Quality Control Design

R ICHARD STEWART

***-** *** **. *******, NY *****

Cell: 917-***-****

E-mail: **********@***.***

P ROFESSIONAL SYNOPSIS:

Past clients include: Church & Dwight Consumer Products, Lipton Teas, Spiegel Catalog, Patriarch

Partners, Lynn Tilton, Merrill Lynch, Domenico Vacca Fashion House, Love and Pride.com Jewelry,

American Express, Vespa, World Gold Council, Finmeccanica Aerospace, ADR Aero di Roma interior

display design & web production.

OBJECTIVE:

Graphic design, print/web production, photo-retouching, print-press supervision.

Having experience of 7 years as a advertising production artist can contribute my

talents to supplement creative teams or independently to achieve desired creative

result which impacts visibility, exposure & sales. Bring reliability, professionalism and

added creativity to the working environment.

ACADEMIC QUALIFICATION:

Creation of high impact visuals which enhances customer awareness. Great hand

Noble Desktop

production skills to produce accurate prototypes, packaging, 2D & 3D. I Have worked

New York, N.Y.

on product launches which received international acclaim & awareness. Recently

Web Development

received praise from printing giant RR Donelley for consistent professional prepress/

production work on annual report printing 6 consecutive years.

School of Visual Arts

New York, N.Y.

Responsibilities

Advertising Art

• Client contact, working creatively with creative directors, art directors

• Building photoshop layered psd files for web

Parsons School of Design

• Creation of web banner advertising, email blasts

New York, N.Y.

• Building custom template files for presentations in Keynote & Powerpoint

Advertising Art

• Educating interns in all areas of graphic arts production

• Close printer & vendor contact, job scheduling, costing, estimation

School of Art & Design

• Final file quality control, press supervisions, press shows

New York, N.Y.

• Hi-end retouching, Photography, compositing, color corrections

Advertising Art

• Server Archiving, Canon Print Server Management, Epson printer color calibration

• CSS, HTML

PROFICIENT PROGRAMS:

Adobe Creative Suite CS4/5, InDesign • Illustrator • Fireworks • Photoshop • Dreamweaver • QuarkXpress 8 • Microsoft Office,

Powerpoint, Word, Excel • Keynote • Freehand • Freeway • IMovie

WORK EXPERIENCE:

2010 – Present, Apiqe Water Filtration Systems, CA Production Designer, Management

Branding • Marketing materials • Packaging design, style templates, production, pre-press management • Hi-end

photography, photocomposing/retouching • custom typography • logo design • cross promotions

1997 – 2010, De Plano Group, New York, NY Production Designer, Manager

Art production, Prototype hand assembly • Photo Illustration • Final production/Advertising placement and trafficking

• Photography, organizing all internal photoshoots for annual reports and catalog projects • pre-press • web development

2003 – 2011, Domenico Vacca Fashion House, New York, NY Art Director

Domenico Vacca Branding • Design & produced advertising campaigns • Publication Trafficking, Brochure & marketing

materials • Manage photoshoots, vendor contact, created all boutique signage • Final production/Advertising placements,

print press supervision • Corporate video production • Website content management, image preparation for e-commerce •

Lookbook creation, retouching, press supervision

Work Samples:

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Hobbies: Handcrafting, jazz/classical guitar, bass guitar, drumming, recording, computer troubleshooting, cycling, still life

/scenic photography, computer gaming, driving

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