Experience

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  Schoolcraft College

  • United States
  • Higher Education
  • 700 & Above Employee

  • Senior Graphic Designer

    • Mar 1998 - Present

    Responsibilities: the annual design, layout and print production of Schoolcraft College’s viewbook, annual report, newsletters, flyers, brochures, advertising campaigns, fund raising campaigns and college event promotions. Create graphic design layouts that work in a hybrid of media ranging from print, web and electronic on screen presentations. Create interactive/animated pdf files generated from InDesign software. Take necessary photos for college publications. Maintain cohesive identity program on all published materials. Assess technological requirements, recommending appropriate acquisitions to increase efficiency and productivity.

  • Adjunct Professor - Computer Graphics Technology Department

    • Aug 1997 - Present

    Responsibilities: Developed curriculum for and instructing Publishing InDesign and Prepress courses. These courses emphasize the practical application of design computer skills in fulfilling the requirements of realistic graphic design projects. Students learn to integrate images and type, set up projects for printing and apply both traditional and contemporary design principles to create effective visual communications. Instructions includes advanced software techniques and the use of variety of peripherals, along with output devices of various technologies. Provide printing quotes from the CGT157 prepress class for the CGT Grad book. Counsel/review digital files from the Practical Applications student compiling the CGT Grad book art.

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  Aquient Partners/Portfolio/Mac-Temps

  • Southfield, Michigan

  • Freelance Graphic Designer

    • Oct 1997 - Feb 1998
    • Southfield, Michigan

    Placements: Avanti Press (Detroit, MI), Graphix Park/J. Walter Thompson (Detroit, MI), Smith Winchester (Southfield, MI), The Jewish News/Style Magazine (Southfield, MI), BBDO (Southfield, MI), McCann Erikson (Troy, MI), Jackson Dawson Communications (Dearborn, MI), and Oakland County Public School Systems, (Waterford, MI). Provided these organizations with graphic design and desktop publishing services.

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  Leaping Lizards, LTD

  • Southfield, Michigan

  • Graphic Designer

    • Oct 1996 - Oct 1997
    • Southfield, Michigan

    Responsibilities: Project management, layout and design (employing traditional and electronic design practices) of printed materials and ad campaigns for various clients including D.O.C. Optics Corporation (“Wake Up Your Face”) and Metrotel Communications. Implementing extensive electronic photo retouching for print work. Assisting with the composition of special effects animations for commercial and automotive clients such as Ford Motor Company, General Motors and Chrysler corporation. Animation trainee, learning concepts of design for motion video. Assisted company owner with her responsibilities as professor of “Effects and Animation” course at Center for Creative Studies. Other projects for Leaping Lizards, LTD include: Designing sample packages to contain promotional video and CD-ROM. Production of graphic design portfolio for Leaping Lizards, LTD., printed materials. Preparation of design elements for use in Internet Web sites. Continuing personal development of project management skills through direct contact with other staff, clients, service bureaus, printers and assorted vendors.

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  Ford Motor Company

  • Dearborn, Michigan

  • Independent Contractor/Computer Graphic Designer

    • Jan 1994 - Oct 1996
    • Dearborn, Michigan

    Responsibilities: to create graphic design layouts and camera-ready art work for ford’s corporate printed communications. Among these is Ford World, a monthly news tabloid that circulates to a quarter of a million Ford employees nationwide. Aside from the design and layout of the ford World, I take the key stories and prepare them to be transmitted over an ISDN line to ford of England and ford of Belgium. I have also worked on the 1993 and 1994 Ford Motor Company annual reports, FCN (Ford Communications Network) Schedule Guide, Technically speaking, NewsNet, and countless numbers of miscellaneous projects, press kits and printed materials for conferences.

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  B'nai B'rith Youth Organization

  • President of Masada BBG

    • 1984 - 1985