Christopher Staats Email & Phone Number

Harrisonburg, Virginia, United States

• Work in tandem with creative team to produce key graphics, product packaging, point-of-sale displays, various advertising elements (digital/print), print publications, presentations (digital/print), and online artwork.
• Predetermine best ways to represent concepts visually through careful curation of photographs, artwork, and/or other design elements for use in campaign materials. Develop, render, and present those ideas for team.
• Collaborate closely and maintain clear communication with art directors, designers, and developers and conduct press checks
• Provide image retouching, paths, masks, and additional image manipulation whilst following and updating project timeline, anticipating project choke points, and meeting project deadlines

Harrisonburg, Virginia

• Coordinate processes between internal/external parties pertaining to the artwork supply-chain by facilitating decoration workflows and integrate sustainable resolutions to technical queries from customers. Chase.
• Produce and present production proofs for client review based on supplied artwork
• Ensure all artwork processed in compliance with and according to local procedures and best practice standards. Integral in shaping local processes and procedures to achieve quality and meeting commercial needs of.
• Combine customer specifications whilst accommodating internal procedures/materials/direction to actualize effective and creative production packs

• Directed and managed a team of talented production artists, ensuring the quality of publishable files for global Rosetta Stone marketing distribution.
• Foster and maintain direct communication with Art Director, Production Manager, and Project Manager(s) to ensured all collateral remained deliverable through workflow processes and all consumer deadlines met
• Vigilantly reviewed the work of production artists to ensure quality standards, brand standards, and project specifications
• Dependably planned and executed the artwork for the build of materials of all packaging in nine languages to accommodate a global retail presence
• Meticulously maintained a collateral suite in five languages of brochures, fact sheets and case studies to support an international B2B sales force
• Actively updated project management and data tracking applications to review, determine scope, approve scheduling and update all assigned projects to ensure transparency and awareness of project progress

• Daily balanced the delivery of varied projects as requested by client including layout and design, digitally toning pictures, digitally manipulating images and graphics, submitting digital and hard proofs for client.
• Coached newly hired staff department work-flow, procedures, file management and troubleshoot the solution to any stage within a project
• Managed the submission for all U.S. Rosetta Stone Ltd. print publication advertisement
• Output black and white, CMYK color and spot color separations from digital files for offset web press, sheet fed web press, digital press, c-print, and silkscreen

• Developed advertising concepts for clients.
• Created press ready files of approved advertising concepts.
• Set the classified and special sections of the daily newspaper for press.
• Processed selected editorial photos for press.
• Digitally scanned, retouched and performed image manipulation to meet press SNAP standards.