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Graphic Designer Resume

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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Interactive Graphic Production

Responsibilities:

  • Managing updates in comps that are accurate, fully editable, and pixel - perfect
  • Exporting final images that are both optimized and pushed live at the highest possible quality
  • Verifying that images appearing on pages across various platforms are consistently treated for a seamless user-experience
  • Maintaining an archive of up-to-date comps that reflect the live site
  • Ensuring production-ready files are handed off to GEOs for localization

Confidential

Production Artist

Responsibilities:

  • Production artist for a leading skin care company.
  • Produced booklets, catalogs, and sell sheets for consumers and consultants.

Confidential

Production Artist

Responsibilities:

  • Production artist for winery that produces exclusive brands of wine, beer and spirits for retailers around the world.
  • Producing packaging art for beverage bottles, labels, retail box, and shipping cartons.
  • Includes Illustrator production with some image compositing in Photoshop for bottle labels (front, back, & neck), can artwork, 6-pack packaging (bottle and can), 12-can tray packaging, bottle cap artwork, and shipping “mother carton” packaging,
  • Printing processes include offset wet-glue for labels, flexo corrugated box printing, and flexo can printing.

Confidential

Graphic Designer

Responsibilities:

  • Graphic and visual designer for print and web.
  • Concepting, design, production, and image retouching/ compositing of marketing materials for the organization's website, print and digital advertisements, social media, and signage.
  • Helped redesign main website producing almost 200 custom buttons with icons and created new art direction for their new website.

Confidential

Senior Production Artist

Responsibilities:

  • I also oversaw, produced, and trained others in the production of over 100 Confidential iOS iAds for mobile.
  • As an Confidential Developer I produced interactive, rich media ads with animation and video based on HTML5, CSS3, & JavaScript using Confidential ’s iAd Producer.
  • I was the primary production artist for this and had creative input on the style of the animation itself as well.
  • I was tasked with training others in the animation & production process, and wrote the entire Process Doc training manual for iAd production for other Confidential artists.
  • Our agency received an award for our work on Supercell which culminated with an integrated commercial featuring Liam Neeson which debuted during the 2015 Superbowl.
  • Supercell work also involved heavy Photoshop production and automation for resizing banners and adjusting layouts to keep consistent with Art Directors original concept and direction edits.

Confidential

Senior Production Artist

Responsibilities:

  • Working directly with Account Managers, Art Directors, and Copywriters as a Production Artist and Visual Designer,
  • I produced digital & print artwork. Clients included Confidential, Confidential, Confidential, Confidential, Confidential, Confidential, Confidential, Confidential, Confidential, Confidential, Confidential, and Confidential . Scope of work included: emails, Web pages, newsletters, articles, banners, interactive PDFs,
  • scheduled social media banners & mastheads, all for both desktop and mobile digital.
  • Print included direct mail, brochures, catalogs, sell sheets, booklets, and signage for print.
  • I also made various Excel and PDF presentations.Retoucher {Premedia):
  • Was the pro tem Photoshop Image Retoucher for the Premedia department while the main Retoucher was out on sick leave for six months.
  • Primary clients for retouching work were Confidential, Confidential, and Confidential .

Confidential

Prepress Operator

Responsibilities:

  • Color correction, retouching, and digital image editing using Adobe Photoshop CC;
  • Contract color proofing using GMG Flexoproof color management software, Esko Automation Engine workflows, and Illustrator CC; and
  • Prepress Production: Art file production edits, trapping (setting color traps, overprints, and knockouts) using Illustrator CC, and Esko DeskPack tools for hi-end flexo product packaging of up to 10-13 colors including rotogravure inks.

Confidential

Print Production Artist (Senior)

Responsibilities:

  • Contract worker (via netPolarity) in Corporate Marketing Creative Studio as Print Production Artist.
  • Used InDesign CS6 to edit and produce layouts with accuracy and precision, used paragraph style sheets, leveraged templates, navigated servers, worked independently as well as in a group environment, and upheld existing Studio processes.
  • Also worked in Acrobat X (Professional) for PDF workflow producing PDFs for print and web including Fillable Forms.
  • Demonstrated an conscientious, uncompromising level of perfection and attention to detail on a variety of client-branded and company-branded projects, upheld quality standards, templates, support systems, Studio procedures, and proper processes.

Confidential

Production Artist

Responsibilities:

  • Work as print production artist for a strategic managed market agency dedicated to the pharmaceutical and biotech industry. Clients included Confidential .

Confidential

Production Designer

Responsibilities:

  • Produced print and online PDF marketing materials for stakeholders across various business lines including Covered California, Medicare, Individual & Family Plan, Small Group, and Large Group (stakeholders include brokers, employers, providers, and patients).
  • Materials include: Member Handbooks, various booklets including Statement of Benefits (SOBs) and Explanation of Benefits (EOBs), drug formulary books, patient education pamphlets, various patient/claims forms for print and online fillable-form PDFs,
  • Direct mail postcards and self-mailers, patient health and wellness collateral, broker sales sheets, and envelopes.
  • Attended Creative Briefs with art directors, traffic managers, stakeholders, print production managers, writers, and the Creative Studio manager to discuss scope of project.
  • Proofread vendor proofs and signed off for print approval and preflighted files for handoff to print vendors.

Confidential

Digital Prepress Specialist

Responsibilities:

  • Duties included producing catalogs, comic books ( Naruto ),
  • healthcare materials, and offset press quality PDFs for print vendor workflows, digital image editing, retouching, color-correcting,
  • contract proof production (digital Matchprint with color key overlays, content & position proofs/digital bluelines), and some Flash production.

