Jeff Austin

Senior Graphic Design

JeffAustin

Houston, Texas

A creative graphic designer with
comprehensive corporate and agency
experience delivering dynamic layout
and design skills and typographic
excellence. Quick learner focused on
being mindful of a client’s vision and
possess an independent, proactive
attitude in highly collaborative
environments to achieve team
success. Able to handle multiple
projects with varying schedules
under critical deadlines.

Skills include: Adobe CS4, InDesign, Quark Xpress, Illustrator, Photoshop,
Acrobat Pro, Digital Photography, Lightroom 2, MS Word, MS Outlook,
MS PowerPoint, Dreamweaver, Fireworks, HTML

Experience

  • Graphic Designer
    Houston, Texas
    2009 - Present
    JeffAustinCreative.com

    VALIC/Western National | Houston, TX
    Helped rebrand over 1,200 print and electronic collateral pieces.
    Returned to help marketing collateral work overload.

    Unleaded Communications | Houston, TX
    Covered for design and print production on vacation at full-service advertising and marketing services agency.

    Platts | Houston, TX
    Corporate holiday card design

    The Padgett Group | Houston, TX
    TSU Thurgood Marshall School of Law brochure design

    Mainland Primary Care Physician | Texas City, TX
    Thermography banner and poster design

    Houston Pediatric Specialty Group | Houston, TX
    Pediatric association logo design

  • Senior Graphic Designer
    Houston, Texas
    1998 - 2009
    Invesco Aim

    Designed marketing collateral including investor guides, brochures, annual reports, trade show materials, and multi-faceted marketing campaigns for one of the world’s largest independent investment managers. Successfully teamed with clients [internal departments and external wholesalers], vendors [printers, photographers and illustrators] and supported groups [writers, print production and e-commerce/web site staff].
    • Designed eDelivery logo resulting in saving the multi-billion dollar firm more than a million dollars.
    • Delivered timely re-branding of printed marketing collateral to new graphic standards while simultaneously converting QuarkXPress documents to Adobe Indesign.
    • Saved the firm $250 hourly on photoshoots by serving as inhouse photographer.

  • Art Director
    Houston, Texas
    1998 - 1998
    Goswick Advertising

    Designed newspaper advertising and marketing collateral for an award winning mid-sized real estate advertising agency. Accounts included Ryland Homes, Canyon Gate Home Community and Wolff Companies.

  • Graphic Designer
    Houston, Texas
    1996 - 1997
    Adcetera Group

    Designed creative marketing collateral for Continental Airlines, Corporate Express, Houston International Festival and SYSCO Foods.

  • Art Director
    Houston, Texas
    1993 - 1996
    The Quest Business Agency

    Designed B2B marketing collateral for Baker Hughes, Coastel Communications, Crystal Semiconductor Corp., Federal Express, Greater Houston Partnership, International Papers, and Omnes Cable and Wireless.

Education

  • Diploma of Layout and Production Art
    Houston, Texas
    1988 - 1988
    The Art Institute of Houston

    Honors graduate. Majored in layout design, production, logo design, drawing and desktop publishing.

  • Houston, Texas
    Houston Community College

    Continuing education. Created a portfolio website by attending web development courses.