Engineer Design

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July 28, 2011

Ted A Pertzborn

Designer • Illustrator • Artist

To utilize my exceptional technical skills and sharp artistic vision to

Goals

transform brilliant concepts into stunning reality, thereby making the

world a more aesthetically pleasing place and striking a resounding

blow against the unexceptional and the uninspiring .

Education

Associate in Applied Arts Degree in Graphic Design

Madison Area Technical College; Madison, Wisconsin

Focus of studies included graphic design, illustration, concepting, painting, typography,

prepress print production, color theory, page layout and electronic illustration.

• Thorough knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite, including extensive experience with Photoshop,

InDesign, Illustrator, and Acrobat Professional. I am also experienced with QuarkXPress 8,

Preps 5, Rampage 10.5, Pagemaker, Filemaker Pro 9, and MS Office.

Skills

• Fully comfortable in both Mac OS X and Windows-based environments.

• Solid understanding of page layout, typography, pre-press print production, spot and 4 color

printing, package design, conceptual design, traditional and digital illustration.

• Highly attentive to detail, very experienced in working under tight deadlines.

• I am currently expanding my web design skills, and have a basic understanding of HTML.

Employment

American Lithography & Printing Prepress Tech/Graphic Designer

2008-2010

C2 Graphic Productivity Solutions Production Artist/Graphic Designer

2004 - 2008

Hamilton Photography Design Digital Artist/Photo Retoucher

2003 - 2006

Marvel Comics Comic Book Illustrator/Inker

1999-2005

Interactive Business Systems, Inc. Technical Support Engineer

2001-2002

Designing advertisements and promotional materials, assisting and educating customers in

Experience

creating and submitting files, rebuilding logos in Illustrator, color correcting files, photo

alteration, page layout corrections, file conversion from Pagemaker, Quark, Illustrator, and

InDesign to appropriate 4-color RIP-ready files, editing documents for press, laying out

pagination in Preps software, assuring that all files are properly separated, creating press and

print proofs, preparing customer files for final RIP process, creating and outputting plates

and films, managing files from submission through RIP to final plate output.