Tim Kindberg | www.timkindberg.com | timkindberg at gmail dot com

Objective

To enjoy my continuous growth of knowledge and skills among a dedicated team of intelligent artistic individuals producing engaging interactive media.

Education

Full Sail Real World Education

Winter Park, FL

Associate of Science Degree in Digital Media
Aug 2003 - Sep 2004
An accelerated technical and hands-on learning environment
4.0 GPA, 100% Attendance
Course Directors Award for Computer & Motion Graphics
Course Directors Award for Interactive Media Design

Experience

Trivantis

Cincinnati, OH

Lead Graphic Designer/Project Manager
Nov 2007 - Present
Production of elearning courses for fortune 500 clients. In addition to my graphic designer responsibilities (listed next), new responsibilities include:

• During periods of excessive load, I manage a small amount of projects, dealing directly with client contacts: Some clients include Barnes & Noble and Cablevision
• Ensuring projects are on schedule and on budget
• Being the liason between the Project Managers and the Graphic Designers
• Knowing the progress of each project and scheduling designers accordingly
• Finding and addressing periods of excess load
• Sitting in on client kick-off meetings to help scope and brainstorm projects
• Going over timelines with the Project Managers to ensure that it will fit within the schedule
• Training and helping the Graphic Designers with their day to day elearning projects (I love teaching Flash!)
• Helping the Director of Creative Services to conduct graphic designer reviews
• Other cool and boring stuff too.

Trivantis

Cincinnati, OH

Graphic Designer
Nov 2004 - Nov 2007
Production of elearning courses for fortune 500 clients. eLearning courses consist of text, graphics, flash exercises and assessments in order to teach the end-user xy&z. Some projects verged more on the side of fully flashed based applications, in which advanced actionscripting was required, utilizing flash's ability to develop with classes and OOP.

Fast Signs

Cincinnati, OH

Sign Production/Installation
Aug 2000 - Jun 2003
Assembly and application of vinyl graphic signs, vehicle wrapping, and installation

Tutor

Winter Park, FL

Tutor
Mar 2004 - Present
Tutored students in the digital media field

Knowledge

Adobe: Flash, Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects
Other: 3D Studio Max, ProTools, Final Cut Pro
Languages: Actionscripting 2 & 3, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, *PHP, *SQL
Basic Tools: Windows, Excel, Word, Powerpoint
*only a basic knowledge

Skills

>Developing Rich Internet Applications with Actionscript 3.0 and Object Oriented Programming
>Utilizing 3D Objects, Flash, Video to create high end user interaction
>Preparing files for output to print, web, broadcast, cdrom, dvd, or interactive
>Creating visually exciting motion graphics with After Effects
>Organizing content on the web with xHTML, CSS, Javascript, PHP, and SQL
>Designing the latest styles in user interfaces
>Correcting and enhancing images in Photoshop
>A great understanding of 3D space and 3D asset creation
>Modeling, texturing and animating in 3DS Max
>Creating photo-realistic and clean vector graphics in Illustrator
>Working cooperatively and efficiently in a team
>Learning extremely fast

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