Sales Graphic Designer

Michael Petrash-Senior Graphic Designer

Cypress, Texas • Phone: 281-***-**** • e-mail: ************@*****.***

SUMMARY

Extensive experience as a senior graphic designer and project manager in advertising and marketing departments for a broad range of

industries. Highly organized creative thinker who is particularly effective at taking projects from concept to completion. Strong analytical

skills developing procedures that streamline production and satisfied time and budget constraints. Work well with clients, vendors, and

team members to achieve maximum results. Hands on experience with:

• Windows XP and Macintosh OSX Software: CS6 (Indesign,Illustrator & Photoshop), QuarkXpress 7.01, Adobe Acrobat 9, Microsoft

Word, Excel and PowerPoint 2008

• Concept, design, layout and pre-press production of 4/C Process and 1-6/C printed materials; brochures, advertisements, signage,

displays, packaging, publications, graphics, illustrations, presentations and web graphics, banners & ads

• Design, production and coordination of English design pieces into Spanish and Bi-Lingual versions

• Direction and coordination of Photography

• Print production management, analysis of printing capabilities and quality control; press checks, proofing and color correction

• Direct contact with printers, service bureaus and other vendors quoting for bids, purchasing and scheduling

Senior Graphic Designer

Freelance/Contract Graphic Designer, Houston Texas

February 2011 – Present

• Freelance/Contract Graphic Designer in advertising and marketing for a broad range of industries

• Entered and won T-Shirt Design Contest for Houston radio station KPFT's 40th Anniversary. Conducted the photography of the main

design, manipulated it in Photoshop and put the final design together in Illustrator.

• Designed and produced color magazine advertisement for pool company, called "The Pool Man" using Indesign for the layout and

Photoshop for photo editing and color correcting

• Designed and produced color magazine ad for company called "Bed Borders" using Indesign for the layout, Photoshop for photo editing

of some of their samples, and recreated their logo in Illustrator

Senior Graphic Designer

HealthSpring, Houston Texas

July 2005 – February 2011

• Responsible for all print advertising and marketing materials

• Direct contact with printing, mail-house and other vendors.

• Responsible for processing multiple page documents, creating and adding color cover for the documents and get them to the printer and

delivered to our members on time.

• The member insurance documents were also produced and put into sales packets for new prospective customers.

• Supervised and managed Marketing Coordinator, and gave training for them to learn to use Indesign, Illustrator, and Photoshop.

Also helped them learn about production and the printing process.

• Created their Provider Directory by working with an outside software vendor to develop a system to take the raw data, add tags, style

sheets and most importantly an accurate indexing system, using QuarkXpress.

Contract Graphic Designer

Art Squad, Houston, Texas

January 2000 – June 2005

• Contract Graphic Designer in advertising and marketing for a broad range of industries.

• Clients include: BMC Software, Stanford Financial Group, Pennzoil, Shell, Freed Advertising, JWT Advertising, Adplex, G4 Design and

Webb/Mason.

• Majority of work with BMC Software including the design and production work on direct mail pieces, brochures and magazine ads

• Became designer for BMC Software newsletter including working with an Editor/Writer, and handling all of the creative design, production

and direction of photo shoots

• Production Artist contractor at Freed Advertising and worked exclusively on Auto newspaper ads and direct mail projects

• Graphic Design contractor at Pennzoil for their International Division with tasks such as helping develop and create multi-language

packaging

Graphic Designer

Jiffy Lube International/Pennzoil, Houston, Texas

February 1999 – February 2000

• Designed and produced Jiffy Lube 300 Nascar Racing Poster by taking an existing photo of the Jiffy Lube race car, did some Photoshop

editing and created masks on the poster to add a varnish, to "pop out" certain areas of the poster

• Redesigned and produced Jiffy Lube's new "Signature Service" logo using Illustrator

• Designed and produced annual Jiffy Lube Sales Convention logo, tri-fold brochure, invitations, booklet and golf tournament logo

Michael Petrash-Senior Graphic Designer

Cypress, Texas • Phone: 281-***-**** • e-mail: ************@*****.***

Contract Graphic Designer

Art Squad, Houston, Texas

March 1995 – February 1999

• Contract Graphic Designer in advertising and marketing for a broad range of industries.

• Clients include: Compaq, Shell, Nylcare, Keystone International, Jetfill Imaging and Webb/Mason.

• Designed and produced Jetfill Imaging new packaging design

• Designed and produced new Shell credit card applications

Graphic Designer

Encon Safety Products, Inc., Houston, Texas

November 1992 – March 1995

• Designed new look for Encon's trade show booth using new photography of their products

• Designed and produced new brochure for our products and also worked with sales team and engineers, to develop a unique and very

successful ordering and sales tool

• Designed and produced new sales literature for our products along with coordinating the photo shoots

EDUCATION

Associate of Applied Arts Degree in Visual Communications 1992, Art Institute of Houston The Art Institute of Houston

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