{"id":1597,"date":"2025-07-06T13:07:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-06T18:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.caligraphicsdesign.com\/?page_id=1597"},"modified":"2025-07-07T12:31:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-07T17:31:12","slug":"resume","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.caligraphicsdesign.com\/?page_id=1597","title":{"rendered":"Resume"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Cal Sharp<\/strong><br>203 Francis St.<br>Daykin NE 68335<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-medium-font-size\">615-969-2488<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-medium-font-size\"><a href=\"mailto:Cal.Sharp@Nashville.com\">cal@calsharp.com<\/a><br><a href=\"mailto:cal@caligraphics.net\">cal@caligraphics.net<\/a><br><a href=\"http:\/\/www.calsharp.com\">http:\/\/www.calsharp.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-medium-font-size\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Objective<\/strong>: To find remote work, acquire new clients, and to expand my graphic design business at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.caligraphicsdesign.com\/\" title=\"\">CaligraphicsDesign<\/a>. Proficient in Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Dreamweaver and Microsoft apps..<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Education<\/strong>:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Herron School of Art of Indiana University at Indianapolis, Bachelor of Fine<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Arts 1972.&nbsp; Major: Visual Communication. Minor: Photography<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Watkins Institute, Nashville. Intro to QuarkXpress, fall semester 1996.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Nashville Tech, Illustration for Desktop Publishing (Adobe Illustrator), spring semester 1997. Adobe Photoshop, fall 1997 semester.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Experience<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.caligraphicsdesign.com\/\" title=\"\">CaligraphicsDesign<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 2010 &#8211; present<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Owner\/Creative Director. We&#8217;ve designed over 1500 print and ebook covers for published indie writers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>U S Hospitality, Nashville&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; August 2000 \u2013 2010<br>Duties include designing and laying out ads and verbiage for hotel guest directories using PageMaker, Quark, Illustrator, Acrobat and Photoshop. Scan and edit photos and artwork, and use FileMaker Pro to keep projects up-to-date. Download e-mailed graphic files and resolve font\/formatting problems. Consult with advertisers via telephone.<br>Use the Xerox Docucolor 40 printer\/copier.<br>Winner of the Ferris Beuller Award (Day off w\/pay) twice for being the most productive designer of the month.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Attended Nashville Photoshop seminar Spring 2001<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Attended Nashville Quark seminar, Summer 2001<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Kinko\u2019s Copy Center, Donelson Store, Nashville&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; June 1998 \u2013 April 1999<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Duties included using QuarkXpress, Photoshop, Illustrator, PageMaker, and Freehand on Macs and PC\u2019s to lay out business cards, flyers, banners, posters, newsletters and other art work. Scan and edit photos. Work as part of a team or independently on projects. Consult with clients, help self-serve computer customers, and output work to various printers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Thrifty Car Rental, Nashville&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 1995 &#8211; 2001<br>Duties include shuttling cars back and forth to the airport and other locations and supervising and coordinating other drivers. Also computer tech and Excel spreadsheet designer.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Other<\/strong>: I&#8217;m also a writer. I&#8217;ve written music-related articles for <em>Guitar Player<\/em>, <em>Country Music<\/em>, the <em>Nashville<\/em> <em>Banner<\/em> and other magazines and have written short stories for <em>Alfred Hitchcock&#8217;s Mystery Magazine<\/em>. I&#8217;ve also written and self-published three books, <a href=\"https:\/\/calsharp.com\/\">https:\/\/calsharp.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<strong>Links:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Caligraphics\" title=\"\">Facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/caligraphics.net\/portfolio.php\" title=\"\">Portfolio<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pinterest.com\/caligraphics\/\" title=\"\">Pinterest<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/calsharp\" title=\"\">Linkedin<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/caligraphicsart\" title=\"\">Twitter<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cal Sharp203 Francis St.Daykin NE 68335 615-969-2488 cal@calsharp.comcal@caligraphics.nethttp:\/\/www.calsharp.com Objective: To find remote work, acquire new clients, and to expand my graphic design business at CaligraphicsDesign. Proficient in Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Dreamweaver and Microsoft apps.. Education:&nbsp; Arts 1972.&nbsp; Major: Visual Communication.<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.caligraphicsdesign.com\/?page_id=1597\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Resume<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\"> &#8250;<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1597","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caligraphicsdesign.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caligraphicsdesign.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caligraphicsdesign.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caligraphicsdesign.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caligraphicsdesign.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1597"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.caligraphicsdesign.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1628,"href":"https:\/\/www.caligraphicsdesign.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1597\/revisions\/1628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caligraphicsdesign.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}