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JON
SACHS RESUME
A brief outline of how I got where I am today. And, yes, that is my high school senior class portrait. Pretty short hair for 1967, but at least I had hair back then. |
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FREELANCE
June 2005 to present |
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for
example
Although unable to
actually walk on water, I tend to be much faster
and quick-moving than larger vendors. I offer
a variety of services including:
I offer clients an experienced, savvy, easy-to-work-with source for graphic projects where the efficiency of working with a single source makes sense. More about when to hire me. |
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SOLID
SENSE
Creative Director,2002 to 2005 |
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responsibilities
I worked with clients
in three ways: I facilitated planning sessions
where we determined the strategy behind each
project; I led the planning meetings and and
produced documents that detailed exactly what
each site would consist of; and I designed
the user interface for each major project.For Solid Sense I also created internal advertising and marketing graphics, including concepts, design, writing and photography. Projects have included a new logo and corporate identity, a company overview booklet, case histories, mailing pieces, and annual Walter the Dog Calendars. |
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CENTERMEDIA
President and Founder,1992 to 2001 CenterMedia was a re-launch of The Slide Center in the digital age. |
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into
the internet
CenterMedia
continued to support major Boston-area companies
and non-profits, with electronic speaker support
and CD-based media. However, as soon as the
power of the internet became apparent, we shifted
our focus entirely to web development.Although the transition was not easy, many late nights and pizza boxes later we emerged as a leading Boston web developer, with engineering staff and such well known clients as Berklee College of Music, Shawmut Construction, The Boston Foundation, and The Boston Public Library. As web technology grew more complex it became clear that we needed to join up with a more technologically oriented firm — hence the move to Solid Sense. |
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THE
SLIDE CENTER
President and Founder,1976 to 1992 The Slide Center was Boston's leading producer of speaker support materials. |
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from
analog to digital
The Slide Center
produced tens of thousands of speaker support
slides, along with some award-winning audio-visual
programs. Adapting to a series of technological
waves, The Slide Center became the first firm
in Boston to use desktop computers to make
slides, then added slide output services from
client-supplied files, and then began the process
of transitioning to fully digital media, relaunching
ourselves as CenterMedia. |
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MIT
Bachelor of Science
in Art and Design,1967 to 1971 |
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arts
at a school for science
While MIT might not seem like the ideal place
to end up studying graphic design, film, and
photography, there was actually a lot going
on at the time. Ricky Leacock was teaching
film, Minor White was teaching photography,
and my college advisor Nick Negroponte, set
me up to learn graphic design from MIT's award-winning
staff designers, Ralph Coburn and Jackie
Casey.I had a college radio show, broadcasting to the entire Cambridge-Boston area—an audio experience from which some are still recovering. And I had a lot more hair. Over the years, my ability to work with technical topics and increasingly complex graphic technologies has helped me serve the needs of my clients. |
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GROWING
UP IN THE 50s AND 60s
Mahopac, New York50 miles north of New York City |
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a
farmboy, of a sort
A close call
with an explosion in high school chemistry
did not deter me from thinking I had the makings
to study science.To condense a novel into a few sentences: my parents' ideas of making a living on a small farm never worked out, but it was a great place to grow up. There were horses and cows, a John Deere tractor, and tools of all kinds to work with. Plus fields, hills, and swamps to roam in. One of the things I learned on the farm was how to use tools and build things. Since then I've never hesitated to build my own equipment or knock down walls to build a new room. |
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