Cyrsh Technologies Corporation, Irvine California, July 1998 - Present
Internet search engine technology developer.
Website Manager /Art Director

Website Management:
Managing a web site involves more than knowing html. Web site management involves bringing together a wide knowledge base of applications which build a positive and dynamic consumer oriented experience. This positive experience keeps existing clients happy and gives potential clients that little fuzzy feeling inside. As web site manager Ievaluated and implemented many different Cost saving, but powerful technologies (WebTrends, Dart, WebBoard, The affiliate Progam etc...) this responded in an overall positive user experience.

Marketing Analysis:
In keeping with a powerful user experience I always keep an eye on the top web related companies and cross matrix that with our own strategies and statistical information. By researching what the best companies have to offer the best I am able to see what methodswork best I use this information to improve our own user experience or increase click through rates. I Maintain statistical information using several different advertising tracking systems (ad-manage, Dart, webtrends etc...) I Gather this information, analyze it (to better understand and evaluate, and rate the success of our current round of promotions), and then I implement a revenue and/or traffic generating model.

Art Direction :
In a world built on the speed of the internet, it is important that we continue to be noticed and keep our branding clean fresh and up-to-date. I have always been a person that adjusts well to different situations. When given the call to do something new, I take on head first and give it 100%.

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Advertising Anything, Tulsa Oklahoma, September 1997 - July 1998
Full service advertising agency specializing in television, radio,print media.
Director of Creative Services

Promotion Development:
Being placed in front of a microscope is something an artist must experience on a daily basis, but being directly responsible for the success or of a promotion, or being directly responsible for the total waste of a "whole lot of money" is something that brings out the best in me. When a sales person was stuck they came to one man. They came to me because they understood that I treated each clients project not as a job, but as a personal indulgence into a consumer related experience (what will make me buy, is this message to bold /not bold enough, what colors are people attracted to this time of year etc...).

Art Direction:
Public relations with your clientele is extremely important, but public relations within our own people is all to often forgotten. As Creative Director, I was not just incharge of directing the the daily production of art, but I was in charge of directing the daily lives of people, and these people just like a printing press have problems, and issues that need our attention. Daily forces that control peoples lives, their families and their relationships are at work and we need to be able to adjust to these. It has always been my duty to keep a happy but disciplined work enviornment, but I always remember it starts with me first, A leader needs to lead by example not words alone.

Art Creation:
Here total creative freedom was our motto, no constraints create attractive art and promotions. Without going overboard large format graphics were our specialty. Every month the promotions and advertisements that would be used for the upcoming months were designed by myself and 2 other artists. We had in-house printing, cutting, and die-cutting. We also had a Gerber vinyl cutting machine that was used for cutting vinyl signs.

Print Supervision:
Anyone can look at a job and tell if the color is consistent and the message bold, but supervising pressman often means dealing with people who have years experience at their trade and are extremely good at what they do. I always tried to establish a teacher pupil relationship with printshop owners, sales teams and pressmen, this relationship building ensured high quality because they want to show off what they can do, this often kept our product very clean and our prices very low which made the overall experience the best it could be.

Web Site Development:
Corporate Website Administrator as well key webdeveloper for several smaller clients.

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United Video Satellite Group, Tulsa Oklahoma, September 96-June 97
Worlds Largest C-Band Home and Business cable Satellite service provider.
Sales & Marketing Major Accounts Manager

Creative Art Direction:
I took this position to see if Hard work really paid I also wanted to work on my negotiation skills. Responsibilities included negotiating programming contracts with dealers & customers. Responsibilities also included technical assistance, billing issues, problem resolution. Top representative out of all reps under 12 months based on sales, customer retention and customer aquisition numerous commendations on service quality. I had the top call volume of all 450 representatives for three month's straight. Never missed Quota. Exceeded quota by 75 to 200 percent every month.

Marketing Promotion Development:
I also worked closely with marketing developing strategies and promotions to better assist our customers needs. We focused on expanding our customer base as well as retaining our current customers through promotions & advertisements developed with our marketing dept.

Sales:
Here It was very fast paced ,I produced large format graphics and sinage for a wide variety of clients. Every month I designed the promotions and advertisements that would be used for the upcoming months. We had in-house printing, cutting, and diecutting. We also had a Gerber vinyl cutting machine with a Macintosh interface that was used for conventions and conferences.

Highlights:

• Top Represntative in Retention Programs

Salary: $66,600-Yr

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Tulsa World Publishing Co., Tulsa Oklahoma, June 96-September 96
Oklahoma's Second largest News paper with a 5 state subscription base.
Graphics Artist

Web Development:
I never want just a job, I want a job that scares me alittle. I want a job that pushes my abilities to their outer limits and in the process, pushes my knowledge higher and higher. Deadlines, Deadlines, Deadlines. Working for one of the southern leaders in the journalism is an experience that no one should pass up. Tight Hourly Deadlines, National exposure, Dealing with the associated press USA today and news agencies all of the country and the world brought out the best in me. My Quality and dedication always stood out. I was unfortunately a favortie of many of the reporters due to the fact that i was at work daily and i was at work ontime. I was the worker that they called whenever someone needed it done. This added to the Stress but at the same time this position gave me the excitemetn and energy that i crave.

