Elizabeth Johnson
Ridgewood, New York 11385
home: 718-***-**** cellphone: 347-***-****
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Professional Experience
Ubiqus Reporting Inc., New York, New York February 2011 to present
Proofreader/Transcriptionist Transcribing and proofreading transcription
documents for accuracy. Have transcription experience in corporate, legal,
focus groups. Experienced in timecoding documents. Attend conference
sessions and focus groups and create concise notes and document summaries
of sessions. Have attended corporate conferences in Shanghai, Dubai, and
Boston.
Dell Magazines Inc., New York, NY (Freelance) April 96 to Present
Proofreader/Typesetter/Production Artist Proofreading/solving puzzle
magazine page proofs. Typesetting and page layout production of puzzle
magazines using InDesign, Quark, Photoshop and Illustrator
Graphic design/production freelance assignments for the following
companies:
Attanasio & Associates Creating vector art illustrations for children's
test books.
3 Rings Media Production of flip books
Scholastic, Inc. Page layout production of textbook, "Do the Math."
Bear Sterns Page layout production of Annual Report.
Kaplan K12 Learning Services Page layout production of test booklets.
Scholastic, Inc. Production and editorial correction of "Read 180"
workbooks.
Decision Quest Production of courtroom visual presentations using
Illustrator.
Medicus, New York Prepared and produced full page ads for print/press.
Messner (Euro RSCG Worldwide) Prepared and produced full-page ads for
print/press.
Sudler & Hennesey Prepared and produced full-page ads for print/press.
American Baby Magazine Photo archiving and production work of magazine
pages.
Avery Publishing Group, New Hyde Park, NY (Staff) February 89 to August
99
Textbook Designer Interior design and production of textbooks using Quark,
Illustrator and Photoshop. Setting up style sheets and pages, coding and
importing manuscript to Quark. Scanning and creating illustrations for
publication. Tagging manuscripts with XML tags.
CBS Magazines/Ziff Davis Publishing Co., New York, NY May 1984 to Sept
1986
Production Artist Production of the classified sections of the following
magazines: Woman's Day, The Runner, and Boating. Tracking of classified
order contracts. Proofreading and credit checking classified orders,
reserving space, coordinating with the Telemarketing Department and the
Graphic house to turn orders into galleys, and layout and paste up of
classified section.
Software: Adobe CS 6 (InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop), QuarkXpress,
PageMaker, Adobe Acrobat/Reader, MS Office, WordPerfect, InCopy, Text
Wrangler
Education: Art Students League, NY
Queens College, Flushing, NY BA Fine Art