Joe Sturges Graphic & Web Designer EXPERIENCE Graphic Designer - 420 Rally May - April 2014 Converted logo from PSD file to Vector and cleaned paths for print production. T-shirt mock-ups for Men & Womens cuts, badges, and various signage for the event. Ads/banners for website, facebook, and instagram. Worked on Wordpress website and content. Created PDF’s for sponsor/vendor applications with editable areas. Artwork created aired on national news including CBS, CNN, and Fox. Managed T-shirt booth at the concert overseeing 4 other employees & handled purchases/inventory. Creative Director - David Benrimon Fine Art & Benrimon Contemporary December 2008 – August 2013 Maintenance and updating custom websites, cross browser compatability, using CSS, Flash, HTML, JavaScript/JQuery, Mobile design, MySQL, PHP, RSS, SEO, Social Media, Wordpress, and XML. Custom mass emails, table coding, implementation and multiple monthly email newsletters via Constant Contact and DadaMail. Catalog design using InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop adjustments, retouching and digital photography. Logos, letterheads, banner ads, business cards, envelopes, graphics, press releases and SWOP advertisement designs using Illustrator, InDesign and Photoshop. SWOP advertisement designs using Illustrator, InDesign, and Photoshop. Operation and maintenance of a MH871 34" Vinyl Cutter for text and logos. Printer - Sitour USA November 2008 - December 2008 Setup designs in Postershop to rip and print on Polystyrene. Operated Color Span Display Maker 72 UVR to print banners, corrals, custom signs, lift posters and signs Graphic Designer - Verge Sport America Ltd. March 2005 - June 2008 Sports clothing design using Corel and Adobe Illustrator using Pantone or Digital colors. Flat panel designing for base layers, jackets, jerseys, nordic, t-shirts, triathlon, sizes from XS to XXXL and designed custom socks. Logo creation, vector replication and typographical layouts. Flash image gallery for jerseys. Personal customer contact via phone and email. Graphic & Video Designer - Regional News Network October 2004 - March 2005 Broadcast design, video editing using After Effects, CG Inscriber, Photoshop and Premier. Created fullscreen, monitor, plasma, quarter and other graphic elements for nightly broadcast. Graphic & Web Designer - Simmelink/Sukimoto Editions March 2003 - October 2004 Assisted in the process of creating limited edition prints. Custom web site using CSS, HTML and JavaScript. Graphic & Web Designer - Ladue Design June 2004 - August 2004 Worked on banners ads, CSS, Flash, HTML and web sites. Graphic & Web Designer – Bakwoods September 2003 – 2010 Implemented and updated bakwoods.com. Using AJAX, CSS, DHTML, Flash, HTML, JavaScript, OS Commerce, SEO, XML and XHTML. Screen printing from design to print on t-shirts, sweatshirts, sweatpants, jackets and long sleeves. Digital Imaging Assistant - SUNY New Paltz, Academic Computing April 2001 - October 2003 Organized and scanned images from library to create a database. Adjusted images using Photoshop for color correction, sizing and graphic optimization. EDUCATION State University of New York 2003, New Paltz, NY B.S. Visual Arts Middlesex University 2002, Trent Park, UK Study Abroad Program Cornell University 1998, Ithaca, NY Summer College Session FREELANCE Mission Wear | 2015, May 7th Photographed Charity Event Rockwall Pub & Grub | 2015 CSS, HTML, JavaScript, PHP, Wordpress David Benrimon Fine Art | 2013 - Present HTML, JavaScript, PHP, Responsive email newsletters, catalog updates, XHTML Benrimon Contemporary | 2014 HTML, JavaScript, PHP, Responsive email newsletters, invitations XHTML Incite Response | 2013 Responsive emails for clients. Testing via EmailonAcid. Haifleigh Brandworks | 2013 Multiple websites updated & improved. HTML, JavaScript, PHP, XHTML Verge Sport America LTD. | 2013 Wordpress, Bigcommerce, CSS, PHP, HTML, JavaScript, MySQL, Responsive Design, Xampp http://joe.v-gear.com http://cross.vergesport.com Lili Contemporary | 2011 Custom CMS, JavaScript, MySQL, PHP, XHTML Sleepstore USA | 2008 - 2013 CSS, Flash, PHP, HTML JavaScript, SEO http://sleepstoreusa.com Pate Sucree Cookies | 2011 CSS, E-Commerce, HTML, JavaScript, MySQL, PHP, Photoshop Hard X Music | 2011 CSS, HTML, JavaScript, Joomla, MySQL, Photoshop, PHP http://hardxmusic.com Painter’s Restaurant | 2006 - 2011 CSS, Flash, JavaScript, Joomla, MySQL, XHTML, http://painters-restaurant.com Galerie Mistinguette | 2008 – 2010 Custom Database for artworks, CSS, Flash, HTML, JavaScript, MySQL, PHP Favata’s Table Rock Tours | 2007 - 2010 CSS, Flash, JavaScript, XHTML Beso Restaurant | 2008 CSS, Flash, HTML, JavaScript, Image Editing, Gallery Pharr + Anderson Architecture | 2008 Flash, and XML Joe Sturges Graphic & Web Designer FREELANCE Virgina A O’Dwyer Real Estate | 2008 CSS, Flash, HTML, JavaScript Zpita Restaurant | 2008 CSS, HTML, JavaScript, Menu PDFs INTERNSHIPS Publications Department SUNY New Paltz New York Summer of 2002 Graphics Plus Printing Cortland, NY Summer of 2001 Interactive Personalities Minneapolis, MN Summer of 2000 ADOBE SKILLS Adobe Creative Cloud CS6 Adobe Master Collection CS3 Acrobat After Effects Bridge Dreamweaver Flash - ActionScript 2.0 Illustrator InDesign Photoshop Photoshop 3D Premiere WEB DEVELOPMENT Cascading Style Sheets / CSS3 CGI Constant Contact Content Management Systems cPanel E-Commerce Hand Coding Hexadecimal Colors HTML / HTML 5 / XHTML JavaScript / JQuery Joomla MySQL PHP Responsive Design Server Side Scripting Shopping Carts Wordpress XML Image Compression OPERATING SYSTEMS Windows Vista Windows XP Windows 7 Ubuntu MAC OS AIGA Member References Furnished Upon Request EMAIL DESIGN Responsive Design Email on Acid Mozify Constant Contact Dada Mail Hand Coding Tables Inline CSS Hexadecimal Colors HTML / XHTML Image Compression COMPUTER SKILLS Comfortable using PC & MAC Act!: CRM Software Bandcamp Corel CG Inscriber Digital Photography Email Blasts Font Lab Studio 5 File Transfer Protocol Filezilla Flash FXP Microsoft Office Powerpoint Excel Word Outlook Raster and Vector Capabilities Responsive Email Design Responsive Website Design Typography 3D Studio Max COLOR KNOWLEDGE Pre-Flight Preperation Color Theory Color Seperations Color Profiling Color Densities Spot Color vs. Digital Printing RGB Color Model CMYK Printing Pantone Matching System Hexadecimal Colors ACHIEVEMENTS • Created a unique custom font using Illustrator and FontLab • Photography of statues in NYC used in Simon Pattersons “Under Cartel” Exhibition at the Haunch of Venison, July 2012 - September 2012 • Deans List at SUNY New Paltz