Mark E Jones Email & Phone Number

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Manager at high volume restaurant in an international airport. In charge of scheduling, staffing, ordering, inventory, vendor relations and day-to-day operations.

508 N. State Street, Chicago, Il

Recent Assignments:Marketing Support, Inc. - I was brought in long-term on several occasions to help with consumer product packaging design / comps, artwork creation and photo retouching, product planagrams and product comps. Also involved translating package design consistently across large lines and package sizes/types). Clients included: Home Depot, Martha Stewart, Kenmore Learning Curve Brands (RC2) - I was brought in long-term on several occasions to help with packaging… Show more Recent Assignments:Marketing Support, Inc. - I was brought in long-term on several occasions to help with consumer product packaging design / comps, artwork creation and photo retouching, product planagrams and product comps. Also involved translating package design consistently across large lines and package sizes/types). Clients included: Home Depot, Martha Stewart, Kenmore Learning Curve Brands (RC2) - I was brought in long-term on several occasions to help with packaging dielines (I am a dieline wizard.), product packaging design / comps, artwork creation and photo retouching, product planagrams and product comps. I also assisted with selecting new, more efficient consumables for their large-format printers. Life Fitness - I was contracted to layout several product catalogs, as well as design and layout ads, sales sheets / charts, web graphics, presentation materials (printed & PowerPoint), and retouching photos. While on assignment here, after seeing a need for a more streamlined system, I implemented a digital media search for their project data archives, which were previously searched and archived on paper only.Condon Randis - I was brought in for design, concepting and layout of POP advertising pieces, marketing materials and displays for several beer / liquor manufacturers. Show less

I was in charge of managing design, workflow, quality control, and press checks for highly detailed, technical, multi-language collateral pieces for an Austrian tooling manufacturer.

Within a year, I helped turn a print shop pre-press department into a full-service in-house graphic design agency. With these added capabilities, Direct Impressions was able to provide an expanded range of services to their existing customers and secure new customers with a start-to-finish one-stop shop offering services that were previously outsourced. I was responsible for coordinating a 3-man design team to create one-of-a-kind marketing strategies incorporating multiple print… Show more Within a year, I helped turn a print shop pre-press department into a full-service in-house graphic design agency. With these added capabilities, Direct Impressions was able to provide an expanded range of services to their existing customers and secure new customers with a start-to-finish one-stop shop offering services that were previously outsourced. I was responsible for coordinating a 3-man design team to create one-of-a-kind marketing strategies incorporating multiple print components including direct mail (including variable data), print advertising and signage. Maintaining brand identity while creating collateral pieces, catalogs, etc. for Matter Bros. Furniture, La-Z-Boy, Diamond Tours, Century 21, and ReMax among others. A portion of my time was spent meeting with clients and salespeople as well as hiring, training and mentoring prepress artists and designers, and maintenance and improvements on our computer systems, networks and processes. Show less

In the fall of 2003, I saw an opportunity to do something I truly enjoyed in a niche market magazine called Chopper Underground. Initially it began with a website forum that brought together like-minded motorcycle building enthusiasts from all over the world. It turned into a magazine.In this endeavor, I took on the responsibility for the design, layout, editorial content, ad design, sales, distribution and customer service for the magazine.SOFTWARE/HARDWAREI… Show more In the fall of 2003, I saw an opportunity to do something I truly enjoyed in a niche market magazine called Chopper Underground. Initially it began with a website forum that brought together like-minded motorcycle building enthusiasts from all over the world. It turned into a magazine.In this endeavor, I took on the responsibility for the design, layout, editorial content, ad design, sales, distribution and customer service for the magazine.SOFTWARE/HARDWAREI am an expert at Adobe CS, Quark XPress, Acrobat Pro, Mac / PC platforms. I also work with CorelDraw, MS Word, Freehand, PowerPoint, Excel, and Heidelberg DTP systems (PDF workflow), among others. Show less