Print Design

Internet/Multimedia Design

Illustration

Gregory Kerkman
phone: (920) 783-6505
email: email@gregkerkman.com

Creative Director applying 18 years wide-ranging experience to improving communication, brand identities, websites and packaging design. Hard working, honest and focused professional. Comfortable with all size projects working independently or as part of a team. Familiar with fast-paced environments. Good attitude and easy to get along with. A good mix of traditional drawing/painting/photography background with the latest graphics software and familiarity with the demands of marketing and business.

Relevant skills:

  • Concepting layouts / ads / websites
  • Photo manipulation and retouching
  • Photography / digital photography / stock photography / photo art direction
  • Illustration: drawing and painting in various media including digital
  • Typography
  • Production coordination with printing companies, including getting quotes, choosing the most appropriate/cost effective, solving production issues and doing press checks
  • Interviewing and training other designers
  • Outputting files to film / trapping colors
  • Troubleshooting Mac systems / Macintosh networking / proposals for upgrades
  • Improving graphics workflow / organizing digital files / digital asset management
  • Placing advertising
  • Writing press releases / ad copy
  • video production for web and DVD

Software skills:

  • Adobe Illustrator CS5
  • Adobe Photoshop CS5
  • Quark XPress 6.5
  • Adobe InDesign CS5
  • Dreamweaver CS5
  • Flash CS5
  • Adobe Acrobat CS5
  • Adobe Encore CS5
  • Adobe Premier CS5
  • Adobe After Effects CS5
  • Adobe Soundbooth CS5
  • Fetch / Cyberduck
  • HTML5 / CSS2 / Web Standards
  • Microsoft Office
  • Canto Cumulus and Extensis Portfolio
  • Mac OSX
  • Windows
  • Color Management
  • email marketing
  • Camera Raw
  • HD Video
  • JavaScript / AJAX
  • MySQL / PHP
  • osCommerce
  • WordPress

Employment history:

Millennium Technologies / Revolution Performance
Full-time employee: February 2007 to present
Creative Director

  • responsible for all marketing communication activities from concept to production
  • created a more focused marketing message and applied it to all communications materials
  • worked to improve online presence in advertising and search engines

JohnsonDiversey (Johnson Wax Professional)
Contracted full-time thru TruLine Lithographing: January 2000 to April 2003 Full-time employee: May 2003 to January 2007
Graphic Designer

  • primary responsibilities package labeling design and production, various marketing support
  • design and production of packaging for an exclusive line of products for Lowes stores, aided in landing the account by providing graphics for presentations to Lowes
  • aiding in setting standards for the JohnsonDiversey corporate identity applied to packaging
  • helped to transition graphics creation from contracted team to new Marketing Communications department, including interviewing and training new designers
  • design and production of packaging for innovative RTD line of products

Gardner Bender
September 1997 to December 1999
Senior Graphic Designer

  • primary responsibilities handling major design projects, working with printing vendors, training graphic designers and maintaining/upgrading Mac desktop systems
  • organized all graphics files and created database to speed the search for existing assets
  • created FileMaker database to track current projects and status
  • helped the department grow from handling the needs of only one brand to handling multiple brands

Bellwether Communications
July 1996 to September 1997
Art Director

  • primary responsibility art direction, concepting and design of magazine advertising
  • ad concept singled out by Fel-Pro as influential in choosing agency
  • award from the Racine ad club for Johnson Controls battery ad
  • proposed and set up desktop design system for a client to able to create weekly circulars in-house; trained client and employee in the use of that system

TSR, Inc.
July 1995 to June 1996
Graphic Designer

  • primary responsibility design of book covers and game packaging
  • helped Art Director to coordinate graphics team
  • designed book covers and the current logo for the best-selling Dragonlance series of novels
  • selected to do the final designs for three top game projects

Burlington Graphic Systems
May 1994 to July 1995
Production Artist

  • primary responsibility pre-press production for screen printing
  • production work for Trek, Raleigh, and Polaris
  • design work for Bass Tracker, Mark III Conversions and Winnebago

Happenings Magazine
November 1993 to May 1994
Graphic Designer

  • primary responsibility of creating ads on a very tight deadline

Education:

Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design September 1989 to May 1993 Completed BFA program, Graphic Design major Illustration minor
University of Wisconsin-Parkside September 1986 to May 1989 Declared major: Physics

Freelance work:

Choral Arts Society (Racine Symphonic Chorus) November 1994 to present various promotional materials including posters, advertising and billboards

Plymouth Arts Center March 2007 to 2009 Redesign and maintenance of website

Definitely Dishy November 2006 to March 2007 Brochure and website

American College of Healthcare Professionals January 2005 to December 2005 Design of marketing collateral, photography

All Electronics Hardware May 2000 to December 2005 Identity design, catalog, web site, trade show graphics and advertising

Racine Vocational Ministries 2003 Identity design for non-profit organization

Reliance Controls May 2002 to June 2004 packaging, user manual, trade show graphic

Lyden Moon March 1998 to December 2001 CD packaging

Del City March 2000 to May 2001 Web site production

The Shorewood Players October 1993 to January 1994 Posters and programs