Project Manager / Designer

Willie Soto

** ******* ******* **** ● Jersey City, NJ 07305 ● 201-***-**** ● *******@*****.***

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Hard working and technically skilled Production Artist known for accuracy, attention to detail in print production, and pre-press. Strong project managing skills, able to thrive in a dynamic, fast paced environment. Responsible, organized, dedicated, rational, can work extremely well under pressure, and goal oriented. Strive to combine experience while developing new technical skills to face the challenges of an ever-changing marketplace.

KEY SKILLS

• Mac and PC platforms

• Adobe CS5: Photoshop, Illustrator, Indesign, Quark, Acrobat w/PitStop, Dalim, Epson StylusPro 9900 Inkjet with GMG Color RIP, Direct to plate, Preps, and Creo RIPS.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Retoucher 2011-Present PCI STUDIO, 430 Communipaw Ave., 3rd Floor Jersey City, NJ 07304 Phone: 201-***-****

Primary responsibilities included retouching and color correcting photo concepts for home fashion. JC Penny, Bed Bath and Beyond, Kohl’s, and Wal-Mart.

Production Artist / Digital Pre-Press Specialist Freelance 2010-2011 The Lab NYC, 637 west 27th Street, 8th floor, New York, NY 10001.Primary responsibilities included the placement of all assists in print ads and various print products. Print proofs, upload ads, and print materials to various publication sites and FTPs.

Graphic Designer / Production Artist Freelance 2009-2010

Corner Store Magazine, 425 Eagle Rock Avenue, Roseland, New Jersey

Design, and produced an 88 page urban magazine. Pre-Press work includes retouching and color correcting of images and the complete layout of all pages. The Corner Store successfully printed in 2009.

Production Artist /Pre-Press Specialist Freelance 2008 - 2009

Vertis Communications, 469 7th Avenue New York, New York

Primary responsibilities included composition of pages for 14 magazine titles for Intermedia Outdoors. In addition to retouching, color correcting and tracking all incoming ads used within all magazines.

Digital Pre-Press Specialist Freelance 2003 - 2008

Litho Art, 175 Varick Street, New York, New York

Primary responsibilities composition and trouble shooting of catalog pages for print. Retouched and color corrected images.

Digital Pre-Press Supervisor 2001 - 2003

Cunningham Graphics International, 100 Burma Road, Jersey City, New Jersey

Primary responsibilities included design and composition of pages for commercial and financial print projects. Instrumental in setting up Scitex workflow, also trained operators on the Scitex Brisque 4 Extreme.

EDUCATION AND TRAINING

The Art Institute of Pittsburgh Online Division, Pittsburgh, PA. AS Graphic Design Candidate, Center for the Media Arts, New York, NY Certificate in Computer Graphics

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