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Production Designer
Peapod Digital Labs
NC
Dec 2020 - Present (3 years 8 months)
Packaging production designer.
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Production Designer
Retail Business Services
NC
Oct 2017 - Dec 2020 (3 years 2 months)
Packaging production design.
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Freelance Production Artist
Topco Associates
2015 - Sep 2017 (2 years 1 month)
Production artist for a private brand consumer packaging company. Build out re-designed skus on vendor provided dies to brand standards and submit for creative review. Assist designer in researching stock photography and completing designs. Make client revisions to packaging. Make sure files follow brand style guides with accuracy and meeting tight deadlines. Create digital and manually created package mockups. Evaluate and release approved files for approval. Retouching images and mockups for trade shows. Designed style guide for pet food brand. POS floor signs, table signs and table cover.
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Digital Graphics Technician
RR Donnelley
Apr 2003 - Mar 2015 (11 years 11 months)
Retouched, composited, color corrected and swatch matched images RGB for web and CMYK for print as requested from various clients. Prepared pages for quality printing.
Worked in packaging design and pre-press which included trapping for press.
Client accounts included FCA US LLC, Victoria's Secret, Maui Jim, Bass Pro Shops, Walmart, and JCPenney.
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Digital Imaging Retoucher
Walgreens
Jun 2001 - Oct 2003 (2 years 4 months)
Retouched, color corrected, and silhouetted digital images for a busy deadline-oriented advertising department. Images consisted of product shots, staged photography and model shots. Images were used in advertising circular, marketing materials, signs, and web. Also worked with vendor-supplied images.
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Digital Imaging
H&S Graphics
2001 - 2003 (2 years)
Worked in the imaging department during their busy seasons part time. Worked with scanned and customer supplied digital images and illustrations for educational textbooks. Retouched, color corrected, silhouetted, added drop shadows, and composited images in Photoshop. Placed images in Quark XPress for film output to make Match-prints.
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Graphic Designer
Northwest Herald
Oct 1987 - Jun 2001 (13 years 8 months)
Designed display advertising for regional businesses. Also scanned images to be used in display advertising and marketing materials. Retouched, color corrected, silhouetted, and manipulated images in Adobe Photoshop. Created graphs and logos in Adobe Illustrator. Tight deadline oriented position in a team-working environment. Helped other associates with software, pre-press, and Macintosh troubleshooting issues.