Ryan Sandmeyer Email & Phone Number

Nashville, Tennessee

PrePress Graphic Designer that deals with the processing and handling of customer files to prepare them for commercial printing. Other duties consist of operating digital presses and finishing equipment.•Process customer supplied files to clean up printing errors including but not limited to bleed, color, quality, and format.•Design products from logos and business cards to 100+ page catalogs and magazines.•Set up unique dies and folding patterns for a variety of finishing options ranging from cutouts to uv, foil, embossing and more.•Create custom impositions using Preps for long run catalogs and gang runs to best suit printing needs.•Color matching and color correction on customer files to meet customer and press needs.•Certified Kodak Nexpress operator.•Certified Konica Minolta MGI Operator

Tullahoma, Tennessee

Run and maintain the bottle filler processing various flavors of soda in 20 oz and 2 litter bottles. I also fill 20 oz Dasani water.

Tullahoma Tennessee

• Director of design and layout process for 6 newspapers, various magazines and special sections• Oversaw and created newspaper image/layout re-design for 6 publications• Arrange/edit/produce quality proofs for print production• Provide care and maintenance for CTP • Consistently trained graphic designers on updated methods and styles of design

Johnson City, Tennessee Area

• Designed business publications for local businesses including brochures, booklets, manuals, flyers, postcards, business cards, etc.• Responsible for typesetting publications, recreating logos, typography, and text placement on publications.• Filled and processed direct and bulk mailing orders.• Acted as a customer service interface to ensure customer satisfaction with publication orders.• Created wooden handled, flash, and self-inking stamps using photo-transferring techniques.

Fayetteville, Tennessee

• Silk screen printing experience includes operating manual and automatic printers, printing mono and multi-color jobs, and running simple to complex screen layups.• Performed all steps of the printing process, including burning screens, setting up the job to print, printing the job, reclaiming screens after printing process, putting emulsion on screens to prepare for next job.• Responsible for stretching new screens as well as re-tensioning old screens to extend screen life.

Bachelor Of Fine Arts (Bfa), Graphic Design

Activities and Societies: Alpha Chi Honor Society, SoccerGraduated Cum Laude

Bachelor Of Fine Arts (Bfa), Fine And Studio Arts (Sculpture)

Activities and Societies: Alpha Chi Honor Society, SoccerGraduated Cum Laude

Newspaper Institute Of Technology

Newspaper Institute Of Technology