Newspaper pages for The Ranger, Northwest Airlifter and Weekly Volcano newspapers. • Color correction and processing of photos for the print and web. • Creation company logos and marketing material, including business cards, T-shirts, advertisements and promotional products.• Managed staff of outside contractors to deliver papers• General office support: answering multi-line phones, processing mail, greeting customers, photo copying, ordering printed business materials and various other duties.--------------------------------------Graphic Artist/Marketing and cross-promotingMay 2012 – November 2012 (7 months)• Weekly duties in newspaper pagination of the Weekly Volcano. • Marketing duties creating newspaper ads, event materials, website graphics, company literature, business tools and materials. • Creation of sales materials and artwork for our side business, Maingate Promos, which was intended as a marketer of promotional items for businesses, organizations and groups.• Navigating and utilizing social media for promoting business, products and events.--------------------------------------Managing Editor of The Ranger Newspaper, Graphic ArtistJanuary 2010 – May 2012 (2 years 5 months)• Management of small staff of freelance journalists, involving content planning and assigning of stories.• Budget management, and uploading content to company websites• Designing in house marketing materials, advertising, logos, and PR materials. • Assisted in paginating The Ranger and Weekly Volcano newspapers for press. -------------------------------------Graphic Layout ArtistNovember 2006 – January 2010 • Newspaper design and layout for The Ranger newspaper.

General Pre-Press technician. Handled incoming customer and in-house products to prepare files for web press.Customer Service: Communication with customers on a daily basis, helping them with problems and finding solutions in regards to job files.Production Duties:• General maintenance of imagesetters and film processing equipment.• Maintenance and operation of direct to plate equipment.• Preparation of electronic files (pre-press) for output to either film or direct to plate equipment to run on web press. (Included troubleshooting and preflighting of files)• Imposition of files using Preps software workflow.• Operation of large format color proofer.• Communication on a daily basis with customers.• Quality control of all film and plate output.Technical duties:Operation of both Mac and PC computersRequired to understand how network job flow worked when sending files to various output devices, which involved operation of RIP spooler workflow system.Handling and creation of various types of files (pdf, jpg, postscript, etc.)Use of Preps software used for imposing newspaper pages for final plate burning.

Electronic Pre-Press technician.Creation, imposition and output of jobs for high quality 4-color printing.Worked with customers to discuss printing requirements and resolve problems. Operation of film imagesetter, film developer, plate burner and match print equipment. Gained experience with stripping negatives for plate burning. Responsible for trapping electronic files for proper printing. Worked with customer of weekly newsletter in transitioning job for electronic production.Operation of Mac software - Quark XPress, Pagemaker (now InDesign), Illustrator, Freehand and Photoshop.