Multimedia Specialist

Richard Kuta
Concord, CA
Rich641028@hotmail.com


OBJECTIVE
An opportunity to incorporate my directorial skills which stem from a solid personal understanding of functional aesthetics in graphic design and film

SKILLS
·Dreamweaver
·MS Office
·Windows/MAC OS
·Photoshop
·Illustrator
·Final Cut Pro
·After Effects
·Premiere



EDUCATION
Academy of Art University
San Francisco, CA
Bachelors of Fine Art
Multimedia
·Graphic Design ·Film ·Animation


EXPERIENCE

Film Production
08 / 2007 –Current Project Director - Beckermedia (Oakland, CA) Storyboarding and producing TV ads for various educational institutions across the US.

07 / 2006 – 09 / 2006 Director/Producer – Assembly (San Francisco, CA)   Live action music video I directed/edited featuring the bay area indie band, Assembly.

02 / 2006 – 04 / 2006 Director/DVD Producer – Push to Talk (Oakland, CA)  Unofficial concert DVD that I filmed at Noise Pop 2006 for the band Push to Talk. Duties consisted of camera work, editing, visual fx, and dvd authorizing.

Animation Director
04 / 2005 – 05 / 2005   Creative Executive/Director - Diablo Valley Project (Concord, CA)
Music video for the band Weezer entitled "Perfect Situation" It was completely designed in After Effects and was a non-paying position. It was enjoyable to produce a video involving one of my favorite bands since it was created out of personal enrichment.

01 / 2005 – 02 / 2005   Animator/Producer - Some Records (Oakland, CA)
Commercial for the indie solo artist Hanalei's debut. The ad was a short 30 second 2D animation done in after effects used for web and TV promotion.

09 / 2004 – 12 / 2004   Animator/Director/Producer - Reprise Records (Los Angeles, CA)
Contract animation position to film a music video for the song "homecoming" from the band Green Day. Intentionally a 10 minute punk opera using all mediums of animation. 3D clay, 2D construction paper, traditional hand drawings and special effects added during post production. The video was rejected, but it gave me experience in the industry.

Graphic Design
04 / 2004 – 11/ 2007   Web/Graphic Designer – Homestead Technologies (Menlo Park, CA)
Lead graphic designer/web developer for QuickSites; a project that involved web templates that were available to purchase from Homestead’s official site .

02 / 2003 – 03 / 2005 Graphic Designer – Valley Yellow Pages (Hayward, CA)
Contract position spanning 6 months creating/producing advertisements for local businesses and marketing them in the bay area phone directory.

1999 - 2003 Graphic Designer - General Rock Bands (Castro Valley, CA)
Development and creation of CD covers and inserts for various groups. The Pirate All Stars; Green Light Go; Wunder Years; Sorry About the Fire, ect.

REFERENCES
UPON REQUEST