Welby Way Elementary
Art Teacher after school enrichment
(Feb. - March 2012)
"Paint the Colors of Your World"
Teaching K-2nd graders the basics of painting with one color at a time, while studying color theory. Second part of the course will teach them to observe the colors in shadows, nature & their environment so that they realize objects are not one color, but a combination of many colors.

(Oct — December 2011)
"Draw From Your Imagination"
Teaching 3rd-5th graders the basics of light source, cast shadows, perspective, rendering and building their confidence in their own imaginations to create a book cover during a 10 week course. They will also write the book.

Vantage Point Creations
Owner, Illustrator (Jan ‘08 — Dec. '11)
www.vantagepointcreations.com

Created sketches of infants, children and pets from photographs, turning family snapshots or class photos into meaningful original art keepsakes. I also specialized in watercolor landscapes and still lifes.

Occasional computer design work was created on a contract basis as a part of this business.

Worked with the Interface Design Director on the creation of the first Interface Design Guideline, design specifications, color charts, mockups.
Managed the integration of site concepts with visual concepts contributed by other designers as well as creating graphics for daily use.
Created a new taxonomy for the Home Improvement section, pulling old content and adding new, creating HTML page design and layouts, making editorial corrections as well as photo scanning and correcting.
Established new templates for Producers and Associate Producers.
Worked with the Director of Production, Producers, Art Directors, ASP programmers and clients to establish the look, feel and functionality for all elements of the site.

CNN – Cable News Network
Senior Broadcast Designer (Aug ‘96 — Feb ‘99)

Designed on-air graphics for 24-hour news networks with a global audience.
Primary artist for CNN Morning News and CNNI World Report shows.
Overnight shift supervisor; trained new artists.

Designed on-air graphics for live 24-hour newscasts seen worldwide.
Created graphics for CNN Newsource, CNN Airport Network and other special news packages, election coverage and awards shows.
Supervised coverage of annual awards shows such as the Grammys, Oscars, etc., working closely with Producers, Directors and staff artists.
Set up and organized the graphics tape archive library.
Supervised interns on live show production and trained new artists.

The Weather Channel
Freelance Broadcast Designer (Apr ‘96— Jul ‘96)

Special Project: “Storm Chasers – with Warren Faidley,” an animated open with fill-in stills and various illustrations.
Animations and stills for daily shows.

Education

B.F.A. in Advertising, Auburn University, 1982.

DreamWeaver2, Fireworks 2, Flash 3, Director 7, QuarkXpress 4 - National Computer Training/Encino, CA - Fall 1999

Self trained on DreamWeaver 8, Photoshop CS2, Illustrator CS2, some Microsoft Office.

Awards

Certificate of Excellence - Broadcast Designers Association, 1985
Silver Award - Houston International Film Festival, for 1988 Election Graphics

Skills
Illustration, Logo design, page layout and template design, button design, ad design, map illustrations, web design, usability, and information architecture, copy editing, photo scanning and correction, team building, interdepartmental communications

Software skills (from newest to oldest): Creative Suite 5.5, DreamWeaver., Visio, Microsoft Office, TeamSite, After Effects, Quark, HTML, Liberty Paint System, Quantel Paintbox, Chyron character generators.

Kimberly Daniel
Business mobile: (818) 489-4824 (still current)
New e-mail: artby.ksd@gmail.com