Graphic Designer

A highly astute, energetic, and team-spirited 2008 graduate with an impressive academic and employment performance pursuing a long-term career in Graphic Design. Ability to interact effectively on all levels in business while embracing diversity in technology in various environments and industries. Comfortable working in situations requiring leadership and management (on all levels) as well as with responsibilities requiring individual team participation. Ability to see the larger picture and to lead within assigned tasks to accomplish goals. Eager to put to use specialized training, education, and project experience in a growth-oriented environment.

Experience

Graphic Business Solutions, El Cajon, CA

Graphic Designer (May 1, 2007 – Present)

Successfully transform Real Estate & professional/collegiate sports teams game schedules into attractive attention grabbing refrigerator magnet designs; design special marketing pieces, and maintain a good sense of humor and poise when facing deadlines.

• Design multiple-sized magnet schedules
• Responsible for short run printing and imposing press sheets manually
• Merge variable information into Quark documents
• Operate 3 Xerox Press’s (2045, 5000, 7000 & 8000)
• Utilize CREO software daily

Yell Adworks formerly Pindar Set, San Diego, CA

Studio Artist/Premium Spec Artist

Successfully designed high quality and eye-catching advertisements for YellowBook USA, while working in a team environment; kept production high and was recognized as a top performer for exceeding expectations weekly.

• Maintained 30 ads a day
• Increased production speed
• Designed Premium Ads with specific instructions from ad reps via phone conversations

Skills Summary

• Adobe Photoshop CS4 – Color Correction, Layer Masks, Channels, Layer Effects, Layer Adjustments, Filters/Smart Filters
• Adobe Illustrator CS4 – Beizer Pen Tool, Gradient Mesh, Envelope Distort, 3D Rendering, Pathfinder & Align Tools
• Adobe Indesign CS4 – Large Document construction, Master Pages, Style Sheets, LInks, Paragraph/Character Styles
• Adobe Acrobat CS4 – Make multiple page PDF documents for proofs both screen ready and press run ready/li>
• Quark Xpress 8 – Large document construction, Master pages, Style Sheets, Links, Paragraph/Character Styles
• Text Wrangler 2.3 – Writing HTML & CSS
• Aptana Studio – Writing HTML & CSS

Education

Platt College

Graduated San Diego 2008
Associate of Applied Science Degree in Graphic Design
Dean’s Scholar – Graduated with 4.0 GPA
2 Time Dean’s List Recipient

Foundation College

Graduated San Diego 2005
Multimedia Technology Certificate