Graphic Designer Production Artist
Resume:
joanna zagata *******@*****.***
Palos Park, IL 60464
Career Summary
A highly creative and multi-talented
Senior Graphic Design professional
with extensive experience in
licensing, style guides, marketing,
and design within the retail and
business to client industries.
A passionate, inventive creator
who inspires and enhances ideas
to support and drive strategic
innovation on brand value trends.
Talented, highly skilled in designing
client vision thru development
of packaging, vendor relations,
brand optimization, art approvals
and completion of time sensitive
projects. A proactive team-player
with a passion for exceeding
stakeholder expectations through
effective communication and
collaboration. Excited to partner
with others, delivering impactful
designs that promote company
ideas with on trend vision.
Work Experience
Senior Production Artist Graphic Designer Regulatory Specialist Assistant 1-800-Flowers.com Inc., Melrose Park, IL Sept. 2018 – Present Currently working at 1-800-Flowers.com Inc. division DesignPac Gifts, LLC. DesignPac Gifts, LLC. works with retailers warehouse club stores and e-Commerce to design assemble and distribute packaged gourmet food gifts.
• Over the past 5 years developed original style guide driven gifts for retail, Target’s Wondershop™ Collection. Ex: Wondershop™ Hot Sauce Bottle Gift Set 10pc, with close to 5 stars website popularity.
• Designed original spring themed Ghirardelli® Chocolate packaging, managed design art approval, color quality approval that evolved successful online market equity of $390,000.
• Created innovative Corona Beer (Mexican brewery Cervecería Modelo) gifts using style guides landing over $600,000 in revenue.
• Led the license brand approval process for over 50 products whose combined annualized revenue equated to over $3.27 million utilizing the MyMediabox Digital Asset Management (DAM) - license approval management application.
• Managed and coordinated Instacart Project, ensuring online regulatory compliance with 4 major retailers, whose combined revenues exceeded
$50.5 million annually.
Senior Production Artist Graphic Designer
1-800-Flowers.com Inc., Melrose Park, IL Sept. 2012 – Sept. 2018
• Led the realignment of printing priorities while optimizing internal capabilities to reduce costs and saving the company over $3,000 per project.
• Re-engineered resource and planning process to improve in-house over 1,800 prototype production by shortening the selling cycle and contributing to about 20% closure rate.
• Actively spearheaded training/mentoring of 5 new employees while introducing them to organizational tools and processes that resulted improvement to department efficiencies and outputs of over 70,000 components annually.
Production Artist Graphic Designer
1-800-Flowers.com Inc., Melrose Park, IL Mar. 2010 – Sept. 2012
• Skillfully printed with foil application over 12,000 prototypes meeting company's presentation deadlines.
• Photographed and organized over 15,000 gifts and products in Centric
- Product Lifecycle Management Solution (PLM), contributing to visually strong and effective presentations.
• Finalized and sent to print vendors over 30,000 components annually. Senior Graphic Designer
Production Artist
Creating Innovative
Brand Value
www.joannazagata.com
portfolio
joanna zagata *******@*****.***
12512 S. Iroquois Rd.
Palos Park, IL 60464
Education
University of Illinois Chicago UIC
Chicago, IL
Sept. 2000 – Sept. 2004
Bachelor of Arts - Graphic Design
Enrolled in Coursera.com
Jan. 2023 – Present
Feb. 24, 2023
Google Course Certification
Foundation of User Experience
(UX) Design
Feb. 10, 2023
Coursera Project Certificate
Designing a Low Fidelity Prototype
in Figma
Language
Bilingual
Native fluency in English and
Polish language
Technical Skills
• Apple Mac Platform
• Adobe Creative Suite
• Adobe Illustrator
• Adobe Photoshop
• Adobe InDesign
• Adobe Acrobat
• Adobe Bridge
• QuarkXpress
• CorelDRAW Graphic Suite
• Universal Type Client
• Microsoft Office 365
• Microsoft Excel
• Microsoft Outlook
• Microsoft PowerPoint
• Microsoft Word
• Microsoft Teams
• MBC4, barcode creator for Mac
• Centric, Product Lifecycle
• Management Solution (PLM)
• MyMediabox Digital Assets
• Management (DAM), internet
based license approval
management application.
Work Experience
Graphic Designer Artist
Freelance, Palos Park, IL Jan. 2008 – Mar. 2010
• Developed creative concepts for over 50 projects such as invites, hangtags, labels, bag tags, water bottles, logos, school diplomas, certificates, banners and more.
• Collaborated with author/teacher to create Polish 1ST grade workbook used by students learning Polish.
• Created logo for Jan Karski Polish School in Palos Heights, Illinois resulting in identity optimization growth of about 25% over 5 years. Graphic Designer Print Artist
All Media Print Solutions Inc., Tinley Park, IL Jul. 2005 – Dec. 2007 Company dissolved in 2009. Specialized in marketing business to client. Facility handled each project from concept design, print, addressing mail collateral using zip code lists and postal sorting capability.
• Received, processed, and verified over 70 orders to ensure client satisfaction.
• Printed and addressed over 50 projects, using provided database lists.
• Designed innovative print projects from custom ads, brochures, postcards, self-mailers, and newspaper inserts. Printed projects of 500 - 40,000 qty.
• Collaborated project ideas with the client, provided prototype samples, created over 20 new template designs resulting in vendor commitment sales estimated at well over $75,000 annually.
• Managed coordination of scheduled job processes for self and others while training, mentoring 3 new employees, increasing productivity by 25% annually.
Skills
Excellent Communication and Listening Skills between Stakeholders Meaningful Responsible Product and Packaging with Retail Business Focus Packaging Design Page Layouts Advertising Composition Print Design Prepress Brand Optimization Style Guide Compliance and Development Marketing Content Focused Photography Retouching Curious & Positive Self-Starter Objective Staying One Step Ahead of Industry Trends Value Creation Strong Eye for Detail Graphics Innovation Design Creative Problem-Solving Solutions Ability to Inspire Others Flexibility and Adaptability Striving approach to Elevate Corporate Identity Seek and Embrace Change Driving Change and Supporting Creativity Project Management Product Work Management Multitasking Training Train Mentors Coaching Coaches Learning Mindset Successfully Work in a Collaborative Team Environment Cross-Functional Teams Leadership Lead Leader
Team Builder Proofing Vendor Samples for
Accurate Visual Color Quality & Proficiency
Senior Graphic Designer
Production Artist
Creating Innovative
Brand Value
www.joannazagata.com
portfolio
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