About

Independent Graphic Designer & Sales Representative [Graphic Designer / Sales / Marketing]
10 Years Graphic Design
20 Years Sales & Marketing

• Sales Representative (Direct, Wholesale Sourcing)
• Customer Service
• Graphic & Vector Design
• Vinyl Decal Design (Cutting, Weeding & Application)
• T-Shirt Design & Digital T-Shirt Printing
• Corporate Level Website Design (CMS, Skinning, Modules, Plug-ins, SEO, PPC)
• Internet Marketing
• Corporate Identity & Branding

Avante Holding Group [Chief of Operations]
5 Years (Ended Partnership: Edgar Documents on record at www.SEC.gov for stock & holdings)

• Assisted CEO with Operational Tasks
• Sourcing Venture Capital / Mediating Investors & Relations (limited)
• Acquisition & Incubation of existing & startup companies
• Initial Public Offerings & Sourcing Market Makers
• Sourcing operational material providers
• Corporate identity, branding, graphic & website design
• Feasibility studies, competition matrix & resistance to market research

Accomplishments

• Multiple newspaper articles on design ability (Clay Today, Argyle Today Newspapers)
• First Place Nationwide in AG Fine Arts Festival against 17,000 contestants (assisted entry candidate)
• Designed the cover of the July 4th Fireworks Festival Clay Today Newspaper
• Raised 1.7m US Dollars in private funds (non institutional) for various ventures
• Assisted Avante CEO in growth from $75k startup evaluation to $70m evaluation (prime)

Proficiencies

11 years graphic design & printing. Corel Draw, Trace, Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, Acrobat, Signlabs, iProof, Cutting Master, Jasc PSP, Dot Net Nuke, Joomla, WordPress, BBPress, PHP, MySQL, Suma & Graphtec Plotters, HTML, ASP, JavaScript, FlexiJet Digital T-Shirt Printers, Photography (D450), Video Shooting (HDR-FX7), Video Editing, DVD Authoring, AVS Media Video Conversion, Flash Encoding, Telnet, FTP, FrontPage, Dreamweaver and more.

Education

U.S. Navy
0000 / 8404 Corpsman
NAS Jacksonville BMC, Camp Geiger, Camp Johnson, Camp Lejeune, Chicago Naval Hospital
Date of Service: 1994 – 1999

Orange Park High School
2300 Kingsley Avenue
Orange Park, Florida 32073
Dates Attended: 1984 – 1988