Nicole Thayer
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Katie Masood
I had the pleasure of working with Nicole during my time as the Development Director of the Me Fine Foundation. Nicole partnered with me to make a variety of pieces come to fruition: direct mail appeals, gala brochures, infographics, and the annual report. Each time, Nicole brought fresh ideas and perspectives to the creative process, listening to our vision and then transforming those thoughts into fresh, fun designs. She worked with me under some tight deadlines, and she always delivered. I cannot recommend Nicole enough as a creative collaborator for your next project!
Katie Masood
I had the pleasure of working with Nicole during my time as the Development Director of the Me Fine Foundation. Nicole partnered with me to make a variety of pieces come to fruition: direct mail appeals, gala brochures, infographics, and the annual report. Each time, Nicole brought fresh ideas and perspectives to the creative process, listening to our vision and then transforming those thoughts into fresh, fun designs. She worked with me under some tight deadlines, and she always delivered. I cannot recommend Nicole enough as a creative collaborator for your next project!
Katie Masood
I had the pleasure of working with Nicole during my time as the Development Director of the Me Fine Foundation. Nicole partnered with me to make a variety of pieces come to fruition: direct mail appeals, gala brochures, infographics, and the annual report. Each time, Nicole brought fresh ideas and perspectives to the creative process, listening to our vision and then transforming those thoughts into fresh, fun designs. She worked with me under some tight deadlines, and she always delivered. I cannot recommend Nicole enough as a creative collaborator for your next project!
Katie Masood
I had the pleasure of working with Nicole during my time as the Development Director of the Me Fine Foundation. Nicole partnered with me to make a variety of pieces come to fruition: direct mail appeals, gala brochures, infographics, and the annual report. Each time, Nicole brought fresh ideas and perspectives to the creative process, listening to our vision and then transforming those thoughts into fresh, fun designs. She worked with me under some tight deadlines, and she always delivered. I cannot recommend Nicole enough as a creative collaborator for your next project!
Credentials
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Experience
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Allegiance Group
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United States
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Advertising Services
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1 - 100 Employee
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Designer
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Jul 2021 - Present
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Coley Devine Creative
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United States
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Graphic Design
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Founder / CEO
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Mar 2019 - Present
Experienced Creative Director with a demonstrated history of working in the printing industry. Skilled in Graphic Design, Print Management, Digital Printing, and XMPie. My creative experience is as vast as my print knowledge. My drive to produce fresh ideas has been pushed by animals shelters, children’s hospitals, food banks, higher education institutions and retail establishments. I have managed projects from concept to production for newsletters, business essentials, calendars, event collateral, variable data, direct mail appeals, email blasts and various social media campaign web images. Show less
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ALLEY CATS AND ANGELS
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United States
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Non-profit Organizations
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1 - 100 Employee
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Creative Director/Volunteer
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Sep 2011 - Present
Creative Director - Design all informational literature found at adoption centers, events and in facilities we have partnered with. Created web-ready images to promote large adoption events or bring attention to a cat that was in the system for a while. Create annual fundraising calendar. Volunteer - foster home, assist with medical protocol for intake, and lead adoption counselor. Creative Director - Design all informational literature found at adoption centers, events and in facilities we have partnered with. Created web-ready images to promote large adoption events or bring attention to a cat that was in the system for a while. Create annual fundraising calendar. Volunteer - foster home, assist with medical protocol for intake, and lead adoption counselor.
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AFP Triangle
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United States
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Fundraising
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Marketing Chair
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Mar 2019 - Dec 2020
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Creative Designer / Direct Mail & Variable Data Specialist
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May 2008 - Mar 2019
As Production Manager, I am responsible for managing a team of 30 people across the departments of customer service, preflight/design, small format print, wide format print, bindery/finishing and variable data mailing services. Leading our customer service and preflight team to communicate needs to production effectively, guiding them to work with their clients on turnaround times, and assisting them on troubleshooting problems. Processing orders into their respective print departments by making sure we have the materials needed to meet the request, checking for order accuracy, and that request can be completed by time needed in hand. Managing the functions of our bindery/finishing department to be certain we are starting and completing jobs effeciently and accurately. Responsible for final QC of all major accounts before orders are shipped or delivered. As a member of the Graphic Design team, my responsibilities include designing from concept to print for marketing materials and direct mail campaign appeals. Marketing materials have included annual reports, flyers, postcards, trifold and bifold brochures, large format prints, business cards and letterhead. Direct mail campaigns are designed to be highly variable and comply with USPS rules and regulations. Show less
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SpeQtrum Prepress Production Services
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United States
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Printing Services
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1 - 100 Employee
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Art Director
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Apr 2005 - Oct 2007
Build remote graphics / sales office to cover New England territory of flexographic printers for a manufacturing facility based in Atlanta, Georgia. Form and execute plan to grow business and build relationships with client base. Work closely with salesmen and customers to establish policies and procedures to keep orders moving accurately and efficiently thru production. Traveled within New England to call on customers in the absence of salesman to maintain customer trust and loyalty. Work with customers to educate them in the prepress process thereby enabling them to provide accurate and complete information upfront to aid in receiving a high quality product. Estimate, process, prepare and/or create vector art for tooling request to meet customer request, capabilities and machine specifications. Proofread work to ensure accuracy for manufacturing facility. Show less
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CSW, Inc.
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United States
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Packaging and Containers Manufacturing
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1 - 100 Employee
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Production Artist/Supervisor
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Jul 1999 - Apr 2005
Respond to customer inquiries. Prepare estimates of labor cost and materials required to produce customers’ tooling request. Enter and schedule orders into data entry system. Communicate effectively all instructions to production departments in order to manufacture product based on customer needs and capabilities. As an artist, prepared Adobe Illustrator files for film output to be used in the production of photopolymer printing plates. Process included creating vector graphics of proper color separations, specific attributes based on customer machine capabilities. Color trapped multicolor artwork based on said capabilities. Proofread own projects to ensure accuracy before going into a Quality Control process. Directed and motivated a team of six graphic artists on 2nd shift. Used my resourcefulness and confidence to make judgment calls as contacts after business hours are scarce. Took over proofing all artists’ projects, resulting in reducing Art Department’s monthly errors from 12 to 3. Removed weak links in team and trained remaining members to achieve a more productive level. Show less
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The Wall Street Journal
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United States
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Newspaper Publishing
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700 & Above Employee
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Desktop Publisher
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Jan 1996 - Jun 1999
Organize and schedule newsprint space for paying advertisers in the Wall Street Journal publication. Gather materials from sales for the pagination department to prepare for print. Utilized QuarkXpress for Mac OS9 to place advertisements in prepaid slots. Assure proper ad location in proper geographical publication (ie. Advertiser w/ California address belonged in Western print). Place news copy around advertisements and format to follow high quality set forth by Wall Street Journal standards. Quality Control newspaper off of press run to reassure copy is accurate, presentable, and stories do not conflict with advertisements on the same page. Show less
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Education
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Wake Technical Community College
Associate of Arts and Sciences - AAS, Business, Management, Marketing, and Related Support Services -
Holyoke Catholic High School
Dipolma, General Studies