Current Resume for Douglas F. Olena
Position Desired: Graphic Design, Web Design, Technical, Programming
Part-Time Temporary or Permanent
Address 4250 S. Elmview Ave.
Springfield, MO 65804
Phone 417-887-0332
E-mail doug@olena.com
Web Sites see below
Date of Birth 5/5/1953
Education BS in Biblical Studies, Valley Forge Christian College, Phoenixville, PA, 1980
MA in Philosophy at West Chester University, West Chester, PA, 1986
Course work completed for PhD in Philosophy at Temple University Philadelphia, PA, December '87. All but Dissertation December '89

All the C++ courses at Herzing College (four quarters) completed July 3, 1999. Course includes MFC programming; projects and executables on request.
Strengths Good interpersonal skills, good management sense, excellent logical aptitude, creativity, great sense of humor, swiftly trained in almost any task, able to maintain control over work habits and work area, decent eye-hand coordination. I am an expert in Computer Graphics applications with over 15 years experience in editing, printing and publishing.
Related Work Experience

2002

Interactive Comunication & Training of Mountain Brook, Alabama Responsibilities include:
Graphic Design Creation and modification of multimedia movies in Flash, Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere, Morph and other programs.
Technical Support for CasePresenter Software that the company sells.
2001-2002 Perry Computer Services of Homewood, Alabama.
Responsibilities included:
Sales and Service of Macintosh computers, training in software products including PhotoShop, Quark Xpress, Final Cut Pro and others.

1996-2001

Custom Photo Art of Birmingham, Alabama since May 1996. Responsibilities included:
Graphic Design for in-house advertisement, client graphics and layouts, font selection, brochure design, model cards, scanning with various scanners (CreoScitex EverSmart Pro, Epson Expression 636, 800, Minolta Dimage film scanner), retouch and composition of photographs, color correction, liason with printing companies, job preparations for 4 color printing and screen printing.
Web Design and implementation including contracting service providers, e-commerce and web hosting companies, site layout, design and creation, JavaScript, CGI, Flash, CSS. tools
Composite print job management with pieces numbering in the thousands as well as single pieces. Printers used include: Cymbolic Science LightJet 5000, Canon printer/copier, Xerox 8954 electrostatic printer, Colorspan 62" inkjet, Colorspan 30x40" DesignWinder, Encad 36" inkjet, MGI Solitaire 16 film recorder and an Epson 900 desktop inkjet.
Network Administrator in a mixed OS shop. There are 5 IBM PC Compatible workstations, two of which are running NT 4.0 Workstation, one running NT Server 3.5.1 as a print server and two running Windows 95. There are 6 Macintosh workstations running Mac OS 8.1 and 9.x.x. There is one SGI Irix 5.3 print server running MGI Jetstream software.

1995-1996

United Color Graphics in Homewood Alabama. I was responsible for page layout and graphic design, catalog development and integration. Inventory software development.
1984-current

Keystrokes - Self Employed in our Desktop Publishing company. We use Macintosh and IBM PC compatible computers for all normal business functions. Keystrokes has been active since 1984. Our activities include: Consulting for small businesses, editing, contract typing, transcription, graphic design, book layout and design, printing camera-ready copy for printers and publishers, hardware and software systems analysis and repair including networking, hardware installation, operating systems and software. I create and sell PostScript and TrueType typefaces for Macintosh, IBM PCs running Windows 3.x & 95, 98, Windows NT and OS/2 2.x at fontsfordesign.com in partnership with Digital River e-commerce.
1995

The Chronicle - Production worker in the Barton, Vermont weekly newspaper. It is the largest selling weekly in Vermont. My duties included creating advertisements from ad orders, proofing ads and editorial copy, maintaining, repairing and upgrading the 13 Macintosh computers in the office and network administration.
1994

The Engineers Collaborative Inc., a microcontroller development tools manufacturer in West Glover, Vermont during 1993 - Marketing Manager. My duties included graphic design and layout for all promotional literature and manuals, create all advertising copy and write and edit current and new software and hardware manuals. Responsibilities included: learning enough about the microcontrollers and development tools to troubleshoot and resolve conflicts over the phone, data entry and database maintenance. I designed a Printed Circuit Board from a schematic. I aided in software design for hardware interfaces. I performed all bookkeeping procedures except for taxes.
1990-1992

