Resumé

MARY ROSTAD 2903 17th St. – Everett, WA 98201
(425) 530-3509 m_swab@hotmail.com

OBJECTIVE
Creative professional with relevant design, research, editorial, trafficking, production and customer service experience eager to help efficiently and innovatively promote businesses and their graphics/products.

CAREER PROFILE
==> Expertise with Adobe Creative Suite on both Mac and PC platforms
==> Over 15 years of successful design experience
==> Over 2 years of art editing experience
==> Proficient in creating style guides and eye-catching charts and graphs
==> Excellent research abilities
==> Focus on stringent quality control standards
==> Exceptional customer service and employee relations abilities
==> Proficient at challenging projects, including travel guides, academic texts and maps for publications
==> Proven capacity to integrate new technologies to maximize productivity and profitability
==> Excellent capacity for prioritization, problem solving and effectiveness in fast-paced environments
==> Well-organized multi-tasker with exceptional interpersonal skills
==> Deliver outstanding results under budget and on a consistent basis


PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Freelance Art Editor 2009-Present
• Editing art for a series of social studies books for Teachers’ Curriculum Institute
• Editing art for foreign language books for McGraw Hill
• Researching and creating map specs for a variety of projects
• Finalizing specs for new and revised art
• Editing return proofs
• Individual pricing of art based on the overall budget
• Ordering revisions from outside vendors
• Scheduling and trafficking proofs between vendors and editors
• Ensuring quality of final files


Freelance Cartographer 2009-Present
• Creating/designing maps for various publications

Cartographer, Expedia, Bellevue, WA 2010–2011
• Creating maps for Expedia's website

Mapping Specialists, Ltd., Madison, WI 1995 - 2009
Senior Cartographer (1998 – Present)
• Assumed responsibility for advanced map design, research and production
• Researched information/statistics and created several charts and graphs as infographics for textbooks
• Contributed to project set-up/organization and tracking/quality control
• Created and maintained style guides
• Facilitated training/supervision of team members
• Assisted with research and production problems
• Conducted extensive client contact
• Acted as Project Manager as needed
• Recipient of ‘Onno Brouwer Excellence in Cartography Award’
• Recipient of ‘Can-Do Attitude Award’

Cartographer (1995 – 1998)
• Recruited to conduct map design, research, compilation and production.
• Orchestrated overall project design and specification development.
• Ensured documentation of compilation history, comments, questions and problems.
• Achieved high standards of compilation and production accuracy.

TECHNOLOGY SKILLS

Adobe Illustrator CS4
Adobe Photoshop CS4
Adobe InDesign CS4
Quark X-Press
Adobe Acrobat
MS Office
FileMaker Pro

EDUCATION
University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, La Crosse, WI
Bachelor of Science, Major: Geography, Minor: Earth Science

Projects by Mary Rostad