David A. Stoddard
310-406-5384
Phone Number
dave@davidastoddard.com
Email Address
2260 Skyline Drive,
Redding CA 96001
Home Address
Objective
I seek employment at your facility, I’m very flexible with the position, but I have a passion for cooking and food and would love to bring that passion and energy into the kitchen and raise the standards of quality, speed and excellence.
Cover Letter
To whom it may concern,
My goal is to seek employment as a Visual Designer for your company and become a key member of your organization. I am employed at Redding Countertops, Redding CA, creating and prepping art for t shirt and hats, I also have been doing freelance design for the last 9 years consistently. I have a very broad spectrum of skills considering I’ve been designing for over 25 years, and always seek to learn more, but I specialize in Graphic Design, 3D Design and photography. my primary graphical weapons are Photoshop, Illustrator and Blender (for 3D). Aside from my abilities in design, my greatest strength is my vision, my ability to see a problem and find inventive approaches to manage them, this is the corner stone of my ability to lead and manage people and projects, not only am I well equipped to work with people I am also a self starter. In recent years I have been lending my skills to Eagles Nest Intl., a local ministry on a part time basis building and managing their website as well as others, mostly in the WordPress CMS using the Divi builder and theme, designing book covers and expanding my skills the 3D design, which is a tremendous complement to my skill set.
A good example of recent employment, I was employed at 15dollarstore.com (now defunct) where I was in-charge of photographing, color correcting and prepping images of an array of merchandise for their website and triweekly e-mail campaign. In this role I have applied my understanding of work-flow, organization, and automation to reduce the man hours from 40 hours a week to 16, while not only completing all responsibilities, but drastically increasing over-all quality.
Sincerely,
David A. Stoddard
Portofolios
Responsive Website Design
3D Design
Print Design
Photography
Professional Experience
• Redding Countertops – Redding CA I’ve been involved in most stages, from sales to fabrication and installation. Now primarily I take on special projects of maintenance and organization to increase productivity.
• Applejacks – Anderson CA – Graphic design, color separations for screen printing, cut vinyl.
• Self Employed – Contract web and graphic design, 3D design/printing and photography
• Onyx Volt – Website design, Amazon listing image design, 3D Rendering, product photography.
• Gabhart Investments Incorporated – San Diego, CA : (3) WordPress websites, creation and maintenance.
• Timothy Sherman Ministries – Website design, management, building maintenance, photography, videography and editing, audio capture and editing (these were all volunteer services)
• JCI – Redding, CA : Design and creation of Square Space websites
• Mac Smith Corp – Gardena, CA : Website Reskin, product photography
• California Boss Hoss Motorcycles – Harbor City, CA : Complete reconstruction of website (inactive), Product photography, color correcting, website and ad design. Photograph over 200 motorcycles using studio lighting and natural light.
• 15DollarStore.com – Carson CA : Graphic Design – Photography April ‘08 – August ‘10 Primary responsibilities are photographing, color correcting, editing images of garments, sunglasses, handbags, shoes and assorted other products of a 6,000 product website, design of triweekly e-mail ads, custom Myspace layout, ad campaign and tracking of said e-mails, Myspace and website traffic via Google Analytics. Complete reconstruction of constant light photo studio.
Schooling
BSSM – Christian ministry school – Graduated 2nd year.
El Camino College – Graphic design, photography, sculpture, life drawing, jewelry and metal smithing.
SCROC – Graphic Design Certificate of Completion, and Auto Engine.