Resume
Chris Szostek
cszostek [at] gmail dot com
www.szostekdesign.com
My creativity, dedication, and quick learning skills will make me an asset to your company. My experience as a designer has given me the ability to handle projects of various sizes and styles. I look forward to joining your company as an in-house creative or as a long-term freelance agent.
Education
The Illinois Institute of Art | Bachelors Fine Arts Multimedia/Web Design 2002 Elgin Community College | Associates Degree in Visual Art 1999
Skill Set: experienced in both Mac & Windows formats.
Axure
Illustrator CS3
Photoshop CS3
Drupal
Dreamweaver
Quark
In Design
Flexi Sign Pro
CSS
Microsoft Office
Airbrush
Ceramics
Illustration
Oil Painting
Sculpture
Video Art
Storyboarding
Signs Now, South Elgin IL 2007-2010 Graphic Designer Designer of multiple types of large format media including signs, banners, vehicle wraps, and wall graphics. Additional responsibilities included customer service, primary contact for customer request and quoting. Larger clients included Elgin Community College and South Elgin Parks and Recreation.
South Elgin Chamber of Commerce selected my design for pole banners in 2007. The pole banners were placed around the village of South Elgin for the year of 2007. Banner design included series of three designs one for Spring/Summer, Fall/Winter, and one for Riverfest.
South Elgin Parks and Recreation selected my design for East Avenue Park Walking Trail signs, which focused on indestructible park signage in 2007. These signs will be in place at East Avenue Park for the next 20 years.
Examples of the above noted designs and other designs from Signs Now may be viewed in my portfolio at www.szostekdesign.com
Digital People Creative Staffing 2006-2007 Black Dot, magazine publishing services. Pre-press, assembly, imaging, and data security.
Precious Possessions www.preciousltd.com 2005-2006 Lead of graphics team. Responsibilities included graphic design for print and web, content management of products being sold, inventory system development. Liaison between the company owner and the web developers based in Chicago and the Ukraine. The sister site www.marketeersamerica.com of which I handled the complete graphic development.
Freelance Work History
Bruce Harris & Associates. 2011-‐current. Using Axure I create rapid prototypes of web application concepts. This greatly reduces development time and allows for faster turnaround for client change requests. (for examples please go here)
Ocean Tomo. 2011 Finding solutions for Drupal site functions Ocean Tomo
Gogo! 2011 I helped with the rebranding of two Drupal sites blog.gogoair & pr.gogoair
pvfymca 2011 Redesigned the YMCA website with Drupal. This project brought multiple YMCA sites in the area under one domain making it easier for YMCA staff to communicate with members.
www.nsms.org 2010 Redesigned website with Drupal to be more of a community and allow parents as well as potential members to get a sense of the day to day activity in the classroom.
orange alert 2008 – present
Transitioned the site from a casual Blogger identity to a professional arts & culture site. This included logo design, website redesign in Drupal, creation of marketing materials both online and in print. In 2008 I did the layout for Orange Alert’s first independent publication Most Likely You Go Your Way and I’ll Go Mine by Ben Tanzer.
Safe-T-Sense 2010
Website redesign in Drupal.
Fox Controls 2010
Website redesign in Drupal.
Real Dropzone 2006
Logo design and identity for the software graphics and layout of the website.
Negative Gain 2005
Layout design for the debut CD & merchandise for the band DEFCON www.defense-condition.net.
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