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Curriculum Vitae: Andy Davies - Graphic Design + Art Direction since 1985
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Experience:

• Ten years international advertising agency experience as art director and creative director.
• Ten years as creative director in multimedia/cd-rom/Internet development | Extensive experience developing concepts, proposals, business plans, marketing strategies, budgets and client presentations.
• Staffing, teaching, instruction and training, team leadership and management experience.
• Conceptual design, interface and environment design, writing and hands-on production for print, video and interactive media.
• Fluent in most interactive production and design software.

Employment History
1999 - present
Creative Consultant - Designing and producing a wide variety of marketing, print, internet and video projects locally and internationally. I provide print and multimedia design services, brand consultation, digital imaging and photography for a full-time client base including World Wildlife Fund International (since 1999). I have also focused on travel photography as an additional business, founding www.hotelshots.com as a marketing platform and SpinFirst.com, an international destination guide web site and iPhone application.

2004 - 2007 - Portland State University, Portland, OR
Assistant Professor, Department of Art - Since 2004, teaching multi-level classes in digital imaging and graphic design. Creating and implementing class curriculums and developing visual teaching presentations and demonstrations.

January 2001 - August 2001 - Oswego.group, Beaverton, OR - Creative Director - Helped develop and launch new brand and asset management software and services. Responsibilities included design and production of all marketing, sales and collateral material.

February 1999 - January 2001 - Start Interactive, Inc. Portland, OR - Founder/Creative Director - Start Interactive specialized in corporate e-dentity, developing coordinated Internet and print branding for traditional and Internet-based businesses. Recruited and managed a team of web developers as well as leading new business development and designing online and print brand-building campaigns.

March 1996 - September 1996 - Cinemar Corporation, Portland, OR - Creative Director - Cinemar Corp. developed an authoring environment for business presentation-style cd-roms. Designed their 3-D authoring environment, developed stock animations, special effects and multimedia presentations.

November 1993 - November, 1996 - Off-World Communications, Portland, OR - Founder/Creative Director - Co-founded Off-World Communications in 1993 to produce a series of cd-rom entertainment titles. Produced 3 titles between 1993 and 1995; Ray Bradbury's ‘The Martian Chronicles,’ Isaac Asimov's ‘Robot City’ and ‘Hard Hat,’ a children's construction game.
In 1994, secured a contract to develop an original title for Japanese and worldwide markets. The title, ‘Silicon Scream’ was completed in 1996. Designed all 3-D environments and interactions and wrote or edited most of the scripts, as well as producing marketing and collateral materials. For ‘The Martian Chronicles’ and ‘Robot City,’ wrote adaptations from original novel to interactive adventure version.

February 1993 - November 1993 - CHAOS Continuum Partnership, Portland, OR - Founder/Creative Director - Co-founded CHAOS Continuum Partnership in 1993 to produce a cd-rom title of the same name. Wrote the storyline and storyboarded and designed all the 3-D environments and interactions. The CHAOS Continuum, published in November 1993, became publisher Creative Multimedia's best-selling title for 1994 and has since generated over a million Dollars in sales and been translated for the Japanese market.

September 1990 - August 1992 - Gard & Lesh/Richardson Strang Skene, Portland, OR - Art Director/Creative Director - When Gard & Lesh acquired part of the Richardson Agency in 1992, moved to that agency as creative director until the groups merged in 1993. As creative director, worked on print, radio, outdoor and television, winning a gold ADDY award for an RC Cola & Diet Rite campaign.

March 1987 - December 1989 - Hill Ayton/Young & Rubicam, Nairobi, Kenya - Art Director - Clients included Colgate-Palmolive, Cadbury-Schweppes, British American Tobacco, GoodYear, and local hotel and tourism companies. Responsibilities included all aspects of advertising production from concept through layout and artwork production. Designed and produced a number of national and regional radio, television, print and cinema campaigns.

August 1985 - February 1987 - A.H. Knowles Ltd., Manchester, England - Art Director - As art director at Manchester's oldest advertising agency, worked on a number of accounts including Granada Television and Manchester City Council.

May 1985 - August 1985 - Brunnings Group, Liverpool, England - Art Director - Clients included local tourism, car dealerships and The Beatles Museum.

Education - HND Visual Communications, North East Wales Institute of Design. Graduated 1985. Nationality: United Kingdom