Astronomy.com: Web assistance to dot com editorial staff. Minor Flash animation and
optimizing images for web format. Concept meetings for future planning of content,
imagery, and promotional link creation as well as advertisement animations.
Audio/Video Editing: Classic Toy Trains,Garden Railways, and Model Railroader magazines
DV and standard 8mm video capture from camera editing for web formats in both downloadable and streaming optimization.
Audio voice over editing and capturing for web and radio advertisements.
Books and Annuals
Interior page design: Track Planning Ideas For Toy Trains, A Galaxy Far Away, Explore the Universe (Astronomy annual, various layouts)
Cover and interior design: Welcome to Astronomy booklet

July 2002 - January 2005: Vital Source
Art Director
Free Milwaukee culture magazine focusing on events, issues, developments in the city and the surrounding metro area.
Full magazine redesign, September 2004. Past format in Quark Xpress 4.0 to Adobe InDesign CS. New size, section layout, and formatting.
On-site photo shoots when necessary, contracting of illustrators and cartoon artists, advertisement design, design/layout of news paper, preflighting, creating postscript files and PDFs for electronic file delivery.

March 2003 - October 2003: The Guardian
Art Director
New local based publication with emphasis on fighting and awareness of crime in Milwaukee and its suburbs.
Logo concept and design, mock-up and layout with templates and styles sheets to establish branding, advertisement design, preflighting, creating postscript files before making PDFs for electronic file delivery, and on-site press checks.

October 2001 - July 2002: Kalmbach Publishing Co. (Internship)
Designed layouts, house advertisements, events marketing pieces for trade shows and conventions, and various packaging materials including a VHS movie jacket for Trains and DVD tray-case inserts and DVD labels for the Worlds Greatest Hobby.
Designed layouts in the following additional magazine titles: Bead & Button, Classic Toy Trains, Classic Trains, Dollhouse Miniatures, Fine Scale Modeler, Garden Railways, Scale Auto,The Writer, and Trains.