NANCY CARLSEN, Senior Graphic Designer

Graphic Designer and Production Specialist with extensive experience in all facets of design and illustration in support

of print and web in settings ranging from creative agencies, corporate, educational, and government environments. Highly

organized and detail oriented. Exceptional collaborative and interpersonal skills with well-developed written and verbal

communication abilities. Highly skilled in client and vendor relations as well as project coordination. Able to manage

projects from design through to preflight and print-ready. Talented at building relationships and solving problems.

Successful collaborations with creative, design, production, and editorial teams on a wide range of projects.

– image retouching

– multilingual publications

– book design and production

– presentations

– research and annual reports

– packaging

– logo design

– brochures

– labeling

– DTP and graphic proposal support

– web graphics

– illustration/infographics

TECHNICAL PROFICIENCY

– Microsoft Suite

– Adobe Photoshop

– Mac OS and Windows platforms

– PowerPoint

– Adobe Acrobat

– Adobe InDesign (Creative Suite 6)

– FrameMaker

– QuarkXpress

– Adobe Illustrator

WORK EXPERIENCE

Freelance–Independent Senior Graphic Designer Jan 2014 – Present

Working through talent agencies and by individual contract arrangement, provides graphic design and desktop

publishing support to companies, agencies, and universities in all the project areas listed above. Clients include Johns

Hopkins University and KPMG LLP.

Lockheed Martin Senior Graphic Designer July 2009 – Jan. 2014

Worked under a Lockheed Martin contract with the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services,

U.S. Department of Justice. This position required a background check and a Public Trust security clearance.

– Collaborated with internal clients on strategy and intent to establish project objectives.

– Developed creative design concepts that observed brand guidelines.

– Created supporting infographics, tables, and creative illustrations in support of print and web.

– Designed and produced reports, brochures, posters, and manuals for both internal and external publication.

– Responsible for prepress inspection and packaging of all print files for outside print vendors.

– Prepared all native files intended for print and/or for web only to enable efficient processing for 508 compliance.

– Key contributor in developing Standard Operating Procedures guidelines based on best practices of creative project

and publications development.

– Developed time saving workflow to update annual application and grantee manuals.

– Twice awarded the COPS All-Star Award for excellence.

828DesignPro I ndependent Graphic Designer Feb. 2009 – July 2009

Print design, including books, reports, newsletters, directories, brochures, identity, catalogs, posters.

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Brunner, Inc. Senior Production Artist Sept. 2006 – Feb. 2009

– Collaborated with creative teams to carry print projects through revisions to final release.

– Responsible for final preflight and delivery of all agency print jobs.

– Coordinated production details with print vendors and managed press checks.

– Collaborated with editors to produce a regularly published report series and magazine, from layout and design to final

approval, delivery of files to vendors, and preparation of print files for web.

– Created infographics and illustrations.

– Supervised freelance production artists.

Merkle Direct Marketing Designer and Senior Production Artist 2003 – 2004

– Partnered with Creative Director to establish in-house design and creative services department for non-profit

organizations served by the company.

– Designed direct marketing materials.

– Coordinated production with company’s mailing house.

– Supervised freelance talent.

Engine Performance Freelance Design and Senior Production Artist 2001 – 2003

– Fulfilled both long- and short-term assignments, on and off site for clients in the Baltimore-Annapolis area.

– As manager and member of the production team, completed the transformation and redesign of multilingual labeling

for the Amerock hardware line.

Freelance Freelance Design and Senior Production Artist 2001 – 2003

Concurrent with freelance work for Engine Performance, successfully fulfilled long- and short-term assignments both

on- and off-site through several leading talent agencies for the following clients:

– The Campbell Group

– Deloitte & Touche

– Becton Dickinson

– Crosby Marketing Communications

– Sylvan Learning Center

– Raytheon Technical Services Co.

– Stackig Advertising and Public

– PassageMaker Magazine

– Booz/Allen/Hamilton

Relations

– Concept Foundry

– NASA

Prographics, Inc. Senior Production Artist 1998 – 2001

– Prepared multilingual versions of annual reports for several divisions of the United Nations as well as Johns Hopkins.

– Successfully partnered with Creative Directors to guide other educational, corporate, commercial, and non-profit

publications through editorial and design stages to final release.

Carved Stone Design Owner 1997 – 2001

– Designed and produced books for the Air Force Historical Studies Office.

– Successfully managed all contract milestones.

– Subcontracted project editors and indexers, collaborating with them to develop the final manuscript.

– Designed and produced jackets and book interiors.

– Responsible for overall quality control, earning a “preferred vendor” status with AFHSO.

– Titles include: Gradual Failure: The Air War Over North Vietnam, 1965–1966; Sierra Hotel: Flying Air Force Fighters in the

Decade After Vietnam; The Three Wars of Lt. Gen. George E. Stratemeyer: His Korean War Diary

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Translingua, Inc. Graphic Designer 1995 – 1997

– Worked closely with international editors in refining multilingual manuals, labels, and various other print documents.

– Prepared print-ready files in English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Danish, Swedish, German, and Italian.

EDUCATION

American University BFA

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