Brief:
Peter Pham is a Graphic Design Instructor employed at Gateway Technical College in Southeastern Wisconsin. During the downtime, he is also: a freelance creative, a father/husband, a foodie and gourmet cook, a film buff, a reader, a photographer, and a continuing student himself.
Purpose:
This blog will be used to share useful information with students and friends. After beginning blogging in 2007, I stopped to focus on social media (MySpace, Facebook, LinkedIn) entirely, closing all my Wordpress and Blogger sites.
With Facebook become preeminent, I noticed a problem getting posts read when feeds sometimes included 400 or more 'friends.' It was hard to ensure that friends and students would actually even see some of the posts in their feeds.
It was in the summer of 2010, after realizing that Facebook was great for some things, but not others that I reactivated Blogger as a platform for this purpose.
Education:
Carthage College
Graduate M. Ed. Studies
University of Wisconsin–Stout
Post Bac Curriculum development courses
University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee
Bachelor of Fine Arts
Graphic Design
Experience:
- Instructor
- Senior Graphic Designer
- Assistant A.D.
- Production Artist
- Freelance Graphic Design/Illustrator/ A.D.
- Printshop Press Prep
Employers:
Gateway Technical College
Golden Books Family Entertainment
Ellingsen–Sprecher Advertising and P.R.
Shorewood Press
Kopy Print II
Other Jobs
(for the benefit and encouragement of all the students out there):
At 12 years-old, I started out with a paper route. I later moved on through a series of jobs (not careers) on my path to enlightenment. The path is sometimes shorter for others, but it contributes to the person you become, and how you relate to others.
- Paper Boy
- Lawn Mowing
- Dishwasher
- Kitchen Prep
- Lab Assistant (aka test tube washer)
- Retail Store Employee
- Maintenance crew
- Small Assembly
- Machinist's Assistant
- Groundskeeper/Landscaper
- Copy Shop Counter Employee
- Cartography Assistant
- Special Events (Bar) Server
work/school: phampete@gtc.edu
occasional account: phampete.gtc@gmail.com
facebook: Peter Pham
LinkedIn: Peter Pham
twitter: penjet (rarely used)
