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.—.

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.

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.