Experience

Mature Services

• United States
• Non-profit Organization Management
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Graphics Aide

  • Oct 2009 - Present

  Design brochures, informational booklets, fliers, and ads for print media. Retouch or composite digital images when necessary. Principal software: InDesign CS5, Photoshop CS5, and Illustrator CS5. Design brochures, informational booklets, fliers, and ads for print media. Retouch or composite digital images when necessary. Principal software: InDesign CS5, Photoshop CS5, and Illustrator CS5.



Busson Photography, Inc.

• Digital Photo Retoucher

  • Aug 2005 - Jun 2009

  Enhanced family portraits: softened age lines, smoothed complexions, strengthened jaw lines, blended skin tones and removed glasses glare. Rebuilt cropped arms/hands and backgrounds, ensuring thousands of dollars of photos were aesthetically pleasing and marketable. Maintained filing of thousands of compact discs in photography archives, reducing retrieval time by 50%. Principal software: Photoshop.ACHIEVEMENTS• Established standards for the Retouch Team, ensuring a more consistent product with fewer returns. • Developed a method to remove the red splotches from combination complexions without affecting overall flesh tones.• Formulated a technique for removing "5 O'Clock shadow" from portraits.• Taught myself photo restoration, a service the company did not previously offer.



Twin Sisters® Digital Media

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

• Designer/Illustrator

  • Jan 2001 - Aug 2004

  Rendered full color digital illustrations/layouts for CD labels/booklets, workbooks, CD greeting cards and display headers. Principal software: Photoshop, InDesign and Freehand.ACHIEVEMENTS:• Designed a series of four Christmas CD's covers which formed a composite scene of a house with various Christmas activities occurring in each room. • Developed a Photoshop technique applying transparent colors to black and white photos, while preserving both highlightsand shadows.• Cataloged the extensive library of fonts by family, greatly reducing staff search time.• Categorized/filed hundreds of digital illustrations for easy re-purposing.



Landoll, Inc.

• Designer/Illustrator II

  • Nov 1994 - Aug 2000

  Generated fun, colorful illustrations for children’s books using traditional and digital media. Created original, eye-catching cover designs and title treatments using digital applications. Inventoried and ordered art supplies for the Publishing Department. Supervised the production of comps for trade shows. Primary software: Photoshop, QuarkXpress, and Freehand.ACHIEVEMENTS• Developed a process for rendering full color in 3D, viewable with an ordinary hand mirror.• Digitally restored damaged art/altered art for re-purposing in different book formats.• Brainstormed approximately 70 percent of the storybook ideas for the company's Landoll Line books in 1999.• Championed the idea of illustrators writing books as well, resulting in my storybooks: SANTA AROUND THE WORLD, THE DAY BEFORE CHRISTMAS and WHY I LIKE HALLOWEEN.• Designed/established the art archives and the filing system for over 10,000 pieces of original art and film, saving a tremendous amount of time locating art for re-purposing.