Owner and Lead Designer for freelance design agency catering to needs of anyone who needs print or web design.

Graphic Designer• Part of a four-person graphics team that does the layout, pagination, photo retouching, illustration and all final work for all consumer and retail catalogs.• Successfully produced several packages, garment tags and other promotional materials as needed.• Created the photostudio’s independent website www.36weststudio.com as a studio rental site.Print Manager• In charge of the print procurement and price quoting of all printed material with outside vendors.• Gathers all necessary files and communicates effectively with the print provider in order to obtain a timely and cost conscious outcome. • Oversees all print aspects of the company's outgoing visual content. • During tenure, company saw a 37% reduction is printing costs.

Graphic Designer• Sped up production as much as 200% as part of a three-person graphics team that did the layout, pagination, photo retouching, illustration and all final work for all consumer and retail catalogs.• In charge of design of all packages, garment tags and other promotional materials as needed.• Successfully streamlined and used cost-cutting measures for print procurement and price quoting of all printed materials with outside vendors. Saved company over $40,000 in first printing job.• Created the photostudio’s independent rental website www.36weststudio.com.Office Manager Jun 2011-Feb 2015• Oversaw Design and Construction (Company’s General Contractor) of new 10 person office space in Fashion District of NYC.• Orchestrated office move during a three day period to move a ten person office and all office contents. • Instituted new office accounting and financial record keeping for compliance purposes.• Organized and implemented a new inventory system to elemenate waste and saw a 63% cost savings in office materials. • Personal Assistant to the President of the Company (multiple duties).

Graphic Designer, Webmaster, Administration Council Chair, Public Relations Chair• Successfully designed and started church’s web presence at Xeniaeumc.t35.com. Later moved the site to my personal site for free hosting.• Re-branded the church logo, bulletin, newsletter, and other items for a cohesive look.• Served as President of main governing body of church; main liaison for church with local newspaper, et al.

• Re-designed original site, logo and navigation for a nearly double increase in web traffic while gaining the group almost twice as many member in a nine month period of time. • Taught several members in the group basic HTML and Muse so they could update the site as needed.• Available for consultation and updates on an as-needed basis.

• Designed seven introductory marketing Flash Animation videos for exciting new product rollout.• Created print and web advertising for use at Creative Commons conference.• Created logo, navigation, and other graphics for use on www.profoundui.com web site portal and main web site.

•Started and lead transition of TCNewsnet.com from a free site to a paid subscriber site.•Instrumental in web-based ad placement system call Ad-Grover.•Paginated news products including the AutoSource and weekly publications using Citrix and Quark Xpress.• Served as the main requested designer to all the area car dealerships.

Pre-Pressman•Oversaw the installation and configuration of new Kodak Trendsetter III digital plate making and processing systems.•Checked incoming pages for accuracy and prepared plates for pressmen. When inaccurate pages appeared, used InDesign and Acrobat Pro to correct mistakes.•Ensured newspapers ran on time and in good working order.

•Member of the pre-press design team to ready incoming and original art for pressmen.•Additionally served as part of the marketing department to design marketing materials for customers using CorelDraw Suite of Products.

Silver Moon Graphics gave me a real world view into the life of a Graphic Designer as I prepared work for an art show and developed the studios first ever website. This opportunity not only gave me innumerable experience, but also a first hand look into the inner workings of a real like studio.