Eugene's resume

Eugene J. Fitzgerald
 Multimedia Specialist with comprehensive knowledge in the areas of Print, Web, Animation, Video,
Production and Pre-Press. From 2003 to 2007 attended University graduated with MSc. in Multimedia.
 Excellent communication skills when working with Clients, Vendors, in a team or individually.
 Outstanding knowledge of Adobe CS Suite, Graphic Design, Type, Layout with a good eye for detail,
a well rounded individual with over 8 years work experience as a Graphic Designer. PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

December 2009 – December 2010
US ARMY Reserve – Vancouver, WA 98661
Active Duty orders at Ft Lewis, Washington. Duties - working as an IT Administrative Specialist.

March 2008 - December 2009
FREELANCING - Los Angeles, CA 90007
Freelancing as a Web/Graphic Designer & Production Artist: Companies included:
TM Group (Ad Agency), Allegra Print & Imaging, Russ Reid (Ad Agency) and Digital Kitchen (Ad
Agency). Font End Web Developer & Maintenance for the official AT&T website, hand coding html, CSS2,
xml and JavaScript. Flash video, AS 2.0, Designed Photoshop graphics optimizing for the web, files uploaded
through a CMS.

January 2008 - March 2008
RED BOOK SOLUTIONS - 4550 S. Windermere St., Englewood, CO 80110
Contract Production Artist: Responsibilities included:
Layout and production of a range of Manager’s Handbooks, including Wendy's, Burger King and
McDonalds using Quark Xpress and X Data merged Databases created in Excel.

November 2000 - July 2003
A&H TYPESETTING LTD. - Rere 4, Ormond Road, Drumcondra, Dublin9, Ireland.
Graphic Designer: Responsibilities included:
Graphic Design from concept to finished mechanicals of Brochures, Newsletters, Book Work, Packaging, Web
Design, Point of Sale, Logo concepts, Retouching, Color Correction, Film Outputting, Imposition, Pre-flight
Client Files, Color Digital Output and liaising with clients and vendors. Clients included: Bewley's, Butlers
Irish Chocolates (packaging), Friends First (financial) and Irish Government Departments (corporate).

March 2000 - October 2000
SOLZER & HAIL INC. - 515 Folsom St., San Francisco, CA 94105 USA.
Production Artist/Mac Operator: for high end pre-press company. Responsibilities included:
Full use of Brisque Scitex Systems for trapping and processing clients files, Imposition of files, checking film,
Color Correction and Retouching using Photoshop, outputting to Iris, Color Copiers and Approval XP4.
Clients included: Retouching and Print Production for The Gap, Old Navy, Gallo Wines & PowerBar.
July 1998 - March 2000
IRISH LITHOPRINT - Mornington Business Park, Malahide Road, Artane, Dublin5, Ireland.
Graphic Designer: Responsibilities included:
Graphic Design from concept to finished mechanicals of Brochures, Magazines, Book Work, Logo concepts,
Point of Sale material. Prepress work, outputting to Film and Color proofs, checking film/trapping, scanning
and Color Correction using Photoshop, checking jobs on press, liaising with clients and vendors. Clients
included: Liberty Risk Services, An Garda Síochána (Irish Police Force), and Department of Education.


PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

August 1997 - July 1998
GRAFFITI DESIGN - 72 Amiens Street, Dublin1, Ireland.
Graphic Designer: for a large Dublin Design Studio. Responsibilities included:
Graphic Design from concept to finished mechanicals for travel Magazines, Packaging and Point of Sale
material. Web page design and maintenance of travel holiday websites, using Dreamweaver MX, HTML (hand
coding) and Javascript.

January 1995 - May 1997
ADVANCED LASER GRAPHICS - Georgetown Place, 1101 30th St., Washington, D.C. 20006 USA.
Production Artist: Responsibilities included:
Production of a range of Newspaper Ads, Pre-flight of client’s files for outputting to Linotronic Imagesetter’s.
Outputting to Iris proofing system, Plotters, Color Copiers and operating an Indigo E-Print Digital Press.
Making Color Proofs, checking film, Color Correction using Photoshop, flatbed scanning, full use of Scitex
systems for imposition of files and trapping.

