Original Art and Design by Chris Chase Christopher Chase Address: 201 South High Point Road, #311
Madison, WI 53717

Phone: (608) 692-3805
E-mail: chris.chase@chaseoriginal.com


Education:
  • Milwaukee Area Technical College 1993
    (Associate Degree in Commercial Art)
  • Elkhorn Area High School (9-12) 1991
Computer Experience:
  • IBM (PC) and Macintosh   HTML, CSS, JAVA Script, PHP/MySQL
Program Experience Includes:
  • Adobe Acrobat / Designer (3yrs.)
  • Adobe Illustrator (3yrs.)
  • Adobe Photoshop (3yrs.)
  • Corel Draw (14yrs.)
  • Corel Photo (14yrs.)
  • Corel WordPerfect (9yrs.)
  • Macromedia Dreamweaver (4yrs.)
  • Macromedia Flash (4yrs.)
  • Microsoft Frontpage (2yrs.)
  • Microsoft Office Suite (8yrs.)
  • Pagemaker (2yrs.)
Work Experience:
Chase Original, LLC
Milwaukee/Madison, Wisconsin
January 2005 - present
CEO / Graphic Artist / Illustrator / Webmaster
Responsible for:
  • Website design construction and maintainence
  • Graphic design
  • Illustration
  • Printing
  • Display construction
  • 3-D modeling
  • Airbrush painting and make-up
  • Tattoo design and application
Programs most used:
Corel Draw, Corel Photo
   
SleeveMasters Tattoo Studio,
Sydney, Australia
September 2005 - September 2006
*Freelance Graphic Artist / Illustrator / Webmaster
Responsible for:
  • Website redesign and maintainence.
  • T-shirt design
  • Redesign of company logo
  • Magazine advertisements
Programs most used:
Corel Draw, Corel Photo
   
Custom Cuts,
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
April 2003 - June 2005
*Freelance Graphic Artist / Illustrator
Responsible for:
  • Label design and production.
  • Food photography
  • Reproducing company logos
  • Nutritional calculation and data entry
Programs most used:
Corel Draw, Corel Photo
   
Klockit,
Lake Geneva, Wisconsin
April 2002 - June 2005
*Freelance Graphic Artist / Illustrator
Responsible for:
  • Website consultation.
  • Pencil and Ink illustrations for clock faces.
  • Technical drawings of clock assemblies for instruction booklets
Programs most used:
Corel Draw, Corel Photo
   
Arendt Enterprises,
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
December 1999 - present
*Freelance Webmaster
Responsible for:
  • Web page design, scripting, and maintenance
  • Digital photography
Programs most used:
Corel Draw, Corel Photo, Corel Wordperfect, Microsoft Notepad
   
Country Maid, Incorporated
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
employed June 1996 - June 2005
*Graphic Director / Graphics Designer
Responsible for:
  • Hiring and management of art department staff
  • Web page design, implementation, and maintenance
  • Implementation of inter-office e-mail, external e-mail, and internet access
  • Designing and printing eye-catching food labels
  • Designing POP displays, advertising flyers, sign designs, and weekly menus
  • Designing and setting up of show display booths
  • Food photography
  • Reproducing company logos
  • Nutritional calculation and data entry
  • Computer maintenance and repair
  • Network maintenance and repair (limited)
Programs most used:
Corel Draw, Corel Photo, Corel Wordperfect, Microsoft Notepad
   
Sassy Shirts,
Whitewater, Wisconsin
employed August 1995 - May 1996
*Graphic Artist
Responsible for:
  • Creating t-shirt designs
  • Reproducing company logos
  • Paste-ups
  • All darkroom and pre-press work
Programs most used: Corel Draw, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Ill.
   
Infinity Graphics,
Elkhorn, Wisconsin
August 1994- October 1996
*Freelance Graphic Artist
Responsible for:
  • Creating eye-catching t-shirt designs to owners specifications.
Programs most used:
Quark Xpress, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Ill.
   
Video Gallery,
Lake Geneva, Wisconsin
employed August '92 - January 2004
(moved from full time management to freelance artist and part-time help in June '96)
*Freelance Artist
Responsible for:
  • Website design, scripting, implementation, and maintenance
  • Designing and creating t-shirt designs, signs, logos, murals and flyers
  • Data entry and computer maintenance.
Programs most used:
Pagemaker, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Publisher, Microsoft Wordpad, Corel Draw, Corel Photo
   
Northwestern University,
Evanston, Illinois
September 1992- June1994
*Freelance Artist
Responsible for:
  • Designing t-shirts for the cheerleading squad and dance teams
  • Creating fraternity house wall murals
Programs most used:
Corel Draw, Pagemaker, Adobe Photoshop.


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