Digital Media Artist, Computer Graphic Artist, Technical Illustrator, Webdesigner, Commercial Artist, Powerpoint Presentation Artist, Macromedia Flash Designer.

Cellphone: (408) 667-9751
Email: marte@design48.com

Portfolio sites with links to my client web sites:
http://www.design48.com
http://www.design48.com/portfolio48/
About Marte

Expert Level Digital Design Skills:
Photoshop, Flash, Powerpoint, ImageReady, Illustrator, Dreamweaver, HTML, CSS, Javascript, FTP tools, browser issues, etc.

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

FileMaker, Santa Clara, CA - 2006 - contract web developer, website CMS environment - new page design and site updates in advance of new product release. Tableless design/extensive CSS, XML, XHTML, DHTML, Photoshop image optimization.

Intuit, Mountain View, CA - 2005 - contract web developer, built dynamic HTML Intuit web content for retail sites, including BestBuy, CompUSA, Staples, OfficeMax, etc.

Links to current work in process staging site (all coding done by me):

http://www.design48.com/intuit/

Hewlett Packard – 11/09/2005 – 11/23/2005 Powerpoint Presentation Graphic Specialist. I assisted an upper level manager at HP in the design and completion of a time-critical executive Powerpoint Presentation to be presented to Mark Hurd (Carly Fiorina’s replacement.)

SNP Communications - Recent (10/2005) Ongoing freelance interactive Flash project (online training guide) for SNP client, Sun Microsystems. Photoshop image editing, InDesign layout, and website design.

Sylvia Forrest - Recent (10/2005) Ongoing freelance CDROM Cover Designs for Bay area Latin recording artist, Sylvia Forrest.

Peninsula Pops - Recent (10/2005) Ongoing freelance website redesign for Peninsula Pops Orchestra.

Silicon Valley College - Digital Media (InDesign) and traditional Storyboarding Instructor - 3/15/2005 - 6/15/2005 (oncall for Fall semester)

Intransa: (9/04 - 11/04) Intransa, a growing startup company in San Jose, CA, involved in IPSAN Data Storage Management. Replacing two very competent designers, the print designer and the webdesigner, I redesigned and maintained the website, color brochures, Powerpoint and Flash presentations.

KLA-Tencor 3/29/04 to 4/6/04 PowerPoint presentation design work for Information Technology Status review. As a support designer, I interfaced with and provided graphics support to several IT engineers and management personnel in the creation of PowerPoint presentation slides Principal software tools: PowerPoint

Lockheed-Martin (via Deloitte & Touche) - 7/03/2003 - 8/03/2003 - Sample and Sample2.
Design and creation of SAP/LotusNotes online (interactive) training course - revision of existing training guides.
Job involved the conversion of Powerpoint presentation courseware into online interactive HTML version.
Principal software tools: HTML, Javascript, CSS, and Photoshop (image optimization) Powerpoint, LotusNotes

NASA, Ames Research, Moffett Field - 6/15/2003 - 8/15/2003 (work done offsite in home office)
Design and creation of website for the Exobiology Principal Investigators' Conference hosted for NASA by SETI.
Principal software tools: HTML, Javascript, CSS, and Photoshop (image optimization.)

Jooven8 - Los Angeles based marketing and design firm. Freelance/contract design - Sample and Sample2.

CREATUS (2/2000 to 9/2000)
At Creatus I was principal designer code, navigation, and graphics on their website. I also wrote their new tagline: "Where technology is an art." I used the classical daVinci drawing of human proportions as a perfect symbol for a webdesign firm: the convergence of engineering and art. Ecommerce sites that I designed for clients of Creatus include the following:
http://www.teledex.com/
This is a sample of the design work that I did for Creatus in Flash. All of the 180 icons and background faceplates were drawn in vector. Each icon is action-scripted to drag and drop online to create a custom faceplate for the lobby telephones of major hotel chains. I created the first 18 templates, from which many more were created.
http://www.hotelgongsystems.com
Recent website that I designed code and graphic for www.creatus.com client.
http://www.signaturewines.com
I was one of the principal designers on this site at Creatus, providing graphics for the Java/database engineers.

ORACLE CORPORATION (8/1999 - 10/1999) (Oracle intranet site design) This links to a demo of a website redesign that I did for an intranet site at Oracle Corporation. (NOTE: Since the real site is behind a firewall, not all of the links will work here.)

COMPUTER CURRICULUM CORPORATION (6/1998 - 8/1998) - Digital Photoshop Icon Designs. I created a suite of original characters for the interactive GUI of a children's educational CDROM for CCC, a division of Simon and Schuster in Sunnyvale, Ca.

THE LEARNING CO. (2/1998) Project contract - Newark, CA, 2D Computer animation. Available on disk.

LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES (1/1998) Milpitas, CA Multimedia Graphics. Interleaf software. Available on disk.

SYNOPSIS (EPIC Division) (2/1997) Project contract - PhotoShop, PowerPoint, Adobe Illustrator. Available on disk.

ORACLE CORPORATION (4/1997 - 8/1997) - Subcontract illustration: 200+ Adobe Illustrator (scalable vector) technical drawings. The photo is courtesy NASA.
Sample Illustration 1 -- This flow diagram was drawn in Adobe Illustrator, and then positioned over a Photoshop NASA image.
Sample Illustration 2 -- This diagram, drawn in Adobe Illustrator, represented the Enterprise Message Broker architecture of Oracle
Sample Illustration 3 -- A preliminary version of the previous chart.
Sample Illustration 4 -- This graph, one of hundreds I produced for Oracle8, was drawn in Adobe Illustrator, and then rasterized for the web.
Sample Illustration 5 -- This graph, one of hundreds I produced for Oracle8, was drawn in Adobe Illustrator, and then rasterized for the web.

(Many other samples available upon request.)

PDI, Sunnyvale CA: contract technical illustration positions:
Northrop Grumman, Sunnyvale, CA (6/1995 - 10/1996)
LORAL, WDL Labs, Milpitas, Sunnyvale, and Palo Alto, CA 1996 Samples

SEGA OF AMERICA, Redwood Shores, CA (1/1994 - 6/1995) - Digital (2D) Animation/Concept Art/Fantasy Cartoons/Backgrounds :: Samples

AMES RESEARCH NASA (9/1993 - 12/1993) Subcontract illustration: Adobe Illustrator vector technical drawings.

LOCKHEED MISSILES & SPACE COMPANY (now Lockheed Martin)
Technical Publications Department (9/1980 - 8/1993) - Senior Technical Illustrator, Assistant Art Coordinator/Commercial artist :: Samples

SAN JOSE CITY COLLEGE INSTRUCTOR , San Jose, CA (1973-1980) - Instructor: Graphic Design/Typography

EDUCATION: I hold a Masters from San Jose State, and I continue to learn software and coding skills on the job, online tutorials especially at Sun and Microsoft websites, and at the Junior Colleges. De Anza, West Valley, and UC Extension.

MY PROFESSIONAL REFERENCES: Available upon request.










Dear Sirs:

I am a professional artist and illustrator, with nearly eighteen years of computer graphics experience on all three computer platforms: Macintosh, PC Windows, and VAX (Unix). My digital media skills are highly developed in Photoshop, Illustrator, Flash, PowerPoint, and ImageReady. I also draw and paint well in traditional mediums. I have many years of project management and art director experience. I taught graphic Design at San Jose City College for seven years (1973 to 1980) interfacing with students of every age group and ethnic background.

I have worked for the software development industry, the defense industry, the telecommunications industry, as well as the entertainment/videogame industry. In all of these industries, I have employed my technical, artistic, and language skillsets to create professional publication products, interactive CDROMs, videogames, educational software, as well as corporate websites. In September of 1980 I was hired at Lockheed Corporation as a technical illustrator, then promoted to commercial artist and acted as assistant art coordinator in a team of five artists. Our average document consisted of thousands of pages of technical graphics and text, in slide (PowerPoint) and electronic print form, necessitating stringent document control and workflow protocol.

I was a digital animator for SEGA of America (1994-95), The Learning Company (1996), and Computer Curriculum Corporation (1997), and bring those valuable related skillsets to the web arena. I am expert in both raster (Photoshop) and vector (Illustrator and Flash) digital art. In 1997, I created over 200 Adobe Illustrator (vector) drawings that were published in technical white papers, PowerPoint presentations, and online for the release of Oracle 8. Examples of these can be seen on my online portfolio. Since 1999, I have been a fulltime webdesigner, bringing both my raster (pixel) and vector (SVG) skillsets to the web. I am a handcoder of HTML and DHTML (HTML plus Javascript) and I am very familiar with Cascading Style Sheets. I prefer to hand code, but I can also use any of the WYSIWYG tools, such as Dreamweaver, Frontpage, and Homesite. I also design Macromedia Flash websites.

Because I have worked in many types and sizes of design environments, I am capable of handling very creative as well as very boring and repetitive projects. I am willing to share information, as well as ask questions when it is needed. I enjoy learning new technologies. I am a team player. I am patient and understanding of others. Because of my background in Community College instruction, I work well with people of all ages, and have trained engineers both older and younger than myself. Collaboration, especially with the client, is the only way to get a product finished satisfactorily.

My online portfolio www.design48.com showcases my corporate illustrations, animations and websites.