March 1994 - December 1994
HARBINGER INC. - 1400 Sixteenth St., NW, Washington, D.C. 20007 USA.
Production Artist: for busy Service Bureau. Responsibilities included:
Outputting client’s files, to different Imagesetters: checking film, making Color Proofs and troubleshooting
files: Production of a range of newspaper advertisements, brochures, liaising with clients and vendors.

November 1989 - November 1993
KELL MARKETING DESIGN - 14 Grattan Court East, Lower Mount St., Dublin2, Ireland.
Graphic Designer: Responsibilities included:
Graphic Design from concept to finished mechanicals of Point of Sale materials, Logo concepts, Brochures,
Magazines, Packaging and Outdoor Displays for a number of clients including: Bank of Ireland, Conrad
Hotel, Doyle Hotel Group, Maxell, Timotei, Pond’s Cream and Cutex. Liaising with clients and vendors.
EDUCATION:

January 20011 - September 2011
Clark College - Vancouver, WA, USA.
 Modules included: Motion Graphics, Database Design, XHTML, 3D Graphics and Web Scripting.
September 2006 - September 2007
Master of Science Msc. - majored in Multimedia Systems.
Dublin City University - Dublin, Ireland.
 Modules included: Advanced Video Production, Editing, Web Authoring, Flash Animation, Sound Production, TV Graphics, Marketing, and Project Management.
September 2005 - June 2006
Bachelor of Arts BA (Hons) - majored in Graphic Design.
Wolverhampton University - Wolverhampton, England.
 Modules included: Graphic Design, Video Production, Editing, Web Authoring, Flash Authoring &
September 2003 - June 2005
Associate Degree - majored in Multimedia.
Coláiste Dhulaigh College - Dublin, Ireland.
 Modules included: Graphic Design, Sound, Animation, Photography, Web Design (hand coding), Multimedia Web Authoring, Video Editing, DVD Production, 3D Modelling, Marketing, and Project Management. COMPUTER SKILLS:
Design / Web
Adobe InDesign CS5
Adobe Freehand
Web Coding:
Adobe Photoshop CS5
Adobe PageMaker
XHTML, (code by hand)
CSS 2, (Advanced Skill Level)
Adobe Image Ready CS5
Adobe Fireworks
XML, (code by hand)
JavaScript, (Intermediate Skill Level)
Adobe Illustrator CS5
Corel Draw
JQuery, (Intermediate Skill Level)
Action Script 2.0, (Advanced Skill Level)
Adobe Dreamweaver CS5
Paint Shop Pro
PHP, (Basic Skill Level)
Python 3.2, (Basic Skill Level)
Adobe Flash CS5
PSPad 4.5
Quark Express 7
(Advanced Skill Level)
Video / Animation
Adobe Premiere CS
Final Cut Pro 6
Cinema 4D, Ver9
Adobe After Effects CS
3D Studio Max
Director MX
Avid Xpress DV
ProTools
LiveType 3
Soundtrack Pro

Microsoft Office
MS Word
WordPerfect
PowerPoint
Database Design, MySql

My Online work:
(HTML version of my personal portfolio, XHTML, CSS2, JavaScript & JQuery)

(Flash version of my personal portfolio, created in Flash CS4, with AS 2.0)

http://www.thegrand.ie
(Website I designed for The Grand Hotel, Dublin, Ireland, created all graphics and layout. Hand
coding using PHP, XHTML & CSS2).

http://uverseonline.att.net/uverse
(Font End Web Developer & Maintenance for the Official AT&T website while working freelance at
Digital Kitchen, Los Angeles CA. PHP, MySQL & Javascript. Hand coding using XHTML, XML &
CSS2. Flash video, graphics files uploaded to a CMS).

(Website I designed for a local charity, Pennies for Orphans, created all graphics and layout. Hand
coding using PHP, JavaScript, XHTML, CSS2, Flash CS5).

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