Adam Jay Hutton
2710 South Veitch Street • Apartment 202 • Arlington, VA 22206
Objectives
Technology proficient Graphic Designer with strong professional and technical writing skills seeking to leverage creative energy, aesthetic sensibility, and technical skills in a hands-on graphic design position.
To design; to create content and employ rhetoric synergistically to improve communication; to improve an audienceÕs comprehension; to instruct and teach by visual means.
Experience
National Crime Prevention Council, Arlington, VA (January 2007ÐPresent)
Designer and Web Manager
- Redesigned and reorganized websites to improve usability
- Developed online games for childrenÕs website (McGruff.org)
- Designed custom content management system for flagship website (NCPC.org)
- Developed new web services, including newsletters and user-generated content program
- Created site strategies for web properties, developed project schedule, and managed web team in execution of strategies on schedule
- Designed publications for print and online distribution
American Institutes for Research, Washington, DC (May 2005ÐDecember 2006)
Graphic Designer/Production Artist
- Created artwork for test questions
- Designed templates and implemented layouts for test form consistency
- Documented procedures and trained other employees in departmental processes
- Performed quality control on variable print runs
- Automated procedures to improve efficiency
Plum Grove Printers, Hoffman Estates, Illinois (February 2003ÐMarch 2005)
Graphic Designer/Marketing Coordinator/Web Developer
- Designed corporate sell sheets and brochures which promoted sales
- Created signage and displays for exhibit booths and seminars
- Designed and managed ePlum (monthly electronic newsletter) from first issue
- Wrote press releases, advertorials, and website content which portrayed knowledge and experience
- Designed client postcards, business cards, and brochures
- Printed client pieces on digital presses
- Implemented variable data printing workflow and produced personalized mailers
Carnegie Mellon University Business Services, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (June 2001ÐJanuary 2003)
Designer/Information Services Specialist
- Created signs and advertisements for use in retail stores
- Designed water bottle label for Entropy, the campus convenience store
- Redesigned websites for Retail Services, Dining Services, and Parking Services
Computing
Platforms: PC, Macintosh, and Linux
Applications: QuarkXPress, Acrobat, Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, Flash, Dreamweaver, Word, Excel, and Access
Programming: [X]HTML, Javascript, Applescript, CSS and CSS2, XML and XSLT, PHP, and Python
Education
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
- Bachelor of Fine Arts, 2001
- Communication Design, Minor in English
- Concentration in Professional & Technical Writing
- University Honors (3.63 GPA)