E X P E R I E N C E:
10/2014 – present
GRAPHIC / WEB DESIGNER for Prima Dental, Redwood City, California.

6/2013 – 9/2014
GRAPHIC / WEB DESIGNER
VietSAVE Coupons, San Jose, California
Designed and prepared files for printing coupon catalog. Developed/designed website.

12/2010 – 10/2012
FREELANCE GRAPHIC / WEB DESIGNER for VietVoters, San Jose, California, a non-profit organiztion.
Designed printed/online materials to increase public awareness and understanding of the multicultural participation in mainstream.

9/2010 – 11/2010
GRAPHIC DESIGNER
Thang Bom News, San Jose, California
Designed-layouted for dailly newspaper.

8/2008 – 1/2009
VIDEO EDITOR
YESVIDEO, Santa Clara, California
Edited videos and provided technical support.

6/2006 – 11/2007
VIDEO EDITOR/ART DIRECTOR
SBTN (Saigon Broadcasting Television Network) San Jose, California
Responsibilities for design and production of videos of all lengths, including :1 minute, 30 second TV commercials, talk shows, corporate videos, internet videos and graphic elements.

3/2006 – 6/2006
GRAPHIC DESIGNER
M. E. Fox and Company, Inc., San Jose, California

6/2003 – 1/2006
GRAPHIC DESIGNER, Webmaster
SaigonUSA News, San Jose, California
Designed-layouted and coordinated print production for weekly newspaper. Managed workflow and digital (files) archive system. Website designed and daily updated for online newspaper.

6/2002 – 5/2003
GRAPHIC DESIGNER
VCA, San Jose, California
Designed and oversaw production of print materials to promote public awareness of Multi-culture for a non-profit organization.

11/98 - 4/2002
GRAPHIC DESIGNER / SUPERVISOR
Media Factory Inc., Fremont, California
Responsibilities for graphic design, illustration and pre-press for CD, DVD covers, brochures, poster, print ads and web graphics-GIF animations. Worked directly with client from start to finish. Supervised in-house graphic department.

7/96 - 4/98
GRAPHIC DESIGNER / LABEL EDITOR / ILLUSTRATOR
Abbott Diagnostics, Santa Clara, California
Designed medical product labels, graphics for operating-reference manuals and product packages. Developed and established department procedures. Archived electronic files for easy retrieval for later use.

4/96 - 5/96
GRAPHIC DESIGNER
IC Magazine, San Jose, California
Designed and produced advertisings, promotional materials, editorial layout.

4/90 - 11/95
TECHNICAL ILLUSTRATOR / GRAPHIC ARTIST
SYBEX, Computer Book Publishing, Inc., Alameda, California
Created technical and graphic illustration for Sybex books using PC and Mac-based applications. Literally, produced over a thousand high-quality illustrations. Several key titles and best sellers were included: Novell’s Complete Encyclopedia of Networking, Easy Guide to Window 95 and Novell Press Series… Received great praise from authors and was asked specifically to create illustrations for their books. Provided computer graphic support for Desktop Publishing Department in editing/modifying graphic files to correct any problem as necessary. Coordinated schedules with Art Director for hiring freelanced artists. Organized and managed illustration workloads to insure deadlines were met.

11/94 - 2/95
GRAPHIC DESIGNER (freelanced)
LANimation, Inc., Avila Beach, California
Designed a multimedia presentation, “CNE Bootcamp”, on-line training materials for Certified NetWare Engineer-to-be.

1991
GRAPHIC DESIGNER (freelanced)
SYBAR Software, Alameda, California
Designed program templates and graphic interface for software.

E D U C A T I O N:
9/2014 - 6/2015
De Anza College, Cupertino, California
Film/TV Production Program. Recipient of De Anza Creative/Fine Arts Scholarship. My Short film "Cooking for Love" (edited on Adobe Premiere, Photoshop, and Illustrator) was one of the Finalists in the International Cinéphone Festival 2015:
https://www.facebook.com/CinephoneFilmFest

4/96 - 8/99
University of California Extension, Santa Cruz
Multimedia Design and Production Program. Software trained with hands-on instructions in Web Design, Director, Premiere, HTML.

1/87 - 12/89
California College of the Arts (CCA), San Francisco - Oakland
BFA in Graphic Design. Additional courses in illustration and CAD.

9/83 - 12/86
Chabot College, Hayward, California
Studied Fine Arts and Architecture.

S O F T W A R E    S K I L L S:
Adobe Creative Cloud applications, Adobe InDesign, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Premiere Pro, Adobe After Effects, Adobe Dreamweaver, Adobe Flash, Adobe Muse, HTML & CSS, CorelDraw, PageMaker, Corel VideoStudio, Windows Media Encoder, GIF Animator, Adobe Acrobat, Microsoft Office.

D E S K T O P    P L A T F O R M S:
Windows, Mac.