George Wright
704.287.0472
georgeinthecord(at)gmail.com
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Work Experience

Position: Graphic Artist
Senior Living Communities| Charlotte, NC
February 2011 – Present
Duties: Designing various marketing pieces, such as flyers, invitations and direct mail, along with any other assignments.

Position: Senior Graphic Artist/Lead Web Designer
HighReach Learning | Charlotte, NC
April 2007 – November 2010
Duties: Designing various marketing pieces along with any other assignments. Helping to redesign and create new sections of the website.

Position: Graphic Artist
Martin Exclusive Realty | Charlotte, NC
March 2006 – April 2007
Duties: Creating various advertisements and projects to be printed, along with developing various marketing campaigns and plans.

Position: Art Director
Abarta Media/Morris Communications | Charlotte, NC
March 2003 – January 2006
Duties: Leading a team of two ad designers through the tasks of monthly production, design critiques and other design-oriented meetings, along with designing advertisements and other special projects for our magazines.

Position: Assistant Art Director
TMT Publishing | Belmont, NC
December 2001 – January 2003
Duties: Designing advertisements & page layout for two local and one national paper, updating the mxamerica and the county messenger websites.

Position: Desktop Publisher
Copymax | Charlotte, NC
December 2000 – December 2001
Duties: Designing various projects for customers (flyers, business cards, etc.) as well as operating different machines in the production area.

Skills
Macintosh & PC based programs

InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, QuarkXPress, Dreamweaver, Flightcheck, Flash, Fireworks, Freehand, GoLive, Acrobat/Distiller, Microsoft Office
*photography experience

Education

King’s College
Charlotte, NC
Graphic Design Program, Diploma
September 1999 – August 2000

Achievements
Dean’s List of Excellence (5 times)
Final GPA: 3.9