Tom Gau Email & Phone Number

Saint Paul, Mn, Us

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Supervise the Print Services Center with a staff of four Print Associates. Assist a wide varietyof customers with a wide variety of print projects including newsletters, books, businesspresentations, mail merges, wedding invitations, cards, calendars and large-format posters& banners. Train staff to operate high-capacity Xerox laser printers, lamination machines,machine cutters and banner printers. Design and layout desktop publishing projects. Performadvanced Photoshop editing. Manage a fast, complex production system. Maintain largeinventory of production materials. Speak Spanish with Latino customers.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Designed print and web projects for small businesses and large corporate clients. Specializedin vector art illustration (using Adobe Illustrator), full service graphic design and layout.Prepped print projects for output on large presses. Worked directly with print vendors. Builtwebsites using HTML, CSS, Javascript, HTML5 and WordPress. As a Stay Home Dad, Ichanged a ton of diapers and read Go, Dog! Go! way too many times.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Created flyers, brochures and educational materials for Wilder’s service programs.Maintained employee intranet and external website using Typo3 Content ManagementSystem. Planned and built MS-SharePoint intranet sites. Designed and published a monthlyemployee newsletter. Used ConstantContact for multiple email campaigns. Performed staffphotographer duties. Assisted in organizing fundraising and PR events.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Hired, trained and supervised a team of fulltime and temporary graphic artists. Workedclosely with a team of programmers to build e-commerce website.Designed and published print and web projects. Designed corporate logos and branding.Maintained Chumbo.com (online retail site) including overseeing web interface, Flashanimations, and three site face-lifts. Drove traffic to Chumbo.com by registering on searchengines (SEO) and building doorway sites. Created banner ads. Built a library of e-tools forsales force including CD-ROMs, PowerPoint presentations, and HTML e-mails. Designedand produced direct mail campaigns. Dealt with printer reps and made press checks. Workedwith a wide variety of corporate clients to develop software marketing campaigns. Designedproduct packaging and point-of-purchase displays.

Eagan, Mn

Created and produced print projects. Built layouts, catalogs, illustrations, logos, clip art,cartoons. Assisted staff photographer with field and studio photography. Scanned, retouchedand saved photos using Photoshop. Designed and built page layouts in QuarkXPress.Designed and published websites. Prepped layouts for film output (AKA Prepress). Trainedtemp employees to use graphics software. Met with clients and vendors.Clients: Ag-Chem Equipment Co., NMC-Wollard, Raven Industries, and Reese Enterprises.