US West Dex
1996-Present
Participated in the planning of the company wide roll out of in-house web site creation.

Lead successful trial of in-house creation of speculative web sites in support of Minnesota sales. Selected team, wrote process documentation, set up tracking methods, coordinated training and directed day to day operations of the team of eight.

Co-managed a team of 13 artists and 4 coordinators creating advertising art for the Yellow Pages in an extremely fast paced and high volume environment.

US West Dex
1991-1996
Created ads for the Yellow Pages, using Photoshop and Illustrator as well as proprietary page layout applications.
StarTribune
1990-1991
Designed covers and created illustrations for the Features Department.
Self Employed
1980-1991
Created illustration and graphic design for editorial, corporate and advertising clients.
Brown Institute
1987-1992
Taught traditional illustration techniques to vocational school students in the Advertising Design program.
Bajus-Jones
1978-1979
Worked as an "in betweener" drawing animation cells and helping with all aspects of the creation of animated television commercials.


B.A., Carleton College, 1972

Al McGuire, former Marquette University basketball coach, said, "You can go to college but you can't call yourself an educated man until you've tended bar for six months and you've driven cab for six months."

I only drove a cab for four days, but I tended bar for four years. Some of the other jobs I had:

Towboat deckhand
Fought forest fires
Machine shop laborer
Security guard
Meat packer
Construction laborer
Liquor store clerk
Fine Art lithographer

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