Nancy McGrath

Email: abqeuq@r.postjobfree.com

Address: **** ******** ******

City: Colorado Springs

State: CO

Zip: 80905

Country: USA

Phone: 719-***-****

Skill Level: Management

Salary Range: $40,000

Primary Skills/Experience:

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Educational Background:

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Job History / Details:

Nancy McGrath

1304 Richards Avenue

Colorado Springs, CO 80905

719-***-****

abqeuq@r.postjobfree.com

Portfolio: http://www.mcgrathcreativegraphicdesign.com

A R E A S O F E X P E R T I S E:

Award-winning Designer

Strong Management Skills

Extensive Print Expertise

Art Direction

Exceptional Creative Ability

Budgeting

Vendor Negotiations and Management

Outstanding Technical Abilities

Commercially Proven, Superior Skills Interpreting Marketing and Editorial Strategies

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

McGRATH CREATIVE, Colorado Springs, CO

Senior Graphic Design Specialist/Art Director

* Successfully launched and currently operate freelance business

* Conceive, design and execute various award winning design projects for all types of clients

* Chosen to design a special editorial story for Northwest Airlines magazine that was extremely challenging. Paid twice the normal page rate for the successful design of the story

* Contracted as interim Art Director for Memory Makers magazine. Redesigned the front and back of the magazine during 7 month contract

* Worked as Advertising Art Director for Tucson Lifestyle magazine. Customers were required to pay a premium rate for any ads designed by myself

* Designed and executed monthly sale fold over for Decorating Den. Distributed to all national franchises

* Won the bid to design two state tourism magazines, one for the state of Florida and one for the state of Connecticut

* Conceived, designed and executed 204 page Home Plans magazine

* Selected to design comp layouts for various Meredith Custom Publishing projects

* Designed the first website home page for Midwest Living magazine

*Conceived and designed comps for Maytag 5 x 7 booklet for the Integer group. Maytag adopted the design and my editorial concept "Innovation starts here"

*Some website design, but most proficient at the actual design phase

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MATTEL,Los Angeles, CA

Senior Packaging Designer

Worldwide leader in the design, manufacturing and marketing of toys

* One of only two out of 75 designers selected to design and develop packaging concepts for the exclusive adult collector series of Barbie dolls with price points ranging from $70 to over $1,500

* Planned and art directed all photography and illustrations

* Negotiated prices on all outsourced vendors, photographers, illustrators, etc.

CURRENT INC., Colorado Springs, CO

Digital Design Studio Manager

Current is a greeting card and social expressions mail order company in competition with companies such as Hallmark.

* Was recruited to initiate and head up the new Digital Design Studio which is responsible for all design and production work

* Conceived, planned and directed all custom photography for all photographic projects as well as training designers in photographic art direction and methodology. Also did all conceptualizations, freelance negotiation for photographers and stylists, location scouting, prop shopping, propping, photo styling and general art direction of new photography

* Produced over a dozen calendars annually

* Won Denver Art Directors awards for the design of two car calendars. Planned, designed and executed graphic design of all calendars and any photographic projects as various multi-dimensional products including books, posters, compact disc jackets, die-cut products, correspondence seals, cookbooks, wrapping paper, greeting cards, postcards and other paper products.

* Supervised, art directed, and monitored schedules of four digital design studio staff members

LANDS END, Dodgeville, WI

Art Director, Coming Home

Lands End is a 5 billion dollar specialty retail clothing and luggage company. Coming Home is a bi-monthly sister publication featuring domestics items and has over 5 million subscribers.

* Only Art Director chosen to go on long distance photo shoots to San Francisco and Chicago

* Conceived, planned, budgeted and directed all location and studio photography for quilts, tabletop and blanket product lines

* Planned, designed and executed graphic design of assigned catalog pages in designated product areas. Responsibilities included design and art direction of designated Coming Home pages and applicable pages in the Lands End monthly catalog

EDUCATION

* M.S., in Industrial Technology (in graphic arts) University of North Dakota, GPA 3.91

* B.A. in Industrial Technology, Journalism and Art, University of North Dakota, GPA 3.63

* Magna Cum Laude graduate

* Deans List

* Board of Higher Education Scholarship

* Graduate Teaching Assistant

* Neil C. Macdonald Scholarship (most coveted award at UND)

SKILLS

Software Proficiencies:

Adobe CS5.5 (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Flash, Fireworks, Dreamweaver)Fractal Design Painter, Adobe Acrobat Professional, QuarkXpress and MS Office

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