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msejbl@yahoo.com |
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| Professional Experience | ||
• 16 years of print design and production skills developed working for multiple clients and industries • Eight years of web site design and development • Strong editing and copy writing skills • Skilled creation of brochures, direct mail, invitations and newsletters • Effective development and maintenance of letterheads, business cards and forms • Familiar with electronic catalogs, calendars and data bases • Excellent communication skills with a highly diverse range of co-workers and clients |
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| • Experience in graphic design, production, pre-press including: | ||
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• Point-of-purchase, newspaper and house ads | • Catalog page design and production |
| • PowerPoint presentations. graphs and charts | • Trade show kiosk and other large-format projects | |
| • Production in foreign languages | • Textbook creation including multiple editions | |
| • Magazine covers, features and general content | • Trade books and training manuals | |
| • Chemical and mathematical formulas, technical text, detailed graphs and charts | ||
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| Technical Knowledge | |||||
| • Proficient in the most of the widely used publishing software including: | |||||
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Quark XPress | Adobe Photoshop | Adobe Illustrator | Adobe InDesign | |
| Adobe Acrobat | Adobe Dimensions | Macromedia Dreamweaver | Adobe PageMaker | ||
| Microsoft Word | Microsoft Powerpoint | Microsoft Excel | Adobe Streamline | ||
| Cumulus database | Omnipage OCR | ||||
| Job History | |||
| 2004 to Present | Digital People | Arlington Heights, IL | |
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Graphic Artist | ||
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1998
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Aquent | Chicago, IL | |
Graphic Artist |
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| 7/91 to 8/98 | Woodall’s Publications | Lake Forest, IL | |
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| Education |
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| 2005 | College of Lake County | Grayslake, IL | |
| One semester Introduction to Flash. Included vector graphics and animation | |||
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2001 | The Clearing |
Ellison
Bay, Wisconsin |
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Five-day seminar titled “Drawing In Nature”. Included work with pencil, charcoal, watercolor and ink | ||
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2001 | Design Graphics, USA |
Peotone,
Illinois |
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Three-day seminar in Design Concepts: Including page layout, covers, brochures and books | ||
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Scored in top 3% on verbal section of the Graduate Record Exam | ||
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Bachelor
of Sciences in Natural Science, with Honors, Shimer College, Waukegan, IL |
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