J. Shea Stanley

Illustration • Design

Resume

Education

Savanah College of Art and Design – MFA in Animation 2020

University of Southern Indiana – B.A in Art 1994

Ivy Tech State College – A.S. in Computer Science 2010

Professional Experience

Instructor in Art (Adjunct) • Jan. 2020 – Present

Kentuck Weslyan College

  • Teach classes in graphic design and digital illustration

Instructor in Graphic Design (Contract) • Aug. 2015 – May 2017, Aug. 2018 – May 2019

University of Southern Indiana

  • Taught classes in graphic design, advanced web design, narrative illustration, illustration (traditional and digital)
  • Assisted with Art Club student organization
  • Assisted with art department tours with potential graphic design students

Instructor in Graphic Design (Adjunct) • Aug. 2017 – Present

University of Southern Indiana

  • Teach classes in graphic design, illustration (traditional and digital), narrative illustration

User Experience Designer/Marketing Lead • Aug. 2010 – Aug. 2015

IWT Solutions

  • Created and developed the position of User Experience Designer
  • Developed and implemented design standards to unify visual branding of all software products
  • Researched UX best practices and collaborated with clients on UX design for specific use cases
  • Designed interface and interactions for nursing documentation software, nutrition tracking software, patient bed tracking software, electronic patient whiteboard, blood glucose monitoring software
  • Redesigned company’s legacy software UX for mobile devices
  • Provided quality assurance and testing of UX for all software applications
  • Conceived and designed marketing collateral
  • Conceived and designed all branding for all company products
  • Designed and illustrated all in-application graphics, eliminating company’s reliance on clip-art
  • Designed trade show booth and collateral for national and regional healthcare trade shows
  • Attended trade shows as software development team representative
  • Assisted in interview process for software developer hires and offered input and recommendations

Graphic Design/Knit Product Development Director • Feb. 2004 – Sep. 2008

Sights Denim Systems

  • Lead a 2-3 person team in developing industry leading solutions in screen-print product development and production, creating new techniques in screen-printing for fashion industry. Clients included: Levis, Polo Ralph Lauren, Ralph Lauren RRL, Paper Denim & Cloth, The Gap, American Rag, Kenny Chesney, Rogan NYC, Edun, Taavo Somer, Earnest Sewn
  • Collaborated with chemist/wash master for development of new laundering/print techniques for knit products
  • Created illustrations and graphics as needed for clients
  • Collaborated with client design directors to create branding and miscellaneous marketing ephemera for new products
  • Assisted international partner Union Cotonnière/UCO Denim India with design direction on corporate re-branding
  • Worked with start-up fashion brands to design and implement their brand identity
  • Supervised 3-7 person production department, to ensure successful execution of print production runs that met standards created in product development stage. Also operated and maintained 8-color automatic screen print press on high volume production runs
  • Interviewed, hired, trained and managed graphic designers, screen-printers and screen-printing assistants
  • Served as de facto Macintosh computer IT support

Graphic Designer • Oct. 2003 – Feb. 2004

Berry Plastics

  • Created illustrations for in-house projects
  • Adapted client vector and raster art for plastic printing process
  • Ran QA checks on film output for all my assigned projects

Pre-Press Technician/Graphic Designer  • Aug. 1992 – Oct. 2003

 The Gleaner and Journal Publishing Company

  • Worked as technician in pre-press department. Shot film negatives of photographs and pages for daily newspaper print production and commercial clients. Responsible for press checks and sign-off on production. Hand-cut rubylith color separations for newspaper and commercial clients. Stripped photographic halftones into page negatives for newspaper and commercial clients. Assisted with the implementation of newspaper’s first Adobe Photoshop 2.5 installations for digital color correction and film-negative output. Assisted commercial clients with analog-to-digital work flow conversions, making software and hardware recommendations as well as offering training.
  • Managed paper’s commercial print graphics department, establishing and maintaining relationships with commercial print clients. Interviewed, hired, trained and managed junior graphic designers. Designed and produced multi-page, weekly advertising inserts for multiple clients. Created illustrations and graphics as needed. Output to film. Responsible for maintenance of newspaper’s imagesetter/printers.
  • Served on newspaper committee responsible for the selection, purchase, and implementation of the newspaper’s digital pagination publishing system. Made recommendations on hardware configuration. Responsible for installation and configuration of 15 new Macintosh stations, as well as hardware upgrades of 8 Macintosh stations. Installed cable and other infrastructure needs for pagination system server room, set-up and install of Mac OS servers and network. Maintained servers/network.
  • Worked with newspaper’s editorial and advertising staff to create editorial, feature and advertising illustrations as needed. Won multiple Kentucky Press Association awards in Illustration
  • Created and lead workshop in Adobe Photoshop for Kentucky Press Association

Adjunct Faculty • Jan. 2002 – May 2003

University of Southern Indiana

  • Adjunct faculty responsible for class instruction in graphic design, illustration and pre-press production technique

Adjunct Faculty •  Jan. 1999 – May 2002

IVY Tech State College

  • Adjunct faculty responsible for class instruction in graphic design, illustration, imaging

Skills

  • Illustration (Traditional/Digital)
  • Adobe Creative Cloud Suite 
  • Manga Studio Pro
  • Corel Painter
  • Pixologic Zbrush
  • Autodesk Maya
  • Toon Boom Harmony
  • Storyboard Pro
  • 3d Modeling
  • 3D printing
  • Animation
  • Painting (Oil/Acrylic/Watercolor/Gouache)
  • Drawing
  • Screen-printing
  • HTML         
  • CSS
  • jQuery
  • UX Design
  • Whittling      

Current Projects/Interests

Current projects focus on combining traditional studio techniques with digital/on-demand manufacturing, reproduction and marketing, allowing the artist to take complete control of their work, from conception to execution and monetization. Project subject matter includes limited edition toy design and production, t-shirt collection design, digital print collection. Other interests include continued study in human interface interaction for User Experience design, skewing toward Virtual Reality.