Intelligent, friendly creative professional available for print and/or web design work.
 
Takes great pride in delivering exceptional design work and customer service. Has a great attitude, excellent communication skills, and is very easy to work with. Shows outstanding attention to detail and quality, and is always looking for ways to improve quality while working more quickly and efficiently.
 
ABG Marketing and Business Communications  (2008-current)
Marketing Communications Specialist
 
Supports the Director of Marketing and Sales Office on a wide variety of graphic design, web design and marketing needs.

• Integrated Marketing Campaign Manager: Design printed materials and web pages for multi-channel personalized marketing campaigns, with an emphasis on heavy personalization and eye-catching designs that are consistent between print and the web.
• Works with developers to design creatively within the constraints of existing web pages and templates, or set up new pages that are easy to later expand upon.
• Handle nearly all types of print pre-production duties, including design, typesetting, preflighting, color testing, imposition, database preparation and variable data merging.

 
Incandescent Graphics (2008-current)
Freelance Graphic Designer
 
Works with customers and print service providers on concept, design and production of a wide variety of printed and web based marketing materials. Maintains excellent customer relationships and is always gaining a better understanding of business in general. Projects range from creative, original designs to marketing pieces that use the strength of established brands to help customers grow their business.
 
 
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 corporate, promotional and 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 web graphics for a web-to-print system.

• Worked with clients and sales to turn their ideas into original designs, or within established corporate style guidelines to design pieces that have a distinct look and also compliment existing materials.
• Very knowledgeable about clients' corporate style guidelines, and frequently relied on to answer design and technical questions for coworkers and clients.
• Tested new print production and file preparation processes and wrote an instructional guide for clients to follow when designing and submitting custom files.

 
Adobe Photoshop
Adobe Illustrator
Adobe InDesign
Adobe Dreamweaver
Adobe Acrobat Professional
HTML, XHTML, CSS
Quark X Press
Mac and Windows operating systems
Microsoft Word
Microsoft Excel
 
Introduced to computer graphics applications and became interested in graphic design about 15 years ago, and started doing freelance design jobs in the late 90’s. Went on to take Art, Computer Graphics, and Web Design courses at Fullerton College before starting in the industry full-time in 2003.
 
 
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