Jeffrey W Holter

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Work Experience

Responsibilities: Concepting and designing marketing/promotional materials including event/experiential marketing, Point of Sale (POS)/Point of Purchase (POP), displays & packaging.
Creative Services: Sketching, digital illustration and rendering for comp purposes and high- resolution keyline-ready art, photography and photo-retouching,
WEB Design/Web Development: Website design and development, working with XHTML, CSS, some JavaScript and PHP. All sites created from scratch, designed from content outward using symantic markup as much as possible.

Responsibilities: Provided art direction and project management including concept, design, and creation of promotional visuals for client projects. Developed concepts from pencil/thumbnail stage through to digitally rendered comps. Responsibilities also included directing photo shoots, locating & hiring freelancers, creating high-resolution keyline-ready art as necessary, and overseeing projects through production.

Responsibilities: Art Direction, Design, Render - concept and design, created digitally rendered comps and high resolution production-ready final art, and project management.
Additional responsibilities: Provided tech support to all Creatives on Mac/Apple systems. Provided tech support, help, and advice to all Creatives for graphics software including Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator.

Responsibilities: Created digitally rendered compositional art from pencil sketches or verbal concepts, and provided art direction as necessary.
Additional Responsibilities:
- Provided advice and support to all Creatives for graphics applications including Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, and Quark Express.
- Provided IT support for Creative’s Mac OS based computers as well as Iris and Phaser printers. This developed into an unofficial secondary position at the agency.

Participated in Adobe’s Prerelease Program for Beta-testing Photoshop and Bridge CS4. <Summer 2008>
Only Creative at 141WW/Ogilvy & Mather to work as full-time Sr. Art Director from remote office forf 6 years.
Conducted seminars for agency creatives & colleagues in Adobe Photoshop / Illustrator techniques as new releases became available. <141WW/Ogilvy & Mather _ August 1999 – August 2006>

Possess talent for creating client-pleasing designs running the gamut from edgy designs aimed at twenty-somethings to traditional designs aimed at the average homemaker.
Work comfortably in a wide variety of media including digital imaging, pencil/charcoal sketch & illustration, web development basic languages, multimedia and 3 dimensional constructions.
Manage projects from concept stage to final high resolution art, including digital imaging, photo-retouching, and keylines.
Able to consistently and reliably produce quality work under tight deadlines.
Expertise with industry technology and software: Possess knowledge and ability to diagnose and maintain computer equipment and software, and provide tech support for colleagues.
Apply well-honed drafting and industrial design skills to promotion/marketing media. This knowledge has proven invaluable when designing 3-dimensional displays and packaging for clients in the advertising, promotions & marketing industry.

Advanced technical knowledge of the Mac Operating System (currently OS X Snow Leopard 10.6.2) and Hardware. Basic knowledge of Windows and PC hardware.

Expert knowledge of Adobe Photoshop CS4, Adobe Illustrator CS3, Adobe Bridge CS4, Adobe Indesign CS2, Adobe Dreamweaver CS3, Adobe Fireworks CS3, Adobe Acrobat, Microsoft Entourage, Firefox, Opera and Safari.
Working knowledge of Adobe Flash CS3, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Powerpoint, and TurboCad for Mac.
Also proficient in Mac OS utility applications such as TechTool Pro, Disk Utility, DejaVu, Carbon Copy Cloner, FontDoctor, FontExplorer X and Toast.

Organized and conducted internal agency seminars on techniques and new releases of Adobe applications, continuing to offer help/advice and technical support on OS X and creative software.