• Assign and edit projects for 20-person department including designers, color correctors, editors, and photographers.• Manage production of all catalog pages (3,000+/year) from inception to completion. Work with product managers to choose products, photographers for styling and presentation, designers and editors on layout and format. Build “dummies” for all page design. Edit pages produced by department both for design and grammar.• Created and maintain company style guide for creative and editorial use.• Wrote and designed company press kit. Write publicity copy, advertising copy, and interviews for company owner.• Work with outside/licensed artists to place products in catalog. Write and edit bios.• Edit company correspondence with customers/media. Design and edit catalog pages, ads, and marketing flyers.• Upload finished pages to printer and resolve any printing problems.• Created and led transition team which coordinated corporate name change, PR campaign, and redesign of corporate logo, stationary, and catalogs.• Liaison between Graphics Department and Art, Imports, and Domestic Purchasing Departments, as well as company owners.• Conflict resolution/mediation.

Evaluated/scored exit writing tests for fifth, eighth, and eleventh grade students as part of statewide testing initiative.

Designed and laid out nationally circulated grocery inserts for Sunday papers, coupon books and mailers. Collected and prepared proofs for printing.

rote and edited publicity copy. Designed and laid out marketing flyers for catalogs and authors. Scanned and color corrected book covers into database for Press’ web site.