Jen Chiesa

advzdb@r.postjobfree.com

516-***-****

PrePress Operator

Production Artist

Package Designer

Quality Control

Cost Avoidance

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Adobe Creative Suite

Acrobat

Illustrator

InDesign

Photoshop

Retouching • Silhouetting

Color Correcting

FlightCheck

Preflighting

Packaging Design

Dielines • Layouts

Manuals • Branding

Pit Stop

PrePress

Film Output • Trapping

Color Separations

Product Photography

Scanning

Drum • Flatbed

Troubleshooting

Variable Data Printing

KNOWLEDGE OF

Adobe Flash

Microsoft Office Suite

EXPERIENCE

PrePress Supervisor 2005-present

WILEN NEW YORK Melville, NY

High-Volume, Fast-Paced Ad Agency and Printer

• Oversee department and daily workflow, create envelope templates and manage artwork library

• Evaluate all WIP creative; provide expert feedback to Design, Account and Press teams in order to determine efficiencies and avoid print issues

• Review and prep all creative pieces for color, printability, accuracy and quality before files release to printer (digital, web and envelope presses)

• Tackled tremendous uptick in print testing, with new equipment, new clients and new branding colors, to ensure optimal results

• Creator and lector of orientation class that provides Wilen employees with an overview of our presses and print process

• Clients include Comcast, Cox, Embrace Home Loans, M&T Bank, Optimum, Spectrum, Stanley Steemer and others

Production Graphic Designer 2001, 2004-2005

HENRY SCHEIN - Schein Creative Services Melville, NY Medical/Dental/Veterinary Supply Distributor

• Create and update catalogs, brochures, flyers, ads, etc. Retail Packaging Graphic Designer 2001-2004

MULTI MEDIA ELECTRONICS, INC. Farmingdale, NY

Packaging for major retail stores in US, Canada and UK

• Follow branding guidelines for several package designs

• Dielines, layout designs, instruction manuals

• Clean and manage the artwork library

• Photograph newly developed and existing products

• Assist with product development (ideas/pictures) PrePress Computer Operator

NEW HORIZON GRAPHIC, INC. Hauppauge, NY 1 year

ISLAND LITHO PLATE SERVICES Farmingdale, NY 2 years LEVON GRAPHICS East Farmingdale, NY Temp

AMPHOLITH, INC. New Hyde Park, NY 2 years

• Film output from MAC & PC • Color Separations • Scanning

• Light Designing • Color Correcting • Impositions Freelance/Graphic Artist

Designing • Typesetting • Layouts • PrePress

Design Distributors – Deer Park, NY Martin Family Tours – Northport, NY Greater Nassau Chorus – Baldwin, NY Mastercopy Printing – Queens, NY Unitarian Fellowship – Stony Brook, NY Optima Lighting – Queens, NY EDUCATION

THE CENTER FOR DESKTOP PUBLISHING Certified

QUARKXPRESS • ADOBE PHOTOSHOP • ADOBE ILLUSTRATOR

STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK, COLLEGE AT ONEONTA Bachelor of Arts MAJOR: MUSIC INDUSTRY MINOR: BUSINESS COMMUNICATIONS

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