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Experience

GRAPHIC DESIGNER, STONESTOWN FAMILY YMCA. SAN FRANCISCO, CA AUG. 2007-PRESENT

• Design event posters, T-shirts and flyers

• Design YMCA Teen Center marketing material

FREELANCE GRAPHIC DESIGNER, ISAAC DESIGNS. SAN FRANCISCO, CA JAN. 2006-PRESENT

• Designed 3D rendered images for Reason Magazine and WIRED in an article for the Seastead

project based on simple verbal descriptions

• Taught design and marketing classes over the summer of 2008 to low-income urban youth

through an educational program called Youth Credit Union Program (YCUP)

• Created worksheets and templates for student work at YCUP

• Prepared curriculums and material to be used in class at YCUP

• Researched, via focus groups and workshops, marketing and design strategies used towards

low-income urban youth

• Created posters, flyers, brochures, postcards, identification cards

and stickers to enhance and professionalize YCUP’s printed material

• Design and typeset Mission SF quarterly newsletters

• Created flyers for A.N.S.W.E.R. coalition in San Francisco

APPAREL ASSOCIATES, CALIFORNIA CHOPPERS, SAN FRANCISCO, CA FEB. 2003- FEB. 2007

• Designed apparel for California Choppers

• Illustrated images for print on clothing

• Conceived and designed retail displays

• Created inventory data sheets

• Sourced materials to create high quality products within budget requirements

• Designed business cards and flyers

APPRENTICE, FRANK KOZIK, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 2006

Frank Kozik is an American graphic artist who creates event posters and toys.

• Prepared and painted toys using masking techniques and various painting methods

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Print Publications

Reason Magazine Aug./Sep. 2008 issue

Online Publications

WIRED Front Page

www.wired.com/science/planetearth/news/2008/05/seasteading

Reason

www.reason.com/news/show/127436.html

G4 TV

www.g4tv.com/thefeed/blog/post/685691/Seasteading_Institute_to_Live_in_the_Open_Wa

ter.html

Education

San Francisco State University (SFSU) , San Francisco, CA

BA Industrial Arts, emphasis in Interdisciplinary Design (2D, 3D design) 2008

• Exhibited designs in SFSU’s Department of Design and Industry’s spring annual show in 2006,

2007 and 2008

Skills

• Strong rendering and illustration ability

• Software: Photoshop, Illustrator, Indesign, Solidworks 3D rendering program, Microsoft Office,

elementary knowledge using Flash and After Effects

• Solid communications skills and comfortable speaking in front of groups of various sizes

• Fast learner, who takes initiative at getting things done

• Bi-cultural, Bi-lingual. Fluent in Spanish

• Comfortable using both PCs and Macs

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