• Graphic Designer with passion for visual communication.
• Experienced in editorial content, marketing collateral.
• Accomplished Creative Manager of effective teams.

Core strengths

Graphic Design
Newspaper, magazine, web, HTML, CSS.
Marketing planning and collateral, UI front end, Video production/ editing

Illustration
Physical, print, and digital media
Writing

Creative writing, content, and reporting

Creative Direction
Proven expertise motivating creative staff to award-level work

TECHNICAL skills

Adobe Creative Suite
InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, Premier, Dreamweaver

Mac OS/PC
Systems setup, troubleshooting,
maintenance

Microsoft Office

Word, Excel,
Powerpoint,
Sharepoint

Work EXPERIENCE

The Dayton Business Journal, Dayton, OH • 2014 - present

Design Manager

Page design, digital slideshows, web content, and reporting. Advertising, marketing, and event collateral. Professional print and prepress preparation, customer-centric interaction.

Greater Dayton Regional Transit Authority, Dayton, OH • 2010 - 2014

Web Content/Graphic Design Specialist

Graphic design, web content, video production, multimedia animation.

DAYTON DAILY NEWS, Dayton, OH • 1992 - 2008

Chief of Graphics

Illustration, information graphics, page design. Project management. Training coordination. Publication redesign.

PHILADELPHIA DAILY NEWS, Philadelphia, PA • 1991 - 1992

Graphic Editor

Supervised staff of seven designers. Spearheaded publication redesign and transition to new technologies of color printing.

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, New York City, NY • 1990 - 1991

Art Director

Managed staff of fifteen artists, wire service production of graphics, illustrations and designs for worldwide AP membership.

AWARDS

• Best Special Publication Ohio Society of Professional Journalists 2018

• First (2), Second place awards, Cleveland Press Club 2018

• Best of Ohio, First (2), Second (2), Third (2) place awards, Cleveland Press Club 2017.

• First (2), Third place awards, Cleveland Press Club 2016.

• Best Use of Multimedia Award, 2008.

• Contributed to Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative report “Military Malpractice,” Best of Cox Award, and Polk Award, 1998.
• Pulitzer Prize Visual Journalism nominations (2).

• National Cox Media select team, 1996 Atlanta Olympics.

• Judge’s Special Recognition, Gold, Silver (5), Bronze (2), Awards of Excellence (12) awards, Society of Newspaper Design (various years).

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Arts in Arts & Design: Graduated with Honors

University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri

JOHN HANCOCK

john@bzart.com