Project manager

gloria jeanne signore

**** **** ***** ******, **** Orange, Florida 32127 203-***-****

Objective: GraphicArtist/Designer/Productionrtist/Supervisor/Typographer/Proofreader

/Illustrator

Office: Clerical, Typing, Customer Service

Work Experience:

June 2008-June 2011

Charter Communications, Newtown, CT

Customer Service Representative/Welcome/Part-time

Responsibilities include: Outbound calling, customer service, issues, troubleshooting, billing systems ICOMS & CSG for residential and

business customers.

April 1990 - present

Graphics & Print, Trumbull, CT

Owner//Graphic Designer/Typographer/Proofreader/Production Artist - PC/Offset/Digital

Graphic designer through various print brokers and clients, small print shops and copy centers which include dance studio, fitness center, convalescent home menus, town committee -new residents welcome, universities, etc.

Create/design, pick-up and deliver art files, pre-press -press check/imagesetting, customer support/sales, proofreading, layout designs: illustrations (pen and ink), logo art, stationery - letterheads, business cards and envelopes, postcards, magnets, flyers, brochures, menus, invitations, office forms. Illustrations/signs: woodworking company, tea shop and town recipe cookbook introductory typesetting and layout, real estate brochures/flyers, oil paintings, etc.

Concept to completion management, including time lines.

January 2007 - May 2007

Slide Effects, Inc./Desai Communications, Stamford, CT

Production Manager - PC/MAC Digital

Responsibilities included: Proofreader, ad agency communications, printing consultant, scheduling from concept to completion, shipping requests, vendor communication and direct communication with clients.

August 2004 - January 2008

Visual Sensations, Inc., Stratford, CT

Freelance/Sub-Contractor/Graphic Designer/Proofreader - Offset / Digital

Responsibilities included: Create and produce promotional product designs for business cards, postcards, magnets, spiral pads, puffy postcards, lenticular designs per client orders. Office work, (Quickbooks) billing, filing, mailing, shipping. Download customer art files, rework for promo production, contact overseas vendor for design layouts, availability, materials, quantity, art files received, etc., including mailing and/or shipping promo products - customer service - clients.

August 2002 - December 2006

Baker Graphics, Westport, CT

Freelance/Sub-Contractor/Proofreader/Print Consultant- Digital / Offset

Responsibilities included: Proofreader, printing consultant, direct contact with graphic designer and production manager/owner, responsible for mailing/ship request, customer service/service bureaus/vendors, art file management.

February 1997-July 2004

Quality Printers, Trumbull, CT

Sub-Contractor/Vendor/Typographer/Graphic Artist/Proofreader - PC/Offset

Responsibilities included: Designing flyers, stationery, greeting cards, menus, brochures, posters, imagesetting/ negative output, set up art files for service bureaus, outside printers, print brokers, artists, various professionals for dance studio, fitness centers, bakery, pizza parlor, etc. Main position: Prep for printing. Concept to finished product.

Other responsibilities included: Office manager: monitor phone, filing job tickets, summarizing job tickets, billing (i.e., Quick Books), customer support, proofreading, stock orders, bindery, scheduling issues, art file management, commissioned oil paintings/illustrations.

April 1989-April 1990

Alphabet Soup, Fairfield Avenue, Bridgeport, CT

Typographer/Proofreader/Paste-up Artist for ad agency.

Responsibilities included: Graphic designer /production artist working on magazine layout, editorial and art design, direct mail, logos, stationery packages and proofreading.

May 1988-January 1989

TIE Communications, Inc. 8 Progress Drive, Shelton, CT (Corporate Communications Division)

Typographer

Responsibilities included: All advertising type for art directors and production managers within the departments.

In-house technical bulletins, telephone catalogs & brochures, product ads, house ads, overhead slides, stationery and direct mail pieces. Specing & kerning formats adapted according to layouts supplied.

November 1985-May 1988

The Hanson Publishing Corporation, 6 River Bend, Stamford, CT

Promotional Typographer /Proofreader for 5 Magazines:

Inside Print, Folio:, Catalog Product News, Curriculum Product Review, Catalog Age.

Responsibilities included: All advertising type for art directors, production coordinators, ad managers and clientele. Specing & kerning formats adapted to layout supplied by the departments in-house / house ads, product ads, stationery, logos, crack & peel labels, direct mail packages, etc. Helped launch our newest magazine: “Catalog Product News” by working on the typesetting and layout/design of 20-30 ads bimonthly. Also responsible for proofreading and

billing for promotional dept.

December 1980-November 1984

Topham Designs, Bridgeport, CT / Graphics & Print, Bridgeport, CT

Owner /Graphic Designer/Typographer - Offset

Clients included: Xerox, ITT, Bridgeport Machines, General Electric-Bpt., Stet/Shields, Sperco Type, Graphics Plus, Stauffer Chemical and

Baker Graphics.

Responsibilities included: Designing logos, forms, stationery, brochures, catalogs, spec type for agricultural bags, postcards, invitations, etc.

August 1980-November 1980

On Cable Magazine, Van Zant Street, Norwalk, CT

Typesetter worked on Megenthaler Linotype for cable magazine production.

May 1976-August 1980

Graphics Plus, Trumbull, CT

Assistant Art Director/ Paste-up Artist/ Production Artist - Offset

Responsibilities included: Typesetting, paste-up, some stripping & camera work (i.e. stats), designing brochures, handbooks, catalogs, etc. Proficient in all phases of print production - mechanicals /color keys to finished product.

Proofreading, customer service, client contact, etc.

Clients included: Remington, Sascoa, General Electric, TIE/Communuications, SKF & Dormer.

Computer Experience*/Software Programs:

AM Comp Set 500, 510, 3500, 4510, Mergenthaler Linotype, Compugraphic 7500, MCS 10, 8400, MCS 8500,

Macintosh 7.1, 10, Adobe Pagemaker, 6.52+, 7, MSWord, Excel, QuarkXpress, Photoshop, Illustrator,

Scanning, Panther Plus Imagesetting, PDF conversions, InDesign, etc. *Proficiency on PC platform, have knowledge of MAC platform.

Education:

Anna Maria College, Paxton, MA 1974-1975

Sacred Heart University, Fairfield, CT 1975-1976

Silvermine School of Art, Norwalk, CT - 1997

Hobbies: Piano-classical & popular, Oil painting, Pen & Ink, Gardening.

References: Available upon request.

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