Jess Marks Email & Phone Number

Pewaukee, WI, US

Chesterfield, Missouri, United States

Sign shop “all hats” wearer. Large format outdoor / indoor / vinyl signage design / permitting / production / installation. All aspects of the signage industry with 20 years of experience and skill in Illustrator and other design software.

St. Louis

Design, production, scaled rendering, and installation of vinyl and signage. Printer, plotter, and laminator running and maintenance.

St. Louis, Missouri

Managed the signage department of The Ink Spot of St. Louis Missouri; designing, producing, and installing all of their large format signage projects.

Windsor, Wisconsin

• Design for varied substrates, vinyl wrap (vehicles and wall graphics), large wall signs, promotional items, and garments.
• Documentation of and incorporation of new processes to help build the growing signage department (FanaKTive - fanaktive.com) which is a recent acquisition of a local Wisconsin signage company.
• Acquisition and handling of digital style guide art.
• Verifying art received from sales, customers, and customer service representatives.
• Style guide preparation and use for licensed and corporate identities: PMS colors, logo use, and licensed materials.
• Vigorous Adobe cross-use for many different medias, mediums, and asset creation.

Madison, Wisconsin

• Mastery of all things vinyl: design, proper vector creation for cut production, plotter adjustment, plotter maintenance, vinyl media selection, plotter operation, weeding, masking, and install / wet install.
• Specialized safety removals (to avoid surface damage): vinyl graphics, wraps, vehicle emblems, decals, and extensive adhesive residue.
• Graphic layout for vehicle spot graphics and wraps including vehicle measurement and renderings for proofing and vector templates.
• Extensive training in surface treatment / preparation for 3M Certified wrap installation: chemical treatments, large scale vehicle surface work, and finishing of wrap surfaces to prevent lifting, peeling, and tenting.
• Front office administrative and customer service: job quoting, scheduling of installations, and art acquisition.

Brookfield, Wisconsin

• Design of magazine ads within corporate identity regulations, also for companies who had no formal graphic designer available, for presence in publications such as Farm Equipment Magazine, No-Till Farmer, and American.
• Contacted new and existing vendors of farming equipment to sell ad space, obtain art, design their advertisement, and ask preference for their company / organization’s chosen publication(s) and category listing(s).
• Cultivated new business prospects via phone, email, fax, and direct mail correspondence.

Brookfield, Wisconsin

• Design of marketing materials: product / sale fliers, brochures, web graphics, trade show booth signage, company forms, and special event print pieces for salesmen to utilize in the field and trade shows / events.
• Photography and stock art creation for company-wide use with DSLR camera and illustration skills.
• Print shop and other vendor management: ordering specific finishing and product detail, pricing, and production file creation.
• Designed sales tools within corporate identity standards for large and small corporations within the material handling realm (CAT, Mitsubishi, Track-O, CombiLift, GloBrite, PowerBoss, etc.)

Wauwatosa, Wisconsin

• In-depth customer service involving information gathering, data entry, and detailed order taking.
• Professional communication with customers and marketing directors in corporate and public settings.
• Design for large format print, trade show signage, vinyl decals, outdoor signage, indoor environmental graphics, promotional items, engraved and embossed signs, and way finding plaques.