Cindy S. Pierce

** **** *** **** • Ellenwood, GA 30294

404-***-**** cell • 770-***-**** home

acrr97@r.postjobfree.com

Online Portfolio: http://cindyspierce.allyou.net

Skills, Qualifications & Certifications:

MAC & PC platform proficient.

Kodak Nexpress Certified Operator.

Digital platemaking - ESKO. Prepress specialist.

Software: Adobe CC, QuarkXpress, Corel Draw, Microsoft Office, and all software for this industry. Trouble shooting, hardware installation software support, preflight, customer files review and analysis. Full knowledge of PDF work flow.

All aspects of printing and prepress, with knowledge of many high speed copiers (Minolta, Canon, Xerox), digital color printers (Epson, HP, Roland, Canon)

large & small format, image setters, direct to plate, copiers, various RIP systems (Onyx, Fiery), paste up, stripping, plating making and bindery.

Numerous awards for a wide range of graphic design, and excellence in printing. Articulate, versatile, creative, organized, motivated and production oriented. Experience:

GT LABELS & PACKAGING - February 2015 - August 2015 Art Director / Prepress Specialist - - Flexo Label Printing OCTANE 5 - Alpharetta, GA February 2014 - February 2015 Press Operator - Kodak Nexpress Digital Press

DPD / JAMISON PROFESSIONAL SERVICES, East Point, Georgia May 2013 – February 2014 Prepress Technician/Specialist, Graphic Design / Kodak Nexpress Operator – Mailing House, Digital Printing, Variable Data

METEOR PRINT / QUANTUM DIGITAL GRAPHICS, Atlanta, Georgia Sept. 2012 – April 2013 Prepress Technician/Specialist, Graphic Design – Large Format Digital Printer PRINT TIME, Atlanta, Georgia 2006 – 2008

Graphic Design, Prepress Specialist – Retail Printing PROMOTIONAL SCREEN PRINT, Decatur, Georgia 2004 – 2006 Graphic Design, Prepress Specialist, Large Format Digital Printing - Large Format Digital and Screen Printer

GENFLEX LABELING SOLUTIONS, Atlanta, Georgia 2001-2003 Graphic Design, Prepress Specialist, Platemaking, Rotary Screen Manufacture – Flexo Label Printing APEX MACHINE COMPANY, Fort Lauderdale, Florida 1994-1995 Graphic Design, Gravure Cylinder Manufacture, Research and Development – Custom Printing Press Co.

GO TAPE & LABEL, Miami, Florida 1989 – 1994

Art Director in house art department, staff of 5, Graphic Design, Prepress, Budgeting, Acquisition of Equipment and supplies, scheduling – Flexographic Label Printing Company SUNRISE GRAPHIC SERVICES, Sunrise, Florida 1986-1989 Counter clerk, typesetting, paste-up, graphic design, platemaking, camera, bindery, and delivery – Retail Printing Company

TEMPORARY ONSITE GRAPHIC DESIGN / PREPRESS SPECIALIST / FREELANCE GRAPHIC DESIGN - 1983 – Present Employed by various printers to step in and work temporarily as graphic designer & prepress, train permanent staff in duties as related to their various printing businesses. Consultant to print shops opening up their own in house graphic design / prepress department & optimize existing department. Freelance graphic design.