Coroflot

Resume

Zachary Bauer
Citizenship : USA ? Date of birth : 08 October 1976

Contact
Tel : 407.671.1433
e-mail : zac@wetinkpro.com

Address
707 Moore Dr, Arnold, Missouri 63010

Profile Objective
Senior Silverlight/Graphic Artist or Art Director Position

Availability
From February, 2011 after completed project in Dallas, Texas.

Key Skills
Proficient and familiar with a vast array of design software, concepts and technologies, including:

Adobe Photoshop
Silverlight Design
Adobe InDesign
Adobe After Effects
Adobe Illustrator
Blend & Exp. Design
Adobe Flash
HTML/CSS/JQuery


Education
2002 to 2004
Associates of Science in Computer Animation
Full Sail University – Orlando, Florida – http://www.fullsail.edu

2004 to 2005
Associates of Science in Digital Media
Full Sail University – Orlando, Florida – http://www.fullsail.edu

1999 to 2001
General Education Classes
St. Louis Community College - Meramec

Work Experience
Broadlane / MedAssets – Dallas
Contract Ending

Silverlight/Blend Designer
October, 2010 to February, 2011
• Creation of exceptional graphics written in XAML for a medical analytics software development project built in Silverlight.

• Working with developers using Blend 4.0 and Visual Studio 10 to implement graphics, animations and toolkit charts in the project.

• Building Windows Phone 7 application for Velocity.

• Writing HTML/CSS for the online Help/Assist portion of the application for end users.

• A Microsoft Case Study of the project can be seen here at the link below.

• http://www.microsoft.com/casestudies/Case_Study_Detail.aspx?CaseStudyID=4000008873


Essence Corp, St. Louis
Full-time job
Silverlight Graphic Artist

October, 2008 to October, 2010

• Responsible for working in Expression Blend/Design for developing Silverlight and WPF applications.

• Overseeing the design of animations and graphics to be used in company Silverlight and WPF projects.

• Designing from the ground up, concept art to be created in Expression Blend and Expression Design and then exporting XAML to developers for use in Visual Studio 2010.

• Attending Microsoft seminars to ensure company stays on top of new emerging developments that pertain to Silverlight and Expression Blend.

Zachary Bauer Designs, St. Louis
Part-time/full-time job
Freelance Graphic Artist

August, 1999 to Present

• Worked with dozens of clients for redesign of websites.

• Designed printed materials for various clients.

• Worked under contract with numerous design firms including: Master Key Consulting, Timberhorn IT, Brown Shoe Company, Live Wire Media, Davis Interactive and C4.


McMahon Group Inc., St. Louis
Full-time job
Senior Graphic Artist

March, 2006 to October, 2008

• Responsible for designing various company websites that include clubtopia.com, clubqap.com, clubmanageraward.com and others.

• Created numerous graphical brochures for the purpose of selling multi-million dollar architectural refurbishments and new construction projects.

• Revised and redesigned all company printed collateral material, including catalogues and brochures created with Adobe InDesign and Photoshop.

• Daily use of Adobe Flash software creating animations for various projects and working with Action Script 2.0. Still learning and becoming proficient with A.S. 3.0.

• Daily use of other design software such as Adobe Illustrator, Dreamweaver, Photoshop, Image Ready, Flash Particle Studio 1.0, Flash Video Studio 2.0.


US ARMY 1996 - 1999
Infantry
Honorable Discharge


Recent 2010 Design Projects:

Internet
www.WrongOnRed.com
www.BobsDriveIn.com
www.ReadyMadeResources.com
www.johnwaynetucker.com/congress
www.coroflot.com/zbauer

Silverlight Portfolio
http://gallery.expression.microsoft.com/site/profile?userName=Zachary%20Bauer


Recent 2010 After Effects Projects:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxK4REuGSc0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JbSV8ZTHvs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgfcePGbQmg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80fnX5GLibc