Distribution Clerk Customer Service
Resume:
Ellen Straw-Bogart
Santa Fe, NM 87508
505-***-**** advyq9@r.postjobfree.com
Employment
Santa Fe New Mexican
Prepress Technician
One of five team members responsible for preflighting in-house and commercial PDF files for daily, weekly, monthly and special publications. Prepress contact person for Pasatiempo magazine. Assured quality of plates for press. Performed cleaning and maintenance of Agfa imagesetters and plate processors. Assisted with copy editing, proofing and layout of sfnmcommercial.com site.
Antiques On Second
2 years, 5 months
Customer service, sales, display
Reader’s Digest/temp placement through C2 Graphics 7 months
Layout Assistant/Taste of Home magazine
Avicom Marketing Communications
9 years, 5 months
Graphic Artist/catalog production
Solely responsible for layout and editing of complete catalogs, brochures and collateral pieces. Consulted with designers on annual style updates and details in consideration of version changes, imprinting and overall consistency of multiple pieces. Coordinated with web department in producing, managing and uploading viewable files for custom online ordering systems and final files for customers’ proprietary use.
• Allen-Edmonds – Twice-yearly array of high-quality dealer and retail catalogs and postcards.
• GE Healthcare – Annual 200+ page Diagnostic and Imaging Accessories Supplies catalog.
• Harley-Davidson – Monthly 4- to 24-page dealership catalogs. Also, created twice-yearly dealership meeting catalogs of up to 120-4/c pages and companion ordering catalogs. Numerous additional collateral pieces such as sell sheets, poster- sized hang tags and product display tags also for dealership shows.
• Ohio Medical Corporation, Hellermann/Tyton, Agatec Lasers and YWCA. Technical skills: Proficiency in QuarkXpress document layout; Photoshop blockouts, file retouching and color correction; and Illustrator. Skilled in InDesign, Microsoft Word and Excel, FileMaker Pro, Retrospect archiving software and FTP site upload/download. Point-person for Art Department electronic archiving and lead operator of Canon Prograf W8400 large- format color printer.
Professional skills: Organization of large and small projects for company and clients. Trouble-shooting proposed projects. Assembling mock-ups and display pieces, framing for client presentations and in-house display. Maintaining supplies and resource library materials for Art Department. Problem solving with co-workers and clients. National Graphics, Inc.
3 years, 10 months
Began as a film output technician pre-flighting customer files for print ads, P.O.P. display items, catalogs, textbooks and manuals. Advanced into retouching and color correcting electronic files. As the company evolved into the production of specialty lenticular items, learned the production techniques of these complex pieces. Milwaukee Graphic Arts Institute
7 months
Office assistant and student/retraining in desktop publishing program. Ellen Straw-Bogart
30 Encantado Road
Santa Fe, NM 87508
505-***-**** advyq9@r.postjobfree.com
Employment cont.
W. A. Krueger Company (now Quebecor World/World Color) 16 years, 5 months
Hired as a bindery assistant, advanced to prep department general laborer. After a 4-year apprenticeship, worked as a journeyman Film Stripper.
Education
Milwaukee Graphic Arts Institute
Desktop publishing – basic and advanced coursework Coursework required for film stripping apprenticeship MATC
B/W photography
Adult Vocational printing certificate
University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee
Fine Arts studies
Miscellaneous
Metropolitan Gallery/Milwaukee, Wisconsin
1987 - 1992
Owner/partner, technician in all phases of gallery operations. Ferret Fanciers of Greater Milwaukee
1990 - 2012
Regular shelter cleaning, rescuing and fostering abandoned animals, event setup and takedown. Happy Endings No Kill Cat Shelter/Milwaukee
1998 - 2010
Weekly open house assistance, event setup and takedown.
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