Resumé

WORK EXPERIENCE
COMPANY: Geary Company Advertising | Las Vegas, Nevada - present
POSITION: Graphic Designer / Production Artist
DUTIES: Work with senior management, account executive and creative director to conceive, design and produce comprehensive advertising campaigns and an array of print collateral adhering to brand standards for a wide variety of clients. Process new business pitch materials into presentations containing spec work such as story boards, scripts, creative samples of branding elements, print ads, billboards, interactive and broadcast media.

COMPANY: Evolve Design Group | Las Vegas, Nevada - 2007-08
POSITION: Graphic Designer / Production Aritist
DUTIES: Worked closely with account services department and creative director to conceive, design and produce an array of collateral and print ads adhering to brand standards for a wide variety of clients. Managed content on existing clients' websites. Created website comps presented to prospective clients.

COMPANY: Vision Airlines Inc. | Las Vegas, Nevada - 2007
POSITION: Graphic Designer / Production Artist - Creative Services
DUTIES: Worked closely with marketing and sales departments to conceive and produce an array of collateral and print ads. Managed print production and communicated with print vendors. Developed, compiled and indexed a large image assets library. Produced an online interactive photo gallery to facilitate distribution of image assets to secondary tourism marketing companies. Conceived, designed and developed prototype consumer website. Developed visual brand identity standards document.

COMPANY: Collegiate Graphics | Las Vegas, Nevada - 2006
POSITION: Graphic Designer / Prepress Technician
DUTIES: Worked closely with internal account executives and external merchandisers to conceive, design and produce apparel graphics for diverse clientele. Brainstormed and discussed ideas regarding print production with press operators. Created, produced and prepared artwork for printing. Produced color separations using Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop. Oversaw the RIP and output of film. Conferred with press operators throughout print production. Approved final prototype work.

COMPANY: Rapid Color Printing | Las Vegas, Nevada - 2005
POSITION: Prepress Technician / Graphic Designer
DUTIES: Typeset, designed and produced electronic mechanical press sheets using QuarkXPress and InDesign. Managed FTP site, archived files and processed files through prepress software. Resolved problem files, sent out proofs for customer approval. Followed up with customers. Analyzed color separations produced by the Rastor Image Processing software. Processed plates to be applied on the press. Serviced and maintained image setting machine's chemicals and polyester plate material. Configured and operated a high-copacity digital printer for short-run print jobs. Took inventory and ordered supplies as needed.

COMPANY: Perry Judd's Printing | Baraboo, Wisconsin - 2004
POSITION: General Worker | Bindery / Print Finishing
DUTIES: Assisted bindery operators in the production of saddle stitched and perfect bound publications such as catalogs, magazines, tabloids and digests. Loaded print forms into bindery equipment pocket feeders. Sorted publications by zip code, bundled and organized on pallets to be shipped to a US Postal Service distribution center for mailing.

ACCOLADES
2010 American Advertising Federation, Las Vegas, ADDY Award, Bronze, Geary Company for Good Dog Food Company, Pet Retail, Packaging Design
2010 American Advertising Federation, Las Vegas, ADDY Award, Bronze, Geary Company for Renewable Nevada, High Tech Communications, Logo Design

EDUCATION
COLLEGE: Madison Area Technical College | Madison, Wisconsin
MAJOR: Graphic Design
DEGREE: Associate in Applied Arts, May 2003

WEB LANGUAGES
WORKING KNOWLEDGE: HTML | CSS | Web Standards - Best Practices
PROCURING KNOWLEDGE: JavaScript | ActionScript | PHP

DESIGN WORK
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