Print production and design coordinator with extensive experience in all areas of print communications. Specializing in project management, typesetting, design direction, production, color image management and retouching and typographic design. I have excellent interpersonal and communication skills, both written and verbal.

Freelance

Chicago, Illinois • 2016 to present

Production and Graphic Designer : Freelance graphic designer working on a multitude of projects from marketing materials, branding, fly sheets, packaging and catalogs.

• Chicago Public Schools : flyers, posters, banners, marketing material, signage, catalogs
• TacBoard : rebranding, marketing material, packaging, expo material, email collateral
• Wire Pulse : branding, logo design, marketing material, expo material
• Carved : email template, email mailing, photo management
• Platts’ Farm : logo design, branding, marketing material

Crate and Barrel

Northbrook, Illinois • 2007 to 2016

Catalog Production and Design Manager : Managed a team of designers, production artists, and editors responsible for producing up to 40 catalogs per year. I was responsible for design direction, color image management and creating production schedules to ensure all print deadlines were met.Over my 9 years with the company, I demonstrated leadership by establishing new procedures and increased attention to detail, which standardized and improved the catalog process. In addition, I managed the production of projects for our foreign markets to assure brand consistency, mainly Canada and UAE.

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VSA Partners, Inc.

Chicago, Illinois • 1996 to 2007

Production Artist and Coordinator : Responsible for the production and typography of annual reports for Fortune 500 companies. Provided input with design, project and client management. Attended press checks for runs of up to 2.5 million copies. Set up standards and guidelines for production processes that streamlined operations and were adopted company-wide. Clients included IBM, GE, Comcast, Tyco, Coca-Cola, Blue Cross Blue Shield. Recognized through the AR100 Awards for Typography and Design for 11 consecutive years.

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UW Milwaukee, Commercial Art and Advertising Design

Proficient in Adobe InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Google Docs, Quark XPress.

Experience working with web, sheet fed and digital printers.

Extensive experience with pre-press color correction, image management, and color retouching.