John David Sturgill

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An accomplished creative producer and project manager with ten years of team experience innovating real solutions in the publishing, scientific manufacturing and higher education industries.

Project Management and Art Direction

» Increased productivity 40% (by project volume) designing and implementing collaboration and reporting platform using Microsoft SharePoint Server for the College of Computing at Georgia Tech.

» Delivered 286 communications projects from ’05–’07. Managed average daily load of 7 projects with durations from 2 weeks to 3 months for a client base of 246 computing faculty and administrators.

» Coordinated volunteers and managed production of print collateral for non-profit safety awareness campaign.

» Managed ad schedule and design for 8 ongoing campaigns from ’03–’05 for products released by Olis, Inc.

» Created system to track and report media and blog hits for 176 persons and entities on a daily basis.

Print and Web Design

» Designed product packaging for James Bond audio collections and helped to renew interest in stagnant titles at Brilliance Audio. Inventory sold out one month after issue of redesigns.

» Doubled monthly web traffic from less than 700 unique visitors each month in 2003 to an average of 1900 each month of 2004 with redesign of olisweb.com.

» Designed logos and identity packages for 10 organizations in ?05??06.

» Redesigned College of Computing website and online identity.

Marketing and Communications

» Created bi-weekly HTML email campaign resulting in immediate increase in audiobook retail sales for Brilliance Audio in 2001. The campaign remains in use.

» Created monthly newsletter, The Compiler, for the College of Computing internal community of students, staff, faculty, alumni and industrial partners.

» Wrote 42 news releases for the College of Computing website between February and July, 2007.

Work Experience

The College of Computing at Georgia Tech – Atlanta, Georgia

• Directed all graphic design projects: identity development, print collateral and websites for the college and its affiliated research centers
• Developed platform for managing collaborative communications projects
• Directed news and marketing copywriting projects
• Managed outsourced web development projects
• Provided all client and vendor interfacing for the communications office
• Wrote procedural documentation and managed group best practices
• Reported to Director of Communications

Received 2007 “Outstanding Support and Service Staff” award

The College of Computing at Georgia Tech – Atlanta, Georgia

• Designed recruiting materials, event promotions, dynamic presentations and other identity collateral
• Redesigned College of Computing website
• Assisted developers in choosing and implementing a custom-configured website CMS
• Assisted director in developing communication plan
• Consulted internal clients on communication strategy
• Reported to Director of Communications

Olis, Inc. – Bogart, Georgia

• Designed and developed 250-page corporate website
• Produced technical copy, photography, illustrations, animations and dynamic content for website
• Managed Apache development server and performed production server maintenance
• Designed ads, trade-show materials and software interface graphics
• Managed development of product sales material
• Managed ad and product release schedule
• Designed product database schema for inventory and quoting systems
• Implemented PHP + MySQL technical support database
• Reported to VP of Marketing and Communications

Brilliance Audio – Grand Haven, Michigan

• Created bi-weekly HTML direct marketing email newsletter
• Designed graphics and layouts for retail website
• Designed audiobook packaging (1 title per week on average)
• Managed package vendors to maintain production quality
• Designed 64-page monthly direct-mail catalog and large-format catalogs for distributors and retailers
• Designed ads for national trade and retail publications
• Edited marketing copy for catalogs, sell sheets, newsletters, ads and retail website
• Led department in the absence of director
• Reported to Art Director

Lee Printing and Graphics – Muskegon, Michigan

• Headed graphics/pre-press department for full-service printing company
• Designed corporate newsletters, brochures, ads, business cards, menus, identity collateral, political campaign literature and signage, posters, vinyl displays and Web graphics
• Managed print projects including client consultation, design concept and content development, prepress and production
• Performed communications and IT support for sales team

Commercial Offset Printing, Inc. – Grand Haven, Michigan

• Headed graphics/pre-press department for full-service printing company
• Designed corporate newsletters, brochures, ads, business cards, menus, labels, posters and identity
• Grew design services to increase sales
• Developed design project management system
• Consulted with clients on design and content development
• Performed all pre-press production work including paste-up, negative printing, masking and stripping

Education

Georgia Institute of Technology

• Time Mastery
• Project Management
• Presentation Skills

Michigan State University