Steve Pingleton Email & Phone Number

Kirkland, Washington, United States

Clients including: Microsoft, Nintendo, Holland America, Windstar, Fluke, and more.• Metrix imposition and engineering, Fuji XMF proofing, plating for 6C Komori, digital & large format presses.• Preflight, file prep, color corrections,trapping, and creating complex dielines for offset, digital and large format printing.• Variable data imposition for digital and large fomat presses.

Woodinville, Washington, United States

• Analyzing sales orders and engineering press impositions for most efficient yield of finished precision die cut game tickets.• Production graphic artist building hundreds of games in InDesign and Adobe Illustrator using HTML tables and variable data. Typesetting, layout & design of artwork for pull tab games.• Processing and proofing thousands of XML "CD codes" for counterfeit detection of winning pull tab tickets.• Running 4-5 "Virtual" PCs at once to process hundreds of jobs & files.• Data entry of high volume of jobs in multiple data bases.• Engineering and building parts for games using variable data (Design Merge) to randomize winning and non winning symbols on pull tab tickets.• Writing scripts to automate prepress programs & workflows.• Prepress layout, imposition and building graphics for high volume digital printing.

Greater Seattle Area

Clients included: Sub Pop Records, Traeger Grills, Glass Eye Studios, Port of Seattle, Microsoft, and Boeing• Preflight, file prep, color corrections, and creating complex dielines for offset and digital printing.• Creating and running variable data jobs on an Indigo 5000 press. • Trapping, imposition, proofing and plating for both offset and digital presses.• Graphic Design, product photography, and social media advertising and marketing.

Greater Seattle Area

• Detailed history of tenure as Arizona skateboard photographer as part of current book project.• Produced and sells photography, including posters, prints and t‐shirts, at SkaterCon, an annual event held in Arizona, as well as online. Clients include art galleries in France and New York.• Established desertpipes.com in 2004, featuring a portfolio of photos and videos taken of pioneer Arizona skateboarders in the Seventies.• Produced Desert Pipes documentary, compiling and editing footage from video sources that included 8mm, VHS and Hi-­‐8 using After Effects, DVD Studio Pro, and Apple Final Cut.

Greater Seattle Area

Clients included: North Face, Amazon, MoPop, Nordic Heritage Museum, Nordstrom, Aveda, Grand Image, Pacific Studio, Tommy Bahama• Created complex design layouts from architectural drawings for interior design elements on walls and glass, as well as large format signage for museums, trade shows, architectural and retail.• Produced large-­‐format signage for large Seattle museum exhibits, corporate and retail displays.• Used brand standard guidelines for fonts, logos and photo layouts for graphic design and layout projects.• Collaborated with client The North Face to design graphics based on their branding parameters and sign specifications, using created assets and images to for use in e-­‐commerce site.• Drove production efficiency through employing job engineering that generated cost savings.• Executed color corrections and swatch creation for a variety of substrates, including vinyl, fabric and wood.• Completed preflight, setup and assembly, and imposition of all large format jobs for signage and museum quality work.

Greater Seattle Area

Clients included: Nintendo, Amazon, Microsoft, Kaiser Permanente, Puget Sound Energy, Boeing, Eddie Bauer, Comcast, Wave, Starbucks• Performed preflight for offset, digital, and large format jobs.• As the prepress operator, imposed complex files for packaging, books, envelopes and high-­‐end offset printing (6 color perfecting Komori presses).• Used Adobe Creative Suite, Pitstop Pro, ORIS and specialized prepress software to complete colorcorrections, proofing, die-­‐cut packaging file building and assembly.• Created plates on Fuji Javelin using XMF and Rampage, executing quality control and preflighting of high volume of prepress jobs.

Mountlake Terrace, Wa

• Oversaw both offset and digital print production, running digital presses using variable data printing, press checks, color management, prepress and print production.• Reviewed jobs with sales staff, clients, and pressmen to ensure highest quality color offset & digital printing.• Managed production inventory, file archives, servers and maintained all proofing and plating equipment.• Digital pressman, using Konica Minolta Bizhub1085 and Xerox/Creo X700 digital presses.

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