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Christopher Fabbro Smith

mobile  510.495.4248
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location  S.F. Bay Area, USA

Work History

Presentation Artist (Major U.S. Investment Bank)

Contractor: Apr 2005-Present (San Francisco)

Assisted investment bankers in preparing and editing presentations for deals in a high-pressure, client-driven atmosphere. Also called upon to design artwork for roadshow templates and pitch book covers. Tools: PowerPoint, Word, Excel, Photoshop, Illustrator, QuarkXPress, Acrobat.

Trainer, PowerPoint & Word Exam (Visuals/PC Personnel)

Freelance: Aug 2005, Mar 2006 (San Francisco)

Designed thorough PowerPoint and Word exams for Visuals/PC Personnel Staffing to test prospective job candidates. PowerPoint exam assessed intermediate to advanced PowerPoint ability, including charts, tables, graphics, video and animation. Word exam tested advanced ability in styles, headers/footers, section breaks, mail merge, table of contents and tracked changes. Tools: PowerPoint, Word, Photoshop, Flash, Premiere, Acrobat.

Video/Motion Graphics Editor, “Zombo” et al. DV short films

Freelance: Aug 2003-Mar 2006 (San Francisco, New York City)

Supervised all post-production aspects of DV short films “Zombo,” “JPMorgan 2005 Xmas Party,” “Brain Robbers,” “Super 8 Project,” and others, including video editing, visual effects, motion graphics, color correction, audio processing and editing. Tools: Premiere, After Effects, Photoshop, Sound Forge, Illustrator, CorelDraw, Encore DVD, Acid, Audition.

Video Editor/PowerPoint Animator, “2005 Pebble Beach Conference”

Freelance: Sep 2005 (San Francisco)

Authored PowerPoint presentation for a JPMorgan-sponsored conference for tech industry CEOs. Incorporated numerous DVD clips from movies, as well as dozens of photo and text animations. Also edited and mixed synchronized audio. Tools: PowerPoint, Premiere, custom DVD ripping tools, Audition, Photoshop.

Desktop Publishing Operator (CIBC World Markets)

Sep 2002–Feb 2005 (New York City)

Designed presentations for bank deals worth hundreds of millions of dollars CIBC World Markets investment bank. Duties included preparing full-bleed documents and posters for print, retouching and manipulating photos, recreating logos in illustration programs, and training and testing new operators. Tools: Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Photoshop, CorelDraw, Illustrator, QuarkXPress, Acrobat.

Graphic Designer (Barbara Sher Workshops)

Freelance: Jan 2002–Dec 2004 (New York City)

Designed workshop tickets for self-help author Barbara Sher which were resold by national PBS stations for fundraising. Tools: Illustrator.

Previous/Other Positions Held:

1995-2005 (New York City, San Francisco, Germany)

Other positions: Editor/Proofreader (Duarte Design, Mountain View), Form Designer (Drisha Institute for Jewish Education), Presentation Specialist (Morgan Stanley), Word Processing/Database Specialist (Citicorp Securities, Inc.), Operations Officer/Executive Officer (United States Army Transportation Corps, 1st TMCA, Kaiserslautern GE)

 

Education / Training

The University of Virginia, BA, Foreign Affairs
Former Commissioned Officer, U.S. Army Reserve
Certified PowerPoint Microsoft Office Specialist (2005)
Vista College (Berkeley), 3D Illustration & Animation (2005)

 

Skills

20+ years computer experience

  • animation/multimedia Premiere, After Effects, Flash, Final Cut Pro, Sound Forge, Acid, Audition, Curious gFx, some Commotion and Combustion experience, Encore DVD, DVD-Lab, familiar with video and audio compression formats

  • ms office expert PowerPoint, Word, Excel, Outlook, Access, basic VBA

  • graphics Photoshop, Illustrator, CorelDraw, Freehand
  • 3D Cinema 4D, some Maya experience
  • publishing QuarkXPress, InDesign, Acrobat
  • web Dreamweaver, Flash, FrontPage, HTML, CSS some PHP/MySQL
  • other Extensive PC hardware and Win2K/XP networking experience, professional and prosumer DV hardware experience, field lighting and audio experience