Graphic Designer Quality Control

Michele Rashbaum

phone: 732-***-**** email: ********@*****.*** website: http://michelerashbaum.com 314 Ventnor Court, Piscataway, NJ 08854

PERSONAL SUMMARY

“Artistic production is the creation of beautiful and significant things.”

Meticulous/perfectionist… a perfect combination for a production artist. Expert knowledge of the Adobe Creative Suite. I always give 110%. Will resolve your issues, with the help of my bf (Lynda.com), for both print and web. Cross-platform expertise for the Mac and PC. Additionally, I have a STRONG aversion to widows and orphans.

FREELANCE ACCOUNTS

Designer Greetings Edison, NJ September 2016 to January 2017

Created Instruction Manuals for the benefit of the company’s retail clientele. These showed the placement of the Signage and the Greeting Cards. Used a combination of Illustrator and Multi-layered Photoshop files.

Produced Catalogs with a combination of Photoshop, Illustrator, and Indesign. They showcased the company’s extensive product lines.

Vanguard Direct NYC, May 2016 to August 2016

Standardized all of the teaching manuals for the State of New York using Indesign. Created forms, in Indesign, for the Department of Finance of the City of New York. Converted these forms into interactive, calculating forms in Adobe Acrobat.

Naked Communications NY, April to May 2016

Created Online User Guides in Indesign to simulate an online website for the purpose of testing and marketing medical devices for

schizophrenic patients.

Mott MacDonald Iselin, NJ, February 2016 to April 2016

Utilized Indesign, Illustrator, and Photoshop to create a 1,000 page Architectural Proposal for the Chesapeake Bay Tunnel Bridge. Responsible for rebranding of new logo and font for various web-based materials using Sharepoint.

Howard Design Princeton, NJ, January 2016

Coded an HTML email blast for The Cambridge Security Journal. Created relative links to the different sections.

Also established hyperlinks to Unsubscribe, Contact Us, Facebook, and LinkedIn.

GroupM NYC, July 2015 and November 2015

Updated/styled a 220+ page Indesign document. Created master pages and style sheets. Updated/restyled charts from Excel into Illustrator. Meticulously resolved color model issues with CMYK and RGB.

SKILLS

Indesign, Illustrator, DreamWeaver, Photoshop, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Notepad++, HTML, CSS, Joomla, Sharepoint, and Quark

FULL TIME EMPLOYMENT

S&P Capital IQ (formerly Standard & Poor’s), Senior Production Artist NYC, August 1999 to May 2015

Creative Services Department

Production artist for weekly financial magazine, CreditWeek. Worked with: Analysts, Editors, Proofreaders, and Designers

Responsible for signatures, quality control, File Transfer Protocol (FTP) of files, and creating Portable Document Formats (PDFs).

Created Indesign templates: master pages, style sheets, cell and table styles. Devised Illustrator templates: layers and custom

swatch functionality.

Equipped Programmer with specs of color models, fonts, and sizes to create a new macro which turned Excel into Illustrator charts when we converted our operation system.

Maintained/updated the Online User Guide using Excel, Dreamweaver, and Joomla in order to preserve the company’s revenue base of over $150 million.

Provided programmer with fonts, sizes, and hexadecimal colors in order to facilitate the hard Coding from web pages to

mobile devices.

EDUCATION

School of Visual Arts (SVA) NYC, B.F.A. in Commercial Art

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