Jake Van Ness is a creative entrepreneur, who has run a graphic design and marketing business for over 10 years. As a huge fan of online learning and participating in webinars, Jake recognized the growth occurring in the space. Then the COVID-19 pandemic hit and the space exploded.With so many people and businesses having to move to an virtual work environment, many struggled with the new technology and how to run meetings and trainings well. Jake learned about the Virtual Producer role and recognized it as a vital part of any successful virtual experience. Providing the support so that those who are presenting and facilitating can concentrate on their important role.Elevated Virtual was created to help individuals and businesses work with the technologies available for virtual meetings and trainings, as well as provide the support they need so their meetings and trainings go smoothly and their participants get the most they can out of the sessions.Jake has been involved as a Virtual Producer in hundreds of meetings and trainings, as well as worked with individuals and businesses to put on multi-day virtual conferences. He has provided training on a variety of platforms, as well as trained individuals to be Virtual Producers to support their companies and others providing trainings in virtual environments.Many say print is dead but I like to think that I am living proof that it is not. It might not be the gigantic industry it once was, but it is far from dead: it just evolved into a different more specialized business. My business, Prepressology, works with clients to develop attractive and compelling printed marketing pieces that their customers can hold in their hands. I have worked with small one person businesses, local charity organizations and alumni associations. I feel, as a single designer business, I can give each of my clients the attention they truly deserve and help work side by side with them to bring their ideas to life – to print!Specialties: • Adobe Creative Suite 6 (Creative Cloud) - InDesign - Illustrator - Photoshop - Dreamweaver• QuarkXPress 8• Wordpress• Microsoft Office• Mac and PC• HTML and CSS• Quickbooks Enterprise 11• Act! by Sage• Strong Customer and Vendor Relationships