Richard Ian Risbridger

Employment History		    
     
Freelance Design and Computer Consultant Dragonbutterfly Design  2000 – present

When not devoting my energies to a full time position, I have a successful freelance graphic design and computer consulting business. Between that and my work for agencies such as The Skill Bureau and Aquent, some of my current and past clients include Yoga Tree San Francisco, The Shala Yoga Studio, Yoga Niche, Carolyn Cohen, Williams Sonoma, Young and Rubicam, Network Health, and Rhino Records.
Art Director
 MyGarb, Inc 2003 – 2005
I worked directly with the owner to come up with a new business model and collaborated with the lead programmer to design a new patent pending web technology which propelled the company from one that did sporadic seasonal business to an operation with over two hundred client websites.  I created a formulaic, streamlined process for site creation based on my templates and trained freelancers in the US and production artists at our facility in El Salvador
Computer Technical Support Associate Stream International 1998

I provided official technical support for Microsoft Word and received more customer commendation letters than any other technical support associate during my time with the company.


Education
     
Graduate Program in Architecture San Francisco Institute of Architecture
2007– present
Graduate Program in Architecture Southern California Institute of Architecture
1999 – 2000
Graduate Program in Philosophy Boston College
1996 – 1997
BA in Ethics and Political Philosophy and Visual Art Brown University  
1992 – 1996

Computer Design Skills

Adobe Photoshop, ImageReady, Illustrator, GoLive, InDesign, Acrobat, Macromedia Flash, Dreamweaver, Quark, Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, HTML, CSS, JavaScript.

Conversant in all aspects of web design and maintenance.