Background Information on John Catalfamo

My experience started in the sign industry as a Sign Painter and Calligrapher for a local company where I painted large sign panels, Real estate Signs, Billboards, Illustrations for logos, Full architectural renderings for construction sites, and vehicle lettering. When the sign industry was introduced to the computer industry I was forced to learn the graphics applications needed to make vinyl lettering. " no more paint brushes" Although I tried to hang on to the old way as long as I could the world of Computerized Vinyl Graphics was underway and there was no stopping it. The one thing I didn't see is how it would form my career instead of breaking it.

The PC became faster and more reliable while the industry insisted on even better results, they got the taste and they liked it. Well it wasn't long before the printers where getting work done by the sign people and the other way around. The I found a position with a large printer that needed a manager for his sign business which offered both printing and signs. My world was changing faster than I could keep up with and I found it necessary to take on some technical training, well a lot of training to be truthful. I went to Computer Visions and New Horizons a spent a year learning everything I could about graphic design software and web design.

After learning that I knew exactly nothing and that all the software I had studied was now outdated or un popular it was time to go back to the beginning. Although this time I wanted to learn something that the software guys couldn't take away. OK so here is the list of acronym, VB6 HTML, XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP. SSI And as far as software goes see the list below.

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Albany Graphics New BLOG Better Web Graphics for all

Software and Development Tools

Adobe Illustrator 7.0 Adobe Indesign CS2 Adobe PhotoShop CS2 Adobe GoLive 7.0 Adobe Acrobat Pro 7 Macromedia Dreamweaver 8 Macromedia Fireworks 8 Macromedia Flash 8 Corel Draw Select Addition 7.4 QuarkXPress 4.1 - 7 Deluxe

Microsoft Office XP Microsoft Projects Microsoft Visual Basic WebCT Vista/ Blackboard, Proficy Ifix40 VMWARE virtual environment

If you are looking for a bit more information this is a copy of my resume in PFD ( John Catalfamo ) and I'll be glad to take a few minutes out of my day to speak with you.