Quality Control High School

Profile

Graphic Design and Production Coordinator for print and web, offering over

eight years professional experience producing graphic projects for the

retail, financial and publishing industries.

Experience

Graphic Production Coordinator (contractor) AQUENT Ny, NY 2009-Present

. Production of print/online employee handbooks for Prudential Insurance;

implemented new workflow improvements which cut down on production tasks

insuring product out to client on time and under budget.

Design and Production Specialist (contractor) ADECCO Ny, NY 2006-2008

. Coordinated in-house, daily requests of marketing materials for

Citigroup; collaborated with Financial Advisors and internal Citigroup

clients on project progress ensuring timely delivery of product; worked

hands-on creating and producing files for final output; sped up workflow

by implementing new file handling and conversion (inDesign) methods.

. Worked directly with the marketing team of Scholastic Publishing creating

and producing nationally distributed promotional marketing material for

elementary and high school teachers.

. Managed production of graphic files of MetLife design department; ensured

proper formatting and output proceeders for print marketing material;

worked with internal clients preparing online interactive PDF documents

for websites.

Graphic Designer Real estate media NY, NY 2005-2005

. Hands-on creation and production of environmental/directional signage,

corporate literature, and website material for national conferences;

introduced improved workflow system for transferring printed material

to website; created advertising email blasts that effectively marketed Real

Estate Media conferences to

it's clients.

Ad Layout Production Designer MACY'S NY, NY 2004-2005

. Heavy ad production of national and local advertising for MACY's home

products; worked on

newspaper, magazine and catalog advertisements; coordinated the trafficing

of ads from graphic department to production department.

Pre-Press Production Specialist RUSH INDEX PRINTING Jersey City, NJ 2003-

2003

. Independently coordinated the production of customer orders from raw

computer file to final print-ready templates; managed print process with

pressmen to ensure quality control of final output.

Graphic Designer EQUINOX FITNESS CLUBS NY, NY 1999-2002

. Worked with Art Director handling graphic orders for thirteen health club

locations; projects include: club membership material, in-store signage,

corporate collateral and web site content; maintained and incorporated

many new hardware and software department upgrades.

Education

. School of Visual Arts, NY, NY - 1997

. New York Institute of Technology, NY, NY - 2003

Skills

. Expert level skills in Mac/Windows-based DTP systems including

QuarkXPress 8, Adobe CS4

(Acrobat Pro, In Design, Photoshop, Illustrator) and Microsoft

Word/Powerpoint/Excel.

. Mid-level skills in web design production and publishing in CSS, XHTML,

Dreamweaver, Fireworks.

Alex McCausland

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