Elizabeth Herrington

Irving, Texas • 972-***-**** • acxryz@r.postjobfree.com

Career Summary:

A dedicated Graphic Designer demonstrating diverse skills, strong artistic instincts and graphic software expertise. A focused, detail oriented artist while being able to balance budget, meet deadlines and generate innovative concepts resulting in eye-catching, compelling design work. Projects encompassing illustration, photography, retouching, toning, color correction for photos, typography, light copy writing/editing and assembling layout to present to clients. Fulfilling clients’ specifications by guiding, consulting and proposing layout for approval to achieve clients’ objectives.

Professional Experience:

Visual Designer

TSP Inc. with Texas Instruments 17177 Preston Rd #320, Dallas, TX 10/14 - 4/16

Creating visually engaging internal and external web and mobile banners for TI products, tools, software and applications

Crafting graphic elements and treatments across platforms and achieving consistent brand standards and style guides to deliver the highest quality product

Contract Presentation Design Specialist

Creative Circle 1717 McKinney Ave #1460 Dallas, TX 5/14 - 7/14

Producing multimedia PowerPoint proposals and annual award presentations for a home builder who is ranked as Forbes magazine top 500 private companies

Graphic Designer

Star Local Media 624 Krona Drive Suite 170 Plano, TX 7/10 - 11/13

Prepared artwork and built impactful advertisements for print and web banners

Supported sales team to help exceed sales goals

Sr Graphic Designer/Art Director

Herrington Designs McKinney, TX 8/06 - 9/13

Listened and consulted with client to understand goals, researched and developed content

Guided, conceptualized and created quality print and web design that visually communicates an effective message resulting in brand recognition for clients’ products and services

Taught non-designers to use InDesign and Photoshop

Partial list of clients: The O’Dea Moyers Group at Ebby Halliday Realtors 4/08-3/12

LandAmerica American Title Company, Prosmart Mailing, Plano Profile Magazine, various realtors, title companies, printing companies and private clients

Graphic Design Secretary

Antioch Baptist Church 150 Amity Road Conway, AR 8/05 - 11/05

Created PowerPoint presentations to enhance the visual message of sermons

Compiled information, edited, designed and typeset weekly newsletter and bulletin

Maintained membership database, sorted and bundled bulk mail newsletter by USPS standards

Graphic Designer/Production Artist

Kwik Kopy Printing 2024 State Line Ave. Texarkana, AR 12/00 - 12/04

Built customer relations and established trust through sales, service and product

Created estimates, work orders and scheduled production

Designed all print material for press or copier

Utilized print shop equipment, cutter, folder, drill, binder, blue-print copier

Attended press checks

Completed projects that almost doubled sales in two years from my hire date

Graphic Designer/Production Artist

Insty Prints 3101 New Boston Rd. Texarkana, TX 10/99 - 9/00

Prepared graphics for print and outputted separations to film

Stored files, font management, routine desktop maintenance and backup

Graphic Designer/Ad Composer

Log Cabin Democrat Newspaper 1058 Front Street Conway, AR 3/97 - 10/98

Artwork/photograph prepared, designed and layout of advertisements for display department

Consulted with sales staff, clients, pre-press and press to ensure effective, quality advertising

Contributed award-winning design work to one of the highest ad sales year in the newspaper’s history

Ad Composer

Texarkana Gazette 315 Pine Street Texarkana,TX 7/96 - 3/97

Created advertisements by arranging text and artwork for display and classified departments

Graphic Designer

Four States Living Magazine 2402 Summerhill Rd. Texarkana, TX 2/96 - 3/97

Utilized graphics programs to create advertisements for local businesses

Education:

Bachelors of Fine Arts in Graphic Design

Henderson State University, Arkadelphia, AR

Associate Business Continuity Professional

DRII BCP 501 ABCP Training Course and Exam

Software Expertise:

InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, QuarkXPress, Acrobat

Basic Knowledge:

Dreamweaver, Flash, Microsoft Office Suite, After Effects, Captivate, Camtasia, HTML, CSS, Premiere, Fireworks, Unix/Linux training

Accomplishments/Memberships:

Art Directors Invitational Master Class (ADIM 9)

Winner for Photoshop retouching skills awarded by Russell Brown, Sr. Creative Director at Adobe

The Dallas InDesign Users Group Member 06-08

The National Association of Photoshop Professionals Member 06-08

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