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Art Director, Layout Coordinator and Production Manager experience in print media. Familiarity with all Adobe applications, Corel applications, pre-press, pre-flight, silkscreen, screenprint, newspaper, magazine, textile, airbrush, traditional and digital photography, image processing and graphic design. Experience supervising several artists and printers on staff. Primarily interested in production related positions.
Resume
James Snyder
614-205-3377
Objective -
Art Director/Creative Director/Production Manager for medium size company, print media.
Professional Experience -
Current Show
Expressions Fantastiques
with other artists
Celestial Awakenings
Columbus, Ohio
thru January 2003
9/00 - Current
Freelance art and design projects
9/99 - 9/00
Production Manager
Senior Publishing, Columbus, Ohio
Responsible for all aspects of the production of two newspapers. Brought the production of two publications in-house saving the publisher more than $30,000 over previous out-sourcing costs in the first year. Photoshop, PageMaker, PC environment with needs to cross-platform client materials from Mac format. Windows 95/98, Microsoft Office apps, especially Word.
3/98 - 6/99
Layout Coordinator
JB Dollar Stretcher Magazine, Richfield, OH
Responsible for layout and start-to-finish pre-press of all editions of each issue, B&W and Color 1/2 to full page ad layout. Working with artists and sales staff. Primarily Mac, some PC, Photoshop, PageMaker, Quark, FlightCheck, several different clip art packages.
9/87 - 6/98
Art Director
Graffitti Printshop, Akron, OH
Supervising several artists and printers, training artists on printing, design and airbrush techniques. troubleshooting and maintaining equipment, working with clients to develop project concepts through to finished designs, customer service and other value-added client contact services.
also color separations, developing special printing techniques. PC environment, Corel package, scanning, also other proprietary screen printing software packages.
5/86 - 9/87
Lab Technician
Computer Slides of Akron, Akron, OH
Created slides for client presentations using living color slide process, Pixar Imaging System and Compugraphics Imagesetter. Photographic services such as shooting flat art and processing E-6 Ectachrome slide film, Kodalith, National Graphics Black-Dot film positives and Agfa-Garrett sheet film.
Education -
Commercial Art Certification, Central Hower
University of Akron
Skills Areas -
Computer Graphics
Photoshop
PageMaker
Freehand
Illustrator
Corel
Quark
Flight Check
Pre-Press
Printing
Screenprinting
Photography Traditional and Digital
Ad Layout
Magazine and Newspaper Layout
Illustration
