J. Patrick Cooke Jr.
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Experience- 2001 - Present Freelance Art Director & Designer
Create and re-launched websites from planning to design to project management. Design logos, brochures, business cards, posters, CD-Rom presentations and other marketing collateral for a wide variety of corporate clients, including: 
  • Seraphim Entertainment Inc. Gallop NM
  • Art That Works, Pompano Beach, FL
  • Kaplan University, Boca Raton, FL and New York, NY
  • Pearson Education / Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ
  • Avrett Free & Ginsberg, New York, NY.
  • Wireless Generation, New York, NY.
 
2000 - 2001 Actiant Inc. Tarrytown, NY
Art Director for the sales and marketing group
  • Managed and designed website: www.Actiant.com
  • Managed the graphic layout and printing of the business plan
    Project Manager and Manager of Fulfillment for numerous industrial supplier
    e-commerce catalogs including: Hertz, Gateway and Konica
  • As liaison, interpreted client requests, provided technical consultation,
    prepared all documentation and dispersed information
  • Responsible for data purity between print catalogs and web catalogs
1998 - 2000  Electronic Sales Systems Inc. New York, NY
Art Director for the product marketing group
  • Managed and designed website: "The ES-Channel"
  • Manger of fulfillment, for industrial supplier e-commerce catalogs including: Snap-On Tools, Unisource Worldwide, Tire Centers, Kirk's Automotive and
    Steve Lieber & Associates
1997 - 1998  Sixth Gear, Inc. Internet Commerce Solutions, New York, NY
Web Designer / Project Manager
  • Managed and designed a team of five designers and HTML programmers
    for much of the original Sixth Gear website
  • Designed layout for the original New York Information Technology
    Centers website: www.55broad.com
  • Managed and designed website: www.Einzig.com
  • Designed and managed, Intellispace "Intelligent, Internet Website"
    www.Intellispace.co
1995 - 1996  Sonalysts Studios Inc., Waterford CT
www.sonalysts.com
Animator and Graphic Designer for the Multimedia CD-ROM Division.
  • Designed and produced PowerPoint presentations for
    Ascom Hassler, and Fleet Bank's annual meetings
  • Produced all animation and screen designs for The Nuclear Intelligent
    Training Aid, "N.I.T.A." CD-ROM
  • Produced all animation and screen designs for Lydall Inc. Corporate Sales
    CD-ROM
  • Produced animation, 3-D mesh objects, and screen designs, for the
    Electronic Arts submarine simulation game "688 I Hunter Killer"
Skills -

Computer/Design   
Flash MX, Dreamweaver MX, Home Site 5, Fire Works MX, Softimage,
3D- Studio version 4, MAX Release 1 and 2, Lightscape, Animator Studio,
Animator Pro, AutoCAD, PhotoShop 7, Illustrator 10, Macromedia Director,
Fractal Designer 4, Quark Express 5, Corel Draw Suite 12,

Computer/Office   
Microsoft Office XP, Powerpoint, Excel, Commence 4, Goldmine 5, MS Word, WordPerfect, Netscape Communicator, Internet Explorer, Eudora Pro 5.0, Win Zip,
and various FTP programs

Camera   
Small hand held Nikon's, Super 8, Bolex and CP Movie Cameras,
"Master" and "Filmmaker" size Oxberry Animation Stands, High 8
as well as 3/4 inch video cameras.

Drawing / Painting   
Experienced with many hand tool mediums from colored pencils and
water colors, to oils and acrylics on canvas

Project Management   
Excellent research, management, organization, and problem solving skills
Education-

1990 - 1994   Rhode Island School of Design, B.F.A  Providence, RI
Film and Animation

fall - 1996   Parsons School of Design, New York, NY  
Continuing Education

summer - 2001   United Digital Artists, New York, NY   
Flash Certificate