Christina Wiley Email & Phone Number

Seattle, Washington, United States

• I'm building the tools we use to create Magic: The Gathering, Arena, D&D, Duel Masters, and more.
• Product owner for internal creative and production tool development
• Leading the effort to implement a modern approvals platform
• Conducting proof-of-concept and user testing for a digital asset management system
• Working with internal and vendor engineering teams to build a new database, API, and product-specific front end services

Greater Seattle Area

• I've re-joined Wizards to manage the Creative Production team for Magic: The Gathering products.
• My team owns imaging, typesetting, product shots, and QA for large, complex trading card game sets.
• Each year we produce over 100,000 unique design assets in 11 languages.
• Created a new Design Technology team to build automation tools and improve processes across disciplines.

Greater Seattle Area

• I built and managed a team that created design tools for Amazon Publishing. We owned quality control for both print and digital formats, and built tools to simplify and automate the production of cover and interior.
• I recruited, hired, and developed the APub Design Quality team.
• My team serviced daily file QC, approvals, and reworks in a fast paced, deadline driven environment.
• Rebuilt the interior design workflow using a templatized process that dramatically reduced handle time and costs.
• Created interior image layout automation to eliminate manual conversion steps for e-book creation.
• Built the Apub Cover Creator, a tool that automatically generates print book cover templates at the correct size for a given page count, trim size, and imprint.

Seattle

• Production Artist & Photo Editor for AmazonLocal. I started a production team that creates advertising on Kindle and the web. We are a high-volume shop that creates hundreds of visual assets a day for several distinct.
• Helped create a new production department from the ground up.
• Created an imaging production workflow including designs, templates, automation, documentation, and procedural standards.
• Helped create a digital asset management system that was customized for our workflow.
• Participated in recruiting and hiring of production staff.
• Supervised a team who created graphics for over 100 deal pages per day.

• Photo Editor for the Bing search engine. My duties included the selection of images for the Bing Visual Search, as well as finding compelling images for marketing uses, and for the Bing home page.
• Located images by searching online databases including Getty Images, Corbis, Photolibrary, and Age Fotostock.
• Built catalogs for celebrity slideshows, holidays, and other noteworthy events.
• Processed images into internal database.

Freelance graphic design for web and print.

• Technical writer and application support for Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Lightroom and CS3&4 Suite. Worked closely with the engineering team to report bugs and write technical documentation. I also handled phone and online.
• Worked with Installer team to solve CS3 installation issues.
• Documented troubleshooting for Mac OS, Windows XP and Windows Vista desktop platforms.
• Managed beta tester relations for the CS3 beta program.
• Lab tested customer support scenarios.
• Wrote technical documentation for the Adobe knowledge base.

• Image editor responsible for color matching digital and original painted imagery for CMYK printing on various media, as well as image retouching, manipulation, and editing.
• Created and managed card frames and design elements for entire product range.
• Worked with card design database to create and manage large projects.
• Created custom foil underprint files for Magic: the Gathering, Duel Masters, Neo Pets, Pokemon, and sports card sets. This included intricate clipping paths and multi-layered knockout files.
• Created complex alpha masks for illustrated artwork for Dungeons & Dragons role playing series.

• Oversaw color management, scanning quality and practices, workflow issues, internal IT support for Macintosh systems, digital asset management, and cataloging. Managed the internal OS X Server network, the Apple.
• Performed artifact retouching, logo removal, image restoration, clipping paths, and compositing.
• Color corrected images for RGB and CMYK output.
• Edited historical photos involving complex image restoration.
• Handled hardware and software tech research and purchasing.

At PhotoDisc I did general Photoshop work including color correction, clipping paths and alpha channel creation, layered compositing, and cleanup/restoration of stock images.I also did technical support for PhotoDisc's CD ROM products.