SCOTT L. STASTNY
Graphic Designer
E-mail: info@slstastny.com


OBJECTIVE:

To obtain a creative design position that challenges my
experience as a Graphic Designer with strong design
principles and problem solving ability.


QUALIFICATIONS:

Extensive program knowledge on both Windows
and Mac Operating Systems:
Adobe: Acrobat, Dimensions, GoLive, InDesign,
Illustrator, PageMaker, PageMill, PhotoShop & Streamline.
Macromedia: Dreamweaver, Fireworks, Flash, & Freehand.
Microsoft: Excel, FrontPage, Powerpoint and Word.
Others: Claris Homepage, CorelDraw, and Quark Xpress.


WORK HISTORY:

2005 - Present • Graphic Designer/Web Designer
Co-Owner/Partner
Rebel Capitol Designs, Philadelphia, PA
(A Freelance Partnership)
• Design Web sites and various Print colateral packages.
• Conceptualized, wrote copy and designed our latest
Web site www.rebelcapitol.com and Printed materials.

2004 - 2005 • Graphic Designer
Adecco/TAD Technical, Blue Bell, PA
• Designed Floor plans and Site maps for ADT's
American Water Security Interface.
• Graphics created in Adobe Illustrator
utilizing Windows XP Professional.

2003 • Graphic Designer
American Speedy Printing Center, Bensalem, PA
• Preparing graphics for print production.
• Designed logos for business cards, letterheads,
postcards, brochures, etc...
• Layout of brochures and booklets.
• Upgrading, maintaining and troubleshooting network
(Both TCP/IP and Apple Talk)
• Upgrading and maintaining operating systems.
Both MacOS and Windows XP installation
and implementation.
• Sole responsibility of Prepress Department.

2001 • Editorial Paginator/Graphics Layout
Express-Times Newspaper, Easton, PA
• Constructing newspaper pages from text, photographs
and graphics in Quark XPress on Windows 98.
• Created 3 illustrations that were published.

2000 • WEB Graphics
P2I, Inc., Bethlehem, PA
• Creating Graphics for Web site catalogs
(avon.com, being one.) in Adobe ImageReady
and PhotoShop on Mac OS 9.

1999 • Web Designer/Graphic Designer
Manpower Professional, Lehigh Valley, PA
• Temporary assignments - Various corporations.
• Worked on projects including the OSHA Safety Web site
for AM Best using Dreamweaver on Windows 98
• designed medical brochures for Aventis Pharmaceuticals
using Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, Quark Xpress and
Microsoft Word. In both Mac OS 8.6 and Windows 98.

1998 • Web Designer
AB Internet, West Norriton, PA
• Developed, created and maintained Internet accounts
for small businesses in the greater Philadelphia area.
• Web site design, production, marketing and some print
design. On both Mac OS 8.6 and Windows 98.

1997 • Production Assistant/Graphic Designer
The Mercury, Pottstown, PA
• Created and revised ads to be placed in the newspaper,
as well as their "PennyPincher" weekly publication on
Mac OS 8 using Multi-Ad Creator and Illustrator.
• Newspaper ads to ad server/ PennyPincher was paste-up.

1997 • Production Assistant/Graphic Designer
Bell Atlantic Directory Graphics, Valley Forge, PA
• Total Ad reconstruction, Lay-out (Quark Xpress) from
scanned images (PhotoShop) of past ads.
• Aiding in their transition from a Canvas/Windows/No Ad
server system to a Quark/Mac/Ad server system.
• Referred to by MacTemps.

1996 • Production Assistant/Graphic Designer
MacTemps, Philadelphia, PA
• Temporary assignments with various corporations in the
Philadelphia area. Print production specialist on Mac OS.

1995-96 • Prod. Assistant/Graphic Designer
Volt Information Services, Blue Bell, PA
• 3rd-shift position updating car ads for the Los Angeles
Daily News. Using CorelDraw on Windows 95 and 3.1
(Besides other odds and ends that we were ask to do.)

1994 • Illustrator
WizardWare, Inc., Bethlehem, PA
• Creation of clip art (non computer/Pen and Ink Illustrations)
for various CD-ROM packages.

(Although I still see these every now-and-again, I am only
reminded of how much my thumb vibrated after drawing
thousands of these. I sometimes wish that they had picked
more than 500 of them, or that they would have given me
royalties. Oh well, C' est la vie.)

1988-90• Graphic Designer/Illustrator
Index Publishing, Ltd., Allentown, PA
• 4-color process(CMYK) layout and design on mechanical
boards for magazine production.
• Held part in creating entirely new publications, illustrations
and logos.
• Viewed color-keys and blue-lines, over-looked the stripping
opaquing process and communicated with the printers.
• Retrieved film flats, chromes and boards and kept inventory
as well as ordering new materials.
• In 1989, Index Publishing, LTD. entered the computer age
with their first Apple MacIntosh, using Adobe Illustrator and
Aldus Freehand, for their magazine page production. Played
part in that transformation (Little did I know; I would remain
behind a computer from that day forth).


EDUCATION:

Visual Communication • BFA
American Intercontinental University Online • 2005
• Graduated Magna Cum Laude, July 2005

Official Macromedia Flash Trainers’ Class
Motion Over Time • New York, NY • 1998
• most extensive class "Macromedia endorsed" at the time.
• Requested and Paid for by AB Internet.

Visual Communication • Attended
Art Institute of Phila. • Philadelphia, PA • 1988
• Left Before Graduating - Felt I learned more at Vo-Tech

Visual Communication • Certificate
Lehigh County Vo-Tech • Schnecksville, PA • 1986
• Certificate of Completion and awarded the highest
ranking "Outstanding Student Artist Award of 1986 ".