SUMMARY

• Over 15 years experience in the Graphic Design field working as a designer, website builder, animated gif and email builder, production manager, art director and in - house IT manager.
• Clients consist of real estate, non-profit / NGOs, education, recruitment, home building, business-to-business advertising, healthcare, and food industries.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Adobe CS6 Photoshop, Illustrator & InDesign
• QuarkXPress
• AcrobatPro & Acrobat Distiller
• Suitcase
• BBEdit
• Fetch
• HTML
• CSS
• Joomla CMS
• WordPress CMS
• PHP & MySQL
• FilemakerPro
• Word
• Excel
• PowerPoint
• Outlook
• QuickBooks

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Digital Services Manager

Confidential - Baltimore, Maryland

Responsibilities:

• Production of all print work in all areas such as collateral, magazine ads, annual reports, stationary packages, sell sheets, information brochures and on-line recruitment advertising ads
• Print design of ads, brochures, sell sheets, and direct-mail pieces per client instructions
• Following brand guidelines and ensuring adherence across body of work
• Learning and harnessing digital software for creating Email campaigns and on-line banners
• Working with vendors when outsourcing website construction
• Design and production of websites to include architecture development, page functionality, look and feel and coding of CSS, HTML and also using CMS software Joomla and WordPress
• Daily assistance to Creative Director and Art Directors
• Daily assistance to Production Manager
• Development and set-up of internal digital library for all files throughout agency for internal access for everyone
• Evaluation and development of initiative to computerize work-flow throughout the entire agency
• Collection of required information after meeting and discussing needs with each department within the agency
• Honing that information into the system using FilemakerPro and designing the interface for input to include our revamped branding
• Developed an instruction manual and held instructional seminars with employees on how to use the system
• Launch of system
• Performance of updates and system maintenance
• Organization of computers and conformance of software agency
• Management of IT supplies and maintenance
• Daily accounts payables and receivables and processing checks in QuickBooks

Assistant Production Manager

Confidential - Sparks, Maryland

Responsibilities:

• As this position was the only in-house artist I was responsible for the production of all work in all areas such as collateral, magazine ads, annual reports, stationary packages, sell sheets, information brochures of design work supplied by freelance Art Directors
• Design of ads and collateral per client instructions
• Daily assistance to freelance Art Directors
• Daily assistance to Production Manager
• Development and set-up of internal digital library for all art files
• Active in establishment of art department computer systems and learning software to usher agency into the digital age