E X P E R I E N C E:
8/2008
– 1/2009
VIDEO EDITOR
YESVIDEO, Santa Clara, California
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 / 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:
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 Arts and Crafts, San Francisco,
California
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 Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, CorelDraw, Adobe ImageReady,
PageMaker, Adobe InDesign, Adobe Dreamweaver MX, Adobe Flash CS4,
Ulead VideoStudio, Windows Media Encoder, GIF Animator, Adobe
Acrobat, Microsoft Word.
D E S K T O P P
L A T F O R M S:
Windows, Mac.
