graphic designer/production artist
Experience in a variety of roles including Production Artist, Graphic Designer, and Production Manager. Expertise includes layout, design, working with images for a variety of print or web specs. Scanning, file format knowledge, file troubleshooting, proofreading and copy editing abilities, and copy writing. Recognized for organizational skills and attention to detail, as well as leadership in supervising production. I have worked with both small businesses and large corporations.
Resume
**experience highlights**
Designer | City of Seattle Municipal Court | 12.07 - present (as-needed)
Designer | Shalom Magazine | 1.08 - present (as-needed)
Production Artist | Buzzbee | 6.07 - Present
Flowing text, creating, and tweaking various print and web documents for Microsoft, occasional design. Use Indesign, Photoshop, and Illustrator.
Production Artist | Jewish Federation of Seattle: JT News | 9.06 - Present
Layout and production art for semimonthly (2x/Month) tabloid-sized newspaper, several magazines.
Production Artist | Mary Hutchison Design | 1.07 - Present (as-needed)
Set up business card template in Freehand and typeset cards. Created print and web graphics using Photoshop and Illustrator.
Graphic Designer | Congenital Engine | 9.06 - Present
Design/layout of 40 page business plan for film "The Immaculate Conception of Little Dizzle" for prospective investors.
Designer / Asst. Editor / Researcher | "Zoo" | ThinkFilm | 4/06 - 1/07
Designed investment pack, conducted extensive research on film's subjects, location scouting, fundraising, interview transcription, logged footage in Final Cut, for documentary film on Enumclaw horse incident.
Production Artist | Higgins Design/Merrill Gardens | 4/05 - 1/08
Creating and adapting printed materials including: flyers, direct mailers, postcards and floor plans for Merrill Gardens' national network of retirement communities.
Graphic Designer | Northwest Film Forum | 7/05 - 9/05 (contract)
Designed 64-page color book honoring the ten year anniversary of the Northwest Film Forum.
Digital Photo Editor | Seattle International Film Festival | 3/04 - 5/04
Preparing and organizing hundreds of promotional film photos for use in high-resolution, full color & B&W 300 page program book, as well as the Seattle Times newspaper guide, and online film program guide.
Art Director | Classical Singer Magazine | 10/01-08/03
Responsible for layout, design and advertisement creation for monthly music magazine.
Production Manager | Classical Singer Magazine | 6/00-9/01
Supervised flow of production process and assisted art director in layout duties.
Location
Seattle, WA
Specialties
- Design Management
- Art Direction
Experience
8 yearsEducation
State University of New York
School of Visual Concepts (current)
Awards
Completed Taz Tally CS3 Indesign Tour (2008) SVC: Creating Graphics for the Web Elements of Design Elements of Drawing Intro to Web Authoring
Affiliations
NAPP (National Association of Photoshop Professionals), SmartDept
