Graphic Designer

JASON MAZZOLA **** Idlewood Ave. Richmond, VA ****0 804-***-**** www.jasonmazzola.carbonmade.com

PROFILE

Illustrator and graphic designer with experience creating packaging, marketing materials and print production looking for a creative and challenging environment to develop and contribute artistic skills and learned abilities.

EXPERIENCE

Database Administrator, The Martin Agency; Richmond, VA (via Staffmark) January 2012-Present

Handling and organizing confidential financial information for all current vendors to comply with Government regulations.

Contacting companies directly to ensure all tax records information is up to date.

General administrative tasks such as making labels, filing folders, scanning documents and combining PDF’s as needed.

Updating database records by adding and deleting information as needed.

Staying detail oriented and adapting to new goals and guidelines daily.

• Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Powerpoint)

• Adobe Reader

Graphic Designer, Various Record Labels (Freelance Basis); Richmond, VA February 2007- Present

Record packaging, t-shirt and poster design for national recording and touring musicians.

Working in direct contact with the artists, labels and managers involved to provide a finished product that meets all expectations.

Creating advertisements and promotional material used online and in magazines to promote all releases.

Labels include Bridge 9 Records, Jade Tree records, Grave Mistake records, Salad Days records, React records.

• Adobe Illustrator

• Adobe Photoshop

• Adobe InDesign

• Hand drawn illustration

• Original Photography

Graphic Designer, TriMedia (Freelance Basis); Richmond, VA February 2011- December 2011

Design as needed for various clients in preparation for the creation and launch of websites.

Assisting in the development and creation of company logos and identities using design and illustration.

Working under tight deadlines and quick turnaround times for clients as needed.

• Adobe Illustrator

• Adobe Photoshop

• Adobe InDesign

• Hand drawn sketches

• DreamWeaver

Graphic Designer, Guest Services; Fairfax, VA November 2010-December 2010

Working directly with the head of marketing to create newspaper ads, printed posters, fliers and menus for different companies daily.

Ensuring all work designed is pre-flighted and ready for print.

Contacting and communicating with printers directly about design specs for each project ready to print.

Balancing different projects with tight deadlines daily and maintaining creativity.

• Adobe Illustrator

• Adobe Photoshop

• Adobe InDesign

• Adobe Bridge

• Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Powerpoint)

Document Review Project Supervisor, Brown Greer, Richmond, VA October 2010- June 2011

Reviewing and calculating highly confidential financial documents for claims against BP concerning the oil spill disaster.

Quality checking other reviewers work to ensure that all directions and processing were followed correctly.

Adapting to new guide lines as necessary and on short notice by daily updates and meetings.

• Adobe Reader

• Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Powerpoint)

Document Review Projects Crescent, Cyprus, Paris at Leclair Ryan, Richmond, VA November 2009-February 2012

Reviewing confidential financial and personal information through PDF’s daily for ongoing litigation.

Issue coding documents based on relevance and passing documents on to the necessary trial support team.

Checking high volume confidential legal documents and redacting all personal information to prepare for ongoing litigation.

Quality checking work that had been redacted to ensure all work is done correctly.

Working and communicating with employees and contractors to complete all work in a timely manner.

Working with a large team of reviewers and lawyers and adapting to new guidelines and instructions daily.

• Adobe Reader

• Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Powerpoint)

• Relativity

Igen 3 Digital Press Operator, Lewis Printing; Richmond, VA March 2005- March 2006

Printing books, posters, flyers in large quantities under tight deadlines and paying attention to detail.

Ensuring all work maintained perfection including color correction and design.

Folding and cutting finished product for final delivery to customer.

Multi-tasking in a fast paced environment with new work flow each day and maintaining the digital press.

• Adobe Reader

• Adobe Photoshop

• Adobe Illustrator

• Xerox Igen 3 software

• Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Powerpoint)

Graphic Designer, IKON Document Services; Richmond, VA December 2000- March 2003

Designing posters, logos and documents per clients’ specifications on a daily basis.

Printing large format posters, bulk color printing, color matching under tight deadlines.

Dry mounting, laminating and cutting posters.

Typesetting and recreating documents for clients.

Altering photographs in Photoshop, scanning images, using both Mac and PC computers for file transfers.

Paying close attention to detail in a fast paced environment.

Troubleshooting and meeting deadlines daily.

Communicating with customers to ensure their satisfaction in completed jobs.

• Adobe Reader

• Adobe Photoshop

• Freehand

• Illustrator

• Page Maker

• Quark Xpress

EDUCATION

B.F.A. Communications and Design, Kinetic Imagery

Virginia Commonwealth University- Richmond, VA

SKILLS

Motivated individual with a strong background in using hand drawn and digital art in a professional working environment.

Well organized, reliable and able to multi-task in a fast paced, deadline oriented environment with excellent communication skills.

Proficient in both PC and Mac software; including standard Microsoft Office programs: Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint

Software: CS5 Adobe Art and graphics programs: Illustrator, Photoshop, Freehand, Quark, CorelDraw, PageMaker, InDesign.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Mobile Operating Systems: Windows Mobile, Blackberry, iPhone, Droid

Software: Microsoft Office, Novell Client, Norton Antivirus, Symantec Ghost, McAfee

Operating Systems/Server: Windows NT/95/98/2000/XP/Vista/Windows7 Professional; Windows Server 2003, Linux

Hardware/Special Systems: Desktop/Laptop Computers, Printers, and Servers

Assisted client base with personal web space issues to include, FTP upload, mobile applications, web based file browsers, publishing,

HTML and CSS coding issues.

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