Creative Graphic Designer willing to WORK!
Provide design to freelance clients from concept to finished piece, working with printers, venders and other services. Provide storage and editing of projects on a long-term basis. Assist in fund-raising programs for various clients, providing outsourcing and
design services.
Director of Promotions, Publicity & Media
March 2001 - May 2003 &
January 2004 - present
Design and maintain website. Publicity photography of band & events. Provide research & development ideas for publicity. Promote bookings. Provide merchandising ideas. Maintain and report website useage. Design band promotion materials.
Lavender Unicorn
Indianapolis IN
6/1982 - present
Adobe InDesign • QuarkXPress • Adobe Illustrator • Adobe Streamline • Adobe PhotoShop • OmniPage OCR • StuffIt Deluxe • Norton Utilities • Extensis Fetch/Portfolio • Adobe GoLive • Adobe ImageReady • Adobe Acrobat • Adobe FrameMaker+SGML • Ventura Publisher • PageMaker • Microsoft Office • Microsoft Works
b&w/color
Olympus E-volt E300 • Pentax K1000 35mm • Yashica Mat-124 • Digital Cameras • Camcorders • scanners • Kodak ImageMaker IM800 • ReproMat 141 • StarOMat Fototype
To obtain a challenging position that will allow me creativity and inspiration to increase my ability to design in a flexible, friendly and entertaining environment. To grow within the company and mentor other designers.
Aquent
Indianapolis IN
8/2005 - present
New and reoccuring assignments:
Sports Licensed Division - Adidas Group – Collateral Services
Provided support for the Collateral Services Department, including design and layout of two specialty catalogs, sales sheets, posters and various corporate projects.
Syndicate Sales
Provided support for the Advertising Department, including design and layout of flyers, ads, and packaging. Current projects include catalog redesign, color flyers, web ads, Photoshop work and more.
Delta Faucet
Use Quark, Photoshop and Acrobat to produce a Faucet Finder document that was placed on cd for viewing or printing, complete with organized bookmarks for ease of navigation. Provide clipping paths and other various design duties. I have been reassigned to this client on numerous occasions.
Pearson Education – Brady Games Division
Provide Photoshop clipping paths, page design and layout, other necessary design duties for video game book publisher. I have been reassigned to this client on numerous occasions.
Norwood Promotional Products – Creative Services
Provided support for the Creative Services Department, including catalog production; and design and layout of various projects.
Provide preflight/prepress duties. Prepare customer files for printing. Provide back-up duties for printing plate production, including imposition. Provide design services for customers as needed, including catalog design, newsletters, and book design.
RPS Printing
Indianapolis IN
12/2004 - 8/2005
Provided various design services in temporary placement for a variety of companies including Syndicate Sales, Pratt Corporation, Kiwanis International, American Art Clay and Graphic Arts Center (GAC). Assigned projects have included magazine design, cover art design, ads, photo color correction, photo database creation, catalog production, flyers, etc.
Aquent
Indianapolis IN
9/2002 - 12/2004
Design flyers, faxes, travel
itinerary packages and various travel agency materials. Provide additional design support for 140 page, bi-monthly travel magazine, circulation 275,000. Create marketing projects including buttons, magnets, magazine ads, brochures and other various 2 & 4-color promotional items. Provide technical drawings, typesetting and layout for various manuals. Responsible for assigned projects, start to finish, including collect for output, blueline approval and sample inspections. Design, create & maintain departmental intranet websites and web graphics.
ATA
Indianapolis IN
2/1998 - 9/2002
Provided various design services in temporary placement for a variety of companies including Kinko's - Indy 1, American Trans Air, McMillian and Paul Harris Corporate Headquarters. Assigned projects included magazine design, cover art design, ads, photo color correction, photo database creation, catalog production, flyers, annual reports, finance presentations etc.
MacStaffing
Indianapolis IN
3/1997 - 2/1998
Provided typesetting and artwork for the production of hand-etched, crystal products. Created grayscale renderings of specialty items, including water-jet cut pieces, for Customer Service Department. Completed creative activities of the Art Department, including quality control; maintenance and upgrade of the computer system; software applications; maintenance of art file system (electronic & manual); all necessary darkroom activities including negatives, PMTs, film positives and proper maintenance. Trained new department employees in processes and procedures.
Provided support for the Production, Art and Marketing Departments, including typesetting and design of forms, flyers, brochures and other printed materials. Assisted Marketing in creation of catalog and advertising materials; booth displays for trade shows; and product development, including art selection and creation. Created and maintained the system of templates for each Etching Industries product and new product lines.
Etching Industries
Indianapolis IN
7/1994 - 3/1997
Provided desktop publishing of various Osler materials, including Lecture Notes, Home Study materials, advertisements, flyers and brochures. Provided support for the Marketing Department and acted in conjunction with the marketing supervisor. Designed and maintained stylesheets for Lecture notes. Provided quality control of all printed materials. Trained new department employees in all department procedures.
The Osler Institute
Terre Haute IN
2/1992 - 9/1992
2003
Adobe PhotoShop Down & Dirty Seminar
2006
Master Adobe PhotoShop CS2
2007
Adobe PhotoShop CS2 Creativity
2007
Adobe PhotoShop CS3 For Photographers
2002
Adobe FrameMaker 6.0+SGML
Adobe FrameMaker Template Creation
1998
Mastering Adobe Photoshop
2000
Troubleshooting & Maintaining Your Macintosh
1986
Associate of Art
- Political Science
1992
Bachelor of Fine Arts
- Graphic Design
2003
Web Development Certificate
November 1994
Employee of the Month
June 2001
Home Run Club Nomination
8/1974 - 5/1984
Gold Award; Gold Leadership Award; First Class Award; 10-Year Pin
10/1978 - present
Recipient of the Degree of Royal Purple;
Past Honored Queen; Majority Member;
Past Bethel Guardian; Grand Bethel Officer, Grand Council Officer
9/1984 - present
Past Matron #538
April 2007 - present
Member
of Photoshop Professionals
May 2003 - present
Member