Business Forms/Check Design Company
Prepared customer files, checks and business forms. Created and re-created logos for products. Served in a dual capacity as a system administrator to maintain the Macintosh equipment, system backups, and software installations.
• Created a systematic workflow plan for receiving work into the department based on entry dates rather than ship dates to ensure a 48 hour turnaround status.
• Achieved an excellent quality record measured by 10% increase in customer orders by thoroughly reviewing procedures and the specific job assignment to ensure accuracy, resulting In a less than 1% rework rate on 500 jobs.

Magazines and Book Publishing Company
Team prepared customer files for magazines and digest printing. Pre-flight work, composed and delivered output to Litho plate, press checks, and corrections of work.
• Recognized for producing an equal volume of work, compared to the first shift, without technical or customer service support.
• Performed most trouble-shooting and resolution of customer issues personally.
• Regularly found 3rd party software, at reduced rates, which worked as well as original software by paying attention to the market, researching new products and comparison shopping.
• Sought ways to continually upgrade equipment capabilities by keeping an open dialogue with vendors.

Food Products Label Design Company
Idea and concept designer for product labels, starting from sketches and moving ideas forward to the print process, including color and type corrections as well as logo design and creation. Worked with photo layouts for label illustration.
• Accepted and achieved the challenge to reach existing production goals with a 50% staff reduction.
• Created teams for specific purposes within the department (Work-In, Logo, Photo, and Work-out Teams).
• Reduced downtime by 10% by anticipating troublesome jobs before they became a problem, and creating staging areas according to job characteristics resulting in work moving through the department with less time spent on repeating questions about each job

Magazines and Catalog Publishing Company
Prepared pages for catalog and magazine printing, strip 4 color, made Cromalin proofs, customer corrections, and assembled pages for output to plates.
• Chosen to manage the workflow of incoming corrections for a 1000 page catalog that would have to be monitored throughout the year, based upon my organizational skills and leadership.
• Started a special team and successfully managed a project that achieved 100% completion of pages without error or corrections and meeting 99% of press dates.

A graphic designer produces visual solutions to the communication needs of clients, using a mix of creative skills and commercial awareness. Designers need imaginative flair, awareness of current fashions in the visual arts, working knowledge of the latest computer packages and an understanding of material costs and time limits, all of which can impact on the design.

In my graphic design jobs, I was responsible for the following kinds of tasks:

Brainstorming and mocking up design ideas
Presenting ideas to clients
Meeting with clients and adjusting designs to fit their needs or taste
Projecting budgets and schedules
Using computer software to execute designs
Working with others, such as printers, programmers, developers or other technicians, to complete the final product