Professional Profile

• An artist schooled in fine and graphic arts that became involved in computer art during its earliest development and now has over 20 years experience in medical, commercial, and technical graphic design.
• A main focus on medical/scientific illustrations, which have been produced for books, publications, presentations and advertising.

• Illustrator of several Lippincott medical review textbooks and designer/producer of cover art for medical journals, and poster presentations for national symposiums.

• Graphic designer for commercial advertising and B-to-B clientele, including all visual production from logo design to website creation.
• Beyond print media, expertise includes web, multimedia, digital photography and video.

Professional Experience

Creative Director/Production Manager, Altech Corporation, Flemington, NJ. 1997 - present.

• Overseeing and hands-on creation of catalogs for print, web, and CD ROM, for distribution, training, and sales support.
• Design and production of trade show displays and promotional material.
• Advertising graphics for trade publications, mailings and internet use.
• Web site design, creation and maintenance for advertising, product inventory and sales.
• Development of marketing strategies to brand the company and sell products.
• Track value of marketing campaigns.
• Coordinate production material with printers, designers, and resource media professionals.
• Supervise and coordinate other members of sales and marketing team.

Art Director/Ilustrator/Designer/Owner – Cooper Graphics – 1985- Present.

• Freelance business producing ads, brochures, websites, photo retouching, logo design, video, interactive presentation, and graphics for publication, scientific documentation and education.
• Clients include medical/scientific institutions such as the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Harvard University, Tulane University, Rutgers University, The University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, pharmaceutical companies, and private practices.
• Advertising and technical graphics for several NJ ad agencies, and corporations such as Ricoh, QED National, Phillips, and Home Depot.
• Website development and maintenance for small businesses.

Coordinator, Scientific Graphics – University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Piscataway, NJ – 1988-1997.

• Provide computer-generated and freehand art for charts, graphs and biomedical illustrations for course presentations, medical exhibits, displays, manuscript publications, medical books, audiovisual instructional materials, homepages and multimedia content.
• Create websites from design to uploading. (HTML, JAVA, Shockwave and web image manipulation and animation experience. MAC/DOS, WINDOWS AND UNIX background)
• Computer technology maintenance, updating and purchasing.
• Supervise graphic/media group.

Advanced Computer Graphics Instructor – Somerset Vocational/Technical School. Bridgewater, NJ. 1993-1995.

• Continued education instruction of Macintosh software and hardware. Specific in the areas of Adobe Illustrator and Adobe Photoshop.

Technical Illustrator – Singer Electronics Systems, Totowa, NJ 1985-1988.

• Technical graphics and layout, pen and ink drawings, electronic schematics and isometrics by computer and freehand generation.

Systems Experience and Proficiencies

Credited Education and Training

• Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree, Montclair University, Montclair, NJ 1986
  Studio concentration in Multi-media.

• Master of Fine Arts program in Computer Art, School of Visual Arts, NYC. 1987
  AT&T 6300 Plus, Targa 32 graphics board, SUN 3/180, C programming Ethernet, video input, 2D/3D digitizing tablets, TIPS, Paintbrush, and Lumena. Output included slides and video animation.

Certificate Courses

• Pratt Institute of Technology, NYC – 10 Course program in Electron Illustration
• Global Knowledge (American Research Group) – Understanding Networking
• Global Knowledge (American Research Group) – Web Site Performance Tuning
• Global Knowledge (American Research Group) – Web Site Creation (Server side)
• United Digital Artists, NYC, - JAVA design/scripting; Adobe Photoshop for Multimedia and Internet
• Edward Tuffte, Yale University – Displaying Information
• United Digital Artists, NYC – Computer multimedia and Website creation
• Joe Kubrik’s School of Cartoon and Graphic Arts, Dover, NJ – paste-up and mechanicals

Professional Accomplishments

• 2006 Illustrations - R.A. Harvey, P.C. Champe, "Lippicott's Illustrated Reviews: Microbiology", J.B. Lippincott, (2006).
• 2005 Cover Art – Molecular Cell
• 2003 Cover Art – Molecular Cell
• 1996 Illustrations - R.A. Harvey, P.C. Champe, "Lippicott's Illustrated Reviews: Microbiology", J.B. Lippincott.
• 2001 Pharmacology review book for Tulane Medical School.
• 1999 Cover Art – Genetics & Development
• 1997 Cover Art – FASEB Journal
• 1997 Collaborative project with T. Papathomas of Department of Vision Research, Rutgers University,
  for "Art and Science Exhibit" Eight Floor Gallery, NYC.
• 1996 Illustrations - R.A. Harvey, P.C. Champe, "Lippicott's Illustrated Reviews: Pharmacology", J.B. Lippincott, (1996).
• 1994 Illustrations - R.A. Harvey, P.C. Champe, "Lippicott's Illustrated Reviews: Biochemistry", J.B. Lippincott, (1994).
• 1992 Illustrations - R.A. Harvey, P.C. Champe, "Lippicott's Illustrated Reviews: Pharmacology", J.B. Lippincott, (1992).
• 1991 Published in the January/February issue of The AMI Newsletter; “Computer Graphic Formats in Brief"
• 1990 Presented at the Association of Medical Illustrators Conference in  Philadelphia.
• 1990 Published in the December issue of Computer Graphic World; "The Art of Medicine".
• Also including graphics and illustrations for numerous other medical journals, medical books and presentations.