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Senior Production Artist /Graphic Designer
Universal Screen Arts, Inc.
Hudson, OH
Sep 2023 - Present (1 year 4 months)
• Catalog layout and production design: Support Plus, Shop PBS, Bas Bleu, Daedalus, Signals
• Image clean-up/Organization/Teambase population
• Prepare and process catalogs for print production
• Collaborated with Merchandising to create successful and targeted layout advertisements
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Senior Graphic Designer
Cleveland, OH
Apr 2013 - Aug 2023 (10 years 4 months)
In the last 10 years I have designed 7 different monthly catalogs for apparel, shoes, jewelry, cosmetics, fragrance, household and health products.
2020-Present: Senior Graphic Designer Healthy Living catalog (solo)
2018-2020: Lead Graphic Designer Beauty Boutique and Windsor catalogs (team)
2015-2018: Lead Graphic Designer Essentials and Complements catalogs (solo/team)
2013-2015: Graphic Designer Dr. Leonard's and Carol Wright catalogs (team)
• Designed layouts, covers, wraps, credit inserts and order forms for 48-to-72-page monthly catalogs
• Trained and mentored multiple Production Artists
• Built and refreshed libraries, style guides and brand guides
• Participated in and lead catalog layout review meetings with creative and merchandising
• Redesigned Essentials, Complements, Windsor and Healthy Living including:
Layouts, typography, headlines, colors, design elements and background imagery
• Fully rebranded Beauty Boutique
• Assisted multiple Art Directors in studio and on location; filled in for them as needed
• Worked with pre-press and final printer to maintain quality and standard of catalogs
• Highly proficient in online work management applications Adobe Workfront and Blue Software:
review layouts, make and resolve comments, tag coworkers and post revisions all online
• Experienced in remote working applications Teams, Zoom and TeamViewer
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Graphic Designer
JB Dollar Stretcher Magazine
Richfield, OH
May 2004 - Feb 2013 (8 years 9 months)
JB Dollar Stretcher Magazine provides advertising to clients in
print forms such as magazines and postcards as well as online
services where customers can post and purchase coupon deals.
• Designing ads, postcards and in-house flyers start to finish
while working with clients and sales representatives
• Creating artwork to be incorporated with online deals
• Collaborating with the technical department to send out
advertising email blasts to perspective clients
• Processing new advertisements, approvals, changes
and conferring with sales representatives as needed
• Working with sales department to design zip code zoning maps
• Advertising Layout Coordination
• Preparing artwork for print