Design Sales

Scott Zaleski

** *** ******* *****, *******, New Jersey 07013 . 973-***-****

E-mail - *********@*****.*** Website - http://www.image-designgroup.com

LinkedIn URL: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/a/904/732

QUALIFICATIONS PROFILE

I hold a Bachelor's degree in Photographic Illustration, and an Associates

of Applied Science in Graphic Design. My expertise includes proficiency

with Acrobat, Quark, PhotoShop, Illustrator, InDesign and Desktop

Publishing. I have extensive experience with design, layout, content review

and production. My previous job descriptions included working closely with

CEOs, senior executives, directors, and managers to develop corporate in-

house sales presentations for clients and prospects. Although I am hearing

impaired, I can speak and listen very well, and I make great use of email.

I possess a high degree of business acumen and professionalism, and have

the patience and understanding necessary to produce high-quality

presentations, designs and layouts. I'm highly motivated, have strong

creative abilities, and am ready take on additional responsibilities to

meet business objectives. I'm passionate about design and production, and

attention to detail, and have a solid work ethic. I'm a result-focused team

player and I am always striving to learn and to improve with new

challenges.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Platforms: MAC OS X 10.4.11/10.5, Windows XP/Vista

Print Skills: Expert with Adobe InDesign, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe

Illustrator and Adobe Acrobat. Proficient with QuarkXPress, Microsoft

Word, Microsoft Powerpoint, Microsoft Excel and FlightCheck.

Web Skills: Skilled in web design and file optimization using the latest

versions of Adobe Dreamweaver, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe ImageReady,

Adobe Flash and FrontPage. Working knowledge of HTML, ASP, CSS, and

Javascript.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Image Design Group, Clifton, New Jersey, 2007-Present

Role: Web Graphic Designer

Software: Photoshop CS3, Illustrator CS3, InDesign CS3, Acrobat CS3, Flash

CS3, Dreamweaver CS3, Quark 8.

Design and produce freelance print and web design, packaging, photo

manipulation and retouching, computer illustration, photo shoot experience

and scanning, as well as logo design for small and large businesses,

agencies, and non profit companies with all aspects of producing direct

mail, trade-shows, flyers, brochures, posters, websites, ads and multi-

media.

Key Achievements:

Consistently recognized for fresh and innovative ideas and applications.

Established trusting relationships with designers, vendors, and clients.

ActionEmco, North Bergen, New Jersey, 2004-2008

Role: Graphic Designer/Senior Production Artist/Print Production Manager

Software: Photoshop CS3, Illustrator CS3, InDesign CS3, Acrobat CS3, Flash

CS3, Dreamweaver CS3, Quark 6.5.

Worked closely with senior executives, directors, managers, copywriters,

sales and marketing departments to develop corporate marketing materials

for clients and prospects. Generated design covers, sale kits, ads, flyers,

packaging and produce annual and three large quarterly binding office

products and furniture catalogs. Managed production schedules and budgets.

Communicated effectively with third party vendors, printers and

photographers. Participate in client meetings and presenting solutions to

clients. Traveled domestically to supervise on-press print approvals at

three different printing plants.

Key Achievements:

Supervised both creative and production staff and managed pricing,

proofing, pre-press, printing plus archiving art files and projects.

Developed new art-proofing system that increased overall quality of

production workflows and increasing customer satisfaction to 97%.

Provided 200 and 1200 catalog page layouts and design for ActionEmco and

their second large client, ISGroup, under extremely tight deadlines.

Tagged each item numbers and ran auto-pricing program to insert correct

prices instantly directly from database into quark files.

Created 2005-2008 Business Show issues, including feature articles, buyers

guide, exhibitors guide, convention center diagrams and floor diagrams for

trade-shows in Michigan and New Jersey.

Partnered with ISGroup, the most progressive office products buying group

in the world, to develop and design logos, catalogs, magazine ads,

brochures and product packaging.

Earned the 2007/2008 Catalog Support Program Award for team excellence.

Everbind Books, Lodi, New Jersey, 2003

Role: Graphic Production Artist/Photographer

Software: Photoshop CS, Illustrator CS, Acrobat CS, Quark 5.

Worked with the Art Director as well as editorial staff. Designed and

produced mass market and hardcover jacket concepts. Responsible for taking

thousands of digital images for catalogs including web and all aspects of

lighting, color correcting and archiving/database of images. Additionally,

I was responsible for graphic production work, layouts of book products

catalogs, PDFs, file storage, scanning and vector-art logo rebuilding.

Key Achievements:

Successfully automatically batched thousands of high-resolution digital

images to low resolution images instantly for use on internet.

Provided auto-pricing program to run and insert correct prices instantly

directly from database into quark files.

Konica Minolta, Mahwah, NJ, 2000-2002

Role: Graphic Artist

Software: Photoshop 7, Illustrator 7, Acrobat 5.0, Quark 3.

Created original product concept, design and layouts; packaging mock-ups,

line art and comps, corporate logos, product labeling, instruction manuals,

sell sheets, photo retouching, promotional materials, POP displays,

floor/counter displays and web banners, as well as recreating scanned

artwork, and color manipulation for sales and marketing department

including two CEOs (Japan and United States), senior executives, directors,

managers, representatives and distributors.

Key Achievements:

. Worked closely with overseas vendors in China and Japan to review and

oversee production of box art.

. Created 2001 and 2002 magazine ads for Photo Marketing Association

issues for international convention and trade-shows in Florida and Las

Vegas.

EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND

. Certificate of Completion in Web Design, 2003

PARSONS SCHOOL OF ART AND DESIGN, New York, NY

. Associate of Applied Science in Graphic Design, 1998

BRIARCLIFFE COLLEGE, Bethpage, NY

. Bachelor of Fine Arts in Photographic Illustration, 1995

ROCHESTER INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, Rochester, NY

AWARDS AND HONORS

2007/2008 Catalog Support Program Team Excellence Award

Independent Gallery Show - "Mood of Autumn", RIT, January 1995

NTID Photography Honors Show - 1991 and 1992

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