Dave Dodson’s Interactive & Print Portfolio

Skills

Adobe Creative Suite
expert level

Hand coded HTML & CSS
Flash
PowerPoint
WordPress & Joomla
good working knowledge

PHP & mySQL
Javascript & JQuery
basic coding skills

OS X, Windows & Linux
install, troubleshoot

Education

Art Institute of Atlanta
Design Principals and Production
1988-1989
Best Portfolio Award

DeKalb Community College
Undergraduate work
1982-1986

Hawthorne Visual Communications
Creative Director – Print, Presentation, New Media April 2008 – Present

• Work with strategic marketing team to conceive, design and produce print collateral, advertisements, presentations, HTML emails, websites, and Flash animations for several high profile clients in education, consumer goods and broadcasting.
• Lead and mentor a team of six full time designers. Hire and train new graphic designers and web developers. Manage contractors.
• Create brand style guides for national clients.
• Lead client discovery briefings, team brainstorm sessions and design concept presentations.
• Provide feedback and metrics using landing pages, tracking and analytics. Establish effective SEO.
• Mentor students through NATAS Mentor Student Connect at SCAD.
• Member of Program Action Committee at The Art Institute of Atlanta.

Peachtree Type & Design
Art Director, Senior Designer – Print, Web Jan 2000 – April 2008

• Efficiently manage and coordinate design production from concept through completion.
• Create vision, conceive designs, and consistently meet deadlines for clients in a variety of industries including consumer goods and healthcare.
• Effectively build, motivate, and direct design and production teams.
• Coordinate freelance designers, consultants and vendors to meet project requirements.
• Design and develop ecommerce website solutions.

ASLO.com
Director of Creative Services – Print, Web Jan 1999 – Dec 1999

• Design and implement creative strategy for financial services website.
• Build and manage creative team of designers, writers, web designers and marketing coordinators.
• Generate marketing plan and budget.
• Oversee workflow between creative team and web developers.
• Design user interface for web application.

Peachtree Type & Design
Graphic Designer – Print April 1991 – Jan 1999

• Create graphic design for print collateral, corporate identification and packaging.
• Consult and train designers in use of software.
• Research and implement digital imagesetter system.
• Evaluate and implement digital drum scanner.

Brothers Printing
Graphic Designer Jan 1989 – April 1991

• Produce digital designs for print.
• Early pioneer of digital four-color separations.
• Beta-test Adobe Photoshop and Aldus Pagemaker.