Resume - Jeff Swarts
740-599-6516
email: swarts@ecr.net

 

Jeffrey M. Swarts
308 South Cedar Street
P.O. Box 289
Danville, OH 43014-0289

 

Phone: 740-599-6516


Email: swarts@ecr.net
Web: http//www.swartsart.com

 

Summary:

 

I have thirty years of experience in communications and industrial marketing, design and illustration, combined with high level analytical, verbal and aesthetic sensibilities. Software expertise includes Microsoft Office applications, Mechanical Desktop, AutoCAD, Pagemaker, Illustrator, Photoshop, Acrobat and Pagemill. Operating system expertise includes IBM and Macintosh computers in a LAN environment.


Work Experience:


9/77 - Present
SwartsART, Creative Services including Communications, Design and Illustration for Engineering, Marketing, Publishing and Training Applications

 

Technical & Instructional Illustration:


Advertising quality technical illustration is hard to come by. Engineers create complex mechanical or electrical designs, but in their original form they are often overly complex, obscuring as much as they reveal. The lay person has trouble translating most design drawings into a clear mental image of the equipment. I've illustrated everything from office furniture to gas turbines, using reference that varies from a napkin scribbled with a new design to highly complex 3D geometry derived on a high-end CAD system. I can provide the highest quality content analysis, 3D visualization and draftsmanship available, regardless of the reference provided.

Client list has included:

• Business Systems Consulting, Rochester Hills, MI
• Scientific American Showcase Magazine, Boston, MA
• Spin Magazine, New York, NY
• BASF Corporation, Wyandotte, MI
• Hoover Materials Handling, Inc., Fairhope, AL
• Digital Video Magazine, Miller Freeman, San Mateo, CA
• Penton Media, Cleveland, OH
• Disney Adventures Magazine, New York, NY
• Prentice Hall Publishing, Columbus, OH
• Shreve Printing, Shreve, OH
• Mantaline Corporation, Mantua, OH
• Ariel Corporation, Mt. Vernon, OH
• Rolls-Royce, Mt. Vernon, OH
• Cooper Rolls, Inc., Mt. Vernon, OH
• Cooper-Bessemer Reciprocating Products Division, Grove City, PA
• Cooper-Bessemer Rotating Products Division, Mt. Vernon, OH
• Cooper Energy Services Training Department, Mt. Vernon, OH
• Cooper Wiring Devices, Long Island, NY
• The Hoover Company, North Canton, OH
• SMT Design & Associates, Inc., Ellsworth, OH
• Packard Electric, Warren, OH
• Time-Life Books, Inc., Alexandria, VA

 

7/87 - 11/91
Marketing Coordinator, Marketing – Commercial Services Coordinator, Cooper Rolls, Inc., Mt. Vernon, OH. Cooper Rolls, a joint venture between Cooper Industries and Rolls-Royce, manufactures the Coberra line of industrial gas turbines.


• Managerial advisor concerning strategies and techniques available to enhance the professional image of Cooper Rolls in the marketplace. These constituted a variety of strategic and ad hoc initiatives including a market stimulating advertising program to the former Soviet Union that later resulted in significant gas turbine compressor sales to Russia.
• Advertising agency, trade publication and commercial services vendor liaison including budget administration. Customer inquiries more than doubled during my tenure.

• Brochure, document and presentation production using Pagemaker and Interleaf desktop publishing software. These included the productions of a wide variety of marketing and technical publications.
• Draft technical and marketing literature for use with trade publications, brochures and proposals. Projects included the Power Generation and Mechanical Drive applications brochures, product data sheets, annual production of the Gas Turbine Users Association technical Q&A brochure and editorial support projects. These included product and contract news releases and major articles for publication in trade journals like
Turbomachinery International and Gas Turbine World.
• Exhibition design, layout and participation as required in support of a worldwide trade show program with an annual budget approaching $500,000. Major annual trade show projects included the ASME Gas Turbine Conference. A booth design in 1989, with a budget of $70,000, won first place for exhibit design at the Toronto conference.
• Liaise with parent companies, sales offices and other departments to prepare, analyze and maintain company and competitive product information. This data was maintained in a PC database and used in conjunction with executive analyses to develop the annual company forecast and marketing budget, along with a variety of rotating equipment installation brochures.
• Production of mechanical and electrical proposal drawings and infographics using AutoCAD and Interleaf software. Conceptual layout drawings were produced in support of multimillion-dollar gas turbine project proposals. Major contract awards included a multiple unit oil pipeline project for Saudi Aramco valued at $173 Million. It was the largest contract in company history.


1/85 - 7/87
Illustrator, Penton Media, Inc., Cleveland, OH. Penton publishes a diverse range of technical, trade and commercial magazines. Lead illustrator for the internationally recognized "Machine Design" magazine.


• Design and execution of illustrations in various media, styles and techniques.
• Cover illustrations for "Contracting Business", "Heating, Piping and Air Conditioning", "Foundry", "Restaurant Hospitality", "Machine Design", "Modern Office Technology”, "Power Transmission Design", and "Materials Engineering.”
• Preparation of promotional, advertising, editorial and typographic illustrations.
• Editorial illustration credits include “Machine Design”, “Power Transmission Design”, “Material Handling and Shipping”, “Computer-Aided Engineering”, “Materials Engineering”, “Modern Office Technology”, “Welding Design and Fabrication”, “Hydraulics and Pneumatics”, “Precision Metal”, “Foundry”, “Contracting Business”, “Heating, Piping and Air Conditioning”, and “School Product News”.


 

4/83 - 12/83
Contract Illustrator, TAD Technical Services Corporation, Cleveland, OH. Assigned to G.F. Furniture Systems, Youngstown, Ohio.


• Execution of exploded-view drawings of office furniture from engineering drawings and models.


10/79 - 3/83
Exhibit Preparator, John Taylor Arms Collection, Frick Art Museum, The College of Wooster, Wooster, OH.

• Organization and execution of conservation and matting procedures.
• Acquisition of materials.
• Exhibit preparation and installation.
• Documentation of art work condition and conservation priorities.
• Collection database maintenance.

 

9/77 - 10/78
Illustrator, Arlington, Virginia.

• Preparation of tight pencil drawings for "Home-Repair Series", Time-Life Books, Inc.

 

Awards:


• 1978 - Time-Life Books – Advanced Wiring – National Safety Award
• 1979 - Wooster Invitational – First Place Graphics
• 1989 - American Society of Mechanical Engineers – Booth Design
• 1995 - Art Directors Club of Cincinnati – Bronze Award for Illustration of GMVH Engine


Education:

 

I was classically educated in the Arts and Sciences.


 

9/80 - 12/80
Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, N.Y., M.F.A. Program.


• Credits in Drawing, Painting and Human Anatomy


 

7/80 - 9/80
Rosary College, Florence, Italy.


• Villa Schifanoia Italian language seminar.


 

7/71 - 3/76
The College of Wooster, Wooster, Ohio.


• BA in Fine Art. Drawing, Painting, Ceramics, Art History
• Minors in Chemistry (Introduction, Organic & Biochemistry) & Biology (Introduction, Cell, Biochemistry, Animal Physiology, Biological Oceanography).
• Italian – 1-year


 

9/73 - 6/74
Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon.


• Concentrated on Oceanography and other natural sciences, including Physics, Biology, Anthropology, Architecture and Calculus.


 

9/67-6/71
Copley High School, Akron, OH


• College Prep in Math and Science
• French – 4-years