Benjamin Ware Email & Phone Number

Chicago, Il, Us

Skokie, Il.

• Work primarily with accounts that required a steady supply of retouched pictures of lamps.• Utilize Photoshop to create and attach additional image to existing rendered image of lighting fixture.• Advise and collaborate in peer teams with designers, photographers, and marketing department to improve efficiency, quality, service, and profitability.• Manipulate digital images to produce a high volume of high-quality images under very tight deadlines.• Evaluate DPI adequacy to final output size and adjusts as necessary.• Often called on to execute the most complicated customer instructions and demands.• Yielded company 50% profit by preventing the need for outsourcing. Created and attached additional image to existing rendered image of lighting fixture.

• Image Comp Artist and Page Assembly: Pre-Press Mac Operator. • Retoucher and Composition Artist for special projects related to various departments. • Used artistic skills to create half normal and see through images of wall mounted televisions. • Constructed various parts of images together to create realistic images. • Routinely met daily deadlines to complete time sensitive printing demands. 75% of time sensitive projects were completed within 2 days.• Transitioned new client (OfficeMax) to the LAGO System workflow.

Greater Chicago Area

• Pre-Press Mac Operator, Image Retoucher, Image Color Correction.• Utilized Photoshop and Illustrator to finalize and paint compositions for print.• Managed files within the server structure, maintained naming conventions, and managed files onWebDam.• Interpreted creative direction from Art Director and Photographer; applied expert final product.• Secured a key monthly magazine. Immediate contact person for editor. Orchestrated every aspect of the account including customer service, design, file management, color correction, page assembly, and final delivery of print ready files. Generated company profits of over $300,000.00.• Coordinator and representative for the imagery and layout of a major quarterly magazine. (Notre Dame Magazine).

Greater Chicago Area

Conventional 4 color stripper and Mac Operator.I designed the annual report booklet for C.A.U.S.E.S.I also participated in cross training within other departments, whichconsisted of: digital proofing, data archiving, job pre-planning, qualitycontrol, film output, and image retouching