Summary
John Villemonte - Chanhassen, MN - (952)368-9375 - www.villemonte.com

Highly-creative Media designer with many years of industry-proven experience. Successful in producing high-impact web/graphic design, interactive design, desktop publishing, creatives for web-based training/e-learning and streaming audio and video. A dedicated team player with excellent communication skills and ability to meet required deadlines. Passionate about project success and customer satisfaction.

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1) Photoshop CS3
2) Flash CS3
3) InDesign/Quark
4) Dreamweaver CS3
5) Illustrator CS3
6) PowerPoint/Articulate
7) Acrobat 8
8) Premiere Pro
9) WaveLab/SoundForge

Recent Experience:
1) Northwest Airlines - Eagan, MN – Web/Graphic/Interactive designer. 10/07 – present.
- Created and edited web pages for web-based training courses, employing javascript & HTML.
- Created and adapted interactive Flash pieces for web-based training courses, creating and modifying Actionscript.
- Adapted Flash templates for TechOps training courses.
- Recorded and produced online audio for TechOps training courses.

2) Xerox – Bloomington, MN – Graphic/E-Learning designer. 1/07 – 10/07.
- Created online “Graphic Standards Manual” – an online E-Learning reference guide for image standards.
- Re-designed Vanguard Car Rental’s operating standards reference manual (Blueprint).
- Maintained DocuShare (Xerox content management system) for Vanguard's Canadian division.
- Created banner & icon graphics for DocuShare.
- Designed graphic job aids to help Vanguard employees learn various tasks more easily.
- Administrator for Vanguard Canada's “IntelliResponse” (online help resource).

3) EDS – Edina, MN – Graphic/Web/E-learning designer. 2/05 – 12/06.
- Maintained intranet site for Vanguard Car Canada, employing javascript, CSS & HTML.
- Created 4 autorun training CDs for new Vanguard employees, employing HTML.
- Created splash, cover page & button graphics for over 25 online manuals.
- Revised Vanguard’s operating standards reference manual (Blueprint).

4) Thomson-West/Findlaw – Eagan, MN – Web designer. 3/04 -11/04.
- Designed 6 new templates for client websites.
- Re-purposed over 25 existing templates for client websites.

5) Miracle Ear – Plymouth, MN – E-learning designer. 5/04 - 4/05.
- Converted 4 hard-copy training manuals to online e-learning manuals: formatted text and graphic content to HTML, adding graphics and designing 9 Flash movies for the intro pages.

6) BI – Eden Prairie, MN – Interactive designer. 12/01-9/02.
- Created over 75 Flash movies for Web-based training for large national retailer.
- Adapted ActionScript in Flash interactive templates.

7) Retek – Mpls., MN – Web/Graphic designer. 3/00-7/01.
- Designed page layout, animations & graphic elements for www.retek.com website.
- Designed marketing newsletters & 6 PowerPoint presentations for the Marketing Dept.

8) Microsoft – Mpls., MN – Design Lead. Design Specialist. 4/98-3/00.
- Created 100’s of high quality web advertisements (banner & tile ads) for businesses on Microsoft’s Twin Cities Sidewalk web site (since sold to City Search).
- Managed our Twin Cities Production Dept. - ranked in the TOP 5 sites nationally.

Minnesota Institute of Technologies - Edina, MN 2004.
- Advanced Computer training - Illustrator, Flash & HTML.