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Matthew C. Stover
2614 Park Rd. APT. B – Charlotte, NC 28209
mstover (at) easttunnel (dot) com – 704-763-7624
PROFILE:
New Media Designer for
Also helping small businesses and other groups to define an identity as well as market themselves to their clients through printed media and an online presence.
GOALS:
To work in a variety of creative environments acquiring the necessary experience to grow my own practice into a multi-national design firm.
RECENT WORK:
Revels Contracting Services Inc. – Identity, Website Design + Development
www.revelscontracting.comMcSpadden Custom Homes – Website Design + Development, Logo Recreation
www.mdcsys.comHughes and Associates LLC Website and Corporate ID
www.haallc.comPoint 8 Forum: – Web Portal and Identity
www.point8.orgWalk-Thru Appraisal Services Inc. – Website Design and Development
www.personalpropertyappraising.comBangz Salon Spa – Website Design and Development
www.bangzsalonspa.netLaura McCarthy – Online Artist Portfolio
www.lauramccarthy.netCarolina Stairs – Sales Brochure, Pamphlet, and Website
www.cstairs.com
SKILL HIGHLIGHTS:
Advanced Knowledge of:
Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, Macromedia Dreamweaver and Flash w/ Actionscript
Working Knowledge of:
Indesign, Image Ready, Acrobat Pro, Freehand, Fireworks, and Quark Xpress, Director
Coding Languages:
ActionScript 2.0, XHTML, CSS, XML, HTML and a touch of PHP + Javascript
SOFT SKILL HIGHLIGHTS:
Management Experience
Partner in independent business
Client relationships
Tutoring and mentoring children
Workflow Management
Art direction + design for small magazine
2 to 4 person collaboration on web and promotional campaigns
Guiding a proposed concept from start to finish.
Developing flow charts and time schedules for work flow.
Creating animation and graphic story boards
INDEPENDENT WORK VIA EASTTUNNEL:
Partner, Principal Designer and Assistant Programmer: East Tunnel Creative Technologies
Company Started: March 2004 – Current
Duties: Design and Layout for Print/Web/Promotional projects, Photography, Programming: Flash Actionscript, html/xhtml/css, Client Relations, Administrative/Accounting. Over the past year and a half I have created websites or promotional material for several small businesses around Charlotte, NC.
ADDITIONAL WORK EXPERIENCE:
Web Designer
RealEstate.com
11215 Rushmore Dr
Charlotte, NC
Duties: Design and develop pages for continual re-design of the site. Introduce a more interactive and user-centered approach in serving our products to the public.
Goal for the Year: Refine and streamline process of new page and feature creation via templates for styles and code structure.
Web Designer/Developer (Contract)
Championship Networks, LLC
318 South St. Suite A
Gastonia, NC 28052?
704.867.5555
Supervisor: Shawn Davis
Date Employed: April 2006 – Current
Duties: Manage all clients and accounts that request website design and development. Includes: Client meetings discussing functional goals and visual precedents for each project. Research and creation of original design options. Translation of designs into Web Standards based templates(XHTML/CSS) for static and content management driven sites. Implementation of domain registration, server/hosting and content management system.
Community Center Manager / CAN site Coordinator /Americorps Promise Fellow
Key Realty / Parker Heights Community 1810-A Remount Rd.
Supervisor: Loraine Burgess 704-377-9090
Date Employed: March 2003 Date Separated: Feb 2005
Duties: Maintain community center + CAN computer lab. Supervise children 2nd – 12th grades with a focus on tutoring and improving computer literacy. Organize events and activities for summer and after school camps. Organize and participate in community clean-up, cook-outs, and other events. Record statistics of attendance
and computer usage for CAN.
Assistant Designer
Pactimo Sports Apparel 1200 South Graham Street
Director of Design and Development: Corey Fisher
Date Employed: Jan 2004 Date Separated: March 2004
Duties: Contract Design producing Cycle Racing Uniforms. Some important aspects were color correction/translation from Pantone swatches to various fabrics; this to insure accurate colors for sponsors, team logos, and designs. I also helped refine some clothing patterns working to optimize designs for a broad range of sizes.
Media Services Assistant
UNC Charlotte Library 9201 Univ. City Blvd.
Supervisors: Ron Lewis / Debbie Myers 704-687-3646
Date Employed: Aug 2001 Date Separated: March 2003
Duties: Created brochures, posters, banners, and signage to meet faculty and student needs. Lab monitor and assistant for main computer commons in Atkins Library. Assist with research, applications, printing, special media, and any other
problems along the way.
EDUCATION:
-Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting
-UNC Charlotte
-Graduated December 2004
Additional course work in Art Education including lesson planning + teaching philosophies.