Service Description:
Experience:
2/04 - Present
Black Wolf Studio
• Illustration and Fine Art Services.
6/92 - 1/04
Lowe NYC
Illustration Services Manager 10/94 - 1/04
. Supervised and managed client presentations and pitches.
. Managed staff of freelance illustrators.
. Illustrated color and black & white storyboards, comps, and key frames.
. Organized meetings and communication with account and creative staff.
. Responsible for record keeping, estimating and billing of department production.
. Maintained inventory of supplies and equipment.
Key accomplishments:
. Developed and maintained the “Lowe Illustration Department” an
efficient and income producing process that offered the creative staff a portfolio of ten illustrators.
. Introduced photoshop color to agency storyboards.
Illustrator 6/92 - 10/94
. Illustrated color and black & white storyboards, comps and key frames.
. Organized meetings and communication with account and creative staff.
9/90 - 6/92
Bert Pence Associates
Assistant to the Creative Director
Responsibilities:
. Illustration, Design and Copywriting. Traditional Studio work
4/88 - 9/90
New Line Cinema
Assistant to the Creative Director
Responsibilities:
. Illustrating and assembling comps, designing posters and ads
11/87 - 4/88
Colgate Palmolive
Corporate Communications studio assistant
Responsibilities:
. General studio assistance
Skills and Proficiencies:
Illustration . Pencil, pen & ink, marker, charcoal, pastel, gouache, oil, acrylic, tempera.
Computer . Mac OSX, Quark, Indesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Filemaker Pro.
Education:
1987 - Present
Pratt Institute NYC . M.P.S. - Arts & Cultural Mangement
School of Visual arts NYC . Bachelor of Fine Arts - Advertising
School of Visual Arts NYC . Painting, Instructor - John Murray
The Art Students League NYC . Painting, Instructor - Jack Faragasso
Smithtown Arts Council NY . Anatomy, Instructor - John Buscema
NY Academy of Art NYC . Painting, Instructor - Steven Assael
Private Instruction NYC . Painting, Instructor - John Foote
Freelance Clients:
Publicis, Avrett, Free & Ginsberg, J. Walter Thompson, Mcgarry Bowen, Wieden & Kennedy, Cliff Freeman & Partners, Merkley & Partners, Berlin Cameron/Red Cell, GMMB, Cossette Post, Alchemy, Pagano Schenck & Kay, Lowe, Messner VBMS, Saatchi & Saatchi, BBDO, Laughlin, Marinaccio, & Owens, Unit 7, Spotco, Serino Coyne, Mckinney Silver, Lippincott Publishing, Heavy Metal magazine, Greenwich Hospital, Dorothy Leeds llc, Elaine’s NYC.
Industry Experience:
Consumer Goods, Consumer Services, Retail, Wholesale, Transportation, Rail, Road, Air, Marine, Media, Advertising, Publishing, Entertainment, Telecommunications