Résumé
This is my Graphic Designer résumé. Graphic Designer is just one of several jobs that I am well qualified for. You may also wish to take a look at my other résumés.
Berkeley, CA 94710
510-540-7214
Job Objective
Graphic Designer
Highlights of Qualifications
- Highly productive, both as a team member and while working alone. Followed and gave instructions. Formulated solutions
to problems. - Applied the design principals of contrast, repetition, alignment, and proximity to graphic design projects. Kept formatting of page elements consistent with
style sheets. - Outstanding color and tonal composition skills. Color corrected photographs to resemble classical paintings in terms of idealized
tonal values.
Relevant Skills and Experience
- Experienced with Photoshop CS2 and Illustrator CS2. Worked with type in Illustrator. Immediately understood how to use the type tools of
InDesign CS2. - Designed numerous eye pleasing web sites. Prepared well formatted text documents with the tools available in Microsoft Word. Experimented with InDesign
at college. - Accomplished landscape photographer. Well developed sense of rhythm for the placement of elements within a picture or on the
printed page.
Education
| 2001–Date | Multimedia Major | Vista Community College— |
| Pursuing a double AA in Web Design and Digital Imaging. Planning to transfer to CSU Hayward | ||
| 1980 | Nurse’s Aide School | Olsten Healthcare— |
| Trained in a special program that focused on Medical-Surgical and Orthopedics rather than the customary Nursing | ||
Work History
| 1994–1999 | Home Attendant | In-Home Support Services— |
| Used skills developed in hospitals to meet the needs of a quadriplegic gentleman. Catered to the preferences of an individual client. Worked with the same client for | ||
| 1992–1994 | Inventory Control Clerk | Saint Luke’s Hospital— |
| Managed flow of materials from storeroom to nurses’ stations. Anticipated patterns of materials use. Completed requisition paperwork in a timely manner. Tracked inventory on a computer. Took orders | ||
| 1990–1994 | Hospital Orderly | Saint Luke’s Hospital— |
| Made rounds of the hospital and carried a pager. Interacted with patients. Performed medical procedures. Participated in procedures involving more than | ||
| 1986–1991 | Nurse’s Aide | Sunrise Nurses— |
| Provided nursing services at almost a dozen Bay Area hospitals. Quickly adapted to different paperwork and organizational systems. Worked primarily in Medical-Surgical and | ||
Personal Interests
- Cooked and baked gourmet food since 8 years old. Especially talented at preparing dishes from India
and Thailand . - Planned nutritionally balanced meals for group backpacking trips. Took into account food allergies of group members. Dehydrated own food. Used Excel spreadsheets to
track nutrients. - Sought to reproduce the emotional sense of being there with my landscape photography. Motivated friends to visit the wilderness in a way I never could with
words alone.
Backside of Half Dome at Sunset.
© 1993 Ben Hubbell. |
Sunshine Arrives at Bishop Lake.
© 2003 Ben Hubbell. |
The image on the left was taken upstream from Yosemite Valley, at an altitude 3200 feet higher than the valley floor. The image on the right was taken in the John Muir Wilderness in the eastern Sierras. To see more photographs of the High Sierra and the East Bay Hills, click on the Photography link, which can be found at the top and bottom of
I color corrected the photographs on this page with Photoshop’s Curves tool. After color correction the tonal transitions look more three dimensional, because the relationships between colors have been restored. Before Photoshop I was disappointed that there were certain kinds of light that I could never reproduce in photographs. Now at last I can consistently reproduce what I saw when I took the picture.
UC Berkeley in the Mist.
© 1992 |
The photograph to the left was taken in 1992 near Grizzly Peak Boulevard, above Strawberry Canyon in the Berkeley Hills. The color of the sky is due to the June 1991 eruption of Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines. This eruption spewed a large amount of ash into the atmosphere, which brought this color to the late afternoon skies for years This photograph was sharpened with Photoshop’s Unsharp Mask filter rather than the usually preferable Smart Sharpen filter. In this case the latter filter made the mist too transparent. The less powerful Unsharp Mask filter was definitely the tool for the |
Message from Ben Hubbell
Hello,
I designed this web site. It is formatted with Cascading Style Sheets. The padding of the text boxes is set in pixels. However, within the body of the text, vertical white space is set in ex and horizontal white space is set in em. I did this so that if the viewer of this page changes the text size setting of their browser the size of the white space will change in proportion with the size of
I pick my colors with the Hue, Saturation, Brightness color model using Photoshop’s color picker. I am sure you have noticed that this page has an anologous color scheme. The background of this page at large, the text box borders, and the background inside the text boxes are all the same hue (16 degrees) but with different saturation and
I have limited experience with InDesign, but because I am adept at using Photoshop and Illustrator, the controls for InDesign’s tools were easy to understand the first time I opened the program. Furthermore, the graphic design principals I have applied to web pages are also applicable to the printed page. This means that my learning curve with InDesign will be
In addition to my talent for the graphic arts I am skilled at computer programming for the Web. I use a language called PHP to parse different style sheets to different browsers. This helps keep the appearance of my pages consistent for all viewers.
Due to the fact that I have many job skills, there are several versions of my Résumé, each tailored to a different job objective. If you follow the text links to my other Résumés and proceed to follow the button links on the destination page, the Résumé button links throughout this web site will direct you to the most recently
Cheers,
Ben Hubbell
This has been my Graphic Designer résumé. Graphic Designer is just one of several jobs that I am well qualified for. You may also wish to take a look at my other résumés.