Lead Designer for Outer Banks Visitors Guide, Norfolk Visitors Guide, and Virginia's Blue Ridge Visitors Guide designing page layouts and ads. Will also work on ads for other various visitor guides as well as our other publications: Coastal Virginia Magazine, COVABiz Magazine, COVA Bride, SAVOR, Lynchburg Living, Lynchburg Business, and Central Virginia Bride.

Manage print projects from the conceptual phase to production to ensure deliverables meet client requirements.

Collaborated with senior production artist, print production manager, project managers and graphic designers on project details and the coordination and trafficking of all catalog pages and marketing collateral pieces (posters, flyers, brochures, inserts, etc.) for North America, Canada, United Kingdom, Sweden and France.

Designed graphics for a variety of applications including publications, displays and other media for Copy Center Creations, an onsite business that serves AOL and it’s subsidiaries around the world. Adhered to guidelines of the AOL brand. Portfolio of design samples: www.wix.com/snclrz/snclrz-DESIGN

Provided technical support, troubleshoot and communicated file problems and solutions to internal and external stakeholders for 4+ color printing process. Monitored production of magazines and catalogs to ensure compliancy requirements, while adhering to tight deadlines. Engaged in all aspects of preflighting, training, file transfer media, workflow process improvement and quality assurance.Managed prepress production of ~25 to 30 weekly, monthly and quarterly magazines including The Washington Post Magazine, Ad Week, Business Week, Scientific American and Kiplinger Personal Finance. Simultaneously coordinated various supplementary and special projects under time constraints.

Produced weekly 4-color magazine while completing full-time graduate studies in graphic arts systems. Worked as an assistant in the Electronic Prepress Production lab and also as a photographer for the Educational Technical Center.