Community College of Vermont - Computer Lab Support Supervisor at the St. Johnsbury site in 1991. My duties included maintenance and troubleshooting of software and hardware on six IBM PC compatible computers and two printers, correspondence with management personnel, advisory panel for school-wide computer use.
1987

Intersystems Technology Inc., a computer consulting firm in Philadelphia in 1989 as Office Manager. I worked with IBM compatible computers and was responsible for invoicing clients, graphic presentations, database input and searches, filing and office organization
Software Competence

Macintosh - System 1 through OS X, Adobe Photoshop 2-6, Illustrator 88-9.0.2, Freehand 3-9, Pagemaker 3-6.5, PageMill 1-2.0, SiteMill, GoLive 4-6.0.1, Flash 4-5, Live Motion 1, QuarkXPress 3.3-4.1, Microsoft Word 1-2001, Excel, PowerPoint 4.0-2001, Office 98-2001, Letraset FontStudio, Altsys Fontographer, Apple HyperCard, HyperTalk programming, Graphic User Interface design, telecommunications, TCP/IP, networks. Brief exposure to the C programming language. HTML programming, JavaScript.

PC/Windows - DOS 2.0 through 6.22, Windows 2.0 through 98 and NT 3.5.1 & 4.0, OS/2 2.1, Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Corel Draw, Illustrator, Photoshop, Pagemaker, QuarkXpress, Ventura Publisher, Micrographics Designer, Intuit Quicken, QuickBooks, Foxbase, dBase, Freelance, Harvard Graphics, Lotus 123, telecommunications, TCP/IP, network setup in a multi-OS workplace. Various graphic programs and utilities. Brief exposure to the C programming language. A grade in 8 months of C++ programming language using Microsoft Visual Studio C++ 5.0 & 6.0. HTML programming, JavaScript.

UNIX - SGI irix 5.3 and MGI Jetstream print server software. A brush with Linux and the Be OS.
The Web

Create and maintain haddmill.com, olena.com, olena.net, fontsfordesign.com, simonlawgroup.com, bhamemmaus.org, warband.com, kellyrunfarm.com, cahabariverpublishing.com, web sites using Adobe Illustrator, PhotoShop, ImageReady, DreamWeaver, PageMill, SiteMill, GoLive, Flash, LiveMotion, HTML, JavaScript, WS-FTP Pro and Interarchy. Create and test downloadable files and use Netscape, Opera and Internet Explorer on Mac and Windows to test.
Manage POP3 E-Mail.
Create forms, Javascript utilities, Flash intro's etc. in various web sites, including mortgageco.info.
Hardware Competence

Mac, Windows, UNIX System maintenance and cleaning, upgrades, troubleshooting, peer network installation and maintenance, telecommunications installation and maintenance, gateways, hubs, etc. I am familiar with many models of Macintosh and have repaired many of them. I am familiar with many kinds of PostScript printers and printing devices.
Teaching Experience Philosophy courses at La Salle University in Philadelphia, Glassboro State College in New Jersey, and Community College of Vermont
Introduction to Computer courses at Community College of Vermont
Managerial Experience I managed the Motor Pool for a short time while I was in the Air Force in California. I received a commendation from our supervising General for the work I did.
Supervisory responsibility over 12 men working at Valley Forge Christian College, Phoenixville Pennsylvania, at the Heating Plant Operation. Responsibilities included scheduling, hiring, managing the personnel in the daily affairs of the facility, cost estimating, purchasing and coordinating maintenance with other school maintenance operations.
I managed painting crews of up to 5 or 6 people for various employers in Pennsylvania. I was responsible for timely completion of assigned tasks.
I was responsible for training personnel in new procedures at the Chronicle and Custom Photo Art, and managing changes in work flow. I was responsible for tracking and keeping compliance with software license agreements.
Current Salary Requirements $25K to 30K per year, depending on job requirements
Work Samples and References on Request

Keystrokes has been one of the featured typographers in Publish magazine's Typographer's Gallery every October until 1999 when it was discontinued.