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Greater Boston Area

• Prepared, designed, and produced marketing pieces from conception to completion with Adobe Creative Cloud collaboratively with over 100 clients on schedule including: - Print collateral: brochures, stationery, logos, posters, flyers, giveaways, charts, Microsoft Word stationery templates, and forms. - Large print: window displays, signage, vehicle wraps, and mobile billboards. - Election campaign materials: branding, giveaways, and EDDM mailings for school board, mayoral, and district attorney elections, and ballot initiatives. - Real estate collateral: brochures, signage, and mailings.• Wrote, edited, and proofread copy for collateral materials, media advertising, and business proposals with eye to clarity, polish, and accuracy.• Performed troubleshooting on digital client files to make them post-ready by fixing prepress font and formatting problems.• Directly handled print production of over 250,000 pieces yearly to professional-grade Konica Minolta color printers using Fiery RIPs.• Introduced new advertising avenues using AppleScript automation to personalize over 10,000 mailings using data from Microsoft Excel and images from Google Maps.• Instituted internal technical Macintosh support, hardware and software troubleshooting, installation, and upgrades.

New York, Ny

• Revamp workflow for creating over 7500 crosswords and puzzles for print and web across all NYT clients.• Build new front end to streamline inputting all crosswords.• Design and code new scripting workflow to automatically typeset all daily and Sunday crosswords in print media, and to export digital formats for worldwide syndication.

Pleasantville, Ny

• Pioneer, design, implement, and maintain FileMaker Pro database for international annual event with over 2,000 contestants, spectators, and participants.• Create InDesign templates for all crosswords used in the tournament.• Program new capabilities as tournament evolved including: - Make mass mailings to all past and current participants. - Assign contestants by skill level, region, age, and experience. - Generate internal troubleshooting reports. - Export data for automatic contestant scoring systems.

Winchester, Ma

• Prepared, designed, and produced print and graphics pieces with Adobe Creative Suite for clients including: - Print collateral: brochures, stationery, logos, posters, flyers, giveaways, and forms. - Textbooks for national educational publishers following established specs, including data-based charts and diagrams. - Seasonal recreation department catalogs for thousands of residents in towns of Winchester and Arlington. - International wine magazine with a combined quarterly circulation of over 100,000 per issue.• Performed troubleshooting on client digital files to prevent and correct prepress font and formatting problems.• Wrote, edited, and proofread copy for collateral materials.• Communicated and developed relationships with outside vendors, printers, and freelance artists to keep to schedules, specs, and budgets.• Provided technical Macintosh support and performed hardware and software troubleshooting for dozens of clients.

B.A.

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.)