Intelligent, friendly creative professional seeking freelance work or full-time position as a print and/or web designer.
 
Has a great attitude, communication skills, and is very easy to work with. Shows excellent attention to detail and quality, and stays patient while working quickly and efficiently. Is extremely calm under pressure and easily adapts to changes that occur in a fast paced environment.
 
Merrill Corporation (2003-2007)
Desktop Publishing Specialist
 
Worked with Account Managers, Production Managers, Sales, Clients, and the Senior Graphic Designer to design and prepare high quality print and production ready files.
 
Created promotional flyers, direct mail, brochures, booklets, and corporate marketing materials for top real estate firms, including Coldwell Banker, Prudential, and First Team. Designed custom pieces for top real estate agents with an emphasis on fast turnaround, and flexible template layouts and accompanying web graphics for a web-to-print system.

• Worked with clients and sales to turn their ideas into original designs
• Worked within established corporate style guidelines to design pieces that have a distinct look, but also compliment existing materials
• Very knowledgeable about corporate style guidelines
• Frequently relied on to answer style and technical related questions for coworkers and clients
• Instrumental in testing new print production and file preparation processes
• Wrote an instructional guide for clients to follow when designing and submitting custom files
• Helped resolve technical issues that clients would have when preparing their own custom files
• Strong knowledge of digital and offset print production, and good understanding of web design

Adobe Photoshop
Adobe Illustrator
Adobe Acrobat
Adobe InDesign
Quark X Press
Mac and Windows operating systems
HTML
Microsoft Word
Microsoft Excel
 
Introduced to computer graphics applications and became interested in graphic design over 10 years ago, and started doing freelance design jobs in 1998. Did a digital photo restoration project in high school, and restored several old, damaged photographs using Photoshop. Went on to take Art, Computer Graphics, and Web Design courses at Fullerton College.
 
Have been playing guitar in local Orange County area bands since 2000. Handled many of the promotion, marketing, booking, recruiting, recording, and sound duties.