Chris Jordan
Summary
Customer focused, creative and enthusiastic graphic designer with 14 years experience creating professional quality graphic artwork and design for both print and digital media
Key strengths: Graphic design skills, layout skills, creative services, creativity, flexibility, attention to detail, excellent communication skills and the ability to rapidly deliver bottom-line results with customer focus.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Renne Sloan Holtzman Sakai, LLP - San Francisco, CA, 2004-Present
Graphic Media Designer
• Design and produce original graphic art and visual materials for promotions, advertisements, publications and informative and instructional materials
• Collaborated on the design and layout of the firm's website
• Maintain and update the firm web site
• Brainstorm and mock up design ideas to fulfill internal and external communication requirements
• Manage annual digital media and communications budget
• Plan, organize and coordinate production and print schedules to meet deadlines
• Manage relationships with outside art services and printers
• Utilize a variety of computer software and manual tools to develop and execute designs
• Create specialized power point templates and presentations for use in courtrooms by litigation attorneys and for specialized training by labor relation attorneysRECEP
• Manage and maintain database of digital media
Livinglinks Arts - Oakland, CA, 2000-2003
Art Director
• Produced creative graphic design for both print and web development projects
• Led and managed staff of artists
• Collaborated with national and international clients to interpret their needs and ideas
• Maintain and update high sales, medical media website
• Managed all vendor relationships and communications
American Protective Services - Oakland, CA, 1998-2000
Graphic Designer
• Created, planned, and coordinated the creation of a superior design product
• Met and exceeded all design project needs through great concepts and images
• Designed and print brokered sales, marketing, training, internal and external communications materials
• Assisted with photo shoots
• Met all deadlines and managed print budgets in excess of 500k annually
Fall River Herald - Fall River, MA 1997-1998
Graphic Designer
• Designed classified and display advertisements
• Layout of the classified section of the paper
• Created specialty ads for a large advertising department
• Uploaded files to the company web site
EDUCATION
University of Florida - Gainesville, FL
1997 Bachelor of Fine Arts in graphic design with emphasis on computer generated design,
marketing concepts, and traditional methods of illustration.
COMPUTER SKILLS
Fluent on Mac and PC platforms, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Pagemaker, Quark X-Press, Adobe Indesign, Dreamweaver, Digital Photo correction, Power Point
Portfolio at: www.cjordanart.com
