RÉSUMÉ

Production Designer & Photo Retoucher | 2021–Present

Reformat designs across numerous social media ad sizes. Design and create ads, PowerPoint presentations and trade show banners. All remote.

Tech: Photoshop, Indesign, Illustrator, PowerPoint, Slack

Contract: Production Designer & Photo Retoucher | 2021

Populated Flashtalking ad templates with photos, new text and did photo editing. Coordinated with project managers through Robohead to track ad changes and approvals. Created Facebook ads in Facebook. Scheduled ad deployment by creating Flashtalking D-Trees.

Tech: Adobe Suite, Microsoft Office, Robohead, Flashtalking, Facebook

Contract: Production Designer & Photo Retoucher | 2019

Designed look and feel of quarterly campaigns, then implemented approved design concepts across 30 deliver size deliverables. Also performed intricate photo retouching on high-end corporate photography.

Tech: Adobe Suite, G Suite, Fetch, Brand Builder and Function Fox

Web Design Intern | 8/2016–12/2016

Worked primarily in WordPress, Tower, GitHub, WPBakery and Slider Revolution to update websites. Also created new products and made e-commerce site updates in Magento. Designed corporate collateral. Used Asana for project management.

Tech: WordPress, Adobe Suite, CSS, HTML, Slider Revolution, WPBakery, Magento, Tower, GitHub, Asana & Skype

Owner & Visual Designer | 2006–Present

Sales, estimation/proposals, vendor coordination, graphic design & production, and product photography. Design ads, brochures, catalogs, websites, logos & branding, email blasts, corporate templates, packaging & shoot studio product photography.

Tech: Adobe Suite, G-Suite, MS Office, Photography, Editor X, Shopify, WordPress, CSS, HTML

Senior Graphic Designer | 2002–2006

Provided graphic design and art direction. Created posters, ads, e-books, brochures, presentation folders, vehicle graphics, store signage and logos. Conducted client meetings & art-directed two junior graphic designers.

Tech: Adobe Suite, MS Office, Dreamweaver, Pagemaker, CSS, HTML

Outside Sales/ Project Manager | 1994–2000

Generated new clients through outside sales, prepared estimates & managed my projects. Ordered paper, ink and outside services (film & matchprints, embossing, foil stamping). Gave company tours, educated clients on the printing process, handled all scheduling and press-checks. Acted as liaison between customers & production.

Knowledge required: Paper & ink options and their utilities/limitations, bleed & trap specs., folding/scoring considerations and machine tolerances.