Responsible for advertising creation and production along with marketing materials, special event campaign design, and overall page design for a weekly classified shopper newspaper. I also provided support, advertising, and marketing design for the parent, daily newspaper serving the Western Colorado area.

Created print advertising for numerous community based newspapers and magazines located throughout Colorado, Northern Nevada, and the Lake Tahoe region in Northern California.Responsible for several special niche magazines and publications including design layout, finalizing editorial and advertising content, and final file preparation and delivery to prepress.Updated and maintained advertising specifications for company wide production departments.Responsible for complete redesign of all classified advertising sections locaed in Nevada and Colorado.Created and maintained media kits for 30+ Swift Communications properties located throughout 5 states.Created and led training of new-hires and peers on internal processes and advanced software and design skills.

Supervised a local production team consisting of up to 14 graphic artists and 2 directory advertising coordinators.Directly responsible for prepress readiness of 14 yellow page directories located throughout Colorado and New Mexico serving thousands of advertisers.Worked directly with advertisers, ad agencies and designers to develop advertising content.Increased team productivity by 20% and reduced claim adjustments by 18% year-over-year.Co-developed a PowerPoint presentation that was presented to all sales offices throughout 14 states covering production processes and and the value of print requirements and standards.Recognized from a field of 300+ graphic artists for consistently meeting and exceeding production goals in a company-wide incentive program.

Responsible for creation of all display advertising, content and proofing in a bi-weekly, business-oriented newspaper publication.Developed all company re-branding items; logo, letterhead, business cards, brochures, contracts, etc.Designed, implemented and maintained company website.Trained co-workers in basic HTML coding to update editorial content on website.