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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.
• 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.

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.
• 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.)