Resume - Jeff Swarts
740-599-6516
email: swarts@ecr.net
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- Jeffrey M. Swarts
308 South Cedar Street
P.O. Box 289
Danville, OH 43014-0289
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- Phone: 740-599-6516
- Email: swarts@ecr.net
Web: http//www.swartsart.com
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- Summary:
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- 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
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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:
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- I was classically educated in the Arts and Sciences.
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- 9/80 - 12/80
Pratt Institute,
Brooklyn, N.Y., M.F.A. Program.
Credits in Drawing, Painting and Human Anatomy
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- 7/80 - 9/80
Rosary College,
Florence, Italy.
Villa Schifanoia Italian language seminar.
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- 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
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- 9/73 - 6/74
Oregon State University,
Corvallis, Oregon.
Concentrated on Oceanography and other natural sciences,
including Physics, Biology, Anthropology, Architecture and Calculus.
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- 9/67-6/71
Copley High School,
Akron, OH
College Prep in Math and Science
French 4-years
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