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Larry James Kemp

habitran06@yahoo.com........signwizaed1@gmail.com

Architectural / Industrial /Civil Design & Engineering

Graphic Artist / Commercial Sign Writer

Computer Technician / AutoCad - Gerber Graphics Program - Adobe Photoshop - Web Design

Designer: Habitran Concept www.habitran.20fr.com

EDUCATION:  Highschool:  Morrisonville, Illinois - 1960-1964

                       College: Southern Illinois University,Carbondale, Illinois - Associate of Architecture

                       Extra Curricular Education: Energy Efficiency Systems and Technologies, Civil Engineering, Fall-Out and Bomb Shelter Const., Mass Production Housing

EXPERIENCE SUMMARY: Manual and AutoCad drawn blueprints, Architectural detailing, design, spec-writing, estimating, hand painted architectural renderings, site surveys, customer relations, land surveying, photography, video productions, commercial graphics, wall murals, routed wood sculptures, gold leaf application, hand painted signs and graphics, custom pinstriping, lighted signs, neon signs, sign construction and installation, vinyl applications.

Total Experience in Architectural /Civil /Industrial Related: 20 years

Total Experience in Commercial Graphics: 35 years

Qualified for State Architectural Registration in 1976 - did not complete registration due to other research and development projects.

Commercial Graphics & Photography

(See Picture Below)

Get E-book by James on Signs & Graphcs at  www.howtosigns.20fr.com 

Born 7/19/46 - Excellent Health - enjoy all sports, excelled in track and field in highschool, track captain, martial arts - qualified for Music Scholorship at S.I.U. but chose Architecture - play French Horn, Piano, Harmonica - Key Club President in High School - S.I.U. Sailing Club - Epsilon Tau Sigma professional fraternity - voted most talented in my high school class.

Divorced, 2 children, Single

Christian Caucasion

REVERSE ORDER

Mussett - Nicholas & Assoc., 2602 E. 55th, Ind., Indiana 46220 - 1990 - temp job - AutoCad piping and electrical schematics for auto manuf. plant in China 

Gibraltar Mausoleum Const. Inc.,8435 Keystone Crossing, Suite 200, Ind.,Indiana46240 - '89-'90 - Construction drawings by hand and AutoCad, hand painted presentations, spec writing, precision stone work 

Design Enterprise Limited, 901 E. 86th St., Ind., Indiana - '89 - const. drwgs. for city sewer and water treatment plants, manufacturing acid storage tanks - temp job 

RQAW Architects and Engineers, 4755 Kingsway Dr.,Suite 400, Ind.,Indiana - '88-'89 - const. drwgs., city sewer treatment plant & highway interchange - temp job.

Samual Wacht Associates, Architects, Phoenix, Arizona - '80-'81 - construction drwgs., condos, apts., hotels, supergraphics on interiors privately contracted.

MLB Architects, Springfield, Illinois, - '74-'75 - construct. drwgs., field surveys - Lincoln State School remodeling 

RSSG Architects, Champaign, Ill.,- '73-'74 - const. drwgs., model building, Army Aviation Support Facility, A Community Center, Univ. of Baltimore renovation study, Bank of Illinois, U of I at Chicago Medical Center renovation, apartments 

Prindle, Patrick & Partners, Architects, Cleveland, Ohio - '72-'73 - Cuyahoga County Justice Center, a four building highrise complex and center atrium.

LZT Architects, Peoria, Ill., - '71-'72 - const. drwgs. for hospital, truck stop, institutions, homes, churches 

Ferry and Henderson Architects, Springfield, Ill.,- '70-'71 - const. drwgs., model building, field surveys, school, nursing home, municipal building 

SIGN & GRAPHICS WORK EXPERIENCE  (Short Version)

As a natural born artist I was drawing portraits and scenery at 12 yrs. old.  I had a cartoon strip in the high school newspaper. I started painting signs by doing my dad's pickup truck.  I helped to pay my way through college by painting signs on my own.  My first real experience with signs was with a company in Arlington, Texas in 1967.  There I learned the art of screen printing and upgraded my skills as a signwriter.

From there I traveled a lot and worked for various sign companies like State Sign Services of Texas and Totton Outdoor Signs in Phoenix, Arizona. Other cities worked in include Goshin, Indiana - Indianapolis, Indiana - Springfield, Illinois - Carbondale, Illinois - Pensacola, Florida - doing professional signs and graphics, Town and Country Signs in Austin, Texas including learning how to design and install lighted signs, neon signs, channel letters, billboards, pinstriping, etc. All of this experience took place before computers took over the business.  

For the last few years I have run my own signs & graphics business.  At present I have my own collection of computers and spend a lot of time with on-line projects.

Hobbies and Other Interests

I have always been an inventor from about 12 years old.  I designed a unique differential for a Go Cart,  various designs for bow and arrow and knives, traps for wildlife, hiking and camping equipment, a special shoe with a toe blade for cutting corn out of beans (which was bought by a farm magazine), a motor that runs strictly on magnets, furniture, a unique punching bag, various electronic gadgets, boats and lots of toys.  I designed and engineered the Junior Class Prom in highschool. At 14 I constructed my first model of a geodesic dome and was inspired by the concept of triangles and spherical planes.

As I got older I became a specialist in Reinforced Concrete Bomb Shelters and Fallout Shelters, modular construction and mass housing production techniques, solar and wind power plus special studies in natural energies and efficiency systems. Martial Arts experience and training...still physically fit and capable at age 68 and rarely ever get sick plus practice vegetarian dieting and exercise.