Interact with Print Producers, Creative, Account Management and Traffic departments to produce print marketing materials, using CS4. Then prepare and preflight these electronic files including color profiling and creating pdfs through the Prinergy workflow for delivery to various vendors. Other duties include creating PDF files, adding hyperlinks to PDF files, working in Illustrator and Photoshop for various art requests including photo retouching and the creation of vehicle print-ready line art, transferring of files through FTP sites, Burning files to CD or DVD. Develop timelines and prioritize workloads. Responsible for all training material for large automotive client. Layout and some design, table building, text entering and editing for several thousand page counts through a four step turnaround process followed by two color proofs and final disk and or pdf files. Also responsible to work alongside other teams as needed for easy crossover coverage on overflow projects for catalogs, direct mail, pop kits, eBrochures, magazines etc.

Interact with Creative, Print Production, Account Management and Traffic departments to produce print ready marketing materials, using Indesign and QuarkXPress. Then prepare and preflight these electronic files for delivery to various vendors. Other duties include creating PDF files, scanning images, working in Illustrator and Photoshop for various art requests including photo retouching and the creation of vehicle print-ready line art, transferring of files through FTP sites, Burning files to CD or DVD. Manage a team of production artists over two shifts. Develop timelines and prioritize workloads.

Interact with Creative, Print Production, Account Management and Traffic departments to produce print ready marketing materials, using Indesign and QuarkXPress. Then prepare and preflight these electronic files for delivery to various vendors. Other duties include creating PDF files, scanning images, working in Illustrator and Photoshop for various art requests including photo retouching and the creation of vehicle print-ready line art, transferring of files through FTP sites, Burning files to CD or DVD. Manage a team of production artists over two shifts. Develop timelines and prioritize workloads. Create logos and design layouts for menus/brochures/flyers/holiday card for 880Group

Interact with Creative, Print Production, Account Management and Traffic departments to produce print ready marketing materials, using Indesign and QuarkXPress. Then prepare and preflight these electronic files for delivery to various vendors. Other duties include creating PDF files, scanning images, working in Illustrator and Photoshop for various art requests including photo retouching and the creation of vehicle print-ready line art, transferring of files through FTP sites, Burning files to CD or DVD. Manage a team of production artists over two shifts. Develop timelines and prioritize workloads. Responsible for yearly reviews leading to merit increases.

Worked with the Tiger System to create print ads for the Yellow Pages. Created illustrations to be used in these ads. Ran linostats for print production.

Worked with Pagemaker to create page layouts for the Autotrader Magazines

Designed recycling program logo and bag, Designed pewter Christmas ornament. Typesetting, page layouts, linostats,

Keyliner Traditional Matte room page layout for various church papers. Typesetting, keylining, running linostats, proofreading.