Eric Willard

My personal business whereby I can solicit my services as a freelance photographer, videographer, designer, and drone pilot when I am between jobs. Due to my frequent relocation over the previous six years it is important to have contingency plans in place.

I was originally hired at Rhycom as a junior graphic designer and worked with one team of designers based on the centralized model. After more than a year I became promoted to team leader of the design group, which requires coordination with the project manager, the marketing team, and ultimately the customer to ensure that the the quality of the product we delivered was exactly what he wanted. At Rhycom we have worked with some of the biggest brands in the American Midwest.

Full-time professor teaching the fundamentals of graphic design and web design, including HTML & CSS. The majority of my students were software engineering students. Therefore, learning the different coding languages, terms and colloquialities in English were of crucial importance. I have the intertwined this information throughout the curriculum (also derived from texts provided by the university and from personal knowledge) to get the best possible instruction of English, design, and coding.

Preparing (mostly) post-grad and undergrad students for the IELTS Exam so they could pursue further education abroad in an English-speaking environment.

A contract position with Cumulus Media whereby I photographed and edited photos for their yearly "Women of V100 Calendar" for a local radio station.

I started the position as a phone banker at Wells Fargo handling customer concerns and soliciting new products. I quickly advanced to premier phone banker after 90 days and subsequently advanced to personal banker less than 70 days later.

The program was an intense 24-week program designed to teach students the essentials of full-stack web development. At the conclusion of the program students had completed several projects (group and individual) simulating real-world scenarios.

I had satisfied the majority of my gen. ed. requirements prior to transfer so I was able to focus on specialization courses including politics, language, design, history, and international relations.

My degree was a mixture of film/radio/television, but each student had the opportunity to focus more on a specific subject. My specific focus was on film, which provided me knowledge of the concepts, practices, and history of film and television.