Design Project Management

[pic]Objective

To work in a creative, challenging environment, with opportunities for an

employer to benefit from my design, communication and problem-solving

skills.

Professional Experience

Senior Graphic designer . 7/1995 to 6/2010

BVK Advertising . Milwaukee, Wisconsin

. Lead the design and production of effective, attention-grabbing

promotional and advertising

campaign pieces for company leaders in Travel, HealthCare and

Yellow Pages industries.

. Communication and project management skills in developing

timelines,

managing production, job scheduling, archiving, prepress and job

estimations.

product Leader:

. Chamberlain College of Nursing, DeVry/Keller Graduate Schools

and

various Travel Vacations Catalog programs.

Graphic Artist . 2/1994 to 5/1995

Flexcraft Inc. . Milwaukee, Wisconsin

. Created conventional and electronic prepress art work for

Flexographic Packing industry.

. Production work experience including: trapping, distortions of

layouts, proofs, design, stripping work,

step and repeat techniques, keyline/paste-up, stat camera

experience, scanning artwork/photos

and outputting films on Sitex Dolev Imaging Systems.

Paste-Up Artist . 2/1993 to 10/ 1993

William K. Walthers Inc. . Milwaukee, Wisconsin

. Created mechanicals and page layouts (traditionally and on

computer) for 1,000 plus page catalog

for nation's leader in toy & hobby train distributions.

Emphasis on general boardwork, cropping,

scaling, scanning logos, graphic camera techniques, keyboarding

and proofing.

computer skills/experience

Hardware:

Experience on both Macintosh and PC platforms.

Software:

. Adobe InDesign . Adobe PhotoShop . Adobe Illustrator .

Microsoft Word

. QuarkXpress . Adobe Acrobat . Adobe Streamline . Microsoft

Excel

Academic Profile

Milwaukee Area Technical College . Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Certificates in Desktop Publishing and Graphic Arts

Marquette University . Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Bachelor of Arts degree in Anthropology . Additional emphasis in

Art/Graphic Design

Related experience

Freelance: Logo design, calligraphy and pen/pencil sketching.

Former Artist and Illustrator for Archaeological

Rescue, Inc. Newsletter and publications.

References

Available upon requests.

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