James T. Benedict Jr
448 Russet Hill Rd
Hoover, AL 35244

OBJECTIVE
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Obtain a challenging role as an for a company with vision.

WORK HISTORY
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Freelance/Professional Contest Winner July 2007 to Present

• Created successful trademarked product line for sale in several boutiques and art craft shows such as Youngblood Gallery Boutique, Twist Gallery, V Flowers & Gifts, and Indie Craft Experience.
• Provided t-shirt designs for third party market vendors for major accounts such as Walmart, Army (All branches of the military), NASCAR, and several smaller independant apparel lines.
• Generated over $9000 through internet design contest winnings from Designbyhumans.com, Uneetee.com, and Shirt.woot.com.
  

Active Creations Art Director/Lead Artist, June 2005 to June 2007

• Drastcially increased productivity and profitbability by teaching self a new method of separations effectively reducing work time by over half. Whereas one separation may have taken 8-12 hours, it only takes approximately 2-4, and we can accept detailed flat artwork that we had to turn away previously.
• Responsible for concepts to finished product designs, file management, spot separations, maintain art department computers/network.
• Training of new hires on software, techniques, as well as directing and advising art direction.
• Communicate with customers regarding orders and revisions.
• Light managerial duties. ie.) schedule adherence, project deadline accountability, evaluate project priorities.

DHS Sales Representative, March 2003 to April 2005

• Promoted to highest level Sales Position within Dell Home Sales
• Awarded Circle of Excellence twice for being in top 10%
• Awarded Flex Mentor Position teaching and coaching new representatives about ethical and profitable sales procedures

COMPUTER AND RELEVANT SKILLSET
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• Over 2 years of experience designing and separating high end t-shirt designs
• Master experience with Adobe Photoshop (10 years of use.)
• Novice experience with InDesign, Adobe After Effects, Premiere, Soundforge, etc
• Windows and OS X Friendly

EDUCATION
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Middle Tennessee State University, Graduated Fall 2002
• Bachelor of Science in Mass Communications with an emphasis in Digital Animation (Minor in Art & Computer Science)
• Dean's List Spring 2001 & Fall 2002

RELEVANT ACTIVITIES
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GFXartist.com

• Awarded Elite Artist title in August 2004
• Over 50,000 members, currently, approximately 200 Elite Artists

3DTotal.com

• Frontpage Excellence Award

Exhibitions:

Plowhaus Artists’ Cooperative

• Value Menu group exhibition 7/2005
• TBA group exhibition 8/2005
• Day of the Dead group exhibition 10/2005
• Naughty or Nice Christmas group exhibition 12/2005

Untitled Artist Group

• How to Start a Revolution
• Poster designs selected for promotions
6/05 How to Start a Revolution Show
10/05 Glow Show

Edgehill Studios
• Gallery exhibition 6/2005 – 10/2005