CHRISTIE SHINN
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**References are available upon request.**

WORK EXPERIENCE
Studio Work

February 2011 – Present
Eddie Yang Studio
Glendale, CA
-Business Relations: Established relationships with the goal of a long-term partnership in asset creation. Communicated to studios and companies like THQ in order to create a business model that was both cost-effective yet high-quality for that company.
-Art Reviewer: Evaluated assets and communicated changes to the artists for both quality control and in compliance with established style sheets for established THQ game titles such as: WWE: Smackdown vs. Raw and UFC.

September 2010 – Present
ITT-Tech Oxnard, CA
Adjunct Game Design Instructor
-Lectured students on the overall pipeline and theory behind game design.
-Taught students game analysis and skills on how to secure industry employment.

April 2007 – Present
Carmine Studios/Freelance Work
Graphic Design Artist
-Designed logos, flyers, apparel, character concepts, and art assets for games and applications for an extensive client list.
- Designed album covers for up and coming hip-hop artists.
- Performed tutoring sessions for maintaining websites for various clients.
- Designed various characters for 3D animated features and many 2D assets for specified palettes.
- Other various graphic projects for clients which include: SpeedSDDate.com, IZ Ventures (Art Director), BH Productions, Gloster Biomedical, Kast and Krew, Fashart Productions, List Caddy, ArcNovo, Inc., Olive Jane, etc..

April 2007-August 2008 Graphic/Document Designer Online
MPOGD/lvlupcommunications
Flash animation, media kits, document and web layout.
Flash Work.
2007 MPOGD.com Media Kit.
2007 MPOGD.com Ad Package.
2007 MPOGD.com Price Card.

Freelance

SpeedSDDate.com
February 2009 - Present
Logo and flyers for speed dating in San Diego.
SpeedSDDate logo, flyer, and card.
Screenshot

GFS Clothing DBA Sidewayz Style
June 2009 – July 2009
Apparel and logo design for a fashion line.
Sidewayz Style Logo.

Delikate Rayne
April 2009 – August 2009
Apparel design for a fashion line.

BH Productions
June 2009
Resdesign of a Flash header for portfolio film website.

Fashart Productions
June 2009 – July 2009
Graphic design and editing.

Forever A Movement/SON
January 2009-March 2009
Designed an album cover for a sale of a CD for hip-hop artist named Son.
Son - Kingdom Album Cover.

Website Design Tutoring
GlosterBiomedical.com
November 2008-February 2009
Tutored client in Dreamweaver, Photoshop, HTML and CSS basics so that they could be self-sufficient in building and maintaining their website.

List Caddy
October 2008-Present
Logo, package, web, and product design.
Reusable bag logo.
Banner used in Orange County Trade Show 2008.
Breast Cancer Ribbon list caddy. American Flag List caddy.
Tote Packaging 2008
Clip Strip Packaging 2008
List Caddy Breast Cancer web ad.
List Caddy American Flag web ad.
List Caddy updated splashpage.
List Caddy Banner Ad.

"Christie's work for us ranges from creating a banner for use in Trade Shows to designing art for our branded products. She also has been instrumental in improving and editing designs for our website images. We like her work, and feel she understands our objectives

... We look forward to working with her more in the future, and recommend her highly."

Chris Pericles
Principal of CM Concepts, LLC

One Lil’ Snap
September 2008
Logo and web design.
Logo design.

Olive Jane
August 2008-August 2009
Graphic design, logo, apparel, and promotional materials.
Olive Jane Clothing 'n' Cupcakes Boutique Party Invite (e-mail and print announcement).
Olive Jane Clothing 'n' Cupcakes Boutique PROMO pic.
Olive Jane Clothing 'n' Cupcakes Boutique Party Facebook Screenshot.
Olive Jane Retro Resort 2008 Line Sheet.
Olive Jane Garden Scrolls 2009 Shirt Designs.
Olive Jane Retro Resort 2008 Line Sheet.
Olive Jane Retro Resort 2008 Color Card.
Olive Jane Summer Inventory Sale Brochure.
Head to Toe Expo 2008 Promotional Graphic #1
Head to Toe Expo 2008 Promotional Graphic #2
Head to Toe Expo 2008 Promotional Graphic #3
Head to Toe Expo 2008 Promotional Graphic #4

IMS Barter.com
June 2008 - August 2008
Clickable animated Flash banner ads.
Flash work.

Ordinary Zen
March 2004 - April 2004
A completely Flash-oriented website done for a personal growth website as a student project. (Website is defunct, cached version kept locally.)

General Experience

Staples, Inc.
-Filing reports, dibursing and dispersing rewards and information according to company policy, organizing meetings, employee relocation, Human Resources, using the company-wide intranet to transmit needed information to remote locations.