Résumé:
PHILIP TRAVISANO | Graphic Designer

SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS:
Experienced designer with more than fifteen years in graphic design and production

SKILLS:
• Expertise in Adobe CS (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign) and QuarkXPress on Mac OSX and PC
• Solid experience with Acrobat, Flash, PowerPoint, and Dreamweaver
• Excellent photo-retouching, vector image creation, typography, layout, drawing, and traditional paste-up and comping skills
• Copy writing for consumer and business-to-business audiences

EMPLOYMENT:
Twofish, Inc., Redwood City, CA
(August 2007–Present, contract)
• Design icons, logos, and graphics for online multiplayer game and accompanying website.

Konami Digital Entertainment, Inc., Redwood City, CA
(January 2003–June 2007)
• Hired as the first staff graphic designer in the Redwood City office.
• Designed hi-res, full-color packaging, manuals, sell sheets, posters, trade show signage, and retail store displays.
• Conceived of, designed and directed the production of multi-item product launch kits.
• Created original templates and designs for special video game packaging and mock boxes.
• Designed Flash banner ads for external company web site.
• Designed templates and support graphics for PowerPoint presentations.

Ubisoft Entertainment, San Francisco, CA
(August 2002–November 2002, freelance)
• Designed packaging, manuals, sell-sheets, and retail store displays.
• Designed support graphics for PowerPoint presentations.

DIVA Systems Corporation, Redwood City, CA
(March 1997–May 2002)
• Designed graphics for user-interface of the first national video-on-demand service in the interactive TV industry.
• Designed movie title screens and package promotional portal screens for cable TV movie service with a customer base of over 600,000 subscribers.
• Designed print materials for consumer and business-to-business audiences.
• Designed specialty logos and icons for video, web, and print.
• Managed production of thousands of movie title screens from start to finish.
• Designed look and feel of internal and external web sites.
• Provided copy writing and editing assistance for consumer promotions.

Adecco, San Francisco, CA
(September 1995–March 1997)
• Freelance graphic designer and production artist for corporations including:
Galoob Toys, Jamison Cawdrey Advertising, Bechtel Group, Inc.

IVN Entertainment, Inc., San Ramon, CA
(May 1995–September 1995)

Michael Friedman Publishing Group, New York, NY
(May 1991–February 1995)

EDUCATION:
School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree

POINT OF INTEREST:
Author, designer, and self-publisher of the novel AND TRAIL MIX RAINED FROM THE SKY: A young man's ordeal with coincidence and miracles - September 1997

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