DREW GILL    drewgill [at] drewgill dot com

SOFTWARE SKILLS

Adobe Photoshop / InDesign / Illustrator / Dreamweaver ... and Quark (which sucks)

EXPERIENCE

IMAGE COMICS, INC.    10/2005 - present               www.imagecomics.com
Art Director
Thankless duties include assembling book layouts in Adobe InDesign, designing and assembling trade paperback collections, designing ads, assembling the Image Comics & Top Cow sections of Diamond's Previews catalog, designing cover and interior layout, logo treatment, retouching and color correction, lettering and trapping, proofing and editing of dialogue and content, directing art, and a bunch of other crap you don't want to know.

CITRUS DESIGN FIRM    1/2005 - 8/2006               www.citrusdesignfirm.com
Webmaster / Graphic Artist
Responsible for launching and maintaining client websites, designing email promotions and website graphics/layouts, color-correction and digital photo retouching. And stuff.

EROS GUIDE    9/2003 - 2/2005     Oakland, CA     www.eros-guide.com
Web Production / Graphic Artist
Worked with a large production team to build and maintain web advertisements for clients in a high-volume capacity, as well as creating graphics and assembling layout for the online magazine. Responsibilities include:
- Using Adobe Photoshop to do digital touch-ups and color corrections for photos used in web publication
- Creating illustrations, graphics and layouts for the web primarily using Adobe Photoshop
- Created HTML pages using Macromedia Dreamweaver MX and Microsoft FrontPage, maintained and updated existing pages.

DANNI'S HARD DRIVE    12/1998 - 5/2003     Culver City, CA     www.danni.com
Sr. Web Developer / Graphic Artist
Sr. Developer in a team of six responsible for designing, hand coding and maintaining the company website visited by over 7 million viewers daily. Responsibilities include:
- Using Adobe Photoshop to do digital touch-ups and color corrections for photos used in web and print publication
- Creating illustrations, graphics and layouts for the web, print advertisements and product packaging primarily using Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator
- Created HTML pages from scratch using Macromedia Dreamweaver, maintained and updated existing pages.
- Created animations using Flash, maintained DigiGear database, and wrote captions and copy for site content.

HORIZONS TECHNOLOGY, INC.     1997-1998     San Diego, CA
Video Capture / Mapping Technician
Technician in a team of four responsible for creating a database to archive video reels from Twentieth Century Fox's MovieTone News.
- Imported oversized maps via drum scanner and used a proprietary graphics editing program to piece images together into a massive mosaic to be used with GPS tracking systems.

OTHER EXPERIENCE

HOUSE OF ROSES MAGAZINE     2001
PC/Console Game Review Columnist
Contributed reviews for magazine video game section.

AMAZON PRESS 1998