Marc Engle
Senior graphic designer, art director, technical illustrator

Senior Graphic Designer, Illustrator, Photographer
Graebel Companies, Inc.
(Executive relocation company, Aurora, CO)
Jun 1997 – May 1999

• Ad and sales collateral, company newsletters and internal communications, executive presentations, proposals, trade show graphics and collateral, special-use logos, posters, annual reports, specialty advertising goods, website design and maintenance, vendor selection and production management.

Asst Creative Director, Art Director, Graphic Designer, Illustrator
Jones CreativeWorks
(Marketing and advertising agency, Denver, CO)
Jan 1993 – May 1997

• Planning and execution of advertising and marketing materials for clients ranging from home building corporations, to mortgage lenders and business management consultancies. Specific responsibilities included creative direction assistance, art direction, graphic design, illustration, photography, pre-press production and vendor management. Projects included ads, brochures, logos, stationery packages and specialty advertising products. Lead designer and production manager of the Colorado edition of the trade magazine Builder/Architect.

Art Director, Graphic Designer and Illustrator
The Denali Group
(Marketing and advertising agency, Denver, CO)
1991 – Dec 1992

• Graphic design, illustration, photography, pre-press production and vendor management. Projects included ads, brochures, logos, stationery packages and specialty advertising products.

Technical Illustrator
Rocky Flats Plant
(Department of Defense facility, Denver, CO)
1990 – 1991

• Created technical illustrations for use in instruction manuals for the Rocky Flats Plant plutonium trigger manufacturing process. This position required an active secret clearance with the DoD.

Graphic Designer and Illustrator
Columbine Printing
(Englewood, CO)
1989 – 1990

• Design and production of all printed material for this small retail-oriented printing company.

Graphic Designer and Illustrator
Coffman Associates
(Airport expansion consulting and engineering company, Kansas City, MO)
1987 – 1989

• Design, illustration and production of public reports, technical illustrations, 30” x 40” presentation boards and more. Started using a Mac computer and Adobe Illustrator in Sep 1988. Also responsible for training the other six designers on Mac systems and related software.

Graphic Designer and Illustrator
Apparel Printing
(Custom screen printing company, Kansas City, MO)
1986 – 1987

• Design and illustration for screen printing on shirts, hats and assorted apparel.

Technical Illustrator and Project Manager
Matrix Publications
(Specialized in fulfilling rush technical illustration requests for Los Angeles-area aerospace and defense corporations, including Hughes Aerospace, Northrop, Logicon, and the University of California, Los Angeles science department., Redondo Beach, CA)
1984 – 1986

• After quickly establishing myself as a highly skilled technical illustrator, I was promoted to Project Manager. In that role, I was responsible for preparing bids on-site at client offices, often in direct competition with other vendors. Typical projects involved producing a wide range of technical illustrations based on whatever sketches, notes, and rough markings the client provided. I would review the material and estimate the number of production hours needed to complete each project—usually within a 5- to 10-minute window—while waiting alongside competing vendors. A typical assignment consisted of 15 to 50 illustrations, often created from incomplete or highly informal source material, with no opportunity to communicate directly with the original requestor. Every bid I won was judged upon project completion for bid accuracy, project excellence, efficiency and client satisfaction.
• Once a project was awarded, I managed all aspects of production, including coordinating the work of illustrators, typesetters, and camera personnel as needed. I also personally ensured delivery of the finished materials to the client by 8:00 a.m. the following morning. On average, I managed two to five projects per night.
• In addition to project management, I was responsible for training new illustrators and personally handling illustration work whenever production demands required it.
• This position required an active U.S. Department of Defense secret clearance, as a majority of the work was classified.

Senior Graphic Designer, Illustrator, Photographer
Graebel Companies, Inc.
(Executive relocation company, Aurora, CO)
Jun 1997 – May 1999

• Ad and sales collateral, company newsletters and internal communications, executive presentations, proposals, trade show graphics and collateral, special-use logos, posters, annual reports, specialty advertising goods, website design and maintenance, vendor selection and production management.

Asst Creative Director, Art Director, Graphic Designer and Illustrator
Jones CreativeWorks
(Marketing and advertising agency, Denver, CO)
Jan 1993 – May 1997

• Planning and execution of advertising and marketing materials for clients ranging from home building corporations, to mortgage lenders and business management consultancies. Specific responsibilities included creative direction assistance, art direction, graphic design, illustration, photography, pre-press production and vendor management. Projects included ads, brochures, logos, stationery packages and specialty advertising products. Lead designer and production manager of the Colorado edition of the trade magazine Builder/Architect.

