Experience

Newhall Klein

• United States
• Advertising Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior Graphic Specialist

  • Sep 2010 - Present

  • Create responsive websites from design concepts using Joomla, Wordpress, HTML5 and CSS3. • Build design systems, site diagrams and wireframes for new websites. • Daily color correcting, retouching, optimizing, clipping and masking. • Collaborate with the art director and senior designers to execute website, print collateral and brand standards. • Design packaging for over 50 brands from some the nation’s largest food service suppliers. • Create artwork for corrugated shippers, can labels, cryovac bags, portion control and bulk packaging using Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop. • Ability to create layouts for our clients and deliver perfect print ready files to printers for production using a strong print prepress background. Show less



Superior Colour Graphics - Consolidated Graphics

• Prepress Specialist

  • Mar 2008 - Sep 2010

  • Was an essential component of the company responsible for the quality output of client supplied files. Some of which were Stryker, Perrigo and Landscape Forms. • Led department with my color correction, retouching and photo manipulation skills, using Adobe Photoshop. • Maintained prepress and proofing devices. Organized and kept inventory of completed jobs. • Performed prepress pre-flight, trap, RIP, and proof jobs for lithographic and digital presses. • Was an essential component of the company responsible for the quality output of client supplied files. Some of which were Stryker, Perrigo and Landscape Forms. • Led department with my color correction, retouching and photo manipulation skills, using Adobe Photoshop. • Maintained prepress and proofing devices. Organized and kept inventory of completed jobs. • Performed prepress pre-flight, trap, RIP, and proof jobs for lithographic and digital presses.



EPI Printers Inc

• United States
• Printing Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Prepress Mac Operator

  • 2005 - 2008

  • A key contributor in the prepress department of a company with a revenue of over $54 million. Clients that included Kellogg’s, Clorox, Kmart and Papyrus. • Was the sole second shift operator responsible for trouble shooting problems that occurred during the design process, file processing or print runs. • Keeping three presses of this fast paced printer running was both challenging and rewarding. • Created accounts and uploaders using Xinet software for a Digital Asset Management server. • Was chosen by management to optimize and maintain inkjet proofers using EFI Colorproof and spectrophotometers for company's three locations. Show less



Consort Display Group

• United States
• Design Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Graphic Designer

  • Feb 2001 - Jul 2005

  Designed graphics for outdoor pole banners and indoor banner stands. Made file preparations and separations for screen and digital printed banners. Printed digital banners using an Arizona 180 printer and Epson Stylus Pro 9600 Designed graphics for outdoor pole banners and indoor banner stands. Made file preparations and separations for screen and digital printed banners. Printed digital banners using an Arizona 180 printer and Epson Stylus Pro 9600


Color Image Inc.
• United States
• Media Production
• 1 - 100 Employee
• Production

  • 2000 - 2001