Todd S Cruikshank
Croton on Hudson, NY 10562
email todd@toddsart.com
OBJECTIVE
A challenging and rewarding position within a creative environment which will utilize my skills, experience and education, as well as offer growth opportunity.
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
Employer: Holbrook Cottage
Title: Graphic Design/ Head of Marketing
Location: Briarcliff Manor, NY
Duration: 08/2005 – Present
Job Duties: Produce 2 weekly HTML newsletter emails, designing ads for local
newspapers, updating website, all in-store signs, 2 monthly promotional
postcards, answering phones, store inventory, creation of all store forms and
labels.
Employer: Ossining Children’s Center
Title: School-Age Art Teacher
Location: Ossining, NY
Duration: 06/2003 – 04/2006
Job Duties: Responsible for caring for and teaching first through fifth graders.
Teaching basic drawing strategies, techniques in coloring, methods of painting,
clay sculpting and design, photography skills, and film production.
Employer: Oxford University Press
Title: Graphic Designer
Location: New York, NY
Duration: 10/2001 – 12/2002
Job Duties: Worked with Author, Thomas Regelski, on all design elements for
a book entitled “Teaching General Music Grades 4-8 “. Responsibilities included
scanning of music notation, handling of all illustrations, and all design editing
needed before publication.
Employer: Jamestown Post Journal
Title: Editorial Illustrator
Location: Jamestown, NY
Duration: 05/2000 – 12/2002
Job Duties: Worked with local newspaper on illustrating articles.
EDUCATION
Major: Illustration
School: Fredonia State University
Location: NY
Degree: Bachelor of Fine Arts
Completion Date: 12/2002
SKILLS AND ABILITIES
TECHNICAL SKILLS:
Knowledge of computer programs including: Abode Illustrator, Photoshop, & In-Design.
Quark Xpress. Microsoft Word, Publisher, Excel & Access. Macromedia Dreamweaver, & Flash.