Confidential

Manager

Responsibilities:

  • Managed all aspects of Digital Prepress Department, which included both Offset Lithography prepress and Digital Print-On-Demand prepress.
  • Work spanned the gamut of printing from booklets and manuals to packaging.
  • Notable clients include Digidesign ( Confidential ) and Confidential .
  • I managed Prepress personnel and the digital press Operators (including training personnel).
  • As part of the Managerial team, had joint oversight of non-supervisorial employees in general, along with the other department managers.
  • I supervised all aspects of art file handling from Client file submission to plate handoff to press operators.
  • I ensured that all production was executed with best- practices for correct printing.
  • This includes overseeing all prepress workflow processes (preflight, assembly and imposition, platesetting, file server structure & organization, file-naming conventions & hierarchy, file storage and accessing, setting standard operating procedures for job management, creating efficient job schedules),
  • establishing all new and improving current workflow processes, determining hardware & software configurations.
  • Upgrades for desktop workstations (Mac & PC), digital front ends, platesetter, proofing printers, and digital presses (Oce VarioStream, iGen DocuColor, Docutech 6180, and Docutech DT135).

Confidential

Production Artist

Responsibilities:

  • Working as a print production artist for marketing and advertising.
  • Advertising clients include Confidential and Confidential ( Confidential ).
  • Responsibilities include producing artwork for advertising and marketing materials such as weekly newsprint sales ads,
  • product packaging and labels, retail signage, product packaging, catalogs, booklets, brochures, direct mail, ads, and forms.
  • At Confidential, produced art for Human Resources Team Member Marketing department, including self-mailers, books, brochures, postcards, letters and inserts, envelopes.
  • Also performed press checks, provided color scatter proofs, proofing, color correction, image retouching and editing, and mockups.

Confidential

Print + Web Production Artist

Responsibilities:

  • Clients include Confidential, Confidential, Confidential, Confidential, Confidential ( Confidential ).
  • Print responsibilities included mechanical and comp art production for direct mail pieces and ads, which included self-mailers, brochures, postcards, envelopes, letters, product packaging, outdoor media, and magazine ads.
  • Web responsibilities included banner resizing, GIF animation, and Flash banner editing. Specialized in direct marketing production art and helped establish procedures and coordinate with print production managers to insure that art is always produced with the highest prepress/production standards by deadline.
  • Also performed maintenance and operation of the Confidential, Confidential, and Confidential for DocuColor.

Confidential

Print + Web Production Artist

Responsibilities:

  • Produced online digital assets for e-business, direct mail brochures, ads, retail signage, product packaging and labels, and catalogs.

Confidential

Graphic Designer

Responsibilities:

  • Designed, produced, and did prepress for licensed pro sports calendars ( Confidential ). Also for college athletics, and various celebrities ( Confidential ).
  • Work included cover and inside page layout and design, art production, image retouching, color correction, masking, cloning, morphing, preflight, digital signature imposition,
  • PostScripting files, operating Scitex PS/M Digital Front End, Raster Image Processing of files, color trapping, imagesetting/film output, imagesetter operation and maintenance (Scitex Dolev 800), and film processor operation and maintenance.
  • assisting Digital Prepress Supervisor and covering for him in his absence. Duties also include covering for Prepress Manager in his absence as training for a supervisory role.

Confidential

Graphic Designer

Responsibilities:

  • Job responsibilities include art direction and production of print material including collateral and advertising i.e. brochures, catalogs, newsprint ads, postcards;
  • corporate identity (logos and stationary), presentation folders, menus; and promotional design, newsletters, periodicals, flyers, and posters.
  • Also includes designing and typesetting forms, invitations, booklets, and various other items for print.
  • Duties also include scanning, color correction, retouching, prepress, imposition, and training new employees.

Confidential

Digital Prepress Coordinator

Responsibilities:

  • Job responsibilities included digital imposition & stripping using Preps software;
  • RIPing, trapping, and outputting film using Scitex PS/M (DFE) and Scitex Full Auto Frame; plotting film on a Scitex Dolev 4PressV imagesetter; and coordination of all production done through entire prepress workflow.
  • I was the sole person responsible for operation and regular maintenance of all hardware and software.
  • I also created over 100 imposition signature templates in Preps software.
  • Duties also include preflighting, and filmsetting on smal l er AGFA film imagesetter.
  • Work spanned entire gamut of offset lithography from brochures and posters to packaging and annual reports.

Confidential

Graphic Designer

Responsibilities:

  • Job responsibilities included preflighting and manually trapping artwork in Illustrator or Freehand, setting trapping in Quark, Pagemaker, and/or Trapwise.
  • Imagesetting responsibilities include sending jobs to AGFA imagesetter for film or RC paper output, or to a Screen imagesetter for larger filmsetting (using Adobe’s Color Central).
  • Job responsibilities also include output to color laser printer and B&W laser printer; maintenance of Screen imagesetter; typesetting and design of brochures, advertisements, point-of-sale, catalogs; client relations; and blueline proof and Matchprint making.
  • Also laminating and working with drum scanner.
  • Notable clients include Gallo Winery and Robert Mondavi Winery .
  • Work spanned entire gamut of lithography from hi-end annual reports to complex folders, packaging, product hangtags, and point-of-sale.

Confidential

Graphic Designer

Responsibilities:

  • Design and Production of custom maps: Conceptualized layout and design of entire map using both traditional and computer graphics (not including cartography).
  • Designed artwork for map cover and sponsors’ ads (with an average of 40 to 80 ads per map), as well as typeset the editorials.
  • Had Creative Brief with client, created mock-up comps and did mechanical production (art boards with mylar, tissue, and film overlays, waxing & paste-up of camera ready art, and film output). Also responsible for overall project management, account management, making presentation package for client; and press checks.

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