Experience

Windy City Publishers

• United States
• Book and Periodical Publishing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Graphic Designer (Independent Contractor - Project Based Work)

  • Sep 2011 - Present

  • Design book covers and Logos for Authors – - Assessed projects and discussed possible creative options for book covers and logos during personal meetings with Windy City Publishers and clients. - Generated ideas and created a number of mock-ups for client review using Adobe Illustrator. - Met with clients to review and refine mock-ups resulting in creative expansion of several top choices. - Finalized design of author’s mock-up choice and obtained final approval for publication resulting in materials being used throughout multiple media channels. • Completed layout design for educational academic book using Adobe InDesign to format pages adding graphic elements. • Created and designed vinyl record album cover using Photoshop and Illustrator. • Completed extensive photographic editing with Photoshop for numerous projects. • Managed a variety of projects determining and obtaining required resources, monitoring deadlines, estimating workloads and time frames, scheduling time accordingly, communicating with all parties as work progresses, resulting in meeting 100% of project deadlines. Show less



Old Navy

• United States
• Retail
• 700 & Above Employee

• Supply Chain Associate

  • Dec 2011 - Present

  • Receive and define product shipments distributing them to appropriate departments on sales floor, ensuring inventory and pricing accuracy; create marketing displays of merchandise to draw consumer interest, leading to increased sales. • Personally assisting customers with purchase choices and processing merchandise for floor returns. • Receive and define product shipments distributing them to appropriate departments on sales floor, ensuring inventory and pricing accuracy; create marketing displays of merchandise to draw consumer interest, leading to increased sales. • Personally assisting customers with purchase choices and processing merchandise for floor returns.



Axon Electric

• Automation Machinery Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Office Manager

  • Jul 2010 - Jul 2014

  (Full/Part Time, periodic employment with B2B electrical supplier) • Monitored Emails and obtained sales orders from business to business customers; entered them into company system via Made to Manage software. • Developed sales quotes for customer phone/email inquiries; communicated with vendors via phone/email and utilized vendor systems to assess pricing, quantity available and ship dates. • Processed Sales Orders by creating purchase orders, determining appropriate vendors and placing product orders via email and fax; organized and monitored purchase orders for shipping confirmation, alerting customers by email or fax. • Received product into system; created invoices and billed customers; shipped product using UPS/Fed Ex, common carriers. • Entered data for accounts receivables/payables into system interface with parent company and generated financial reports. Show less



Identatronics

• United States
• Business Supplies & Equipment
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Bindery Department Associate

  • Jun 2003 - Mar 2014

  (Part Time work while attending school, whenever company needed extra help) • Digitally encoded client employee plastic security cards used for various company accesses. • Assured quality of graphic appearance and content of cards through detailed visual analysis. • Sequentially organized and labeled cards, processing and packaging for shipment. (Part Time work while attending school, whenever company needed extra help) • Digitally encoded client employee plastic security cards used for various company accesses. • Assured quality of graphic appearance and content of cards through detailed visual analysis. • Sequentially organized and labeled cards, processing and packaging for shipment.



Carson Pirie Scott

• United States
• Retail
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Sales Associate

  • Jun 2007 - Aug 2009

  • Provided quality customer service while assisting customer on sales floor and at registers. • Managed visual placement of holiday store displays. • Provided quality customer service while assisting customer on sales floor and at registers. • Managed visual placement of holiday store displays.