RésuméDave Holcomb

214-718-1304 dave@redblok.com www.redblok.com

201 E. Van Buren Avenue, Winslow AR 72959

Experience

September 2008 - Present RedBlok Creative Services, Dallas, TX/Winslow, AR Owner

Redblok is a graphic design company that I founded in 2006, along with three of my colleagues from the television industry. After the first year, my partners cashed out and I have continued the business on my own, providing web, print and broadcast design services to a number of clients nationwide. I left my position at KDAF in 2008 to design for the web full-time. For more information and samples of my work, see my website at www.redblok.com.

October 1998 - September 2008 KDAF-TV (Tribune Company) Dallas, TX Design Director

From October to December, 1998, I designed and implemented a complete graphics package for a brand-new news operation that was being launched at this station. After launch, I remained in the newsroom as Design Director, providing (with a small staff) day-to-day graphics for the news, as well as supervising on-air graphics for the station as a whole.

March 1998 - October 1998 KXAS-TV (General Electric/NBC) Fort Worth, TX Senior Designer

I provided daily graphics for three newscasts, as well as occasional print, signage, and audience promotion graphics.

March 1989 - March 1998 WDZL-TV (now WSFL, Tribune Company) Hollywood, FL Art Director

I designed and implemented on-air graphics; I also designed print materials in support of sales staff and print advertising intended for newspaper entertainment supplements and magazines such as TV Guide. In 1990 I oversaw the purchase and installation of the hardware and software necessary to move our operations from the drawing board to the computer, and I continued to direct that development over the next nine years.

April 1988 - March 1989 WTTO-TV (Sinclair Broadcasting) Birmingham, AL Art Director

I designed everything from the station's letterhead suite to billboards; I also supervised the production of on-air graphics by local production boutiques (we had no in-house production capabilities.)

November 1984 - March 1988 WBMG-TV (now WIAT, New Vision Television) Operations Assistant

I served as assistant to the Operations Manager of this CBS affiliate. My duties included coordinating programming information between the in-house programming department and the CBS affiliate liason as well as writing and designing occasional print advertisements.

May 1980 - November 1984 Self-employed Freelance Graphic Design, Birmingham, AL

During this time I designed and built sets and scenery for television and live theater; I illustrated grocery products for newspaper advertising; I executed finish art for logos and display typography (by hand); and I laid out type for print advertising (also by hand).

 

Competencies

Design software:

I am expert in Adobe Creative Suite components, especially Photoshop and Illustrator.

3D design software:

I am proficient in the Open-Source 3D design, modeling, rendering and compositing tool Blender3D.

Video compositing and effects:

I am expert in Adobe After Effects.

HTML/CSS/JS editing applications:

I am proficient in various editing apps, including PSPad, Aptana, JEdit, Notepad++ and Adobe Dreamweaver. (Note that all of the websites referenced on the RedBlok site were hand-coded in PSPad.)

Web technologies:

I am expert in (X)HTML and CSS; proficient in Flash; I also use PHP and JavaScript when I need it, although I don't consider myself expert in either. I am familiar with the peculiarities of all the major browsers, including IE6, 7 and 8, Firefox, Opera, SeaMonkey, Chrome and Safari.

Icing on the cake:

I am fluent in English and Spanish, and can manage a little tourist French and Portuguese.

Education

1976-1978Snead State Community College, Boaz, AL

1978-1980University of Alabama in Birmingham, Birmingham, AL

1989-PresentVarious college-level classes in Fort Lauderdale, FL, and Dallas, TX

Recognition

1989Regional Emmy Award (Animation)

1990Regional Emmy Award (Art Direction)

1995National Emmy Award nomination (Public Service Category - Writing)

2001Regional Emmy Award nomination (Graphics, Non-News)

Assorted Associated Press Awards (Texas), Addy Awards (South Florida), BPME/Promax Awards

References

Reference are available upon request.

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