A highly motivated and talented graphic designer with over 20 years of experience in a wide assortment of real-world publishing and printing environments. Especially skilled at guiding clients through the design and production process, capitalizing on communication skills and a deep understanding of typography, lay-out and color to ensure the final product matches the clients’ goals - all within the confines of tight production schedules. Equally at ease on both the Macintosh and PC platforms, with an expertise in Adobe CS software, Photoshop, Illustrator, Dreamweaver, Flash, Fireworks, Acrobat, and InDesign as well as Quark Xpress, Word, and Excel. Well versed in HTML and CSS, with some JavaScript knowledge. Experience in production management and graphics field has cut a wide swath through all aspects of pre-press design and printing, from commercial print shops to in-house art direction - covering advertising, web-sites, logo design, lay-out of newspapers and magazines, packaging, brochures, catalogs and much more, with a solid understanding of various printing and web environments and how to best prepare finished files for optimized output to either.
Listed skills include Graphic Design, Indesign, Logo Design, Advertising, and 16 others.