This document provides a summary of Peter Halifax's experience and qualifications. It outlines that he is an Emmy award-winning educator and designer who has worked in advertising, broadcasting, publishing, and music industries. He has over 15 years of experience as an Associate Professor and Creative Director, where he has led design teams and created campaigns for major clients. He also has experience in senior design and art director roles for newspapers, advertising agencies, and a television station.

1. PETER HALIFAX
11525 S.Morningside Drive, Goodyear, AZ 85338 • 602-525-5096 • peterhalifax1@gmail.com • http://www.krop.com/halifax/
Executive Profile
I am an educator, a self-published author, an Emmy award-winning designer having worked in the advertising, broadcasting
television, newspaper publishing and music industries.
Skill Highlights
• Writing and Publishing
• Adobe Indesign
• Adobe Photoshop
• Adobe Illustrator
• Televison Storyboards
• Classroom Management
• Evaluation Techniques
• Quark Xpress
• Career Development
• Mac/PC Word and Excel
• Network Essentials
• Advertising and Concept Design
• Graphic Design
• Advaced Design
• Traditional Typography
• Ad and Design History
• Layout Design
• Promotional Campaigns
• Visual Indication
• Strategy and Marketing
Core Accomplishments
• Emmy Award Winner, pioneered the original marketing concept in combining animation and film.
• The Billboard Magazine International Music Award, Second place nationwide singer/song-writing and musical composition.
• Associate Professor Award, achievements of excellence from The Art Institute of Phoenix.
• Governor’s Arts Award Nomination, Arts in Education, Governor Janet Napolitano.
Professional Experience
Associate Professor Creative Director 02/2001 to 07/2015
Phoenix, AZ
• I have art directed all creative aspects of design from start to finish for high profile clients: Chrysler Corporation,
Chrysler International, Chrysler-Plymouth, Firestone, Michigan Lottery and Rockwell International.
• I led my creative team to launch a national campaign for Rockwell International.
• I am an Emmy Award-winning designer having worked in the advertising and broadcasting television, newspaper
publishing and music industries.
• I have directed all creative aspects of design from start to finish for high profile clients: Chrysler Corporation, Chrysler
International, Chrysler-Plymouth, Firestone, Michigan Lottery and Rockwell International.
• Clients include non-profit and for profit: Mercedes-Benz, Coca Cola. Rockwell international. Chrysler international.
The Dell Webb Center for the Performing Arts. Premier Commercial Bank. Habitat for Humanity. JC Penney.
• Mission Statement: We are all connected, we have different personalities, and we are a melting pot of different
cultures all woven together like a fabric. Understanding this will help us get along with each other, work together to solve problems,
and search for solutions. Having sensitivity to the world and the environment around us will allow us to be creative; productive, change
will happen and it will be done in a positive way. Helping people, communities and companies have passion and vision for their work
and to believe in themselves. This will contribute positively to the health, happiness and well being of family, friends, and colleagues.
• Publication Design
• Advertising Concepts
• Branding and Social Media
• Set Design and Fine Artist
• Art Direction and the Creative Process
• Print Production
• Collateral Design
• Illustration
• Fundamentals of Drawing
• Power point

