WORK EXPERIENCE

McGraw-Hill Education Columbus, OH

May 2010 Present

Designer, Project Manager K-5 student math textbooks and multiple ancillary projects

Coordinate and prioritize resources across McGraw-Hill’s senior managers, production shared services, and editorial content teams.

Collaborate with internal teams and act as company lead to manage workflows for domestic design and composition vendors for an innovative 2012 Grade 5 math student edition.

Establish effective communication with offshore vendors; provide training, schedules, and budgets for multiple projects that deliver K-5 publishing products on time and within budget.

Schedule and conduct digital conferencing meetings to facilitate collaborative reviews with offsite vendors, design managers, and internal editorial and production teams.

Produced design go-bys for composition vendor to implement during page production.

Proficient in electronic and digital management of CS4 InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, and PDF files of chapters from manuscript to design.

August 2008 May 2010

Image Coordinator, Project Manager multiple K-12 math ancillary projects

Coordinated and did trouble shooting for complex workflow issues, project launches, and pre-press resources to ensure timely delivery of product files for an extensive list of K-12 ancillary projects.

Organized and tracked assets for multiple ISBNs via innovative and analytical use of custom designed Excel documents for projects as large as 19,000 pages with 4 proof passes, or entire math program.

Demonstrated ability to quickly master content management, rights and permissions, and corporate purchasing technology systems.

Organized and produced catalog of art resource images for use by editorial content teams.

Implemented conversion from paper workflow to digital workflow of ancillary products.

The Creative Group Columbus, OH

August 2007 August 2008

Designer for Gannett News, Newspaper Network of Central Ohio

Supported the onsite design team to produced advertisements during the interim period of transition to offshore vendor.

Offshore Graphic Specialist for Affinity Express Elgin, IL Pune, India

Facilitated Internet FTP file management workflow for the initial startup and transition of Columbus Dispatch newspaper’s in-house art department to an outsourcing graphics company. Prepared and maintained daily report document in Excel.

Portfolio Creative Columbus, OH

March 2008 August 2008

Photoshop for DSW e-commerce website launch

Responsible for image production and retouching.

Monitored and completed product inventory preparation and asset authoring.

Approved and tracked product photo inventory on Scene 7 site against multiple internal merchandise spreadsheets.

Columbus Dispatch Printing Company Columbus, OH

August 2007-March 2008

Expediter, traffic manager

Coordinated and tracked daily status of 700+ ads a week.

Transitioned paper document workflow between sales, creative services, and press production to digital outsourcing workflow.

Resolved problems and issues with clients or sales teams through phone inquiries, effective communication, and time-management skills.

Produced production reports on Excel via Outlook.

Covenant Christian High School Demotte, IN

September 2006 June 2007

Art teacher

Collaborated with local and online community resources to establish and implement ceramic, digital, and traditional art media lessons for state certification of a basic art program.

Northwood Academy Demotte, IN

1991-2007

K-12 teacher

Provided alternative learning content through custom digital and outsourced community resources to three multi-aged students and other local students.

Kristina Hopkins-Rost Advertising Art Dayton, OH; Demotte, IN; Bexley, OH

1982 Present

Design, project management, customer management, production management

Designed graphic solutions for customers of business accounts, small business startups, marketing managers; clients included Miami Valley Hospital, Lutheran Social Services, Kettering Foundation.

Created logo identity packages, annual reports, brochures, newsletters, advertisements

Procured printing, graphic supplies, and graphic resources; tracked account receivables/payables; scheduled vendor services; maintained production and client schedules without missing a deadline.

SKILLS

Adobe CS4: inDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, Flash, Fireworks; Adobe Acrobat Pro; Microsoft Office Industry-specific software: 1Step: assets and rights management; iPub: Product budgeting; Ariba Procure to Pay: vendor invoicing; K4 publishing: content and version management; Mediaspectrum® AdWatch™: web-based content management; Adobe Scene 7

EDUCATION

Columbus State Community College Columbus, OH Blackboard courses: Beginning Flash, Vector Illustration, Media Graphics and Optimization, Fundamentals of Digital Media; 4.0 GPA

St. Joseph’s College Rensselaer, IN Ceramics ; 4.0 GPA

Miami University Oxford, OH BS Art Education; 3.5 GPA

Central Academy of Commercial Art Cincinnati, OH, diploma

Sinclair Community College Dayton, OH AAS Early Childhood Education

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