Bruce G. Mills: www.studiotech-lps.com, www.lonepinestudio.com
Design • Development • Documentation • Illustration • Publishing • Marketing • Information Services
Objective

Contracting opportunities in information design & development, cross-media publishing and graphic communication.

Summary of Experience
  • Nine years independent provider of design, development and creative services to local, national and international clients
  • Ten years development and marketing of digital imaging and prepress products
  • Five years corporate identity and marketing communications management
  • Seven years art direction and production management in print, multimedia and instructional development
  • Board member — SLO Society for Technical Communication
Services Offered
  • Positioning, key message development, information design & style control
  • Web architecture, content, UI & component design and development
  • Graphic & cross-media publication design and production
  • Illustration & image processing for screen and print
  • Technical & product documentation
  • Product planning, marketing and market communication
Skills & Capabilities
  • A/V: Syntrillium Edit, Discrete Edit, Pinnacle Studio
  • CAD: Ashlar Vellum, AutoSketch/AutoCad
  • Database: FoxPro, FileMaker, MySQL
  • Documentation: WinHelp/RoboHelp/Web Help
  • General Office: MSOffice, OpenOffice
  • Graphics: Illustrator/Photoshop/ImageReady, Fireworks, Fontographer, IconBuilder, IconForge
  • Imaging: Photoshop, digital photography, color separation, composites and print prep
  • PDF: Acrobat Pro
  • Presentation: PowerPoint, OpenOffice Impress
  • Publication: MSWord, OpenOffice, InDesign, Quark, PageMaker
  • Web/Dev: UltraEdit-32, HTML, DHTML/CSS, XML/XHTML/SVG/XSL/XSLT, Java-ECMA Script, ActionScript, PHP, Perl, RegEx, MySQL, Apache2, Dreamweaver, Fireworks, Flash
Employment History
  • Self employed, design/development contractor,
    April 1998 – Present
  • Dir. Product Marketing, Microtek Artix Corp., professional imaging products,
    February 1997 – April 1998
  • VP-Marketing, Pixelcraft Inc., Xerox digital imaging products,
    August 1993 – February 1997
  • Sr. Product. Mgr., RasterOps Inc., image processing & display products,
    January 1992 – August 1993
  • Product. Mgr., CIS Inc., desktop digital imaging products,
    August 1990 – December 1991
  • Mark. Comm. Mgr., Businessland Inc., B2B computer & peripheral distribution,
    January 1986 – August 1990
  • VP-Creative/Production, ChartMasters Inc., corporate communication services,
    July 1977 – December 1985
  • Production. Mgr., American Analysis Corp., instructional development,
    September 1973 – July 1977
Education
  • MBA, Golden Gate University
  • BA, Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Blacksburg, VA
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