Email Blaine Mullins This designer has a well-rounded background in writing and editing. OBJECTIVE To take design, writing and editing skills honed in the news industry and apply to new fields of mass communication. A1 designer for The Cincinnati Enquirer. Winner, first place in editorial design, Kentucky Press Association, 07. Key player in redesign of Sunday local section at The Enquirer, 06-07. Designer of the three largest annual Enquirer special sections 06-08. Winner, first place overall copy desk, West Virginia Press Association, 05. Night news editor, The Journal 04-05. WORK HISTORY Lead designer The Cincinnati Enquirer | Cincinnati, Ohio | 05-09 Responsible for all content management, presentation for front page. Designed section fronts for both Ohio and Kentucky editions on a daily basis A1, local, business, nation/world, editorial and special sections. Acted as main hub for editors in all departments for A1 design. Copy editor and headline writer for news and feature stories. Design director The Journal | Martinsburg, W.Va. | Designer 02-04 News Editor 04-05 Responsible for presentation and editing of all news and editorial content. Trained a new copy desk while running daily editions and spearheading the design/editing of the largest annual special section. Key player in redesign of news and editorial pages. Staff Writer The State Journal | Charleston, W.Va. | 00-01 Covered education, state government, technology, business and tourism for hard news and feature stories. Profiled several politicians and business leaders in monthly focus articles. SOFTWARE PC/Mac proficient Adobe Dreamweaver, Photoshop, Flash, Illustrator, InDesign | HTML | CSS | QuarkXpress | CCI Europe | Saxotech | Microsoft Office Applications in the works: Actionscript 3.0 | PHP EDUCATION B.A. in journalism Marshall University | Huntington, W.Va. | 00 Graduated Cum Laud with overall 3.3 grade point average. A collection of designs and published articles is available upon request

Primary Language: English

Education: Bachelors

Special Skills: Adobe, Quark, Information Gathering/Research, Writer, Copy Editor