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Production Designer
Menomonee Falls, WI
May 2012 - Present (12 years 6 months)
Responsibilities: Design packaging, take design concepts across lines of packaging, train others on production, mock ups, and proofing. There is a very high volume of work that goes through, and this demands teamwork, focusing on strengths, and managing time well. Work with many different teams in order to get designs approved, photography shot, sku level art produced, and proofs approved in order to get the packaging out on the sales floor.
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Lead Mac Operator
Appleton, WI
Oct 2009 - May 2012 (2 years 7 months)
Responsibilities: Cover, template and layout design, quality checks, training, mentoring, and helping to manage catalog projects overall production to strict deadlines. Various design projects from concept to completion. Mock ups, and final presentation. Redraw from low-res, trapping final files for production, proofing, color keys, color profiles.
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Freelance designer
831 Design
Appleton, WI
Jun 2009 - May 2012 (2 years 11 months)
Responsibilities: Finding new clients, designing for clients on jobs they need completed by specific dates, managing time between clients, marketing research, invoicing.
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Sales
Appleton, WI
Aug 2004 - Oct 2008 (4 years 2 months)
Responsibilities: I worked on the sales floor, as a cashier, and assisting in shifting the sales floor sets.