Clayton P. King Eye on Design (Current software/hardware)
Freelancer: Print Media Production & Photoshop Masking
Graphic design and layout services with emphasis on four-color process and photographic touch-up for print production. Skilled in Photoshop masking for both catalogs and ad layout.
2018-Present
Parish Administrator
St. Martin's-in-the-Fields Episcopal Church
Manage operations at a mid-sized church parish, including 6-acre campus and physical plant. Responsible for budgetary and financial activity. Manage staff of five including communications, finance and custodial services. Interaction with parishioners in meeting the missing and outreach objectives of the church.
2017-2018
Conference Coordinator
University of South Carolina
College of Education
Assist with the development, planning and coordination, implementation and evaluation of conferences, events and special programs in the College of Education. Extensive use of FileMaker Pro and various online registration systems, including USC’s Marketplace (Touchnet). Responsible for receipting registration payments and invoicing, as well as purchasing requests, deposit transmittals, etc., through Peoplesoft. Other skills used include Adobe Creative Suite for creating marketing and event materials, and website management. Position also involves direct contact with outside organizations and suppliers, as well as individual registrants.
2011-2016
Owner/Manager
Artizan
Artizan is a local gallery supporting the American crafts movement, representing artists and fine craftspeople throughout the southern United States. Well-known for its unique offerings, selection and customer experience. Responsible for
gallery operation, merchandising, and building & maintaining community brand.
2007-2011
Owner
Hawk's Rest
Online venture in retail jewelry sales. This startup company was an umbrella serving two jewelry retail websites - one traditional sales site and one niche market. Sales grew to approximately $100K sales in one year.
1999 - 2007
Tramex Travel
Director of Marketing
Tramex is a Large regional travel agency with a business mix of corporate and vacation travelers, with five offices in Central and North Texas. Overall responsibility for all marketing including advertising, corporate communication, vendor
negotiations and vendor relationships. Served as liaison and relationship manager for Frito–Lay and Yum Brands employee travel programs across nine offices nationwide. Assisted in development of group business and executive
meeting programs.
1996 - 1998
Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC)
Manager, Corporate Communication
& Customer Events
Tier–one systems integration and consulting firm with over 12 billion in revenues and 70,000 employees. Managed a $1 million P&L. Also served as company relationship manager to external users group board of directors, had overall
responsibility for annual users conference, executive meetings, and tradeshow participation.
1995 - 1997
Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC)
Marketing Coordinator, Life Insurance Division
Managed Life Insurance Division marketing and communication efforts for all life insurance initiatives. Served as division liaison for users conference planning and execution. Also managed relationship with outside vendors for Life Marketing
efforts including technology, marketing and PR firms. Assisted in product development for agency–level sales tool. In February 1996, this department was integrated with other marketing areas within the company to form Industry Communications.
1991 - 1995
Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC)
Publication Services Supervisor
Managed in–house creative center, including graphic design and word processing/publishing, copy center and in-house printing facility. Responsible for maintenance of company's enterprise software documentation across 17 systems. Also
had responsibility for managing 22 company “public” photocopiers used by departments, including billing of their use.
1989 - 1991
Independent Bankers
Association of Texas
Director of Membership
State–wide trade association with over 800 bank and 150 affiliate members. Association also offers continuing certification training to bank employees. Worked with association board of directors and staff to develop agenda and scheduling
for quarterly meetings and annual conference. Produced monthly printed magazine and other association communication.
1988 - 1989
Sheshunoff Information Services
Technical Coordinator
Multi-faceted business services and publishing organization, including bank mergers and acquisitions, publishing, software, and executive networking opportunities. This promotion afforded me the opportunity to work with various areas of
the company to coordinate the needs of the business units.
Pioneered desktop publishing in producing "The Banks of Your State," a set of 50 hardbound books published quarterly.
Developed and maintained software printer tables for use in producing software documentation and updated publishing.
1986 - 1988
Sheshunoff Information Services
Senior Word Processing Operator
Typing complex documents and managing 60,000�document library over 2,000 disks. Projects typically included multi-volume bank education materials, software manuals, and white papers.
Also developed workflow later utilized by IBM for converting numerical coding to textual data for extensive mailmerge capabilities using ReportPak (IBM Displaywriter database).
Skills/Certifications
Adobe Certified Specialist (Photoshop)
Adobe Creative Suite (to CC2017)
Corel Creative Suite (to suite X8)
Microsoft Office (including Access)