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Production Artist
Cross Media, LLC
Roseville, MN
May 2013 - Present (11 years 7 months)
• Design unique page layouts for post cards, flyers
• Used adobe edge animate to design and concept HTML 5 animations
• Use indesign’s data merge to mass produce recurring postcard and flyer campaigns
• Designed, Coded and updated HTML e-mail, and newsletters with in-line styles and CSS.
• Manage and organized job tickets and created work flows and processes
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Graphic Designer
St. Croix Promotions & Retail, Inc.
Minneapolis, MN
Jan 2012 - Mar 2013 (1 year 2 months)
• Designed concepts for promotional products
• Mock up and maintained e-commerce product images and product descriptions
• Design web page skins and site maps for company stores
• Design marketing pieces for print and web use
• Create custom design for tee shirts
• Create custom design for tee shirts and other promotional products.
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Production Assistant
Xerox
Minneapolis, MN
Aug 2011 - Jan 2012 (5 months)
• Ran Igen 3 digital press
• Ran proofs and color checks
• Ran finish equipment, Cutter, Booklet Maker, Folder, Drill and Binding Machines.
• Able to read and understand customer notes.
• Pack and Ship orders as the finish
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Web Content and Support
Merrill Corporation
Saint Paul, MN
Dec 2010 - May 2011 (5 months)
• Utilize Pageflex to design templates for variable data for print via a web service
• Recreate Quark templates in Pageflex while using annotated PDF’s and original Quark Files
• Color manage files across Web, Offset and Digital Print
• Work closely with Quality Assurance and Web Screening to create and fix web product.
• Digitally create, alter and cleaned up raster based product images using Adobe Photoshop.
• Updated and corrected vector based logos images and Pantone colors using Adobe Illustrator.
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Impress Print and Documents Supervisor/ Pre- Press
OfficeMax
Roseville, MN
Aug 2005 - Dec 2010 (5 years 4 months)
• Consulting with customers to determine needs and designing creative solutions that meet or exceed the customer’s expectations; accurately documenting and pricing customer orders.
• Schedule, manage and track production flow from the start of the project to finished product.
• Process requests for all order efficiently and accurately.
• Enhance quality of orders and customer service through desktop publishing
• Manage archiving and retrieval of customer files.
• Ensure communication between shifts
• Process requests for all order efficiently and accurately
• Enhance quality of orders and customer service through desktop publishing digital service and application support • Check, troubleshoot, and prepare digital and hardcopy files for digital output
•Learn new software as needed and handle minor hardware issues
• Manage archiving and retrieval of customer files
• Operate both Mac and personal computer (PC) platforms, rip to output devices, and operate any PC peripherals
• Ensure all areas are maintained, including the computer equipment and software
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Graphic Design Intern
Minnesota Thunder
Mar 2008 - Oct 2008 (7 months)
• Created and developed advertisements for upcoming games and player appearances.
• Worked with photographer photos to design marketing and promotional materials for web and print.
• Assist with live international telecast of Fox Soccer Channel’s USL First Division Game of The Week, including preparation of prerecorded specific graphics.