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Work experience

2018Present

Production Artist

PPC Flexible Packaging
  • Assists team in the production of graphic material and packaging.
  • Dieline Development.
  • Ensure print quality standards are met.
  • Collect, process and organize files.
20172018

Digital Assets Collection Assistant - Freelance

Hallmark
  • Cataloging, storage, and retrieval of digital assets.
  • Back up, grouping, archiving, optimizing, maintaining files or other binary data.
  • Running weekly audits to help maintain proper protocols in the use and download of digital assets.
20162016

Pre-Press & Customer Service Specialist - Freelance

Atlas Labels & Packaging
  • Administrative support for owner, operations and sales management.
  • Managed telephone calls, corporate correspondence, and front end support.
  • Disbursement of warehouse products.
  • Pre-flight, troubleshoot, prepare and impose files for output and process completion.
  • Responsible for file processing.
  • Utilization of Adobe CC Illustrator, Photoshop and InDesign.
Oct 2009Nov 2013

Graphic Designer/Marketing Coordinator

Hantover - Industrial Distribution
  • Designed and printed online interactive sales and marketing collateral.
  • Developed templates for e-newsletters, presentations, and reports.
  • Designed unique print materials, advertisements, brochures and logo designs.
  • Catalog layout and design.
  • Prepared layouts and drawings in compliance with established templates and design standards.
  • Produced packaging for domestic and international markets.
  • Developed, designed and produced corporate newsletters and other promotional direct mail items as requested by marketing.
  • Created graphic materials for company website and email newsletters.
Aug 2007Aug 2008

Graphic Designer

Educational Resources, Inc.-Nursing Education
  • Created web pages, graphic elements, and infographics for email newsletters.
  • Consistently adhered to all internal delivery schedules.
  • Translated prototypes and PSDs into launch-ready, pixel-perfect formats.
  • Determined styles, size, and arrangement of illustrations and graphics.
  • Created graphic materials for the company website.
  • Developed, designed and produced corporate newsletters and other promotional direct mail items as directed by marketing.
Jan 1994Present

Graphic Designer/Co Owner

Grafx Impact- Freelance Graphic Design Boutique
  • Create the look and feel of organizational online presence in social media venues.
  • Design unique print materials; advertisements, brochures and logo designs.
  • Contribute ideas during strategic and conceptual brainstorming sessions.
  • Design artistic signage for special corporate events.
  • Prioritize graphics workload and effectively coordinate multiple projects.
Mar 2000Nov 2006

Presentation Graphic Designer and Digital Asset Management Specialist

Flagler Productions, Inc.-Digital Video Production
  • Created visuals that appeal to leaders for Wal-Mart corporate meetings.
  • Collaborated with a team of designers to offer improvements and direction on others' projects.
  • Proposed ideas during strategic and conceptual brainstorming sessions.
  • Designed signage for corporate events.

Education

B.F.A

Ringling College of Art and Design
    • Computer Science courses
    • Digital Animation coursework
    • Visual Communication course

Skills

Adobe Creative Suite

Photoshop: Image manipulation

Illustrator: Set mechanical files for print output

ArtPro+: PDF editor for packaging prepress

Takes conceptual/strategic designs and implements the mechanical files for output

Product template creation

Preflight formatting

Advanced typography knowledge

Brochure and newsletter formatting

Catalog layout and design

Summary

  • Conceptualizes, implements and executes innovative design solutions for print, web and broadcast applications.
  • Skilled in a variety of applications for logos and marketing packages designed to strengthen business competence and branding, recognized for increased revenue growth.
  • Driven and adept at managing heavy workloads, focused on designing creative, visually-appealing graphics.
  • Highly creative with exceptional flexibility and resourcefulness.
  • Talented, seasoned professional with more than 20 years in product, publishing and print design.

Portfolio

References

By request