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Round Lake Beach, IL |
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| Summary of Qualifications | |||||
| Ten years experience in Macintosh and Windows desktop publishing using: | |||||
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Quark XPress | Adobe Photoshop | Adobe Illustrator | Adobe InDesign | |
| Adobe Acrobat | Adobe Dreamweaver | Adobe Flash | XHTML/CSS | ||
| Microsoft Word | Microsoft Powerpoint | Microsoft Excel | |||
| Five years writing and illustrating monthly children’s page | |||||
| Five years of secretarial experience including teaching software and secretarial skills | |||||
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| Job History | ||
| 11/04 to Present—Digital People, Arlington Heights, IL | ||
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Chelsea & Scott | Design of several direct mail pieces and formatting photos for their web design. |
| Acco | Catalog production using Quark and PhotoShop |
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| ETA/Cuisenaire | Catalog design and production for their Reading/Language Arts products featuring preschool and elementary text books, educational toys and manipulatives. (Catalog created with Adobe InDesign) | |
| Giftco | Catalog production work in Photoshop and Quark | |
| 8/01 to Present—Aquent/Vitamin T, Chicago, IL | ||
| American Color | Produced newspaper and pullout print advertising for Jewel/Osco | |
| Cahner’s International | Feature layout and cover design of Semiconductors, International. | |
| CCH Incorporated | Designed and produced books on OSHA and HAZMAT regulations. Books included extremely technical text, multiple formulas and graphics and hundreds of charts. (Books created with Adobe InDesign) | |
| Cole Parmer | Catalog production and design for laboratory equipment and supplies | |
| Dearborn Trade Publishing |
Text book production work, design & corrections; converting print graphics to web graphics for on-line learning programs | |
| DoALL Company | Catalog, sales flyer and brochure design and layout. | |
| Equity Creative | Web production, sales brochures and specification sheets. | |
| John Crane | Created and updated brochures, specification sheets and presentations. Created presentations using PowerPoint and coordinated content with their headquarters in Sweden. Prepared literature for website using Adobe Acrobat. | |
| LTD Commodities | Catalog design and production for houseware and gift item distributor. | |
| Medical Economics | Layout and design of four dental products magazines. Installed and setup Cumulus database. Established a new color-coded electronic filing system to facilitate faster page layout and enhance communication between the Art and Editorial departments. | |
| Quill | Design of catalog covers and direct mail pieces | |
| Scott Foresman | Secretarial support for inventory control. Created and maintained documents using Microsoft Windows. Accessed and edited information on mainframe. | |
| Topco | Installed and sorted graphic assets into the Cumulus database. | |
| Walgreens | Created Marketing Guide for Christmas sign usage. Designed point-of-purchase signs. Also designed point-of-purchase signs and the cover and envelope for the Employee Benefit Report. Created large format presentations for seminars. | |
| WW Grainger | Catalog production for Puerto Rico (English) and Mexico (Spanish) catalogs for janitorial supplies and tool distributor using an Oracle data base and Pindar interface. | |
| 1995 to Present—Freelance and on-going projects | ||
| Bowen
Park Theater and Opera Guild |
Designed invitations, response cards and programs for their annual Masked Ball. | |
| Chuck Larkin www.chucklarkin.com |
Design and maintenance of a website for an Atlanta-based bluegrass storyteller and songwriter. | |
| Far Eastern Arts | Brochures, flyers, postcards and stationary for a martial arts studio. Coordinatied press releases and local advertising. | |
| Geedees, Ltd. | Design and maintenance of a website for a custom embroidery studio. | |
| Global Solutions | Design and maintenance of a website, brochures, postcards and stationary, etc. for a private investigation and security firm. | |
Global Tales |
Design and maintenance of a promotional for a family of storytellers which includes an small on-line store featuring their tapes and CDs. Also designed ads, postcards and brochures. | |
| Graphic Extensions | Production work inserting Spanish translations into graphs and maps for three Spanish language texts. | |
| Lajadjie Sebela www.1storyteller.com |
Design and maintenance of a website for an internationally-known storyteller. | |
| Logic Tools | Design of a brochure for their annual Supply Line Seminar. Coordinated content with directors in Hong Kong and Illinois. | |
| Design and maintenance of a website and on-line store for an artist specializing wheel-thrown pottery and sculpture | ||
| United States Taiho Jutsu Federation www.ustjf.us |
Design and maintenance of the official web site of a national martial arts organization. I also designed their logo, brochures and t-shirts. | |
| WhatsShaking.info | Design and maintenance of a website for an Chicago/Milwaukee area belly dancers. | |
| Bristol Renaissance Faire | More than fifteen years working summers as a ticket wench (one who sells tickets). I also provide forms and posters needed by the box office. | |
| 7/91 to 8/98—Woodall’s Publications, Lake Forest, IL | ||
| Graphic Artist—Responsible for page layout and design; copy editing for eight monthly camping and recreation guides; ad design and copy writing for self-promotional ads; cover design; brochure design; layout and design of several annual and semi-annual publications. Created “Woody’s Camping Club,” a child’s guide to camping and RVing. Produced “Gadgets, Gizmos & Gear” a monthly feature describing new products | ||
| 9/88 to 7/91—Kelly Services, Libertyville, IL | ||
| Various Positions. including wordprocessor, secretary, administrative assistant and payroll clerk | ||
| 9/87 to 9/88—SER/Jobs for Progress, Waukegan, IL | ||
| Instructor in office skills and typing | ||
| Prior to 1987—Various Laboratory Positions in clinical and industrial laboratory positions including pilot plant technician; quality control chemist, hematology and biochemistry technician | ||
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| Education | |
| January, 2011 | College of Lake County, Grayslake, IL Advanced Web Pages (see certificate) |
| July, 2011 | College of Lake County, Grayslake, IL |
| July, 2005 | College of Lake County, Grayslake, IL One semester Introduction to Flash. Included vector graphics and animation (see certificate) |
| October 2001 | The Clearing, Ellison Bay, WI Five-day seminar titled “Drawing In Nature”. Included work with pencil,charcoal, watercolor and ink |
| May 2001 | Design Graphics, USA, Peotone, Illinois Three-day seminar in Design Concepts: Including page layout, covers, brochures and books |
| June 1987 | Scored in top three percent on verbal section of the Graduate Record Exam |
| October 1987 | Shimer College, Chicago, IL Bachelor of Sciences in Natural Science, with Honors, Received full-year scholarship for writing skills and achieved Honors on both required comprehensive exams |
| June 1969 | Graduated from Bremen High School, with Honors |