William J. O'Brien • (646) 271-0844 • P.O. Box 1489 • New York, NY • 10159-1489
Work Experience:
Senior
Art Director, Cooper Direct Advertising, New
York, NY
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Art direction, creative concepting, and management of direct-marketing campaigns
_______- Concepting/implementation of self-promotion
campaigns for CooperDirect Advertising including print/multimedia
_______- Traffic-production management of client
projects including proofing, pre-press production, and press run checks
_______- Supervision/hiring of freelance designers/writers
as per related to client projects
_______- Clients managed include: The San Francisco
Examiner & Chronicle, The Economist, Prefer.com, MIT, Verizon,
_______
_Register.com, Dick's Sporting Goods, Columbia
House, Pacific Bell, Ameritech, National Geographic, Reader's Digest.
Graphic
Designer, Cleveland Life Magazine, Cleveland,
OH
_______- Design of all print materials in correlation
for Cleveland Life, Ohio's largest African Weekly Newspaper (ads, page layout,
and cover design)
_______- Design of materials for in-house events
and promotions including buscards, billboards, tickets, media kits and other
miscellaneous print materials
Art
Director, Groove Magazine, Cleveland, OH
_______- Conceptualized, design and implemented
a prototype for Groove Magazine [a new weekly music newsmagazine]
_______- Design and implementation of all print
and collateral materials for in-house promotions
Freelance Graphic Designer, Gooey
Industries, Cleveland, OH
_______-Responsible for the design of exterior
and interior print materials ranging from self promotions and corporate identity
to website interface design
Freelance Graphic Designer, AIDS Taskforce of Greater Cleveland,
Cleveland, OH
_______- Assisted with the implementation of sway
Magazine, a semi annual periodical aimed towards education and prevention of
HIV/AIDS to young people
_______- Directed the primary exterior and interior
graphic design from concept to print
Educational Instructor, Cleveland Museum of Art,
Cleveland, OH
_______- Instruction of two special education art
classes that incorporated museum art education with studio instruction.
_______- Researched, revised and implemented curriculum
programs for the museum pertaining to Special Education Programs
_______- Instructed a series of large scale group
art projects.
Artist in Residence,
Creativity Explored of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
_______- Instruction of individual and collaborative
arts projects with disabled students.
_______- Researched and received grant opportunities
for projects.
_______- Management of office projects ranging
from Yuerba Buena Center for the Arts "Whipper Snapper Nerd," to the
publicity manual for the center.
Computer Services Supervisor, Kinko's, Inc., San Francisco, CA,
and Cleveland, OH
_______- Supervision of computer services staff
for private and corporate clients
_______- Design and layout of brochures, invitations,
and other miscellaneous projects utilizing both IBM and Macintosh design software
Graphic Specialist, ASM INTERNATIONAL, Novelty, OH
_______- Digitized graphics for the in-house production
of technical books
_______- Design and layout for journals and books
utilizing primarily Ventura Publisher
_______- Assisted with the annual update of customer
service databases
_______- Correspondence between publishers and
authors pertaining to in-house publications.
Computer Skills:
Proficient in both
Macintosh and I.B.M. computer formats: Microsoft Word, QuarkXpress, Illustrator,
Freehand, Photoshop, Pagemaker,
Powerpoint, OmniPage Pro, Netscape Navigator, Pagemill, Dreamweaver, Flash,
Fireworks, ImageReady. I.B.M. Proficiency: Windows 98, Microsoft Word,
Corel Draw, Microsoft Excel, Ventura Publisher.
Education
Loyola University
Chicago 1997 B.A. - College of Arts and Sciences Major: Studio Art Concentration:
Ceramics G.P.A.: 3.4/4.0
Portfolio and References Available Upon Request