Patrick Du Email & Phone Number

Mississauga, Ontario, Canada

Experienced with operating the following digital printers: Konica Minolta C7100, Konica Minolta C4095, Xerox D125, Xerox CP1000, Xerox 4127, OKI C931, Afinia Label CP950, and HP DesignJet T2530.· Designed and printed business cards, letterhead, envelopes, brochures, flyers, banners, posters, postcards, booklets, and more for clients.· Ensured customer files are print-ready with proper document bleed, crop marks, dielines, and Pantone colours. Regularly used Quite Imposing, PitStop, and Adobe Acrobat for file editing and impositioning purposes.· Ensured proper alignment and colour matching of printed items.· Managed and oversaw company email by responding to customers in a timely manner.· Created quotes, work orders, and invoices for customers daily.· Generated and customized Canada Post Precision Targeter mailing reports for customer mailouts, along with finalizing Statements of Mailing and other documents for Canada Post.· Multi-tasked and jumped between all departments as necessary, due to being highly experienced and cross-trained. All departments include designing, printing, finishing, and administration/management.· Operated various finishing, folding, binding, drilling, cutting, punching, and laminating machinery located in the shop.· Worked and coordinated closely with manager and coworkers under tight, time sensitive deadlines.· Coordinated with all other TPH branches across Canada for orders that can’t be produced or delivered in-house.· Ensured FedEx, UPS, and other third party courier services are dispatched for time sensitive deliveries.· Experienced in operation of cash register and payment terminal.

Mississauga, Ontario, Canada

· Effectively recommended and promoted certain products to increase sales and profit in the dairy department.· Invested an incredible degree of physical labour working products from the dairy refrigeration to the sales floor, which created space for more products to be ordered in subsequent days.· Organized products inside the dairy refrigeration and on the sales floor in a neat, aesthetic, and logical manner.· Ensured soon-to-be expired dairy products are pulled off the sales floor or marked with a 30–50% discounted price label.· Coordinated with and assisted coworkers to complete given tasks in a time proficient manner.

Brampton, Ontario, Canada

· Experienced with operating the following digital printer models: Xerox 4127, Canon Imagerunner Advance C9085, HP Designjet 5500, Pitney Bowes DA500, and Xerox Nuvera 100.· Designed and printed business stationery (business cards, letterhead, and envelopes), logos, brochures, flyers, banners, signs, postcards, posters, booklets, and more for clients via InDesign, Illustrator, and Photoshop.· Operated various printing, inserting, binding, finishing, drilling, cutting, and laminating machinery located in the shop.· Ensured proper alignment and colour matching of printed items.· Designed, coded, and managed Wordpress, Go ePower, and Bootstrap websites for major account clients. Required basic knowledge of CSS and HTML5.· Created online variable data business card templates for customer use via Acrobat’s PDFlib Block plugin.· Created quotes, estimates, work orders, and invoices for customers. Maximized company profit margin, while accounting for production cost and turnaround time.· Worked and coordinated closely with manager and coworkers under tight, time sensitive deadlines.· Worked and coordinated with other trade printers. Ensured uploaded files met proper preflight and prepress standards.· Handled variable data printing via InDesign’s XMPie plugin.· Created Statements of Mailing via Canada Post for lettermail and personalized mail on a regular basis.· Regularly used imposition software for prepress.· Performed daily store opening and closing procedures.· Experienced in operation of cash register and payment terminal.

Brampton, Ontario, Canada

· Converted print PDF documents into Digital Publishing Suite apps and interactive documents.· Added interactivity and user interfaces to PDF documents for tablet and mobile devices.· Created Digital Publishing Suite apps for tablet devices.· Designed conceptual website mockups. · Designed web rotational banners. · Designed infographics.· Designed print flyers or brochures. · Designed stationery sets which includes: logo identities, letterheads, and business cards.

Mississauga, Ontario, Canada

· Designed magazine page layouts for print via InDesign.· Designed web banners for the home page via Photoshop.· Performed other general computer and office tasks.

Mississauga, Ontario, Canada

· Designed magazine page layouts for Oxygen Magazine. · Designed web rotational banners for Oxygen Magazine. · Designed web images posted on Facebook and other social media sites for MuscleMag. · Performed general office tasks for Oxygen, MuscleMag, and Clean Eating Magazines.

Advanced Diploma, Graphic Design, With Honours

Ontario Secondary School Diploma