Kevan J. Atteberry                                                                                                                                    Résumé
PO Box 40188
Bellevue, WA 98015-4188
206/550-6353
kevan@oddisgood.com
www.oddisgood.com

What I do
I design.  I illustrate.  I animate.  For print and online.

What I do it with
I use and excel at all the primary graphic design, illustration and paint software, including Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe InDesign, Adobe Flash, Adobe Captivate, Corel Painter. I also have a working knowledge of Microsoft Office.
                 
Who I've done it for
11/06 – 10/09 Microsoft (contracting through Volt and Entirenet) 
•  Designed and created content for e-learning curriculum for internal programs including interactive Flash animations.
04/05 - 07/06 Smilebox.com 
•  Designed Flash animated interactive greetings and interfaces.
•  Designed marketing and collateral materials for the company and tradeshows.                 

12/01 - 04/05 Self employed 
•  Created branding, packaging, marketing and collateral pieces for a variety of companies and consumer products.
•  Editorial illustrations for various publications and the greeting industry.
•  Creation and maintenance of websites (i.e.  www.picturebookartists.org)
•  Created GUI for 8 video slot machines, including identities and animated spinner icons.
•  Created GUI backgrounds, personal tiles and emoticons for use in MSN Messenger.
•  Created animated interactive online/CD delivered instructional material for software.
                 
03/00 - 12/01   Giant Campus
•  Content creation for Instructional Design -  Online/CD delivered curriculum
•  GUI and Character Design and Animation
•  Flash interactions.  
•  Marketing materials  - ads, promotional items, trade show displays, etc.
                 
1982 - 03/00   Aardvark Illustration and Graphics
•  Self-owned design company. .
•  Designed and/or illustrated consumer packaging, books, collateral materials, online animations and interactions, menus, POP displays, trade show displays, toy designs, internal corporate communications, advertisements, brochures, magazines, etc.
•  Developed budgeting, contracted external services and worked directly with clients. 
•  Clients include Amazon.com; American Greetings; Chasley, Inc.; Cricket Magazine Group; Cucina! Cucina! Inc.; Hands of the Hills; Henry Holt; Holiday.com; Innovative Kids; KCTS; Marshall Cavendish; Microsoft; Oracle; PACCAR; Portal Communications; Recycled Greetings; Renaissance Greetings; Schwartz Brothers Restaurants; SeaKayaker Magazine; Sierra Vivendi Universal;  Skippers Inc; SpaceLabs; Tacoma/Pierce County Dept. of Hazardous Waste; TVI Inc (Savers Inc); The University of Washington; Weyerhaeuser; The Wright Group

08/93 - 12/95   Microsoft - Full time contractual support (vendor)
•  Was on the team that created Microsoft Bob.  Did character design, development and animation.  GUI design.
•  Developed characters for Microsoft Office.  Designed and developed the default character "Clippy".

1997 - 2000  odd is good
•  Owned this small greeting card company producing a successful line of greeting cards and stationery products. I wrote and illustrated the cards as well as designing the line and all the promotional materials and show booth.
•  Had a booth in the National Stationery show in New York for four years. Each year generating greater sales than the year before.
•  Developed a rep network and distributorships that sold the cards throughout North America. Eventually developed some licensing arrangements with larger card manufacturers.
•  Eventually moved completely to licensing my designs and images.

Notable
•  Illustrator of several children’s books, including FRANKIE STEIN, the 2008 Children’s Book Council, Children’s Choice Book of the Year (K-2)
•  Featured in chapters of the Adobe Illustrator 10 WOW! Book, the Illustrator CS2 WOW! Book, the Illustrator CS3 WOW! Book  and the Illustrator CS4 WOW! Book  on different Illustrator techniques. 

References available upon request.