Melinda Gruber Email & Phone Number

Riverside

Temecula, CA

• Process and retouch wedding and event photography using Lightroom and Photoshop
• Interface with vendors for asset management and client presentation

Temescal Valley, CA

Save Our Shots is a retouching business primarily catering to digital restoration of old photographs and documents. We take the utmost care of your original photographs, negatives, slides and documents. Should you still not want to part with your item, we offer the option to email, FTP, or mail a CD or disk should you have the ability to scan the image.

Poway, CA

• Provide graphic design services and art direction for corporate events and parties
• Work directly with vendors for graphics, services and manage substrate options
• Stay within a budget to meet the clients’ needs
• Work with décor, sound, and video departments for art needs
• Report directly to the Principal Designer and Owner to help create comps for events for client approval
• Extensive stock image and graphic research to show clients for inspiration

1515 Marlborough Riverside CA 92507

San Diego, CA

Hollywood, CA

• Provide the following for retail and miscellaneous print jobs:Manage budgets, production schedules, supply estimates and print options, design andart direction, supervise color, product matching and overall retouching
• Appointed to represent the entire creative team within a budgetarycommittee for the organization
• Work as a liaison between the merchandisers and design team for signage needs
• Design barricades, store posters, packaging and collateral
• Work directly with designers and copywriters to provide options for design
• Negotiate costs, terms, and procedures with current and new vendors

Burbank, CA

• Supervised print and design projects from inception to delivery
• Managed a team holding major accounts
• Minor design, layout, and retouching
• Provided clients with graphic and display solutions
• Arranged fulfillment and shipping
• Primary accounts: Gap, ABC Cable, Frederick’s of Hollywood, Zales, Target, Sea World, 20th Century Fox, Disney Consumer Products, and MTV Networks

Northridge, CA

• Scheduled and taught classes relating to Apple software and hardware
• Sold Apple brand and third party hardware and software
• Performed minor hardware and software upgrades and repairs
• Managed and trained employees on policy and procedures
• Store operations; including till balance and bookkeeping