Chris Pharaoh Email & Phone Number

Franklin, Tennessee

- Responsible for Preflight and Prepress of Adhesive Labels, RFID Inlays, Offset Books, and Shrink Sleeves, identifying issues and making adjustments to customer art to meet production standards.- Responsible for producing technically complex labels that may include: Databases for Variable Dynamic Printing, Labels with RFID Inlays, Shrink Sleeves, Foil, Embossing, and Offset Books.- Oversees all Shrink Sleeve Production: 3D Scanning, 3D Modeling, Testing, Generating Templates, Proofing, Rendering Art on 3D models,Preflight, and Prepress.- Responsible for Press Checks, photo adjustments of images using Photoshop and Illustrator, and create custom colors and color adjustments for the digital presses.- Create tools to automate repetitive tasks and guarantee quality control: making Illustrator actions to automate repetitive tasks and Calculators in Excel. - Maintain Archive produced items to reference for reprints or the print production of future labels to ensure labels meet preexisting quality standards.

Van Buren, Arkansas, United States

- Responsible for Preflight, Prepress, and Dynamic Production of Tickets and Coupons by preparing Graphic Designs for imprinting Variable Data for Offset Presses.- Examined Databases with Excel and created conditional rules with XMPie for InDesign to ensure art functioned with the correct variable information, and find key examples for Imprint Proofs.- Conversed with Sales, Programming Department, and Press Operators to generate press sheets, adjust trapping, make color corrections, and create Match Prints for client approvals.- Created Foil Dies, Emboss Dies, and various Perf, Hangtag, and Round-Corner Dies for Tickets, Coupons, Parking Placards, and ID Cards.- Communicated with Customers to design Tickets, Coupons, Parking Packards, and deduced the ideal production methods for Variable Dynamic Print Production.

Associate’S Degree, Graphic Design, 3.98

2009: Bronze Addy® Winner: Ad Campaign 2007-09: Dean's List

Bachelor’S Degree, Liberal Arts And Sciences, General Studies And Humanities, 3.98

Activities and Societies: Phi Beta KappaHistory Major; English Minor Magna Cum Laude graduate 2002: Dr. Frank Lockwood Family Scholar.

Associate’S Degree, Fine/Studio Arts, General, 3.98

Activities and Societies: Phi Beta Kappa2000: National Dean’s List 99-01: Dean’s List 2000: Outstanding Art Award: UA - Fort Smith