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Graphic Designer

Location:
Ft. Lauderdale, FL, 33322
Salary:
60,000
Posted:
August 11, 2010

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Kelly L Tickner

**** *.*. **** *******

Sunrise, FL 33322

954•383•5051

Career Objective:

To obtain a challenging and exciting , career-oriented position that will cultivate my web design, graphic design, photography and art direction skills.

Zier Uniform Group, Plantation, FL

Senior Art Director

2/97 - Present

Duties include: Art Department management, concept, design, copywriting, art direction, photography and print buying for the in-house Art department. Design 48 to 64 page 4/c catalogs for the various uniform divisions within the group for the past 13 years. Responsible for all visual design for 28 retail stores including seasonal ad campaigns and signage packages throughout the United States and Canada. Design and maintain the corporate website for Uniform Advantage and Chef Uniforms.com. Responsible for all Macintosh computer equipment and photography purchases and maintenance. Travel on location to photograph each catalog cover and additional merchandise photography in studio. Created and responsible for the visual representation of the company since 1997. Extensive use of Quark Xpress, Adobe Flash, Acrobat, Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop, Dreamweaver and Rapidweaver. Extensive knowledge of HTML,

CSS and JAVA.

Kelley & Kelley Advertising and Marketing,

Boca Raton, FL

Art Director

4/96 - 2/97

Duties included: Working in the South Florida market on small to large sized advertising and design projects for national and regional clients. Duties included concept, design, copywriting, art direction and print buying. Extensive use of Quark Xpress, Adobe Illustrator and Adobe Photoshop.

PAUL HARRIS Stores, Inc., Indianapolis, IN

Senior Graphic Designer

3/95 - 3/96

Duties included: concept, design, copywriting, art direction and print buying for the in-house Marketing department. Responsible for all visual design for 235 retail stores including seasonal ad campaigns and signage packages throughout the United States. Extensive use of Quark Xpress, Adobe Illustrator, Aldus Freehand and Adobe Photoshop.

re:Member Data Services, Indianapolis, IN

Graphic Designer

11/93 - 3/95

Working in the Indianapolis market on small – medium sized advertising and design projects for the financial industry. Duties included: concept, design,

copywriting, art direction and print buying. Extensive use of Quark Xpress, Adobe Illustrator and Adobe Photoshop.

Metropolitan C.E.O. Inc., Indianapolis, IN

Production Director / Art Director

3/92 - 10/93

Developed new design and format of business oriented publications including, two monthly and three quarterly. Indianapolis C.E.O., Columbus C.E.O., Indianapolis Business Expansion Guide, Indiana Small Business Guide and Indiana Education Guide. Took each publication from inception through digital printing process. Duties Included: art direction, production direction. Produced media kits and marketing pieces for publications. Highly proficient with QuarkXpress, Adobe Illustrator and Adobe Photoshop.

Fine Light Photography and Design Inc.,

Bloomington, IN

Graphic Designer

4/91 to 2/92

Duties included: concept, design, copywriting, art direction, print buying, management of registered service bureau,

Evansville Courier Company, Evansville, IN

Pre-Press Associate

4/89 to 4/91

Duties included: paste-up ads per layout and ad corrections Graphic Input personnel

Received promotion 1/91. Duties included operating Triple-I Infoscan 3700, Autokon 1000/DE Scanner, running calibration and density tests at start of each shift, scanning original black and white photos into halftones, read density and/or dot percentage to verify quality standards were being maintained from negative output, transfer and proofing of files from Scitex and Macintosh to the Iris Ink Jet Printer, transfer of files between Macintosh Gateway and Scitex Response, manipulation and use of Colorfill software on Macintosh.

Education:

Indiana Vocational Technical College - 1989,

Evansville, IN

Associate of Applied Science Degree / Graphic Design

Attended Indiana University 1992

References: Available upon request.



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