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Dynamic Graphic Artist and Technical Designer

Location:
Tampa, FL
Posted:
June 13, 2016

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MARK R. JONES

**** **** **** ***** *******, Florida 34655

727-***-**** acu72a@r.postjobfree.com

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https://www.linkedin.com/in/mark-r-jones-907a90119 LEAD GRAPHIC DESIGNER

Dynamic Graphic Artist and Technical Designer with more than 20 years experience. Established expertise in concept development, design, layout, illustration, web design, and publishing. Proven experience in digital printing, graphic, commercial, and industrial design applications. Skilled at developing new solutions, methods, and techniques to exceed technical, and customer product requirements. Strong management experience providing direction and leadership. Accustomed to more than 30 direct/indirect reports at varying frequencies.

Graphic Art - Technical Writing - Business Start Ups / Turnarounds - Web Design / Publishing - Presentations - Reporting - Product Marketing - Branding Design / Lay-out - Team Leadership / Motivation Commercial Design - Scheduling - Training / Development - On-Time Delivery - Account Management - Vendor Management - Contract Agreements - Project Management - Business Development - Communication - Client Relations - Adobe: Dreamweaver / Illustrator / Photoshop / InDesign / Premier - MS FrontPage - CorelDraw WordPress

Freedom Metal Finishing, Inc. Clearwater, FL 7/2015 - 2/2016 A metal finishing company that offers decorating, plating, wet, and powder coat finishes to the Military, Aerospace and Industrial markets.

Technical Graphic Designer

Design and reproduce highly technical and complex artwork for prepress and screen printed Graphics used in aircraft interiors, control panels, and measurement gauges with accuracy and placement tolerances as low as .003”. Prime customers included Lockheed Martin, Shaw Aerospace, Parker Hannifin Aerospace Group, Goodrich/UTC Military, and other government and Fortune 500 Companies.

Headed the design, fabrication, and implementation of digital Graphics, Liquid Masking, and Molded Hard Rubber Masking strategies to minimize labor and enhance the quality of products and services offered.

Introduced methods to successfully design and in-house fabricate tight tolerance printing equipment, and fixtures to fulfill technical and complex customer requirements yielding increased customer satisfaction and supporting new business development.

Achievements:

Successfully decreased FOD in finished products by 40%, with facility modifications while enhancing production workflow through the organization of the ink and paint mixing, production, and consumable storage areas.

Organized production flow and developed employee training directives while supporting internal communications and customer requirements with all interconnected departments.

Continuously improved the coordination of plating and painting requirements to consistently meet On-Time delivery schedules.

Monitored production processes for efficiency and productivity by Identifying and solving problems while developing preventative actions, performing employee assessments, and maintaining performance records.

Played a critical role in the identification of process and procedural deficiencies, process adjustments, and providing guidance for a safe and efficient working environment.

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FLORIDA FINISHING Port Richey, Florida 11/2006 – 7/2015

Military/Aerospace, Commercial, and industrial painting company serving the manufacturing industry.

Artist Engineer / Graphic Design Manager

Direct and manage company wide marketing, advertising, presentation and startup operations supporting new business development. Determined customer and internal requirements to conceptualize and create a user interfaced company website using Adobe Dream Weaver-CC to promote company’s products, services, and support internal specification and document requirements. Designed Graphics, Brand Logos, Line drawings, and Technical Identification printing applications to promote awareness of work instruction, safety, and customer related products and services for low- volume, painting, screen printing, pad printing, laser marking and decorating requirements. Prime customers such as Battelle-Sellex Scanners, MakerBot Printing, FARO Robotics, Phillips/Invivo Medical, Baxter Medical, and other Fortune 500 Companies.

Achievements:

Expanded business plans, secured cost efficient equipment and materials for product launch yielding new profit centers to ensure company growth by adding Hydro-Graphics or Water Transfer Printing,

Airbrushed Ceramic Firearm Coatings, and sprayed Dry Film Lubricant services in support of new company product lines.

Developed multi-color, semi-automatic screen printing processes and procedures to transfer tight tolerance Multi- color images to three-dimensional textured plastic and metal substrates conforming to client, military, and aerospace specifications.

Purchased appropriate equipment and materials to fulfill technical decorating requirements for customer logos, line drawings and typography printing applications.

Reduced cycle and process times by developing new techniques and utilizing technology driven applications, and materials to streamline operations. Improved processing efficiency, lowered production time, and increased customer satisfaction.

Used creative graphics applications used to identify, direct, and enhance training through signs, posters, floor graphics, and documentation. Designed collateral to promote increased safety awareness, company policy, and enhance production flow.

MARK-ART / SIGNWORKS Lockport, New York 1/2006 – 10/2006

Commercial screen-printing, embroidery, and sign making company.

Principal

Directed commercial printing operations to support client fulfillment and print requirements of delivered quality product and solutions.

Achievements:

Developed high quality decorated textile products for educational and municipal institutions. Assisted client development of profit centers for product sales with cost effective pricing allowing a profitable retail markup.

Provided customers with consistent logo design and graphics across multi-media formats and product lines. Allowed clients to increase visibility while minimizing advertising costs by generating and submitting finished digital artwork.

Meet customer print process requirements to produce photo-realism images on non-white backgrounds using the CMYK Process, PMS, and Index color palettes.

Developed unique processes to print CMYK images on colored textiles meeting customer needs, quality, and cost specifications.

Promoted business with client education and on-site demonstrations utilizing portable equipment for classroom applications.

Allowed students to competitively design and print custom textiles in a classroom setting yielding expanded sales while generating community awareness of products and services.

Created comprehensive business web site using MS FrontPage for the purpose of promoting company products and services. Advertised site across multi-media to increase sales and widen company exposure.

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CHRISTIAN ACADEMY OF WESTERN NEW YORK Lockport, New York 1/2001 – 1/2005

A Private Independent non-denominational Christian school.

Graphic Design Instructor

Provided computer based graphic design instruction for software including CorelDraw, CorelTrace and Adobe Photoshop while encompassing a wide range of graphic design subjects. Developed challenging curriculum focused on core subject matter and skills, assisted students in designing business projects, and provided counseling and encouragement to facilitate high student success rate and personal growth. Student training included basic construction skills with hand and power tools.

Achievements:

Prepared course graphic design curriculum. Developed cost effective student training in graphic design, color palettes, color separations, screen making, manual printing techniques, and ink and squeegee selection.

Instructed students in advertising products and services including direct mail marketing, business-to-business solicitations and customer relations.

Designed efficient classroom layout for course instruction. Organized equipment, materials and supplies for project production. Provided instruction on equipment use, maintenance and safety.

Provided leadership for program allowing students hands-on professional graphics production experience creating and delivering various print products for the school and for clients in the outside community, including brochures, fliers, and other direct market advertising collateral.

PROFESSIONAL TRAINING

Certified ISO 9000:2008 Auditor

SGIA Seminars, Fred Pryor Seminars

COMPUTER SKILLS

Microsoft Office Suite, MS FrontPage, CorelDraw X8 Suite, CorelDraw Trace, SignLab-CutPro 7 Adobe Photoshop CS, Adobe Dreamweaver CC, Adobe Illustrator CS, Adobe InDesign



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