Art Creation:
Here It was very fast paced ,I produced large format graphics and sinage for a wide variety of clients. Every month I designed the promotions and advertisements that would be used for the upcoming months. We had in-house printing, cutting, and diecutting. We also had a Gerber vinyl cutting machine with a Macintosh interface that was used for conventions and conferences.

Photography Supervision:
Here It was very fast paced ,I produced large format graphics and sinage for a wide variety of clients. Every month I designed the promotions and advertisements that would be used for the upcoming months. We had in-house printing, cutting, and diecutting. We also had a Gerber vinyl cutting machine with a Macintosh interface that was used for conventions and conferences.

Print Supervision:
Here It was very fast paced ,I produced large format graphics and sinage for a wide variety of clients. Every month I designed the promotions and advertisements that would be used for the upcoming months. We had in-house printing, cutting, and diecutting. We also had a Gerber vinyl cutting machine with a Macintosh interface that was used for conventions and conferences.

Highlights:

• Trained Local Junior League on Website • Development and Catalog Creation • Benefits: Saved $15,000/month in Film • Benefits: Saved $8,000/month in Chemical • Benefits: Saved $$ Hrs of Prdouction time • Initiated Switch To Digital Printing Technology • Benefits: No Man Hrs/50% lower printing costs

• Created Companies First Website • Instituted Web Development Operation • Started Pre-Press Relationships

Salary: $42,000-Yr

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Trader Publishing, Tulsa Oklahoma, October 95 June 96
The World's Largest Automobile publishing Company.
Pagination Coordinator

Print Supervision:
Successfully launched the Tulsa Bargain Post/Auto Trader office in Tulsa. We worked extensively with our advertising sales dept building and designing hundreds of ads a month, based exclusively on customer specifications. We scanned thousands of photos a week archiving photos on a server for later archiving and output. We worked hand in hand with our press verifying with pre-press & engraving depts for proper calibration and color ad placement.Responsible for negotiating film and printing costs saving the company Hundreds a Week. Personally researched presented and instituted an extensive digital photography and archiving system instituting it nationwide saving the company millions. Mastered photoshop due to our extensive usage.

Print Supervision:
Here It was very fast paced ,I produced large format graphics and sinage for a wide variety of clients. Every month I designed the promotions and advertisements that would be used for the upcoming months. We had in-house printing, cutting, and diecutting. We also had a Gerber vinyl cutting machine with a Macintosh interface that was used for conventions and conferences.

Highlights:

• Development and Catalog Creation • Benefits: Saved $15,000/month in Film • Benefits: Saved $8,000/month in Chemical • Benefits: Saved $$ Hrs of Prdouction time • Initiated Switch To Digital Printing Technology • Benefits: No Man Hrs/50% lower printing costs

• Created Companies First Website • Instituted Web Development Operation • Started Pre-Press Relationships

Salary: $22,000-Yr

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Two Brothers Design, Tulsa Oklahoma, October 1995 - September 1997
Design Group Specializing in Marketing And Image Development.
Art Director

Art Direction:
An opportunity to judge my level of commitment presented itself while working for Two Brothers. Two brothers was an excellent company, it had products and a market but no focus or direction. I noticed what the owner needed submitted a proposal and the the adventure begun. Dealing with freelance artists and hiring artists was the foundation of my duties at two brothers. With the exception of one other inhouse artist all of our artists were freelancers which meant, quality control was in full effect, and dealing with artists and correcting their mistakes was a full time job paying artists and vendors and employees who worked at a retail store doubled the workload.

Art Creation:
Besides handling the day to day operations the creative aspect of my position was very challenging. I was responsible for store sinage, t-shirt art, business cards, quality checked all merchandise and other artists work for quality, Negotiated supply costs and printing costs with different companies. Worked on web-site design and book covers and proofed hundreds of pages of copy for 2 books.

Print Supervision:
Here It was very fast paced ,I produced large format graphics and sinage for a wide variety of clients. Every month I designed the promotions and advertisements that would be used for the upcoming months. We had in-house printing, cutting, and diecutting. We also had a Gerber vinyl cutting machine with a Macintosh interface that was used for conventions and conferences.

Corporate training :
Besides handling the day to day operations the creative aspect of my position was very challenging. I was responsible for store sinage, t-shirt art, business cards, quality checked all merchandise and other artists work for quality. Negotiated supply costs and printing costs with different companies. Worked on web-site design and book covers as well as proofing copy for book. Trained clients on program usage internet access and e-mail, TCP/IP internet protocols etc. Set up client training program teaching them how to use different programs...

Highlights:

• Trained Local Junior League on Website • Helped write a book

• Created Companies First Website • Instituted Web Development Operation

Salary: $42,000-Yr

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Kinko's, Phoenix Arizona, December 1993 - August 1995
The Nations Premier Digital Printing and copy center.
Computer Services Assistant.

Print Supervision:
Here I worked closely with , sales staff and the marketing director developing, producing and designing art, logos, t-shirts, mugs, cups, business cards, brochures, forms, hats, and much, much more. We focused primarily on advertising specialty, and novelty items, targeted at schools, universities, businesses and corporations. Saved the company thousands in film costs and time buy switching to a translucent imaging paper as an alternative to film. Set up local POS system with the entire merchandising and sales dept, which downloaded all sales information on the fly as sales were made. Set up Web site in 1 Day.
Highlights:

• I did not Starve

Salary: $16,000-Yr

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