Art Director, Graphic Designer and Illustrator
The Denali Group
(Marketing and advertising agency, Denver, CO)
1991 – Dec 1992

• Graphic design, illustration, photography, pre-press production and vendor management. Projects included ads, brochures, logos, stationery packages and specialty advertising products.

Technical Illustrator
Rocky Flats Plant
(Department of Defense facility, Denver, CO)
1990 – 1991

• Created technical illustrations for use in instruction manuals for the Rocky Flats Plant plutonium trigger manufacturing process. Previously held DoD Secret clearance.

Graphic Designer and Illustrator
Columbine Printing
(Englewood, CO)
1989 – 1990

• Design and production of all printed material for this small retail-oriented printing company.

Graphic Designer and Illustrator
Coffman Associates
(Airport expansion consulting and engineering company, Kansas City, MO)
1987 – 1989

• Design, illustration and production of public reports, technical illustrations, 30” x 40” presentation boards and more. Started using a Mac computer and Adobe Illustrator in Sep 1988. Also responsible for training the other six designers on Mac systems and related software.

Graphic Designer and Illustrator
Apparel Printing
(Custom screen printing company, Kansas City, MO)
1986 – 1987

• Design and illustration for screen printing on shirts, hats and assorted apparel.

Technical Illustrator and Project Manager
Matrix Publications
(Specialized in fulfilling rush technical illustration requests for Los Angeles-area aerospace and defense corporations, including Hughes Aerospace, Northrop, Logicon, and the University of California, Los Angeles science department., Redondo Beach, CA)
1984 – 1986

• After quickly establishing myself as a highly skilled technical illustrator, I was promoted to Project Manager. In that role, I was responsible for preparing bids on-site at client offices, often in direct competition with other vendors. Typical projects involved producing a wide range of technical illustrations based on whatever sketches, notes, and rough markings the client provided. I would review the material and estimate the number of production hours needed to complete each project—usually within a 5- to 10-minute window—while waiting alongside competing vendors. A typical assignment consisted of 15 to 50 illustrations, often created from incomplete or highly informal source material, with no opportunity to communicate directly with the original requestor. Every bid I won was judged upon project completion for bid accuracy, project excellence, efficiency and client satisfaction.
• Once a project was awarded, I managed all aspects of production, including coordinating the work of illustrators, typesetters, and camera personnel as needed. I also personally ensured delivery of the finished materials to the client by 8:00 a.m. the following morning. On average, I managed two to five projects per night.
• In addition to project management, I was responsible for training new illustrators and personally handling illustration work whenever production demands required it.
• Previously held DoD Secret clearance

Graphic Designer, Illustrator and Screen Printing  Director
Westcoast Tee's
(Tourist T-shirt Retailer, Lawndale, CA)
1983 – 1984

• This company printed and sold t-shirts for Los Angeles-area tourists. Starting out in a small strip mall shop, it quickly expanded to a much larger warehouse with about a dozen outlets from San Diego to Santa Barbara. My job was to create and produce t-shirt designs, and complete all pre-press functions (hand illustration, typesetting, camera-work, screen prep and production setup) before turning it over to the production department. I typically created three to five new finished and approved designs per week. The designs were created in brainstorming sessions with the owner, from which I would then create detailed mockups. After which the owner and I would choose which concepts would be finalized for mass production.

Graphic Designer and Illustrator
Manhattan Beach Printing
(Manhattan Beach, CA)
1983

• Graphic design, illustration, and pre-press production for small, retail-oriented printing company.

Prepress Production Artist
Lettergraphics/CPC, Inc.
(Kansas City, MO)
1981 – 1982

• Responsibilities included; support design and pre-press production, color separations and proofs, stat camera operations, photo-typositor production, and super-short-run high-end screen printing. Keep in mind, this was years before desktop computers and graphics software. All color seps and proofs were done with stat camera negatives, multi-layer acetate overlays, and hand-cut rubylith/amberlith. Photo-typositers used chemical photo print methods, typesetting was produced on a mainframe computer system and required manual paste-up.

T-shirt Designer and Store Manager
King George Tees
(Lawrence, KS)
1980 – 1981

• Custom designs and illustrations for this small t-shirt printing company. Responsible for every stage of the production and sales process, including customer orders, design/illustration, pre-press production, single- and multi-color printing, and store management.

Welded-metal Sculptor
The Sculpture Studio
(Kansas City, MO)
1976 – 1979

• Hired just after starting college at the Kansas City Art Institute, I spent almost four years making decorative metal sculptures for homes and businesses in copper, brass and steel. These were typically small enough to sit on a desk or hang on a wall. All welding was done with acetylene/oxygen torches with Gasflux inline systems. The owners, Frank Andrews and Michelle Drabbs, were incredibly kind and supportive and gave me wide latitude in using their shop to create my own personal welded-metal fine art projects in my spare time.