JereCo - Resume of Jeremy Kumin, owner of JereCo

Jeremy Kumin 4920 Foxlair Trail · Richmond Hts., OH 44143 Tel: 216-509-0876 (cell) · 216-382-5659 (home) email: jkumin@jereco.com
Summary:	Outstanding Graphics Designer with 15+ years' experience in creating, designing, developing and producing superior collateral materials for business and industry. Development, optimization and deployment of multiple award winning graphic content for the Internet. Web Designer for the Internet’s #1 motorcycle-related website, MotorcycleWorld.com, a site which averaged over 1.5 million page hits per day. Member of the HTML Writer’s Guild and International Webmasters Association. Exceptional multimedia conceptualization and development with 3D applications, including materials featured in CorelDraw 6 Unleashed by MacMillan Publishing. Recent 3-D animation project for Ridgid Tool Company was an ITVA (International Television and Video Association) Silver Award winner. Creator of on-target and attention-grabbing copywriting with strong technical writing background.
Experience
7/01 to Present	FEMC, Bedford Heights, OH Marketing and Communications Coordinator. FEMC is a multi-million dollar manufacturer of high-speed packaging equipment whose international customers are among the world's largest and best known. Formerly known as Food Equipment Manufacturing Corporation, this is the same company that I worked for from 8/86 to 1/90. Reponsible for design, layout and placement of all media communications. Coordinate tradeshow presence. Provide point of contact and interface with clients on large projects. Graphic Design and Technical Writing support for all facets of company. Video editing and multimedia scripting in support of FEMC's online presence and interactive catalog. Webmaster of the FEMC-Online website. Accomplishments Since arriving in August of 2001 and suffering through the horrible 4th Quarter economic environment caused by the events of 9-11-01, FEMC has seen a tremendous turnaround in 2002. FEMC eclipsed total sales for 2001 in the first three months of 2002 and we look forward to a banner year in which gross sales for 2002 should more than triple that of 2001. While I cannot claim personal responsibility for the increase in sales, I would like to propose that I, at least, had a part. What I can claim is that our media placements and targeted promotional campaigns have increased client inquiries and website traffic at levels mirroring the increase in sales.
7/00 – 6/01	MotorcycleWorld.com Web designer of the Internet’s #1 rated motorcycle site (as rated by PC-Data Online, January 2001). Consistently ranked in the top 2500 for overall site traffic with more than 1,500,000 hits (on average) per day. MotorcycleWorld.com, unfortunately like so many dot-coms, suspended normal operations on June 1^st, 2001 (although the site continues to exist in a scaled back form). My duties included, but were not limited to: Primary responsibility for the visual appearance of the site, including production of all graphic elements Development and production of layout for Dealer and association sites implemented in more than 20 cases. Examples are available to view online at http://www.jereco.com/mcw/websites/ Filled a support role in content management for the site. This often involved story creation, editing of submitted stories or correction of formatting and grammatical errors. Production of numerous advertising and collateral materials for marketing department, including print media and animated Internet banner advertisements in all standard sizes Wrote copy for several successful marketing campaigns, including “One Wild Ride” and “Born to be Browsed” Designed, wrote, edited and deployed bimonthly e-mail newsletter which typically resulted in a 30-40% spike in website traffic in the immediate days surrounding delivery. Subscriptions to the newsletter rose from 25,000 subscribers to nearly 100,000 in the four months in which the newsletter ran. Voluntary implementation of website analysis reporting based on information provided by Webtrends. These reports were used to fine tune the type and amount of information presented to visitors. Provided demographic analysis used in developing sales and marketing tools to promote advertising sales. Provided editorial support after operational cutbacks in March, 2001 resulted in the loss of our full-time editor
1/93 - Present	JereCo (www.jereco.com). Solo Practitioner specializing in web mastering, Graphic Layout and Design and 3D Modeling/Visualization. Produced award winning graphic content displayed at www.jereco.com Webmaster of numerous URLs, including but not limited to: http://www.rugtime.com (Rugtime, Inc.) http://www.williamwolf.com (Willliam Wolf & Co.) http://www.steritec.com (SteriTec - Ohio) http://www.visn.net/~circle/ (Workmen's Circle of Ohio) http://www.ntruddock.com (N.T. Ruddock) http://www.primenationalsteel.com (Prime National Steel Corp.) http://www.femc.com (FEMC) http://www.wholelifedentistry.com (Drs. Streem, Resnick, Tetelman and Young, D.D.S.) http://www.smilesinbloom.com (Dr. Stephen Bloom, D.D.S.) http://www.clebschstrap.com (The Clebsch Strap) http://www.joecorriea.com/store (Joe Corriea Photography Storefront) 4 Month contract 11/97 - 3/98 to promote laptop and Internet sales through feature advertising in nationally distributed magazines such as Mobile Computing and Communications, Laptop Buyers Guide, Portable Computing Direct Shopper and the Computer Shopper. Responsible for conceptualization, copywriting, graphic content, layout and subsequent output to film. This campaign resulted in a 60% increase in reader responses. Designed and produced 15 second 3D animated television commercial for Vision Net Internet Services. The commercial ran more than 30 times on WKYC TV (Cleveland's NBC affiliate). Designed 4-color brochure for NR Future Production, Inc. and Cleveland Metroparks Zoo promoting the Summer Breeze Concert Series. Produced 4 color corporate ID set for Next Generation Systems including 15 second animated trade show loop which I conceived, modeled, animated, scored and produced Visualized, formalized and finalized product label sets for Castle Mountain Water and Stone Mountain Water Developed corporate ID set for Vision Net, an Internet service provider, including creating all graphic content for their website and several brochures and cutsheets used in their advertising Worked closely with numerous Mac based and PC based service bureaus to produce film, printed materials and video. 3D Modeling and animation work featured prominently in CorelDraw! 6 Unleashed by MacMillan Publishing. 3D Modeling and animation work featured prominently in recent trade video created for Ridgid Tool Corporation. The entire video, of which this animation work was an integral part, was granted an Award of Excellence (AIME) by the International Television and Video Association (ITVA) Recent Clients include: The City of Cleveland, Ohio, Cleveland Hopkins International Airport, Stanley Air Tools (a division of Stanley Works), Ralph C. Tyler Co., Cleveland Metroparks Zoo, The Cleveland Fine Arts Expo, Vision Net, Time-Warner Cable, Mix 106.5, N.R. Future Production, Ridgid Tool Corporation, The Workmen's Circle of Ohio and Cleveland Small Business Council.
10/92 - 11/97	Charter One Bank, F.S.B. Supervisor, Direct Mail Marketing Services for $19B Financial Institution (1/95 - 11/97). Sourced, purchased, seeded and maintained $750,000 Pinnacle 2000 database marketing system. Interfaced with and outsourced mailing houses and Direct Mail Services such as Eco-Centers, Harland, and Fusion Marketing. Complete visual retooling and the subsequent maintaining of Charter One's website Scripted, visually defined, programmed and deployed the multimedia and interactive content for (2) kiosk-based "Virtual Banks" currently in use at Tower City Center Technical Writer - Operations Department (10/92 - 12/94). Full charge responsibility for research, layout and writing of a 1,000 page user manual for the Teller & Mortgage Loan Systems Created and maintained automated document tracking system in Lotus Approach and Borland Paradox.

