Design Sales

Linton T. Valdock

PH - 818-***-****

Graphic Designer/Illustrator/Web Designer

EXPERIENCE:

**** - ****

Los Angeles Times

Los Angeles, California, USA

Ad Production/Senior Designer

Summary

. Constructed ads and made last minute changes to material for the

daily publication in addition to ad building for it's side publications

such as Hoy and MetroMix.

. Handled overflow work from the various regional editions and assisted

in page layout for special advertising sections and the weekend

classified pages.

. Despite the daunting daily deadlines I also found time to assist the

marketing department from time to time with special promotional projects

. Quickly became the go-to guy for any illustration needs, whether to

compensate for a lack of suitable clip-art or for in-office cards and

posters for departing employees or internal celebrations and promotions.

. Programs primarily used on a daily basis were: Photoshop, Illustrator,

InDesign, Multi-Ad, MS Excel, MS Word.

1996 - 2005

Kenora Daily Miner and News (Bowes Publishing)

Kenora, Ontario, Canada

Composing/Compositing Artist

. Under the hectic pace of a daily newspaper's deadline, I worked as

part of a team of artists designing and assembling advertising, as well

as laying out the newspaper itself, and providing creative work for

flyers, and supplements.

. Programs primarily used on a daily basis were: Photoshop, InDesign,

Quark Xpress, Illustrator, and Outlook.

. As the company also handles print jobs for other clients I am

familiar with pre-press production for materials headed for plain or

glossy stock, and fully familiar with full and spot color separation

preparation for use with an image setter and plate producers.

. Working with outside clients for the company also makes me

knowledgeable in the production and use of PDFs and supplying end

products suitable for further manipulation, print or for use on the web.

. Often turned to by the sales staff to "rescue" accounts with a fresh

approach.

1993 - 1996

Marilyn's Monogramming

Dryden, Ontario, Canada

Designer/Graphic Artist/Supervisor

Summary

Starting as a laborer I helped orchestrate an expansion of the business,

quickly positioning myself as the in-house artist and supervisor over the

production staff.

1990 - Present

Freelance Graphic Design, Illustration, and Cartooning

Working with a wide base of clients both corporate and private (most

recently Loyola Marymount University this past May), I've provided a quick

and quality based art solution for everything from brochure, poster and t-

shirt design, to book, album, and magazine illustration as well as art and

animation suitable for the web.

EDUCATION:

Graduated 1991

Advertising Art and Graphic Design at Sault College

Sault Ste. Marie - Ontario - Canada

College Diploma

This course gave me a strong base in graphic design, illustration, layout,

art history, photography, computer based design and marketing, which I have

since utilized and greatly expanded upon.

SKILLS:

. PhotoShop CSx - 10+ years

. Illustrator CSx - 10 years

. Multi-Ad Creator Pro - 5 years

. Quark Xpress (v. 4-8) - 10+ years

. In Design CSx - 10+ years

. Web Design - 10+ years

. Dreamweaver - 6 years

. Flash - 5 years

. HTML/CSS - 10+ years

. PHP - 1 year

. Illustration and cartooning - 10+ years

Contact

I may be contacted by phone at 818-***-****

email at ******@*************.***

Examples of my work may be viewed at my website at

www.lintonvaldock.com

Personal references will be given upon request.

Thank you for your time and consideration.

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