Graphic Design video presentation

GRAPHIC DESIGNER / PRINT PRODUCTION MANAGER
Photo Retouching / Print Design / Pre-Press Workflow / Reprographic Operations

Customer Service Representative / Campaign Designer / Web Designer / Art Director / Pre-Press Technician Leader
Digital Operations Manager / CTP Operations Leader / Paper Inventory Manager

Over 15 years of outstanding ability to sell and translate practical business requirements and effective workflow solutions into prepress procedures, digital operations, paper management, cutting and shipping as a print production manager. From excellent conceptual layout to technical file preparation for both print and web design; Drive production levels to new standards and reduce operational cost. BS in Business Management

Previous experience: Bed Bath & Beyond as a Department Sales Associate in charge of sales and stock inventory; Black Rose Production as an Art Director in charge of album designs; Ruff Ryders as an intern in charge of album designs.

Freelance work with three companies: Trulli's Printing, Magjak Corp., Prestige QuickPrint Co., as Graphic Designer, Preflighter and Sales.

Skills: Proficient in Adobe Creative Suite 5 - Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Dreamweaver, Acrobat, Distiller, Publisher, Microsoft Office -- Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Quark Xpress, Color Editing and Workflow programs.

Certification: Multi-Media (Graphic Design, Audio, Video, Special FX) at Southern Westchester BOCES

Proactive / Team Leader / Highly Productive


CAREER HIGHLIGHTS
Creative Design
Over 15 years implementing advanced graphic design from conceptual to technical preflighting.
Production
Solid background in multi task planning and executing over five million impressions in digital production.
Maintained daily production amounts with time spent at profitable levels.
Oversaw Ricoh Pro C900, KonicaMinolta CCP 650, Xerox 4590 printers; maintained production levels.
Management
Resourcefulness to lead a group to high quality expectations and will deliver a profound outcome.
Background in achieving overhead-free inventory while meeting operational stock requirement levels.
Pre-Press / Post-Press
Accountable for over four hundred preflight jobs using the latest print software to ensure effectiveness.
Five years in CTP operations, outputting one thousand plates per month.
Comprehensive knowledge in finishing workflow and the ability to translate requirements to pre-press.
Five years in cutting high volume amounts of sheets for all press operations.

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Howto & Style

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• graphic designer
• art director
• creative designer
• web designer
• prepress