Alex Prokopczyk

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Woodstock, IL 60098

262-***-****

abnqlv@r.postjobfree.com

Objective To obtain a position where I can use my skills to advance the mission of your company.

Experience Graphic Designer Body Sparkle Wauconda, IL

Utilized Photoshop to delete the backgrounds on scanned body jewelry products

Freelance Graphic Designer Farm It Out! Design Hebron, IL

Updated teachers manuals, newsletters and created flyers

Production Assistant Creative Advertising Kenosha, WI

Assisted in production including construction of banners, trimmed posters and pressed t-shirts on the heat press

Organized RockGear merchandise including t-shirts and hats by size and color

Applied over 3000 stickers to 95.1 WIIL Rock Fest tickets (2012 Rock festival in Twin Lakes, WI)

Graphic Design Intern RecPlex Pleasant Prairie, WI

Created logos, marquees and flyers using Adobe Illustrator

Categorized and cropped photos for upload to RecPlex website

Photographer for the following RecPlex 2011 events: RecPlex Spring Ice Show, Pleasant Prairie Jr

Triathlon, Pleasant Prairie Triathlon, Prairie Family Days and Harvest Trail Run

Student Tutor Gateway Technical College Racine, WI

Tutored students on Mac OS X, Windows XP and various software packages including:

MS Office Word, Excel and Access, Adobe InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop and QuarkXPress

Supervised and assisted in any responsibilities including answering the phone and assist

students who come in to the Academic Support Center

Education Herzing University Kenosha, WI

Bachelor of Science in Graphic Design, April 2012

Graduated with Honors: Magna Cum Laude, 3.81 overall program GPA

Dean’s List (3.66 GPA/ fall 2010), (3.77 GPA/ spring 2011), (3.94 GPA/ fall 2011) and (3.63 GPA/ spring 201 2)

President’s List (4.00 GPA/ summer 2011)

Gateway Technical College Racine, WI

Associate of Applied Science in Graphic Technologies – Designer, May 2007

3.69 overall program GPA

Dean’s List (4.00 GPA/ spring 2006), (3.93 GPA/ fall 2006) and (3.92 GPA/ spring 2007)

General Skills Honest, confident and responsible

Strong problem-solving, time-management and documenting skills

Good verbal, written and interpersonal communication skills

Created and edited documents using MS Office suite ( Word, Excel, Access and PowerPoint )

Design Skills Experienced on Mac and PC using Adobe CS (InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, Dreamweaver and Flash)

Knowledgeable in web page creation including Dreamweaver, HTML and CSS

Implemented the use of master pages, style sheets, layers and clipping paths

Understand typography, color and design principles

1ST Place Winner Student Handbook Design Competition Spring 2006

Design

Designed the cover of 2006-2007 Gateway Technical College Student Handbook

Competition

Design selected from student submissions across the three county district

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