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GRAPHIC DESIGNER

Providing creative solutions that address clients' needs and leadership vision that optimizes workflow.

Diverse graphic designer with extensive experience in creating and developing a variety of pieces that address employer and client objectives. Hands-on leader elevating team performance in high-energy environments.

PLATFORMS
Mac & Windows

SOFTWARE
Illustrator - Photoshop - InDesign - GoLive - MS Office

BASIC KNOWLEDGE
Flash - QuarkXPress

EXPERTISE
Illustration - Hand-Sketching - Logo Design - Technical Drawing - Conceptual Design - Prepress Operations Management - Image Manipulation - Color Separation - Asset Library Maintenance - Imposition Schemes - Materials Research

PROFESSIONAL OVERVIEW

Ideal Jacobs Corporation (www.idealjacobs.com)
Prepress Manager - Graphic Designer - Production Artist 2001-2009
Oversaw eight-person domestic/international team, providing artistic vision and product fabrication for commercial screen-printed goods to the telecom industry.

  • Guided department toward a consistent two week ahead-of-production schedule; documented design complexities for improved interdepartmental communication and production.

  • Increased pricing accuracy 20% by evaluating drawings and facilitating accurate quotation and scheduling models.

  • Converted 3000+ wireframe drawings to press-ready files and conducted preflight testing.

Selected Works:

    • Ideal Jacobs Xiamen Corporation — Logo; PowerPoint presentation highlighting
      production facility and filler panel technology.

    • Board game, “Ideal Challenge: The game of business conquest”, offered to
      customers as promotional item.

    • A Sales Warrior’s Global Excursions — Cover.

    • Our Voices-Generation to Generation, Temple Sharey Tefilo-Israel — Cover, typography, image manipulation, page icons and layout.

    • The Ideal Entrepreneur — Cover.

    • The Ideal Era — Cover, chapter art.

Vantage Custom Classics (www.vantageapparel.com)
Production Artist 1997-2001
Created and edited logomarks of clients for use in embroidery.

  • Converted 3000+ preliminary drawings to embroidery-ready artwork for Fortune 500 clients.

  • Initiated/submitted company artwork to national exhibitions, winning 2 First Place awards and 2 Honorable Mentions at the EMB Honors Competition.

  • Conducted training on required software and techniques.

Selected Works:

    • “52 Pickup” — Themed jacket, hat and shirt competition art based on a fictitious casino.

EDUCATION
BS, Industrial Technology, Kean College of New Jersey
AA, Union County College