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Employment
NewCity
Web Designer
June 1, 2008 - Current
NewCity is a dynamic and growing design agency in Blacksburg, VA. My responsibilities include full-scale website design - incorporating all elements, styles, color-palettes, images and hierarchy - flash animation, logo design, and style-guide development. Our clients range from National Geographic to Imperial College in London. Through my work at NewCity, I've gained exposure to information-heavy, structurally complex websites. I primarily work in Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator. Additional duties I've handled along the way include video editing for the web, creating wireframes and photography.
United States Marine Corps
Corporal, Honerable Discharge
September 5, 2001 - September 4, 2005
As a Corporal, I managed a team of Marines in the workplace and had constant customer relation interaction that involved building rapport with the Marines and Sailors in my areas of responsibility. It was in this role that I developed strong leadership skills, as well as loyalty to and from my team and leaders.
Education
Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University
BFA, Art - Visual Communication Design
May 19, 2009
I transferred to Virginia Tech after spending 2 years at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, VA. I graduated with a 3.71 GPA.
Many classes I took along the way proved influential, such as:
User Experience for the Web
Typography
Time Based Media
Exhibition Design and Display
And a class in my favorite Art History period, Baroque.
Activities & Societies:
Phi Kappa Phi National Honor Society
The National Scholars Honor Society
Published Photography
Body Type: Intimate Messages Etched in Flesh
Saltz, Ina. Body Type 2: More Typographic Tattoos. Abrams Image, 2010.
PUSH PSDS Tattoo (Cover Picture)
I <3 Helvetica Tattoo
Country Living Magazine
Rudi Portrait, February 2009, Volume 32, Number 2, Page 72
Professional Organizations
AIGA
Recognition
West Virginia Flash Animation Festival
April 15, 2008
Runner Up, Dramatic Short Category
Volunteer
Reap South, Peru
May 1, 2006 - July 1, 2006
Developing countries and social justice are always on my heart. I lived in a tiny village in Peru called Huancapi, in the region of Ayacucho. I was with two other people, my age, offering emotional or occupational support to the devastated villages in that area.
Young Life
Volunteer Leader
May 1, 2002 - December 1, 2003
While volunteering for Young Life, I designed weekly fliers for meetings and tshirts for various events.
Clearances
DoD Secret Security Clearance
February 28, 2005 - Current
DoNCAF
Recommendations
Joe Nice
Dubstep Ambassador “Glenn -- he's different. He's got game. He's good at what he does and others know it.”
Jim Vogt
Director of User Experience, NewCity “Glenn is a conscientious designer who takes his craft seriously. He was one of my students at VT as well as an intern at New City while I was there, and in both cases he did great work with enthusiasm.”
Truman Capone
Director, School of Visual Arts and Professor of Visual Communication Design, Virginia Tech “Glenn is an exceptional and talented Visual Communication Designer with specialties in Interactive and Web Design and is also proficient with Print Design as well. Glenn also excels in creative thinking and critical thinking abilities with a great amplitude for design and concept design. Glenn is also a collaborator and innovator especially when working with other team members. I have personally witnessed his creative and design work on large web design projects that I am sure are Award worthy. Please feel free to contact me for further information and or endorsements. T.Truman Capone Director of the School of Visual Arts SOVA Full Professor in Visual Communication Design Virginia Tech”
David Poteet
President, NewCity “Glenn is very hard working and motivated to grow. He's got the work ethic of an ex-marine, and the creativity of, well, someone who would tattoo "I <3 HELVETICA" on his back. Just don't ask him to take you off-roading in his Rubicon.”
Jeff Hipp
Senior Designer, NewCity “Glenn works well within deadlines, has a good sense of design, explores to find options not thought of, and is an all-around good guy.”
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