Successful career in the graphics industry as an art director, magazine art director, creative services manager, project/ production manager, senior designer and print buyer utilizing my total creative and problem-solving abilities, personnel and project management expertise, print production and purchasing savvy, vendor management rapport, promotional marketing skills plus branding development, implementation and maintenance. Extensive knowledge of print production, electronic pre-press; print purchasing; sales promotions; direct marketing; corporate identity; excellent design and layout skills; strong sensitivity in color theory, photographic and typographic manipulation; very strong conceptual thinker, and well-regarded editorial skills. Mac OS X platform (also experience on PC platform); power-user of related graphics software; Adobe Creative Suite (CS 6): InDesign, Photoshop and Illustrator; QuarkXPress 9; Adobe Acrobat X Pro; Microsoft Office X: Word,
Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook; development of web graphics (i.e., web banners, advertisements, interactive and variable content pdf documents); WordPress (back-end administration); some basic HTML experience; Flash (primary familiarity through art direction and some basic working knowledge); misc. other graphic software tools.My portfolio samples can be viewed at: http://masondzign.com
Listed skills include Adobe Creative Suite, Indesign, Art Direction, Adobe Acrobat, and 18 others.