Designer

Dara Denysyk ** **th Ave, Apt *

www.daradenysyk.com Venice, CA 90291

******@*****.*** / 973-***-****

Pre-Press & Production Artist

C2 Imaging, LLC April 2012 – September 2013

● Visual solutions and concepts for retail displays and presentations.

● Digital printing techniques on rigid and flexible substrates.

● Execute seasonal marketing campaigns working with Art Director and design team.

● Maintain and develop brand essence and apply style guidelines across multiple platforms.

● Pre-flight formatting, preparing and troubleshooting files, photo retouching, color theory and correcting.

● Design and create company and office décor.

Intern

Snowboard Colorado Magazine February 2012 – September 2013

● Start-up environment.

● Distribution, promotions, events and guerilla marketing.

● Web posts, Website optimization and production archiving.

Gap Year April 2011 – February 2012 : October 2007 – December 2009

● Freelance graphic design.

● Developed budgeting and planning skills while traveling across North and Central America.

● Learned how to adapt to unanticipated situations.

● Developed negotiation skills and cultivated language and communication skills.

● Used verbal and non-verbal communication to overcome barriers.

● Developed self-reliance, independence and confidence.

Pre-Press & Production Artist

Omni Promotional, LLC December 2009 – April 2011

● Visual concepts for event and tradeshow displays and presentations.

● Screen-print and digital print techniques on rigid and flexible substrates; Product development.

● Pre-flight formatting, preparing and troubleshooting files.

● Maintained and developed brand essence.

● Customer service - developed and preserved customer relations.

● Directed printing schedules.

● Department organization.

Design, Pre-Press & Production Artist

The Ukrainian Weekly May 2007 – October 2007

● Produced and designed entire newspaper, up to 32 pages, on a weekly basis.

● Took direction from and collaborated with editors and contributors.

● Created advertisements published in each issue.

● Co-created and designed new section of the newspaper called “Generation Uke.”

● Initiated transition of the newspaper template from QuarkXPress to InDesign CS3.

● Trained full-time successor.

LANGUAGES

Ukrainian; Bilingual proficiency : Spanish; Elementary proficiency

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SKILLS & EXPERTISE

● Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, Dreamweaver CS 2 – 6

● Screen-print and digital printing techniques

● Corel Draw, Quark, 3D Modeling/Lightwave 3D and Flash Animation

● Web Design / HTML / XHTML / CSS / Javascript coding

EDUCATION

Centenary College of NJ; 2008; B.F.A, Graphic Design & Multi-Media Arts; Magna Cum Laude Honors

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