EXPERIENCE

CARASSO DESIGN / San Rafael, CA / April 1995-Present
POSITION: Owner, Art Director, Computer Graphic Artist
DUTIES: Establishing internet freelance clientele, designing WWW graphics and traditional graphic design over the internet, working remotely or on-site. Client list includes Poppe Tyson Advertising Agency (Mountain View, CA, USA), Purple Internet Productions (London, England), Net Classifieds (Sydney, Australia), Werbal Advertising Agency (Berne, Switzerland), and others.

NORTH COMMUNICATIONS / Santa Monica, CA / December 1993-April 1995
POSITION: Art Director/Computer Graphic Artist
DUTIES: Establishing art department to develop and design multimedia interfaces for public access kiosk networks such as Info/Texas, Info/New York, and WIN, the Washington Information Network. Also designing, storyboarding, and creating graphics for all phases of a project, including interface, "attract" video sequences, logo design and peripheral marketing materials. Responsibilities also include managing the department, employees and freelance pool and setting inter- and intradepartmental procedures and policies.

KTTV FOX Television / Los Angeles, CA / October 1990-December 1993
POSITION: Lead Graphic Artist
DUTIES: Designing graphics for one-hour daily news show, creating entire graphics package for new AM three-hour news and feature program, and designing daily graphics for AM newscast.

WCMH NBC Television / Columbus, Ohio / October 1987-October 1990
POSITION: Computer Graphic Artist/ Graphic Designer
DUTIES: Creating on-air graphics for news, including daily news graphics, news package graphics production and promotion graphics, and the news format and total station package. Responsibilities also included preparing ad and brochure artwork and other materials for print, set piece and prop design as well as other numerous tasks characteristic of a television art department.

Slide Service International / Columbus, Ohio / December 1986-January 1988
POSITION: Computer Graphic Designer
DUTIES: Building high-res slides business graphic slides and designing custom illustrations for slides and print. Duties also included training new employees on the departments operating procedures and how to best operate the computer system.

WTOL CBS Television / Toledo, Ohio / February 1985-December 1986
POSITION: Artist/Designer
DUTIES: Designing ads, brochures, special event packaging, and various in-house printings. Creating graphics for commercial clients, special projects and news. Also assisted in set design and decoration.

EDUCATION

Bowling Green State University/Bowling Green, Ohio/1985-1986
University of Toledo/Toledo, Ohio/1983-1985
Kent State University/Kent, Ohio/1982-1983
Bachelor of Fine Arts Program Area of specialty: Computer Graphics

TOOLS

Photoshop, Illustrator, Painter, DeBabelizer, Kai's PT, Xaos Filters, Typestry, and others

EQUIPMENT

• Window XP / Macintosh
• Quantel Paintbox and Picture Box
• Harris Iris Still Store
• Ampex AVA Computer Graphics System
• Ampex ESS-3 Still Store
• Artstar Colorgraphics System
• Genegraphics SG-2 Graphic System
• Targa TIPS Graphics System
• Time Arts Lumena System