Christopher Baier Email & Phone Number

Charlotte, North Carolina Area

Charlotte, North Carolina Area

— Collaborate and develop trusting relationships with internal customers, at all staff levels, to successfully communicate messages through professional design.— Work closely with customers to visually convey complex messages through a variety of media: brochures, presentations, websites, interactive PDFs, email communications, visual diagrams and charts.— Develop materials within a corporate brand to ensure all products reflect the EY brand, while pushing the brand to develop fresh visual ideas.— Manage a wide variety of design projects from concept through production and delivery, including internal projects to large, business development proposals and materials.— Effectively prioritize work, balancing multiple priorities simultaneously, establishing timelines and estimates and identifying additional resources to meet customer commitments and deadlines.— Identify and team with other designers, multimedia designers, production artists, copywriters, proofreaders, reprographics staff and external vendors for the completion of large projects.— Design and code internal and external web registration forms and complex web surveys that include HTML, ASP.net, JavaScript, jQuery, C# coding. — Develop training materials and templates, and train and coach offshore team and other US designers on the CSG+ survey platform, HTML coding and ASP.net.— Provide backstage production support for large internal and external conferences (from 200 to 3,500 attendees).— Provide on-site photography for professional headshots and event photography.— Member of a team of designers focused on the the Financial Services Organization business development team.

Charlotte, Nc

Secretary, Board of Directors.

Graphic design for print and web.

–Designed wide range of client deliverables, marketing materials and proposals for local and national teams using print and electronic delivery–Collaborated closely with partners and staff to successfully communicate messages–Developed productive relationships with national design team peers–Distinguished myself as an author of dynamic technical solutions and ideas–Established successful relationships and negotiations with outside vendors–Awarded both locally and nationally for demonstrating the firm’s values and high standard of performance (Chairman's Award)–Designed and programmed national job-tracking database to manage national job flow, time entry and billing–Liased with international peers to adapt this database to the design groups in Canada and India–Authored monthly design article for Graphic Design team newsletter and internal online forum–Served as judge on semi-annual design reviews to critique work of senior and junior designers

Wrote specifications and negotiated bids, developed cost estimates and production schedules. Communicated with Art Directors and Account Executives for timely management of projects and vendors. Maintained high level of production quality, on time and on budget.

Demonstrated mastery over both graphic design and prepress disciplines, including: typesetting, graphic design, layout, scanning, photo retouching, film output, estimating. Provided excellent customer service on a daily basis for a wide variety of projects.

Provided graphic design services for clients. Managed all aspects of pre-press capabilities including: scanning, photo retouching, producing graphics files and outputting film for print production.

Successful member of technical team established to create an in-house prepress department for international publishing house. Responsibilities included scanning, retouching and color-adjusting photos and artwork. Preparing, troubleshooting and outputting electronic publications to imagesetters for 4-color offset printing. Advised designers on best practices for setting up files for offset printing. Digitized the A Beka Book handwriting fonts (printing and cursive) to use in textbooks.