FAQs
- What education and/or training do you have that relates to your work?
Working with fellow artist on larger productions (on-site support) gives me access to the latest techniques, software trends and improvements with the technology. It's too expensive to purchase anything that comes up. So I take my time and learn from others.
- How did you get started doing this type of work?
My first position after college as a graphic artist was in support of the Infantry jump school in Ft Benning, GA. One day they introduced a computer system (Mac SE) to see if it could be a tool in our graphic large arts department. I was the only one that was able to figure out how it worked since no instructions were available. I picked it up pretty quickly as a matter of fact during my breaks and lunch hour. Not a whole lot to do with free time on a huge army post in south Georgia. There was also a Genigraphic D+ creative station purchased (actually 4 of them) by the department as well. Four superiors were selected to spend 2 weeks in training with a free week in between. One employee was so overwhelmed with the training requirements, he decided to drop out after the 5th day. I volunteered to spend my after hours learning the manual and working on the language to run the unit. That following week, the trainer came back and everything from there clicked for me. That's when I became a Geni Artist. Since then, it been Autographix, Dos PCs, Windows and Macs ever since. A fun ride indeed!
- What types of customers have you worked with?
Pharmaceutical Advisory board meetings, national sales meetings and training presentations. I provide the preproduction design of the PowerPoint presentations and often fly to the meeting site to run speaker reviews, complete the final edits and then run the multi-speaker show.