Graphic Artist

ROBIN SEMORE

**** ***** **** • Dittmer, MO ****3 • 314-***-**** • *******@*****.***

Profile

I am a professional in the graphics field with experience in graphic design, prepress and customer service.

My years of experience have included working with a team and independently on projects. Both situations

have been a positive influence in my work.

Specialties

• Multiple page documents • Problem solving

• Scheduling

• Page layout & design

• Forecasting

• Managing multiple projects at once

• Customer service

• Color correction

• Data Entry

• Photo manipulation

• Organization/Detail oriented

• Process mapping

• Process documentation

• Prepress

Software

• Macintosh & Windows Operating Systems • QuarkXpress

• Adobe Creative Suite CS5 • Microsoft Office

• Pitstop plug in for Acrobat • Microsoft Publisher

Work Experience

2011 January 2013

J. S. Paluch Company, Inc. Franklin Park, IL

Directory Coordinator/Administrative Assistant Production

March 2011 January 2013 (Full time telecommuter)

Responsible for day to day production coordination for church directories, school handbooks & buzz

books with production department, churches & schools including:

• Contact churches on a daily basis

• Schedule print dates

• Maintain comprehensive listings of all directories published

• Forecast directory schedule to average amount of prints per month

• Prepress for all directories

• Maintain a less than 1% error ratio

• Assure all print deadlines are met

2004 2011

Pastoral Solutions St. Louis, MO (formerly Liturgical Publications of St. Louis)

Senior Periodical Production Artist 2006 2011

Production of church directories, school buzz books, auction booklets and other special

publications from churches, schools and those affiliated with them.

• Coordinate completion of materials with in house printing facility, outside vendors and delivery.

• Forecast upcoming projects with production team for scheduling purposes.

• With a member of each department involved, developed a process map to insure the directory

process from start to finish.

Production Artist 2004 2006

Prepress work for weekly church bulletins; create and set up ads for the back of bulletins.

Work with sales department to ensure better quality of ads for customers.

1996 2004

Freelance Graphic Design and Prepress

• Royal Canin USA St. Charles, MO Design Nutrition booklets

• Haas Bakery St. Louis, MO Design labels for bakery products

• J&R Label Ware, MO Graphic Designer Design and prepress work for labels

• Vi Jon Laboratories, Inc. St. Louis, MO Prepress work for labels and packaging items

2001 2004

Electro Image, L.L.C. St. Louis, MO Graphic Designer

Design and prepress work for catalogues, logos, business cards, letterheads, brochures, flyers, magnets,

billboards, direct mail & newspapers

1996 1999

CraftLink St. Louis, MO Production Artist

Prepared artwork & type for business cards, letterheads, envelopes, newsletters, brochures, flyers,

posters, etc. for offset printing

1995 1996

Vision Printing & Packaging, Inc. Fenton, MO Production Artist

• Label design & prepress work for flexographic printing

• Coordinate workflow between artist, plate maker and printer

1991 1994

Penn Corporation St. Louis, MO Graphic Artist/Supervisor

• Supervised and coordinated activities of ten graphic artists, two proof readers and an office clerk

• Estimated department needs, coordinated and scheduled workflow between the graphic artists,

customer service department and the manufacturing facilities

• Interviewed, recommended candidates for hire, trained employees and conducted performance

reviews

• Prepared art for print on: wearable’s, vinyl, plastic and pens

Education

University of Missouri Microcomputer Program:

Courses: Introduction to HTML; Intermediate HTML; Advanced HTML;

DHTML: Cascading Style Sheets; Introduction to Dreamweaver;

Intermediate Dreamweaver; Photoshop for Web Design

St. Louis Community College at Florissant Valley

AAS, Advertising Design and Commercial Art

Contact this candidate