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Davenport, Iowa, United States

Rock Island, Illinois, United States

• Design, proofread, and edit government safety regulation books, ensuring accuracy and compliance.
• Repurpose printed materials into web applications for enhanced online user experiences.
• Create engaging media for events and trade shows, including banners, posters, presentations, and catalogs.

Muscatine, Iowa, United States

• Consistently achieved high-volume printing targets, averaging 250,000 impressions per week, ensuring efficient production and meeting tight deadlines.
• Expertly performed printer maintenance and repair, ensuring optimal functionality and minimizing downtime, leading to smooth printing operations and increased productivity.
• Effectively managed inventory of printing supplies and replaceable printer parts, ensuring availability when needed and minimizing production disruptions, resulting in smooth workflow and cost savings.
• Efficiently estimated, scheduled, and tracked incoming production jobs, ensuring timely completion and delivery, optimizing resource allocation, and maintaining customer satisfaction.
• Operated standard finishing equipment like paper cutters, inserters, laminating machines, and hole punchers, ensuring accurate and professional finishing touches to printed materials, surpassing quality standards and.

Princeton, Iowa, United States

• Designed a captivating and thrilling four-acre haunted cornfield maze, incorporating visually striking elements, intricate pathways, and atmospheric graphics, enhancing the overall immersive experience for visitors.
• Maintained the company's advertising materials, ensuring consistent branding and updated content, resulting in a cohesive and professional image that effectively communicated the company's products or services to the.

Charlotte, North Carolina, United States

• Managed artwork from its initial concept to the printed package for all private label customers on packaging that consisted of film, paperboard cartons, and corrugated cardboard
• Assembled all of the information needed for design groups to begin creating packaging layouts which included nutrition facts, ingredients, die lines, printing requirements, and sample photography
• Reviewed artwork for printing, color separation, and die line issuesProofread artwork to make sure that it was in accordance with FDA regulations and guidelines
• Coordinated meetings between printers and design groups to ensure that, once artwork was approved, the final files and color proofs were setup correctly for printing
• Managed artwork for national product launches within extremely tight deadlines for high profile clients such as Walmart, Target, and Aldi
• Eliminated mistakes before packaging was printed by implementing meticulous reviewing processes, saving thousands of dollars in material costs

Chicago, Illinois, United States

• Designed, printed, and assembled Request for Proposals (RFPs) for many high-profile clientsRFPs consisted of custom binder covers and tabs, an executive summary booklet, multimedia CDs, catering guides, and a formatted.
• Supported 4-5 sales representatives, internal departments, outside operations, and marketing staff in the creation and development of a wide range of projects on a daily basis
• Projects included slicks, ads, posters, logo designs, internal communications, intranet updates, database entry and other special projects
• Prepared media for events and trade shows including banners, posters, PowerPoint presentations, brochures, flyers, and table tents
• Reformatted the Higher Education proposal template to be easier and faster to use, reducing proposal production time
• Created custom binder tabs for the Higher Education proposals, which brought the production in-house and reduced their cost by about $100 per tab, saving ARAMARK approximately $1,000 per proposal

Davenport, Iowa, United States

• Supervised all production aspects of the newspaper including layout, design, production, and submission of files to the printer to meet a weekly deadline to distribute more than 19,000 newspapers each week
• Worked directly with local clients to determine their needs for creating effective advertisements
• Collaborated with sales staff to create ads to pitch to prospective clients
• Supervised 2-3 intern employees
• Interviewed, hired, and trained interns to produce many aspects of the newspaper
• Inspected and approved all intern work before submitting it to the clients and/or printersAccomplishments

Seattle, Washington, United States

• Supervised the desktop publishing department, overseeing two employees at company headquarters
• Worked with local clients, both directly and through any of the nine store branches, designing corporate identities, posters, flyers, brochures, forms and other printed materials
• Prepared client files for press printing, verifying color separations, resolution, sizing, and layout
• Provided time and cost estimates to help develop budgets and printing schedules
• Provided software and hardware administration for the Macintosh computers, including any troubleshooting, repair, or upgradesAccomplishments
• Increased department profitability by streamlining the business card department, reducing reprints and improving overall quality

• Worked with coders to produce great looking and functional websites
• Created Flash animations for the web as well as CD presentation demos
• Designed internal promotional materials including direct mail pieces, animations, and ads
• Created 3D animations and logos using DAZ 3D Carrara

Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

Certificate, Web Application Development, 3.0

Studied web application development

Bachelor’S Degree, Visual Communications, 3.85

Studied graphic design and web design

Associate’S Degree, Visual Communications, 3.75

Studied graphic design, web design and illustration