Larissa Long Email & Phone Number

Capitol Heights, Md, Us

Maryland, United States

•Manage production of wide-format production, printing, plotting, routing & finishing; preflight, production &finishing of digital prints.•Order materials & supplies after comparing pricing among multiple vendors.•Design custom signage, yard card print/rout files, business cards, flyers, banners, logos, and much more.•Set-up, print, & cut coroplast, vinyl decals, fatheads, window perf & other digital media.•Layouts, proofs, revisions, pre-press, customer service, payment processing.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Logo design, flyers, banners, ads, business cards, photo editing, invitations, newsletters, & much more.

Laurel, Maryland

Design custom vehicle wraps, lettering, and custom logos and designs. Print (and/or cut) vinyl & other media, laminate, contour-cut and prep the materials for installation. Sales, customer service, payment processing, estimates & invoices.

Temple Hills, Maryland

Oversee digital print production from receipt of files to completion of production. Coordinate signage orders from the sales department with production and print staff. Distribute orders to production staff (and myself) to set up and send proofs. Prepare and output approved digital files for digital printing, screen printing, routing, and die-cutting. Print digital files on flatbed and roll printers. Perform maintenance on all printers. Quality and color check test prints and completed prints. Coordinate orders with salespeople, the finishing department, and shipping.

Beltsville, Md

Design of interior and exterior signage, event and trade show signage, banners, vehicle lettering, magnetics and more. Set-up, printing and cutting vinyl on plotters. Color set-up and layout of materials for digital printing on large format printers, trouble-shooting, and laser engraving. Customer service including sales, estimates, proof and approval process, and payment.

Upper Marlboro, Md

Designed and launched new corporate branding and design themes for sales and marketing campaigns. Collaborated with the sales team to design and produce artwork for promotional materials. Oversaw the production of print and promotional items for tradeshows and corporate events. Designed and produced tradeshow directory booklets as well as marketing brochures, print advertisements, broadcast faxes and e-mails. Performed weekly website updates including adding pages, updating existing pages, editing ads and links, and creating PDF forms.

Adelphi, Md

Procurement Assistant: Duties included contract file preparation and editing, issuance of modifications, Patent Report clearance, contract close-out and de-obligation, verifying Parties Excluded status in Commerce Business Daily's database, processing DD 350's, proposal validation, contract modification distribution, and contract close-out status document certification. One-year special assignment closing out contracts resulted in 80% closed or retired; surpassing the objective of 50% closed or retired, before the deadline.Support Specialist: Prepared travel orders, training requests, visit authorization requests, and database time keeping for a branch consisting of twenty-seven employees. Additional duties included editing Power Point slide shows and Excel property lists; creating branch level certificates, phone lists, and annual employee review packages for distribution; processing travel vouchers, invoices, and leave requests; maintaining contract files, office keys, and cell phones; ordering office supplies; placing Purchase Orders for higher priced equipment; and maintaining office equipment.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Projects included print set-up and layout of type and graphics for corporate business proposals; design and production of proposal covers; preparing and editing slide-show presentations; and layout of pamphlets, announcements, advertisements, invitations, etc. using Photoshop, Illustrator, QuarkXPress, PageMaker, Corel Draw, and PowerPoint.

Community Centers

Responsibilities included teaching art classes to children ages 5 to 12 years old at various county facilities. Daily activities included class project design, lesson planning, ordering and picking up supplies for projects, handling classroom crises, and set-up and clean-up of projects.

Certificate, Computer Graphics

Earned my AA & Graphic Design Certificate. Secretary of Student Council 93-94 and President of Student Council 94-95.

Associates'S Degree, Visual Communications, 3.66

Activities and Societies: 2002 Student Council Secretary 2003 President of Student Council

Criminology, A