Gerald Lee Wall- 2071 Parkhaven Dr , Dacula, GA 30019 - (678) 763-8501 Jerry_Wall@comcast.net

 

SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS

 

Printing and Advertising - 25 years in the Printing Industry, from deliveryman to Supervisor . Have done nearly every aspect of printing: delivery, Bindery, Camera Work, Pressman, Stripping, Platemaking, Prepress, Design and Supervising. Am presently the Production Manager of a monthly Trucking Magazine.

Graphic Designer- 20 years PC Environment, 5 years Mac. Over 20 years of freelance art background.   Non degreed but studied commercial art and fine art. Took one year in college of Computer operating systens and one year of Multimedia Technology (Audio/Video,(Premier, Sound Forge), Graphics (Adobe programs InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop) and basic Web programs (HTML, Front Page, Dreamweaver, Adobe Image Ready,Flash). Also familiar with some 3D programs (Bryce 3d, Poser). Have done photo editing, designing, page layout, preflighting nd proofing.

Multimedia- presentation programs (Power Point, Songshow Plus, MediaShout ). Man Multimedia for 8 years in 2 churches and dessigned nearly all presentation slides.

 

Link to reference sites:

www.jerrywalldesigns.com  -Portfolio site (built in Dreamweaver).

http://community.webshots.com/user/glwall - Computer wallpaper, 3D and slide designs.

http://www.cafepress.com/jerrywallstuff - Products and apparel made from designs.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/22739224@N04/ -Samples of my Photography

 

 EXPERIENCE:

TRUCKER’S CONNECTION-
5960 Crooked Creek Rd, Suite 15, Norcross, Georgia 30092 770 416-0927 – August 2006 - Present
(Truckers Connection Magazine is the subsidiary of Target Media Partners) –Monthly digest magazine for trucking industry.
Production Manager: -  Oversaw the  advertising department including dealing with all outside and in-house ads.  Worked in conjunction with in house
Art department, Art departments of sister publications as well as various Ad Agencies across the country.  Job functions included receiving, preflighting,
correcting,  prepping  ads for layout, laying out and paginating ads, proofing all final pages and sending paper proofs and electronic files to Printer in Texas.
Filled in for Art director when she was on maternity leave and did some ad designing. Also was in-house IT person, doing daily backups as well as maintaining server and computers.

VISUAL DESIGN GRAPHICS 2005-Present

Dacula, GA

Graphic designer

  • Freelance design- Web and Print and Multimedia
  • Mac and PC Platform

CORNERSTONE FELLOWSHIP –  22007-present (Volunteer Work)

Dacula, GA

Director ofMultimedia Ministry     

  • Design all worship, announcement, and service slides.
  • Run multimedia station (DVD, VCR, Satellite TV, Video camera, etc)
  • Train and oversee operators and designers for multimedia team.

 

JERRY WALL DESIGNS     www.jerrywalldesigns.com                     2000-2005          

Sunrise Florida, Florida

Graphic designer

  • Freelance design- Web and Print Media – PC Format
  • Presentation slide designs (Power Point, Slideshow Plus, Media Shout)
  • Animation- Flash and animated Gifs

 

CORNERSTONE CHURCH –        2003-2005 (Volunteer Work)

Davie, Florida

Multimedia director and designer    

  • Established Projector system for weekly service Multimedia displays.
  • Design all worship, announcement, and service slides.
  • Run multimedia station (DVD, VCR, Satellite TV, Video camera, etc)
  • Train operators and designers for multimedia team.

 

DIGITAL DESIGN GRAPHICS                                                                  1997–2000

Sunrise, Florida

Owner/ Graphic and Web Designer, Print Broker.

  • Self employed freelance designer for web page construction and implementation (including creating, hosting, promoting and maintenance of sites).
  •  Also worked as consultant for web strategies
  • Graphic Design work for printing and promotional materials such as stationary, business cards, flyers, brochures, ads, etc.
  • Print Broker- Used my 20 years of print experience and contacts to broker printing jobs.

 

 

SERAPHIM PRESS      www.seraphimpress.com  (now defunct)                 1997 – 1999

North Miami, Florida

Owner/Online Ebook Company

  • Created company website
  • Designed Ebook Covers, body content and layout.
  • Did manuscript editing, conversion to PDF format and uploading to Server

 

AD SERVICES                                                                                                          1997

Hollywood, Florida

Production Manager

Coordinated all in-house production and trafficking of jobs and personnel.

  • Managed staff of graphic artists, designers, copywriters and paste-up people.
  • Scheduled and assigned work load for graphic artists.
  • Assisted in approval of ad design.
  • Worked with Sales team to coordinate job scheduling.
  • Outsourced and directed ads to printing companies and newspapers.
  • Administered all in-house supply purchases.

 

MIACOM- Internet Service Provider                                                         1996- 1997

North Miami Beach, FL

Web designer/Graphic Artist

  • Designed Web Pages
  • Created nearly all web graphics and print material (Brochures, ads, etc)
  • Built computers and did some administrative work.

 

WALL BROTHERS PRINTING-                                                                1988-1991

North Miami Beach

Co-owner- small print shop.

  • Did print design and layout and ran small press (A.B. Dick 360CD)
  • Did typesetting, camera work and film stripping.

 

FOR FULL WORK HISTORY- CLICK HERE

 

EDUCATION AND TRAINING

 

 

v     Clover Park Vocational School - Tacoma Washington –Studied 2 years of Commercial art (1969-70)

v     Rose Hill Art Center-Aiken, South Carolina-1 year of Fine Art Classes

v     Broward Community College- 2002-2003 Studied 1 year towards AA in Networking Services Technology for MSCE certification.

v     Broward Community College- 2003-present- Switched major and presently pursuing AAS in Digital Media/Multimedia Technology