Education

Experience

Designed DVD covers, inserts, and book layouts; published mobile content weekly; added intro, outro, lower-thirds, and watermarks to video footage; optimized images, compressed videos, uploaded web content; prepped files for offset press and digital printing; tracked the quality of work throughout the design and production process.

Graphic design and print production of brochures, books, large format posters, and business cards, using InDesign, Illustrator, and Photoshop. Advanced skills in production and printing processes (digital and offset) and pre-press preparation. Coordinate with third party offset print vendors, and handle own client invoicing. Clients include: San Francisco Ballet, San Francisco Symphony, Paragon, Sotheby’s, Books Inc., Chevron, and Discovery Channel’s Mythbusters.

Concept, design, and production of motion graphics, web banners, Flash headers, animated financial graphics, Powerpoint presentations; and produced advertising and marketing collateral including brochures, event programs, flyers, book layouts, and posters. Clients include: KQED, AT&T, Creative Arts Charter School, Shelton Capital Management, Coverage Ink, ASA Gold and Precious Metals Ltd, and Citizen Group.

Create transportation-focused infographics based on provided case studies and one-page reports or data, to be published monthly in the company's e-newsletter. Skills include encoding case studies or data into visually-engaging and relevant infographics, and technical skills to create illustrations and 3D elements as needed in the designs.

Designed, animated, and edited various assets for pharmaceutical-related marketing. Designed webpages in Photoshop and Illustrator, animated web banners in Flash, and contributed to the video production process by adjusting and syncing animations and transitions, color correcting video footage, rotoscoping in After Effects, and compiling and editing video footage using Final Cut Pro.

Specialties:zAdobe After Effects

zPhotoshop zIllustrator zFlashzCinema 4D zDreamweaver

zDVD Studio Pro zInDesignzPowerpoint zLayout, Design,

Typography zFlash timeline animation

Soma 365 Studios: Graphic Designer (Contractor)Sept 2010 - Sept 2011

Colour Drop: Graphic DesignerSept 2011 - Dec 2012

June 2008 - Sept 2010

Nov 2007 - May 2008Eveo, Inc: Graphic Designer (Contractor)

AMB Designs: Multimedia Designer (Freelancer)

7 months

2 years 4 mos

Jun 2008 - presentFirst-Class Transportation, LLC: Infographics (Freelance)

5 years Ongoing

1 year 1 month

1 year 4 mos

Expression College for Digital Arts BAS in Motion Graphic Design

San Francisco State University BA in Speech Communication

Pierce College, Los Angeles AA in Liberal Arts

Aileen Mitchell Black