Tim Woods's VisualCV - Graphic Designer/Producer

VisualCV URL: http://www.visualcv.com/timwoods

Graphic Designer/Producer

Tim Woods
11951 Freedom Drive Suite 1300 Reston, VA 20109

You’re looking at my new VisualCV. We’ve reinvented the resume here at VisualCV.com and will soon revolutionize career management. Read more about our company, the benefits and great uses for your own VisualCVs, and once you’ve reviewed my VisualCV — get started creating your own. Or you can register your business for a Company VisualCV. Have fun, and let me know what you think…

VisualCV allows professionals to create an online professional profile that replaces the traditional resume. Available to both professionals and companies, VisualCV revolutionizes how these groups share and organize career information. Your information is completely private and you control access to your VisualCVs. Top companies around the country are currently signing up to start receiving VisualCVs in lieu of the traditional Word resume. Companies are also creating VisualCVs to exhibit and share information regarding their culture, job opportunities, career potential and more.

VisualCVs, for professionals, can serve different purposes when sharing with friends, colleagues, clients, prospects, the Internet, and Recruiters or Companies. Based on your preferences, each version features a unique collection of portfolio items, plus exclusive privacy settings based on your preferences.

Professionals have the option to share a unique URL as a "live" Internet document that includes portfolio items such as work history and samples, salary information, awards, references, certifications, videos/photos and more. VisualCVs also include informative pop-ups, hovering over companies, universities and keywords – eliminating research for you and your reader. Sharing a VisualCV makes every meeting more effective and every relationship a better fit.

Registration for professionals and companies is easy and free. Get started today!

Tim is VisualCV’s lead Graphic Designer and Producer and is responsible for our corporate “look and feel”, application interface enhancements, and ensuring quality and consistency in marketing communications. A veteran “Silicon Valley East” (DC metro area) designer, Tim brings more than 25 years of art direction, creative services, design and production experience to the VisualCV team. Tim came to VisualCV from an amazing seven-years in Corporate Marketing and Product Development at webMethods (now SoftwareAG). He strives for a tasteful yet usable balance of what he calls “eye-candy and pixie dust.”

Family, friends and colleagues consider Tim a “renaissance man” of many passions. But when his love of automobiles and design converge – magic happens. He has designed several custom automobiles for other builders; builds and races his own specialty cars; developed a highly effective marketing communications system for a major motorsports business and marketed his original limited edition automotive art prints.

Another of Tim’s many passions is music. He recently designed the CD cover, concert poster and website for singer-songwriter Mary Ann Redmond’s latest release “Send the Moon”. He is also a proud supporter and member of the Music Advisory Board for WPER 89.9FM (www.positivehits.org), a local contemporary Christian radio station.

Friends and family – Sue and our children
Outdoors and travel
Music
~ Eclectic
~ Rockabilly
~ Blues, Jazz, Soul, Classical
Stephen Covey
Viktor Frankl
Louis Chevrolet
Zora Arkus Duntov
Royce Miller
Henry Ford
Drag racing, NASCAR, car shows

"The key to creating passion in your life is to find your unique talents and your special role and purpose in the world."

~ Stephen R. Covey ~

Workshops and Seminars

Jan 1980 - Jan 2006

Independent Training and Seminars

Extended studies under Dr. Edward Tufte (Yale University graphic communications professor) seminars based on his book The Visual Display of Quantitative Information . Participated in various business and design workshops by; Adobe, MarketingSherpa, Newspaper Designers Association, Apple Computer, Art Director s Club of Greater Washington DC, Allaire, MacroMedia, Association of Proposal Management Professionals, Pragmatic Marketing, webMethods Neurons in Excess University and Fig Leaf Consulting.

Northern Virginia Community College - Alexandria Campus

Jun 1979 - May 1984

Alexandria, VA

AA, Advertising Design

Intensified-study curriculum; immersion in graphic design, typography, illustration, history of design. Instruction in real-world scenarios taught by working professionals in the art and design field.

Corcoran College of Art + Design

Aug 1981 - May 1982

Washington, DC

Graphic Design & Photography

Graphic design and photography; seminar and project; participation in the "Real Show", juried competition and gala exhibition sponsored by the Art Director's Club of Metropolitan Washington and held at the Corcoran Galleries College of Art + Design.

Adobe Photoshop

(Rockstar)
10+ Years Experience, ( Last Used <1 year ago )

Expertise developed over many years, have been using Photoshop since version 1.0.

Adobe Flash

(Rockstar)
5-6 Years Experience, ( Last Used <1 year ago )

Dreamweaver, Homesite, HTML Editors

(Expert)
10+ Years Experience, ( Last Used <1 year ago )

Microsoft PowerPoint

(Rockstar)
10+ Years Experience, ( Last Used <1 year ago )

"Nostalgia Coupe Under Suede"
Illustration (limited edition print) featured in Hot Rod Magazine Automotive Art Issue, March, 1998.

VisualCV Iconography
Icon set (partial) designed for VisualCV.com, January, 2008.

1929 Chevrolet Hot Rod Coupe
When not wielding a mouse for VisualCV, Tim designs, fabricates, restores and races antique, classic and custom cars. The Coupe is the latest installment in a lifelong series of special project cars.

Speed and Precision
An avid participant in many forms of racing (NASCAR, Drags, Shows), Tim has been involved in motosports since an early age and he's older than dirt!