Graphic Designer Design
Resume:
Graphic Artist • Pre-Press and Printing Consultant
Williams Lea Tag
Prepare and pre-flight layout files for Amgen’s 24 product brands to ensure print integrity when delivered to printer. Streamlined file design and structure to lower costs and eliminate technical problems at presstime. Educate Art Worker department on effective build strategies for commercial sheetfed printing. Education in HTML and CSS languages for Web Development projects. Also assisted Digital Asset Management team in archiving all assets (video, web, print) for future retrieval and use. Graphic Artist • Commercial Pre-Press and
Grand Format
RR Donnelly AndersonLA
Set up equipment and software parameters to output materials for high-end clients such as Pandora Jewelry, Jamba Juice, Chevron, Denny’s, IHOP, Marvel Comics, and Disney
Corp. Organize Grand Format work using Zund cutting machines, Caldera and Prepare-It software to output store displays, theater posters, business stationery, and other files up to 330”. Incorporate knowledge of color theory and settings in RGB and CMYK and digital output formats – pixels, dpi, lpi, etc. ROBERT WIELAGE
Graphic Production Artist
Design • Layout • Typography • Pre-Press
MY EXPERIENCE
MY VALUE
https://rswielage.myportfolio.com
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August 2018 – April 2019 Thousand Oaks, CA
August 2017 – August 2018 Glendale, CA
MY AREAS OF
STRENGTH
Graphic Design
Color Management
Typography
Mechanical Art • Print Production
Layout and Flow
HTML5 • CSS coding languages
Digital Asset Management
Cost Control • Budget Administration
Staff and Media Relations
Newsletters • Brochures • Flyers
Highly experienced artistic talent leveraged to deliver quality marketing, print-design and digital projects. Solid success implementing broad range of design projects, advising client on mechanics of media, paper, sizing and executing a prototype for review. Readily translate business requirements into effective products. Ensure projects meet all milestones, deadlines, and budget requirements. Intuitively adapt to modern technology and innovative processes while ensuring compliance with corporate standards.
MY TECHNICAL
PROFICIENCY
PLATFORMS: Proficient in Kodak Prinergy,
Fiery RIPs, Apple OS X, Windows, Unix
CODING LANGUAGES:
Self-studies in HTML5, CSS, JavaScript
TOOLS: Adobe Creative Cloud Suite
(InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, Acrobat,
Prinergy Plug-ins and Pitstop Pro for editing
PDFs), QuarkXPress, Microsoft Office
I enjoy teaching new things to
people. In my spare time, I am a
drum teacher, and nothing makes me
happier than having a student know more
when they leave the lesson than when they
came in. I enjoy empowering people with
knowledge and skills to improve every day.
Director of Digital Operations/
Lead Designer and Graphic Artist
Challenge Graphics
Led graphic design and print production for large commercial print facility. Process customer orders from file submission through accepted completion. Review, pre-flight, assess needs. Prepare images for color separation, foil stamping or die cutting. Review product for quality control prior to any mass production. Advise clients on options and various promotional materials and pricing. Maintain equipment, install software upgrades, and troubleshoot network issues. Oversee print production runs for various products such as brochures, flyers, posters, business cards, books, catalogs, Variable Data projects, postcards, memorial cards, and envelopes. Execute work processes from galley and film-based workflows, Direct-to-Plate, offset printing, and digital output. September 1993 – August 2018 North Hills, CA
MY EXPERIENCE
MY EDUCATION
Business Administration and
Management Studies
Keller Graduate School of Management of
DeVry University
Bachelor of Arts • Clinical Psychology
California State University, Northridge
LinkedIn Learning • Pluralsight
Continuing studies in HTML and CSS
Finding and fixing file prep mistakes
before they went to the printer.
Educating coworkers who have limited
or no knowledge of offset sheetfed printing
practices and helping them understand how
and WHY things should be set up a certain
way. Help them visualize the job through the
diffcult steps of going from onscreen file to
printing plate to customer’s desk.
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