Mark D. Gilkison


The Digital Media Design Guru


Profile


- Over my lifetime thus far, I have completed, with honors, over 140 semester hours of college accredited, art training and instructional courses both traditional and digital, from a number of educational institutions, part of which resulted in an AAS - Graphic Design in 2001.

- More than 5 years experience as either an independent or employed project manager, skilled at maintaining strict and short project schedules while also providing consistent, quality and integrity in both products and process.

- More than 7 years experience in commercial print and graphic design to be used to produce everything from business cards, flyers, stickers and CD inserts, to T-shirts and signage.

- Over 5 years experience developing Web sites from scratch for new or pre-existing, small to medium-sized businesses to be used as primary marketing and promtional tools and therefore also highly skilled in establishing a clear and directed Web presence, including Search Engine Optimization (SEO).

- Fluent in many desktop publishing and creative applications, and practices, (on both Mac and PC platforms) producing vector and raster artwork for both print and Web uses including print layout design and production, 3-D modeling, technical and other illustrations, lush graphics, 2 and 3-D interactive animations, audio, movie files, complete Web sites from scratch, Powerpoint and other presentations, interactive CD-ROMs and much more for a variety of purposes and clientele.

- Hands-on experience in the screen-printing industry, including art direction, graphic design, electronic prepress, screen preparation, manual-press setup, printing and production, screen reclamation and floor management.

- Independent, out-of-the-box thinking

- Extremely organized and consistent

- Innovative and creative with a hands-on approach to everything including leadership

- A very quick learner that is very deadline and quality oriented




WEB DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT



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LOGO & BRANDING DESIGN



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SIGNAGE & BILLBOARDS



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PRINT COLLATERAL



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