1/90 - 9/92	Magic American Corporation. Marketing Services Support for $11M manufacturer of home cleaning and specialty products Generated sales materials promoting specials and seasonal purchases to retailers Wrote product label copy for 2 complete product lines (Earth-Rite and It's Out!). Assisted in the compiling of research data and developed Visualizations used in the promotional materials used to roll-out the It's Out! product line to retailers Administered and expanded company's EDI capabilities including, Paradox PAL programming of automated links to merge EDI data with an external manufacturing database.
1/87 - 1/88	The Security Station. Sales and Training Manager. Responsible for all sales of residential and commercial security and fire alarm systems Scheduled all installation and service crews Conducted end-user training Promoted sales through enhanced and value-added relationships with builders and designers.
8/86 - 1/90	Food Equipment Manufacturing Corp. Assistant to Vice Presidents of Operations and Marketing for $6M manufacturer of customized high speed food production & packaging equipment. Created, graphically designed and wrote technical copy for all customer received training and instructional materials Storyboarded, scripted, sourced, produced and edited 30 modular videos describing all of FEMC's equipment. These modules were then assembled/edited into customized sales videos sent to the likes of Stouffer's, Nestle's, Kelloggs, etc., along with quotes for individualized systems Designed, laid-out, wrote copy for and produced engineering drawings for 4-page, full-color brochure used to introduce and explain Vacuum Gas-Flush Heat Sealing equipment to the world Sourced, purchased and administered 10-node Novell network Investigated, sourced new vendors for, and introduced new computer technologies throughout the plant Assisted in the Assembly Language hardcoding of a proprietary materials management and manufacturing system developed in-house Took in-house video footage of new equipment developed and built by FEMC
Education:	2-years college from University of Chicago, Kent State University and equivalence training via the United States Navy. Primary Course of Study: Business Administration.
Memberships:	HTML Writer’s Guild International Webmasters Association
Military:	Yeoman, United States Navy (7/82 - 6/86). Rank upon release from Active Duty: Petty Officer Third Class (E-4). Achievements: First increment advancement to rank status Awarded Navy Achievement Medal

Computer Literacy Addendum to Resume I am familiar with the setup, operation of and have utilized the following computer hardware and software:
Hardware Sheetfed Scanners Flatbed Scanners Digital Cameras Digitizing Tablets Video Conferencing Equipment Video Capture Equipment Touch screen Monitors Personal Computers Macintosh Computers Modems Inkjet Printers Laser Printers Dyesub Printers Plotters
Software
Graphics Adobe Photoshop Adobe InDesign Adobe Illustrator Quark Express CorelDraw Corel PhotoPaint CorelDream 3D Bryce 3D Ulead WebRazor Ulead PhotoImpact MacroMedia Xres Macromedia Freehand Micrografx Designer Micrografx Picture Publisher Micrografx Simply 3D Metacreations Painter 3D Metacreations Fractal Design Painter Curious Labs Poser Metacreations RayDream Studio Visual Reality Internet/HTML/Java/Shockwave/ActiveX Paperthin Compass/Common Spot Publisher (content management system) Adobe GoLive Ulead WebRazor & JavaRazor Microsoft FrontPage Macromedia Flash Macromedia Dreamweaver Emblaze Hotspots Boomerang Software Internet/Intranet Design Shop Microsoft Internet Explorer Cold Fusion Studio Astound Webmotion	Multimedia/Presentation Adobe Premiere Adobe After Effects Adobe Acrobat CorelDream 3D Ulead Media Studio MacroMedia Director Microsoft PowerPoint Lotus Freelance MacroMedia Soundforge RayDream Studio Visual Reality Desktop Publishing Corel Ventura Publisher Quark Express Adobe Pagemaker Adobe InDesign Lotus WordPro Other CadKey Intergraph Microstation Microsoft Word Microsoft Access Microsoft Excel Microsoft Visual Basic Lotus Approach Lotus 1-2-3 MicroAngelo Icon Studio Borland Paradox

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