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• Design and production of direct mail campaigns• Clients include: Office Depot, ABC Supply, Illinois State Treasurer, Firestone, American Medicial Association, WW (WeightWatchers)

Chicago, Il

Chicago, Il

• Responsible for keylining and image compositions for multiple collateral pieces including: standees, table tents, coasters, shelf shades, tear pads, and pole toppers.• Clients include: Jim Beam Global Wine & Spirits, Waste Management, Kraft foods, Procter & Gamble.

Chicago, Il

• Layout of student instructional books for multiple languages• Extensive use of style sheets and tables• Preflight and product delivery

Chicago, Il

• Layout of student and teacher edition text books for multiple grade levels• Developed scripts for automating some production processes to increase speed and accuracy• Extensive use of style sheets, tables and inline graphics• Image retouching and color correction of photos and graphics• Project management

Chicago, Il

• Responsible for document conversions of recent acquisitions of SPSS, InfoSphere Guardium and OpenPages• Executed document layouts consistent with IBM design standards of white papers, customer stories, data sheets, solution briefs, executive summaries and brochures• Developed scripts for consistent and accurate file delivery and naming

Chicago, Il

• Layout and conversions of DVD covers from existing Quark™ documents to InDesign®• Preflight and delivery of files to printer

Chicago, Il

• Responsible for keylining and print production for packaging, magazine advertisements, POP, brochures, and other various promotional materials including car graphics and cooler displays • Delivered final product via collection of files, PDF/X-1a or tif files to disk or client FTP site per clients request • Clients include: Coca-Cola, Miller Brewing Company, American Family Insurance

Chicago, Il

• Digital production/pre-press work on a wide variety of products including advertisements, standees, banners, static stickers• Prepared mechanical keylines for release to print vendors using Adobe Illustrator, InDesign, and Photoshop• Retouch, color correct and/or composite photographs to art director specifications• Clients include: MillerCoors Brewing Company, Disney Vacation Club, Procter & Gamble, Aircell

• Digital keylining of multinational/multilingual packaging meeting FDA requirements when necessary• Heavy use of custom spot colors specifically using multi-channeled photoshop files• Clients include: Wrigley Chewing Gum, Radio Flyer

Eaton, In

• Managed prepress department responsible for proofing, imposition, trapping of client files for sheet fed offset presses • Operation, calibration and maintenance of output devices including Sherpa 42 and Agfa 1200 Imagesetter • Design and production for brochures, die cut pocket folders, packaging labels, business cards, letterheads • Provided customer support and education for technical printing issues and file preparations • Mac systems maintenance, FTP management, Purchasing of software, supplies• Implemented a PDF/X-1a workflow to improve file integrity and increased production efficiency• Purchased new software to improve prepress capabilities

Chicago, Il

• Worked directly with Creative and Art Directors to produce various promotional materials including package designs, brochures, catalogs, newsletters, clamshells, hang tags, channel cards, plan-o-grams, trade show displays and magazine advertisements• Additional responsibilities include product illustrations, logo designs• Awarded runner-up honors for packaging design in trade show competition• Increased production efficiency by introducing tracking software for file management• Clients include: Chamberlain, Craftsman, A.O. Smith, The Home Depot, Skil, Bosch, True Value, Elkay, In-Sink Erator

Chicago, Il

• Responsible for prepress of client files for various output devices including: Lambda Continuous tone, Duratrans,Cactus Electrostatic, Novajet Ink Jet prints, Fiery RIP, Linotronic 330 Imagesetters, and Solitaire film recorders• High resolution scanning, retouching and color correcting of photographic transparencies • Developed knowledge of various prepress solutions and techniques• Increased knowledge of multiple output devices and photographic processes• Clients Include: Nike Town, Playboy, Ambercrombie & Fitch

Indianapolis, In

• Worked with multiple computer platforms, including UNIX, to create product catalogs and books• Primary duties included layout, creating illustrations, scanning and photo retouching of images• Developed retouching and image outlining techniques• Utilized non-standard software for creating illustrations• Clients include: Grainger, HP Products, Indiana Supply Corp

Indianapolis, In

• Created illustrations and designs for wide range of screen printed textile and specialty advertising products• Developed manual stripping and separation techniques using photo mechanical techniques and hand cutting of rubyliths• Increased knowledge of trapping and stat camera usage• Clients include: WFBQ/Q95, The Bob & Tom Show, Finish Line, Indianapolis Motor Speedway, Carrier