• Responsible for working directly with clients on a range of custom designed, printed materials• Works with Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign)

• Clients include Serenity Day Spa, Word Forge Books, The Word Forge, Joyful Paw Prints Press, and Diamond Publishing International• Responsible for working directly with clients on a range of graphic design applications from identity and marketing collateral to website design• Works with Adobe Creative Suite (including Dreamweaver)• Specializing in WordPress-based, mobile-friendly website design and development

• Developed strong teamwork and interpersonal skills• Significant customer service and satisfaction responsibilities; Took a proactive stance on suggesting and implementing process improvements in this area.• Exercised critical analysis skills in troubleshooting back office and shop floor work process inefficiencies• Leveraged design training and retail floor experience to suggest more effective merchandising and POP signage

• Worked under direct supervision of Mary Shafer, creative director and publisher of this marketing consultancy with a publishing division.• Performed full range of graphic design duties from corporate identity packages to print sales collateral, merchandising displays to book interiors.• Learned various facets of pre-press production, digital file troubleshooting, how and when to apply setting options in creating PDF file conversions for different applications; type design in advertising; color theory and application; pagination of long documents; practice in both QuarkXPress and Adobe InDesign, along with Illustrator and Photoshop.• Was encouraged to bring fresh eyes to improving established work processes• Introduced WordPress as a more effective CMS platform for inhouse and client websites, allowing more cost-effective initial development and easy inhouse updates• Principal took my advice and replaced all inhouse sites with WordPress sites.