2. Senior Designer • The Atlanta Journal & Constitution 01/1999 to 01/2001
Atlanta, GA
• In-house advertising agency.
• Clients: Slumberland Luxury Beds, England.
• Parisian.
• Flack Interiors.
• Special sections catalog.
• Collateral design.
• Branding, and stylebook.
• Direct accountability for art production of multi-faceted print and electronic Media, Web and banner design, primarily for
business-to-business and high tech clients.
• Emphasis on market strategy, ad campaigns, corporate identity packages, presentation materials.
• CD-ROM promotions also trade shows.
• Clients include ABB Automation, AmeriCold Logistics, Georgia-Pacific, MDT Software, Yokogawa Corporation,
Alliance International, Mercia Software, Tuscaloosa Steel, and Deutz, Ingersoll–Rand, Air compressors.
Senior Art Director • Pratt & Buehl Advertising 01/1997 to 01/1999
Atlanta, GA
• Corporate apartments.
• Clients include:
• IBM. Coca-Cola. The 1994 Atlanta Olympics. United Artist. Rockwell International.
• Ford, Chrysler and General Motors.
President and Owner • Temporary VIP Suites 01/1994 to 01/1997
Atlanta, GA
Education
Master of Arts: Education Leadership 06/2007
Argosy University Phoenix, AZ
Education Leadership
Bachelor of Arts: Advertising and Graphic Design 03/1971
University of Bradford West Yorkshire, UK
Advertising and Graphic Design
• Directed all creative aspects of print and video communications for High profile clients,
• Chrysler Corporation, Chrysler International, Chrysler-Plymouth, Firestone, Michigan Lottery
• and Rockwell International.
• I lead my team of designers to create a national advertising branding campaign for the trucking industry for the clutch,
made in America, by Rockwell international, for the US market.
Senior Art Director • Bozell Worldwide Advertising 01/1986 to 01/1994
Detroit, MI
• Produced and coordinated station news graphics, promotions and animation.
• Produced all visual effects for live talk shows: Kelly & Company. The Hot Fudge Puppet Show. Five, six and eleven-o-clock News.
• The Quantel Paint box was used for creating all news-graphics, special effects, animation, visual graphics and all
station promotions.
• Set design.
Art Director, ABC Network WXYZ-TV Channel 7 01/1977 to 07/1986
Detroit, MI

3. Personal Information
Being an educator, I take my work and that responsibility very seriously. I do care, I teach my students to have passion and vision for
their work and to believe in themselves. I am able to develop my personal and intellectual growth, critical thinking skills, technology and
methodologies. To be a leader, you have to be a rebel, strike out from the nerve, the accepted, and introduce your method, style, and
fashion. Whistler did this in his paintings, Ravel did the same in his music, but leaders are only leaders if they have followers, they do
not work in isolation. In art, leadership is different than in other fields, we don’t want to mold students to our own idea of what a painter
or sculptor should be, but free them to become themselves. Be curious and always ask questions, have alternatives to the accepted
theories around you, and keep working and do not let your talents shrivel up and go to waste. Knowledge is everything, knowledge is
spirit, wisdom, and courage, knowledge is my teacher.
Interest
Skills
Aditional Information
• I love to write. I have recently completed my first historical novel titled “ Evhenia, A True Story” a powerful true story of hope and
survival, about a young girl named Evhenia who survived the most turbulent years of WWII. I have also completed my second book
titled “NAGMANI” a fictional crime story that focuses on spiritual warfare.
• For 14 years I have been working with Ministry of Good News. I have taken the leadership position as president of the ministry, and
participate in speaking engagements and fund raising in community churches, always focusing on the good news of Jesus Christ
and discipleship. Also working with Men’s Rescue Mission, and the Changing Lives Center an outreach for women and children who
have been abused.
• As a fine artist I love to work in many mediums, acrylics, oils and mixed media, in a variety of styles and subject matter. I love painting
on large canvases, the bigger the better. I love the texture and the smell of paint. My paintings have been described by some as
romanticist and symbolist in style, maybe a little traditionalist, Currently I am working on a series of paintings in sepia, oil on canvas,
from the thirties, forties and fifties.
• Mac/PC • Adobe PhotoShop • Adobe Illustrator • Television Storyboards • Classroom Management • Evaluation Techniques • InDesign
• Quark Xpress • Networking Essentials • Advertising • Graphic Design • Social media • Sales • Strategy and Marketing
• Concept Design • Presentation.
• 2016 Faculty Member of the Winter Quarter Award.
• 2012 The Dean’s Award honors an outstanding faculty member who has made significant contributions to students learning both
inside and outside the classroom.
• 2009 Awarded the title of Associate Professor”upon the recommendation of the Art Institute of Phoenix titling committee and
approval of both the regional academic specialist and vice president.
• 2008 Institute Award for recognition of Extraordinary Service from The Art Institute of Phoenix Community.
• 1997 The Billboard Magazine International Music Award. Second place, nationwide in song writing and musical composition for
the song titled “Shine On Me” in the Gospel category.
• 1997 Georgia Music Industry Association Award for honorable mention of the gospel song titled “Shine on Me.”
• 1996 The Atlanta Olympics. The Ukrainian National Women’s League of America (WNWLA) Invited me to perform for the Ukrainian
woman’s basketball team, and the Ukrainian Women’s Gymnastics team.