Resume: Gary Roberts
Creative Director, GMR Design

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INTERNET & INTERACTIVE ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS Information and usability design, HTML coding, graphic design and layout for the development of web sites and other new media applications. Flash animation and interactivity development. Familiar with sound editing and digital video editing software. Strategic internet marketing consulting.

COMPUTER GRAPHICS Thorough knowledge of both Macintosh and Windows platforms as tools for layout, graphic design, typography, image processing, interactive media development, photo retouching and compositing, prepress, and production of all forms of corporate and marketing communications and information graphics. Familiar with 3D and animation techniques.

GRAPHIC DESIGN & ART DIRECTION
Art director, designer and producer of catalogs, brochures, newsletters, business forms, charts and graphs, corporate slide presentations, corporate identity, logos, and marketing communications; working from concept and rough layout through to final presentation.

Fluent knowledge of typefaces; their uses and applications.

Management and production of large scale corporate and marketing communications projects.

Record

GMR Design
Ashland, OR
President and Creative Director of Internet design and consulting company.
1997 to Present

THE VERTEX GROUP, INC.
Ashland, OR
Creative director, interface designer, and account manager of award winning web site development and Internet consulting company.
1994 to 1997

AVON PRODUCTS, INC.
New York, NY
Art director, graphic designer, computer graphics consultant, studio coordinator, type director, and mechanical designer for in-house print communications department of this large Fortune 500 company.
1987 to 1994

ROBERT LOMBARDI ADVERTISING, INC.
New York, NY
Assistant art director in advertising agency representing the jewelry trade, doing both consumer and business to business advertising.
1986-1987

WELCH DESIGN, INC.
Milford, CT
Graphic designer, production artist, and darkroom technician in a business specializing in corporate identity and information graphics and presentations
1984-1986

Education

UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT
Storrs, CT
BA Interdepartmental major in graphic design and fine art photography. Related studies in English literature.

SCHOOL OF VISUAL ARTS
New York, NY
Coursework in mechanical design and production, typography, computer graphics, and desktop publishing

FAIRFIELD UNIVERSITY
Fairfield, CT
Courses in layout and marker rendering techniques

Activities

DevGroup NW

Internet Professionals Northwest (IPN)

San Franscisco Macromedia User Forum (SFMMUF)

Southern Oregon Telecommunications and Technology Council (SOTTC)