PrePress, Page Composition, Bookkeeping, Data Entry

Work Experience Highlights

Self-Employed (home and office based—printing):

• Client: Stet Publishing Solutions, a development house for the educational market

Developing text books and catalogues—Page composition and prepress file processing, PitStop, color correct

• Client: Creatrix Books—Page composition and prepress file processing for fictional works, coordinate with print houses

Anthology, Inc. (a development house for the educational market):

• Developing text books and catalogues—Page composition and prepress file processing (Prinergy workflow)

Curtin-Cone Associates, Inc. (a print broker):

• Admin Assist—Writing Requests for Quote, Purchase Orders, Invoices; recording customer orders;

design and maintain data base for mailing

Fort Collins Coloradoan (a daily newspaper):

• Lead Diagram Clerk—generating electronic advertising layout of daily newspaper and all periodical publications

Sun-Sentinel (a Tribune company based in south Florida):

• Several positions held, including:

Production Coordinator—monthly magazine ‘South Florida Parenting’; Pagination Coordinator—for daily and all

periodical publications; Prepress Artist—design/build advertising for a weekly free publication ‘Gold Coast Shopper’;

Imaging Operator—processing and collecting negatives and burning printing plates for press

Fairbanks Daily News-Miner (a daily newspaper) and

Commercial Printing Company (a commercial print shop):

• Various positions held, including: Advertising Layout; Page Composition; Design/Build various commercial jobs

(business cards, forms, letterhead, brochures, flyers, etc.)

Self-Employed (bookkeeping/grant accounting):

• Clients included businesses and not-for-profit organizations:

Literacy Council of Alaska (public and private money); Women In Crisis-Counseling and Assistance (public money);

Detroit Hot Springs Car Wash; Living Landscape; Fairbanks Summer Day Camp (public money)

Awards / Recognitions

• Pride Award—for proactive changes made in methods, communication and teamwork with the Gold Coast Shopper

• Pride Award—(awarded to the founding members of the first Pre-press 50% Error Reduction Team) for reducing

pre-press cost adjustments by 44%, saving the company $130,000, for achieving a zero defect rate over two years,

saving the company $36,000

• Appeared on the cover of Tribune News, a Tribune employee publication, circulated nationally

• President’s Award—for continued progress as a member of the Pre-press 50% Error Reduction Team

• Pride Award—(awarded to a team of three people) for work on three magazines during the manager’s maternity leave

Job Related Training / Activities

• Team Building Workshop—6 hours • People Skills and Working Relationships Workshop—8 hours

• Personal Leadership Effectiveness Workshop—8 hours

• Statistical Process Control and Quality Control Training—30 hours plus additional workshops including introduction

to ISO 9000 methods

• Customer Service Workshop—6 hours (internal and external customers)

• Former member—Graphic Crafts International Union (Seattle chapter)

• Member—InDesign User Group (Chicago chapter); Member—Acrobat User Group (Nebraska Chapter);

Member—Adobe User Group (Chicago chapter)

• Ascend Training-Deerfield/Chicago: PhotoShop CSII (4 days); Illustrator CSII (4 days);

Dreamweaver 8-Web Site Development Beginning (3 days)

A full chronology, client list, list of references, copies of awards and letters of recommendation will be provided upon request.

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