Years Experience Sales

SUMMARY: Responsible, talented, and energetic individual with more than ten

years experience in operating various types of printing machines, such as

Solvent and Aqueous Wide Format Printers, to produce print on Paper,

Canvas, Vinyl and other materials such as Scrim Banner and Fine Art Papers.

Ability to learn quickly and contributes significantly to production

efficiency.

EMPLOYMENT: Digital Focus Inc. Plymouth, MN May 1998 to November

2009

Work History Includes:

. Prepare .eps Files In Illustrator and Photoshop For

Output From Onyx Workstation to HP 9000 Solvent Large

Format Printer

. Print Files From HP 9000 And Use Cut Server In Onyx To

Cut Vinyl On Summa Cutter

. Output Indoor Banners, Posters, Flyers From QuarkXpress

to HP 5000 Large Format Printer using Delta Rip

. Color Balance, Image Restoration and Retouching in

Photoshop Using Curves, Masks and Channels

. Composite Multiple Images Together Using Masks and

Layers From a .eps Guide In Photoshop

. Great Ability to Match or Detect Differences between

Colors, including Shades of Color and Brightness

. Print Fine Art Files to Iris Printer

. Weed Cut Vinyl From Summa Cutter

. Ability to Apply Standard and Air Release Vinyl to

Vehicles

. Produced Color, Grayscale and Descreened Scans on

Linotype-Hell Topaz and S3400 Drum Scanner

. Knowledgeable in High Resolution Digital Photography

. Clean and lubricate HP 9000 and HP 5000 Printers and

Perform Minor Repairs

. Knowledgeable in Offset Printing Including Prepress,

Bindery and Basic Press Operations

. Ability to Work with Customers Conducting Sales Calls

and Cold Calls

. Perform Hot and Cold Laminations on Vinyl

. Coach and Mentor Less Experienced Employees

TECHNICAL: Platforms: Mac OS 10, Basic Windows and Basic

Networking

Applications: Adobe Photoshop,

Illustrator, QuarkXPress, Onyx, WinCut, In-Design, Acrobat,

Stuffit

Deluxe, Transmit, Filemaker Pro, Telescope Viewer, Word, Eudora,

Firefox, Lino-Color, Disk Utility, MacJanitor, Retrospect

Member of: Linked In, Twitter

and Facebook

EDUCATION: Hennepin Technical College

North Campus

Brooklyn Park, MN

Color Separation, Graphic Communications

Linotype-Hell Company

Hauppauge, NY

ChromaGraph S2000 Scanner Training and Education

Additional Training

Photoshop Kelby Training Course

Advanced Stripping on The Mac

Desktop Publishing Computer Basics For Print

Digital Press Operator

References available on request

Gary Alstadt

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5253 Upton Avenue North, Minneapolis, MN 55430

612-***-**** . E-mail: ********@*******.***

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