Experience

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  Brooke Graphics, LLC

  • Greater Chicago Area - Lake Geneva WI

  • Finishing Manager

    • Mar 2014 - Present
    • Greater Chicago Area - Lake Geneva WI

    Significant experience with all finishing processes and operations. Building, using tools and working with my hands is what drives me. Daily use of Wide format laminator/mounter and wide format printers, Gerber vinyl cutter, Xerox printer, Zund cutter and large format guillotine. I have a deep understanding of production specifications. Custom vinyl wrapping, plus measuring, cutting and assembling a variety of high end POP displays. Measuring and installing custom lights into frames. Inspecting work and quality control. Working with a variety of large saws, drills, tape measures and other tools.

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  Admiral Theater

  • Greater Chicago Area

  • Building Maintenance Facilitator

    • Jun 2013 - Mar 2014
    • Greater Chicago Area

    General Carpentry, Troubleshoots minor maintenance problems involving electrical, structural, plumbing, and equipment repair or replacement. Performs preventive building maintenance duties, including caulks windows and doors, repairs and replaces broken windows. Performs routine plumbing and electrical repairs. Purchases supplies, equipment, and materials necessary to complete projects. Repairs and replaces door knobs or locks, repairs door closures, patches holes in walls. Paints interior and exterior walls.

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  BHFX

  • Chicago

  • Senior Graphic Designer / Prepress

    • Aug 2005 - Mar 2013
    • Chicago

    Efficiently managed and coordinated designs from initial concept through final design layout phase & into fabrication.• Point man for most complicated diverse designs: concept and strategy development, brand/identity management, project management, trade show graphic design, production and coordination, art discovery/direction, client relations & support.• Propose, design and print all company marketing concepts and sales material. • Preflight customer artwork/designs, customer design support. Create, recreate or reformat artwork.• Scanning/color correct all artwork from wide format cruise camera.• Operated and maintained a variety of large format & small format printers: HP Latex L26500, Mimaki JV3 & 5, Lightjet Photographic printer, Assist operation of OCE flatbed printer. Manage workflow/traffic. Rip files using Onyx Postershop.

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  Jiffy Reprographics

  • Clearwater, FL

  • Creative Manager

    • May 1996 - Jun 2005
    • Clearwater, FL

    Ran complete day to day operations for graphics design / wide format printing department including mounting / laminating / finishing department. Establish production specifications and production deadlines. Tracking & oversee projects in both departments thru final delivery. Mentoring junior designers and production personnel. Quoting of commercial and end user printing / finishing projects. Customer relations and support along with preflight customer designs. Involved in strategy development and project management. Creative design from all stages: trade show displays, posters, banners, POP displays, table-tops, custom presentations. Printing in small format digital color and Xerox, wide format printers, scanners and copiers.Software to include: Quarkxpress, Illustrator, Photoshop, Indesign, Postershop, Coreldraw and Microsoft Office, Cad.

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  Mega Direct

  • Clearwater Florida

  • Staff Artist

    • 1995 - May 1996
    • Clearwater Florida

    Form layout and design for both film and Xerox, color separation, trap, scanning / cleaning /recreating graphics. Sending both film and Xerox, troubleshoot customer files. Software: Quarkxpress, Photoshop, Illustrator

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  Marketing Response Group

  • Department Manager

    • Sep 1992 - Oct 1995

    Employee scheduling, quality control, graphic and form design, troubleshoot both PC & MAC platforms, creative / production traffic coordination, department training developer, file maintenance / update lists, customer service support, evening orders. Worked as senior designer for the first year before becoming manager.

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  US Army Intelligence

  • Fort Hood, TX

  • Intelligence Analyst

    • Dec 1988 - Jun 1993
    • Fort Hood, TX

    Supervised, performed and coordinated collection management, analysis, processing and dissemination of useful information. Assess the significance and reliability of incoming information with current intelligence. Establish and maintain systematic, cross-reference intelligence records and files. Prepared all information to support the manager. Creating Intelligence briefing summaries, reading / writing reports, updating databases, processing security clearances, design briefing charts, general office help and other army duties.