heat press for mounting posters on foam core, double sided adhesive sheets, magnets, cold laminate, and paper cutting machine.

  • Brainstorm with those who are more knowledgeable and expert in their fields.

  • Build relationships and communicate with customers, and colleagues alike, to achieve the best possible outcomes for projects.

11/2014 - 10/2023

Credence Management Solutions

Hurlburt Field, Florida

Instructional Multimedia Designer
/Illustrator

  • Photograph consoles, panels, and units necessary for the creation of new and updated courseware. 

  • Create Adobe Illustrator drawings of flight deck and fuselage rack equipment.

  • Increase the library of assets for use in Adobe Captivate.

  • Organize Adobe Illustrator drawings into layers, names, and symbols for use in lessons. 

  • Export and animate Illustrations as Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) from Adobe Illustrator. 

  • Learning on W3schools.com, and using Adobe Dreamweaver to provide JavaScript, Cascading Style Sheets Level 3 (CSS3), and Hypertext Markup Language (HTML5).

  • Create, update, and troubleshoot Adobe Animate files for Instructional Designers. 

  • Collaborate with schoolhouse Subject Matter Experts and Air Force command staff to understand requirements for courseware graphics, and priorities for conducting the tasks. 

  • Discovery and correction of pattern inconsistencies that will confuse students. 

  • Interpret and create illustrations of MC130J panels, screens, and other useful items.

  • Development and maintenance of merged Student Study Guides based on the Course Lesson Map (CLM) in Adobe InDesign and exported for student usage on Apple iPad.

04/1991 - 09/2012

Jacobs/TYBRIN

Fort Walton Beach, Florida

Illustrator/Graphic Designer

  • Design brochures, slide shows, posters, trade show displays.

  • Photography, videos, video capture, and compilation, including special effects, file format compression, DVD creation, and navigation.

  • Print, mount, and installation of large format prints displayed in various hallways and briefings.

  • Update, edit, graphic production and creation of portable format files. 

  • Assembly and implementation of elements for vinyl plotted signage. 

Education

University of South Alabama | Mobile, AL
BFA Graphic Design | 08/1990

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Northwest Florida State College | Niceville, Florida
Applied Music and Web Design

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W3schools.com

Front end web design training, using HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript.

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LinkedIn Learning

Creating Fonts with Fontself in Illustrator and Photoshop, Drawing Vector Graphics: Hand Lettering, A Systematic Creative Process for Designers, The New Rules of Work, Bystander Training: From Bystander to Upstander, Communicating Across Cultures, Communicating about Culturally Sensitive Issues, Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging for All, Confronting Bias: Thriving Across Our Differences, Draw Better and Faster with Illustrator CC, Drawing and Painting in Photoshop, Skills for Inclusive Conversations, Unconscious Bias, Building Transparency in Photoshop, Animation Foundations: Storyboarding, Developing A Mood Board, Illustrator CC 2019 One-on-One: Fundamentals, Jason Seiler: Digital and Traditional Painting, Running a Design Business: Designer-Client Agreements, Art and Illustration Careers: First Steps, Designing Gradient Dot Patterns with Illustrator, Draw Better and Faster with Illustrator CC, Acrobat DC: Creating Forms.

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