DAVID PETERS
12C San Miguel Drive, St. Charles, MO  63303 • 314-323-7776
davidpeters@att.net

Summary of Qualifications

• Web designer and graphic artist
• Illustrator – traditional media or digital, retouching
• Copywriter – ads, promos, sales collateral, manuals, web sites, blogs, books
• Photographer – videographer and editor
• Storyboards and animation, including instructional learning
• Direct marketing, retail, B2B, manufacturing and book publishing
• Proficient in Microsoft Office, Adobe CS4 Suite software
• Google Adwords and various other SEO market tracking tools

Professional Skills

• Research – books, academic publications
• Creative writing guided by the user experience and the demands of the market
• Illustrations and 3D solutions to match the situation, quick and loose or precise
• Idea generator
• Interacts well with employees, managers and clients

Employment History 2000 to present

• Web and Graphic Designer, Masterclock, Inc., St. Charles, MO
• Director of Promotions, Applied Scholastics, Inc., St. Louis, MO
• Art Director, Home Advertising, St. Louis, MO
• Staff Freelance Art Director, Maritz Motivation Co., Learning Div., Fenton, MO
• Senior Art Director, Kupper Parker Communications, Clayton, MO
• Senior Art Director, DIMAC Direct Corp., Bridgeton, MO

Education

Bachelor of Journalism, advertising major, University of Missouri – Columbia

Awards and Honors

Newsweek and The New York Times cited one of my books as one of the ten best books for children, Christmas 1986. Other books and calendars were featured in People, The New Yorker and The St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

Science

Author/illustrator of peer-reviewed academic papers published in Science, Nature, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia, Ichnos and Historical Biology.