Successful in maintaining and developing the company's brand aesthetics. Highly skilled in Adobe InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, PremierPro, and Acrobat.Logo Design - Created logos for various products and materials. Notably, the GEN logo for new product launch in 2019.Conceptualize and produce sales support graphics, including: Sell sheets, brochures, business cards, photos, sales territory maps, catalogs & product labels, trade show booth design and signage of all kinds, including banners and custom graphic table covers. Created functional booth layout diagrams.Content creation and corresponding graphics for website via Wordpress, BeaverBuilder, and HubSpot. Advertising emails announcing products, promotions, and classes on Active Campaign email platform.Email signature design for product promotion. Landing pages. Product photography and editing. Maintaining product parts on company website.Blog illustrations and graphics. Social Media; creation and maintenance of engaging social media graphics, which has attracted readers, increasing company metrics by 35K+ total sessions and record breaking numbers for three consecutive months (Mar-May 2020). Technical illustrations.Corporate video shooting and editing in Adobe PremierPro.GIF banner creation.Communications relationships with vendors - manage all printed product ordering, sell sheets, packaging, labels & trade show graphics of all kinds. Interface with customers - help them by providing product photos & data as needed. Banners and ads custom designed to our vendor specifications for their websites.Career listing maintenance on company website.Website trouble-shooting & maintain website developer communications for updates & revisions to our website.

Recent Work Includes:Logos designed for business and non-profitIllustrationAnnouncement postcardsBrochuresBulletin insert with custom illustrationSales flyerBusiness cards

Design of Graphics for Thermal TumblersDaily work in Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, and InDesign in the latest Adobe CC versions. In Illustrator I create custom designs for different sizes of tumblers, based on our customer’s needs. At other times the designs I create are for our in-store sales and meet a wide variety of interests.Virtual ProofsWith Adobe Photoshop I take my designs and make a realistic, 3D view of the art inside a front and back view of the tumbler, which helps our customers visualize the product. Pre-Press (Pre-Flight) Prepare art files for print. Involves reshaping and reconfiguring art to work inside the different sizes of tumblers with their unique dimensions, and making it look correct, like the proof, in the finished tumbler.Secondly, I consider which elements of the design will need to print opaque and which ones will be translucent or clear. Then I create the desired levels of opacity in the artwork, cut-back, or trapped, so they are hidden when printed.Advertising GraphicsI create sales flyers, brochures, and in store signage such as point of sale and window cling brand identity graphics as well as brand identity labels for our tumblers. I oversee production of these with our print vendors.I have saved my company hundreds of dollars by shopping our sales print materials around to different print vendors.eMarketing email DesignI produce eMarketing ads, highlighting products and quality, for our sales team, and share them using MailChimp.Personal Customer Service to ClientsCommunicate with clients to understand their needs.Training New HiresTraining new hires in our design and pre-press processes. This involves teaching the determination process and use of various methods of producing different configurations of art elements and opacities so they look correct in the tumbler when it is finished. I teach usage of specific tools and tasks in Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop to achieve the required results.

Graphic Advertising for Real Estate Sales - Corporate HeadquartersI created and versioned a wide variety of advertising print media, illustration and HTML messaging for the Eastern United States from Texas to Washington D.C. using Adobe Creative Suite. I produced and managed twenty weekly advertisements for various newspaper publications throughout the United States.Collaborated with print brokers to achieve accurate and timely production of complex materials.Produced animation for online advertising in Adobe Flash. Trained Internal Customers and Staff how to use correct data input processes saving time and reducing errors.Wrote instruction manual on Photographic techniques for our realtor staff increasing the effectiveness of advertisements.I worked independently and in harmony with my team members in the Graphic Design department and our parent Marketing Department.

Created custom digitizing of graphic artwork using Wilcom software.Produced embroidery from digitized files on Brother commercial embroidery equipment. Production of embroidered items of all kinds on a wide variety of substrates. Design and production of graphics for direct-to-garment print on promotional items. Managed a team of three.

Design and production of advertising for bi-weekly magazine.

Graphic Design of advertising for businesses in weekly newspaper.Photo correction for print.Photography.Periodic back-up layout artist for Editor.

Created Packaging Artwork Using Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop, I created new and recreated original artwork to scale on die-cut diagrams and structural drawings to fulfill specific print needs for corrugated packaging, utilizing my excellent understanding of three-dimensional layouts.Produced artwork in accord with full understanding of production considerations, deadlines, budgets.Pre-Press/Pre-Flight for Flexographic PrintingPre-Flighted artwork with trapping specs for color separations, on die drawing structural files.Checked prints for accuracy of registration and trapping for creation of printing plates. Pre-press of graphics for packaging and POP displays.Did on site press checks and saved my company thousands of dollars by catching print errors.Created Promotional Materials and PrototypesProduced three-dimensional mock-ups of packaging for sales promotion. Created and updated sales flyers, posters, and in-house organizational materials.Responsible to Oversee High-end Printing Litho Laminate graphics pre-flight. Graphic Supervisor Back-upWas responsible for work distribution, production output, supervision and training of employees.