Brian C. Russell's Resume

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P.O. Box 580 Blacksburg, VA 24063-0580

Home phone#:(540) 961-5654

e-mail: bcruss@swva.net

url: http://www.gnosis.slac.com/bb_art/

(check out new additions to my portfolio online at the above URL at Blacksburg Art)


Education:

Bachelors of Fine Art

Virginia Commonwealth University

Richmond, Virginia Fall 1995

major: Sculpture

minor: Painting and Printmaking


Work Experience:

Position:Typography Specialist Full Time

Employer: Printing Services Radford University Radford, Virginia

Duties: Set type to output to negative for multi color offset printing. Use QuarkXpress and Photshop to prepare the print jobs.


Position: Lab Operator Full time

Employer: Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Computing Center Blacksburg, Virginia

Duties: Advise students on the use of Macintosh and DOS/Windows computers with applications such as Eudora, Fetch, Netscape 3.0, Microsoft Office for Mac OS 7.5, and Windows 95.


Position: Gallery Assistant / Graphic Designer Full Time

Employer: Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Art and Art History Department/Mountain Lake Workshop Blacksburg, Virginia

Duties: Install art shows at the Armory Art Gallery at Virginia Tech and design book about the Mountain Lake Workshop and exhibit at the Anderson Gallery at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia. Included black and white and full color photography (done with four color process) of paintings and sculpture by artist such as John Cage, Jiro Okura, Howard Finster, Meirle Ladderman Ukeles, and Ray Kass


Position: Projectionist Part Time

Employer: Regal Cinemas, Inc. Virginia Center Commons Glen Allen, Virginia

Duties: Run the fifteen screen 35mm projection booth. Responsible for a quality looking and sounding show.


Technical Knowledge:

Macintosh Applications: Photoshop 3.0, PageMaker 6.0, Microsoft Office, Adobe Premiere, Avid Videoshop, Quark Xpress 3.3, SoundEdit16, Netscape Navigator 3.0, Eudora etc.

HTML and Javascript:experence writing and administrating web pages for myself and for buisness.

Film/Video: still 35mm SLR camera, 16mm movie cameras and projectors, SVHS Hi8 cameras and editing equipment experience with linear and non-linear (computer) video/sound editing

My personal Computer: Macintosh 8500/120

PERSONAL GOALS: Create a variety of art including digital media (photo manipulation, digital video, QTVR, CD-ROM), film/video, print publications, WWW and traditional sculpture

Earn a Masters of Fine Art degree

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