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.

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.

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.

Graphics And Animation Certificate, Computer Graphics

Ciw Certified Webmaster Certificate

Graphic Arts