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University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
September 1999 - June 2004 |
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Bachelors of Science: Mathematics with a Specialization in Computing
Minor in East Asian Languages and Cultures (spec. Japanese) |
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VIZ Media, LLC
May2007 to current |
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Graphic Designer, Promotions
Duties: Magazine ads, retail displays, convention displays and collateral, promotional giveaways. Some product design which includes graphic novel cover and logo designs and DVD packaging.
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TokyoPop
June2006 to May2007 |
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Graphic Designer
Duties: Designing logos and full covers, webbanners, marketing materials, and some web design. Requires retouching of keyart and or digitally colouring lineart.
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| Sept2005 to May2006
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Production Artist
Duties: Retouching/Lettering pages and paginating their translated japanese comics for american print and distribution.
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FREELANCE
2002-2007 |
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PRODUCTION - comic book layout artist
Clients: TokyoPop, Broccoli Books, Go! Media
Duties: Paginating their translated japanese comics for american print and distribution. |
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DESIGN - miscellaneous - logos, covers, flyers, brochures, presentation packets, booklets
Clients: Bandai Ent., Broccoli International, Go! Media, Seven Seas, Marc Handler, Asian Pacific American Dispute Resolution Center
Samples: Available here |
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WEBMASTER
Clients: maintaining the Broccoli Books (http://www.broccolibooks.com) website. |
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WRITER
Clients: Animerica Magazine (Viz, Inc.), Akadot (Digital Manga, Inc.)
Duties: reviewing English translated Japanese comics, convention reviews. |
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STORYBOARD ARTIST
Clients: Square-Enix
Duties: storyboarding the marketing department's commercial concepts |
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UCLA Daily Bruin Newspaper
May 2001 to June 2004 |
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Ad Production Department - Classifieds Supervisor and Graphic Designer
Duties: Pagination of newspaper for print, making ads according to client specifications,
supervising the correct completion of the Classifieds section.
Awards: Employee of the year 2004, Employee of the quarter Winter 2003 |
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DreamWorks SKG
June 16, 2003 to August 22, 2003 |
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Animation Production Training - intern
Duties: Designing and implementing the department's Intranet webpage, attending Maya training
classes designed for their 2D animators to learn 3D animation techniques, attending new hire
training sessions for new employees to get used to DreamWorks specific animation software. |
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Digital Manga
June 2001 to January 2002 |
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Akadot Webmaster
Duties: formatting and uploading news articles, creating and linking graphics to correspond to articles including making video screencaps and resizing. |
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| >> for more employers before 2001, reference contact info, or a more detailed description of duties please email. |
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| Operating Systems |
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• Macintosh systems 7.1-OSX
• Windows 98,2000, NT, XP, Unix/Linix (RedHat) |
| Graphic software |
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• QuarkXPress 4.1, Adobe Photoshop 7.0/CS, Adobe Illustrator 10/CS, Adobe InDesign 2.0/CS |
| Animation software |
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• * Maya 5, Shake |
| Programming Languages |
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* Microsoft Visual C++, Java Swing, HTML , Perl , cgi, Mathematica
• Matlab 5, Maple 9 |
| Webdesign and related software |
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• CSS, Javascript, Dreamweaver, Adobe GoLive CS |
| Microsoft software |
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• Microsoft Word, Excel, Power Point, Outlook, Entourage |
• most confident
* some experience |
