Sales Representative Manager

Gwendolyn Shangle

*** ***** ***** *****, ******* Island, FL 32003 ? 904-***-**** ?

abhn4j@r.postjobfree.com

PROFILE A seasoned professional and effective leader with proven

abilities in sales, management, design, and production in the

advertising, prepress and printing fields.

15 years of independent sales, graphic design, production and

business management experience as a self employed graphic

designer of print and web media

Strong management experience in design team coordination,

project management as well as print, media, packaging, and trade

show exhibit coordination and purchasing

Passion for problem solving with clients and team members

Strong technical skills with various design programs (Mac and

PC), and extensive knowledge of color reproduction requirements

for print and Internet technologies

EMPLOYMENT

1996 - Present Graphic Design and Consulting Business Prizm Graphics

Owner

Self employed as a graphic designer and marketing consultant with a

nationwide client base. Services included graphic design of logos,

company branding, large format graphics for trade show exhibits and

banners, a wide range of print layout (catalogs, price lists,

brochures, publications, advertisements, packaging, etc.), e-mail

campaigns and website design. Handled the estimating, planning and

placement of printing and Internet services. Business management

included sales, promotion, scheduling, purchasing, and bookkeeping.

Assessed client markets and recommended advertising and marketing

solutions for growth

Conceptualized, planned, designed, and produced final digital files

of all projects

Placed production of projects with vendors - printing, direct mail,

publication advertising, specialty products, displays, banners,

Internet services, etc.

Proficiency with a variety of software programs on Mac and PC -

Adobe CS (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign), Quark XPress, Genuine

Fractals, PhotoZoom, Dreamweaver, Fireworks, Microsoft Office, etc.

Extensive experience with photo retouching, color correction, large

format graphics - retouching and merging of images to create special

effect imagery

Technically knowledgeable about requirements and issues relating to

color space, conversions, resolutions

1994 - 1996 Sales Representative Florida Color

Graphics

A prepress business in Jacksonville, Florida providing printing

companies, advertising agencies, and publications with color

separations, digital files, film, proofs, and computer paginated

layouts

for print.

Created new client base for this family run business

Extended sales area from Central Florida to South Carolina

Expanded services to include printing layouts for the packaging

industry

Often worked evenings within the shop to maintain schedules

1990 - 1994 Sales Representative / Manager Lithographic Services,

Inc.

Color separation and color printing company in Jacksonville, Florida

serving advertising agencies, publications, manufacturers and other

printing companies. This facility had 3 main areas: traditional

prepress, digital prepress and output, and color printing.

As a sales representative, established new accounts throughout the

agencies, printers and manufacturers in the Jacksonville and

surrounding areas

In addition, managed the printing department - estimating,

scheduling, approvals

Also managed the digital prepress area when the manager left to

start a competing business. Not only maintained current clients, but

dramatically increased sales volume and efficiency

1989 - 1990 Sales Representative Raintree Graphics

1986 - 1989 Sales Representative LCC Graphics

1984 - 1986 Print Production Rumrill Hoyt Advertising

Specialist

EDUCATION

Music Education, University of Denver

Music Education, University of the Pacific

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