Maria (Rosita) Moreno

Design of full color brochures, business cards, billboards and other types of print advertising * Scanning transparencies and optimizing imagery * Created original artwork for backgrounds and photo-collages * Attention to detail Skills * Photoshop CS5 * Quark Xpress * Classpage * ImPosition * InDesign * Intellitune & Intellitune Scripts * Layout 8000 * Microsoft Excel * Adode Acrobat Professional * High-end retouching for print, web * Color management. * Creating and streamlining imaging workflows. * Interviewing and testing retouching candidates. * Training and mentoring retouching teams * Cyberduck (FTP)

Daily Star * Training and controlling the quality of 4 color and black and white halftone/line art reproduction for multiple publications from job start to completion. * Design Photoshop Action to color correct photos used by Advertising /Marketing and off site agencies. * Second most improved newspaper in the company for 2001 for quality color * Responsible for consistent quality and the scheduling of materials to ensure processing in a timely manner * Assign and perform scheduling and evaluations of work shifts and personnel * Scheduling of maintenance to keep equipment in the best possible operating condition * Color manage workflow with ICC profile and monitor calibration when necessary * Provide (via telephone interviews) information concerning requirements for outside advertising agencies/clients to produce quality results on press instruction in offsite training classes for clients, artist and advertising agencies * Evaluate and improve supplied electronic disc material coordinate and monitor quality standards/ demands for newsrooms, special projects, and marketing * Solve problems and improve all areas of reproduction quality assist both newsrooms * Perform various reports and inventories input and collate all necessary scanning data * Operate Pagination System, preflighting, and preparing and out putting files to press and CTP system * Layout newspaper with Layout 8000