Master of Arts in Communication and Multimedia August 2005 Saginaw Valley State University, University Center, MI

Bachelor of Fine Arts in Graphic Design May 2000 University of Wisconsin-Stout, Menominie, WI

Proficient with both Macs and PCs;
Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere, InDesign;
Freehand, Dreamweaver, Flash, Director;
Quark XPress; Microsoft Word, FrontPage, PowerPoint; Access;
Blackboard;
HTML, DHTML, CSS, XHTML, Javascript, AJAX, XML, PHP, MySQLi, Visual Basic .Net, ASP 3.5, LINQ, Ruby on Rails, Java, VBScript
WordPress, VPASP;
Limited Experience with Visual C# .Net

School Volunteer, Schools of Hope
March 2011 - Present
Middleton, WI

• Helping teachers and tutoring children in various school projects

Production Artist, Yell Adworks (formerly Pindar Set)
April 2008 - November 2008
Cedar Rapids, IA

• Designed phone book ads of all styles for various nationwide companies while maintaining an exceptional error percentage
• Inspected ads for Quality Assurance
• Trained in Web Reach productions

Reason for Leaving: Laid off in Novermber '08 after company was forced to make cutbacks. Per their letter of recommendation, I was eligible for re-hire.

Graphic/Web Designer, American Computer Software
Sept. 2005 – Jan. 2006
Madison, WI

• Design promotional material for tradeshows and interactive promotions for prospective customers via the internet
• Design new website content and updating website information with use of HTML, CSS, Flash, animated GIF, and Dreamweaver
• Analyze web traffic information, customer lead demographics and reports from support and sales teams for use in marketing strategy

Reason for Leaving: The company was bought out in '06 and I, along with 50% of the workforce, was laid off.

Graphic Designer, Office of Continuing Education
July 2004 – May 2005
Saginaw Valley State University, University Center, MI

• Design brochures, newsletters, pamphlets and various advertisements for organizations and promotions within the University

Reason for Leaving: I was searching for more work at higher pay

Graphic Associate, Kinko's
Aug. 2002 – Dec. 2003
Madison, WI

• Take and fulfill duplication orders for customers with black and white, oversize and color copiers
• Bind booklets, fold pamphlets, prepare computer files for printing, hand collation, quality control, cut items to specifications, lamination and trimming

Reason for Leaving: I was moving to Michigan to begin my Master's Degree

Web Technician, College of Education
June 2002
Saginaw Valley State University, University Center, MI

• Locate and repair 6900 broken links within the College of Education website
• Archive and delete 810 orphaned files

Reason for Leaving: I finished the work for this temporary position early

Assistant Sports Information Director, Sports Information Dept.
Aug. 2001 – May 2002
Saginaw Valley State University, University Center, MI

• Design of sports programs, schedule cards and media guides
• Other graphic design work

Reason for Leaving: Position was available for the school year only

CopyMax Associate, OfficeMax
Oct. 2001 – Jan. 2002
Sept. 2000 – Nov. 2000
Midland, MI

• Custom graphic design work
• Make black and white and color copies
• Collate and binding service

www.acsoftware.com
Website repaired, maintained and updated for American Computer Software

www.geoffschindler.com/HarchaonHill/Homepage.htm
Web Design for medieval re-enactment organization, designed to the specifications of the management

www.geoffschindler.com/Hemisphere/index.htm
Capstone Project for my Graduate Program at Saginaw Valley State University

www.svsu.edu/coe
Website worked on as a Web Technician

Available upon e-mail request