Experience

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  Joshua Generation Church

  • Cape Town Area, South Africa

  • Designer & DTP

    • Apr 2011 - Present
    • Cape Town Area, South Africa

    Work closely as part of the Media TeamDesign, brand development across platformsManaging to assigned project IdentitiesPrint DesignDTP of all Manual and company documents

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  Variety of Clients

  • Freelance Desinger

    • 2009 - Mar 2012

    Logo Design an application into Corporate IdentitiesCorporate BrochuresMagazine LayoutFlyersAdvertisementsVariety of print media

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  Pointline

  • Graphic Desinger

    • Apr 2004 - Sep 2005

    Responsible of managing and delegating workload and production process of the design department at Pointline.Ensure that orders run smoothly to meet monthly targets and deadlines.Design of corporate identities, logos, web graphics, media campaigns, brochures, packaging, annual folders, advertising conference material, invitations and posters.Creative designing, layout and artwork for clothing industry including logs for embroidery and printing.Creative designing, artwork and layouts for banners, vehicle signage, light boxes, neon signs and billboards and show stands.All above work completed up to final stages for each task i.e: embroidery, signage, silkscreen printing and reproduction.Liaising directly with customers and reproduction houses.Quotes, purchasing and liaising directly with suppliers and clients.Working hand in hand with production and embroidery department.Our Client Base consist of: Nescafe, Renault, Nissan, Honda, Club travel, Jambo Safari, Protrav Tours, Nianell, Orbit Motors, Distell, Fercon Foods Ford Credit, Sandown Motors, Barons, African Gameskin

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  Immanuel Creations

  • Fish Hoek

  • Graphic Desinger

    • Jan 2004 - Mar 2004
    • Fish Hoek

    TemporaryDesign of promotional items.Signage, banner creation and cutting.Graphics for Caps, T-shirts, Mugs and Calendars.Design of Corporate Identity.Liaising with printers.Implementation of procedures e.g. workflow process, control of incoming and outgoing workload.Provide quotations to clients

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  Hout Bay Stationers

  • Hout Bay

  • Graphic Designer & Desktop Publishing

    • Mar 2002 - Dec 2003
    • Hout Bay

    Graphic Design and Desktop Publishing on all incoming requests.Direct contact with customers and their demanding needs.Assist customers with innovative ideas to solve their problems.Advise clients on concepts, themes, design and layout.Meeting of specific deadlines.Writing and implementation of procedures to ease the workflow in the digital department.Basic administration and maintenance done on 3 pc’sBasic training of personnel in the Windows environment Photoshop, and CorelDraw.Compiled procedure manual to assist other staff members on basic computer skills.Hardware: Canon digital printers with fiery, laminator, binding machines, digital camera.

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  Denel Aviation

  • Aviation and Aerospace Component Manufacturing
  • 500 - 600 Employee

  • Graphic Artist & Desktop Publisher

    • Mar 2001 - Jun 2001

    Business Development DepartmentProvide marketing support function to the department and various other departments within the company.Design and final layout of presentations/slideshows, posters, brochures, invitations, calendars, proposal covers, programmes, pamphlets, logos, and artwork for corporate identity items.Manipulation of images within different software packages.Meeting all deadlines.Advising colleagues/clients on appropriate concepts, themes, design and layout.Assist colleagues with software packages.Obtained quotations for outsourced printing purposes.Liased with commercial printers.Assist Media Centre Manager in day-to-day operation of bid centre and library, centre’s stationary and printing stock control.Planned/developed various policies.Prepared all in-house job requests, invoices & quotes for printing, artwork proposals and any other marketing related products.Control of equipment e.g. colour copier, digital camera, laminator, binding machines etc.)Recorded, prioritised/organized workload of incoming information/data.Managed document retrieval system including all software packages (EMS 2000- Configuration Management Tool).

  • Desktop Publisher

    • Jan 1991 - Feb 2001

    Marketing DepartmentInteract with top management as a team player.Compiled and prepared proposals/bids.Originate style sheets.Managed internal/international documents and the issuing thereof.Configuration control of electronic media on local network for various projects, issued documents, CD's and photo library.Registration of documents, issuing and releasing on EMS2000 General secretarial duties.

  • Desktop Publisher

    • Nov 1991 - Dec 1998

    Technical Publications DepartmentInteract with authors regarding technical manuals.Created, changed, amended and updated new and all existing technical manuals (text in manuscript form) on the Fixed Wing (Cheetah, Mirage, Impala) Rotary Wing and Oryx aircraft.Created layout of documents to specific given standards.Originate style sheets.Worked with illustrations (scanning, redrawing, image cleaning), and constantly worked accordingly to reach specific target dates.All work done in accordance with company procedures and ISO 9001 standards.Provided assistance to trainee DTP colleagues.