Todd Shirley Email & Phone Number

Greater Pittsburgh Area

Greater Pittsburgh Area

Greater Pittsburgh Area

• IT consultant within the realm of Graphic Arts and Creative Services; color management (including hard and soft proofing solutions), software implementation and training, workflow assessment & IT infrastructure.
• Highly skilled production artist with over 20 years experience building mechanicals for catalogs, advertising & packaging. Well versed in all art production software and prepress procedures for file preparation and.
• Highly skilled retoucher with over 20 years experience retouching within the fashion & beauty industry.

~ Helped plan and execute opening of a new studio in Los Angeles. Oversaw IT and workflow related planning. ~ Work closely with clients to discover and deliver innovative workflow and technology related solutions.~ Research and develop all aspects of new technologies, trends, procedures, markets, hardware & software relevant to 360 media production and.

Helped plan and execute expansion from retouching & prepress services on a single floor to include a full-service 360 media production & post-production studio on a second floor, on-location digital capture services, digital asset management and color management consulting.~ Serve as a technical liaison between ourselves, our clients and printers. Work.

Oversaw all hardware and software purchases and installations starting from the inception of the company in October 2003, including 2 Xservers, Xraid, HP pro-curve switch, and over 30 Mac workstations. Also set up and maintained all proofing systems and RIPS, including 2 Fujifilm Luxel FinalProofs driven by PD-pro & Aozora RIPS, and 2 large-format inkjet.

Scheduled, trained and managed the 8 other operators in the department.~ Modified existing workflows and created new ones based on the demands of clients, new technology, and the ever changing file format specifications for publications.~ Oversaw the purchasing and implementation of new software and hardware as necessary.~ Performed troubleshooting and job.

Prepress duties included: preflighting customer supplied files, corrected/modified files as necessary to prepare them for press, ripped files to film or final electronic format, downloading files to CD and/or transferred them electronically.~ Photoshop duties included: retouching and color correction, creating photo-compositions, adding extensions to.

Ripped pages created in QuarkXpress from a Macintosh to a Scitex Brisque, Prisma or Star workstation for the creation of electronic direct-to-plate files. Workflow included updating images for OPI, resolving font conflicts, checking for correct trapping and overprinting, and creation of digital bluelines for QC.

Prepress duties for both four-color offset and print-on-demand. Responsibilities included preflighting, outputting film on an Agfa SelectSet 25, postscripting source files, trouble-shooting postscript errors and archiving electronic files.

Bachelor Of Science, Radio/Tv/Film

Education record

Munsell Color Science Laboratory Summer Short Course: Essentials of Color Science, June, 2007

Analytic Geometry & Calculus

Certificate In Color Science, Advanced Color Management Course, February, 2008