Experience

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  Riot Creative Imaging

  • Seattle, Washington, United States

  • Color Operator

    • May 2023 - Nov 2023
    • Seattle, Washington, United States

    Large Format Color Operator for environmental graphics print shop. Operate the HP DesignJet Z6800 and HP DesignJet Z9 Pro oversize inkjet printers, Oce Arizona 480 GT flatbed printer, Zund L-2500 CV flatbed cutter, Canon Colorado 1630 UV gel printer. Set up print ready and cut files with Adobe Illustrator. RIP files with Onyx Poster Shop.

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  PlanetArt

  • Calabasas, CA

  • Production Artist

    • Oct 2013 - Jan 2023
    • Calabasas, CA

    Prepress, color correction, image resizing/optimization, proofreading/text corrections for web-to-print custom holiday greeting cards at PlanetArt.com. Temporary holiday position, returning yearly for 5 years.

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  Deluxe Entertainment Services Group

  • Burbank, CA

  • Archive Specialist

    • Feb 2012 - Oct 2013
    • Burbank, CA

    Archive Specialist on DC Comics project. Archiving DC Comics entire library of publications to digital format from original printer films. Prepping and stripping 4 color film negatives for scanning. Scanning film negatives on the Geofoto Cartoscan FB V. Registration of 4 color layers with Copydot Toolkit.

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  Elite Reprographics

  • San Francisco, CA

  • Digital Tech

    • 2007 - 2009
    • San Francisco, CA

    Digital technician and color specialist. Digital printshop with many architectural clients. Large format scanning and printing. Small format laser prints. Color correction, some light design. Experienced with Xerox Docucolor 6060 and 260, HP 5000 Oversize Inkjet, Oce color plotter, Onyx Production House.

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  VIZ Media

  • San Francisco, CA

  • Freelance Graphic Designer

    • 2004 - 2005
    • San Francisco, CA

    reelance graphic designer on manga graphic novels. responsible for cover layout and interior design. Titles include "Prince of Tennis" and "Ultimate Muscle." Software used includes Quark Xpress, Photoshop and Illustrator.

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  Iridio SF

  • San Francisco, CA

  • Mac Operator/Image Editor/Assembler

    • 2004 - 2005
    • San Francisco, CA

    Photo editing in Photoshop of high volume product photography for mail order catalogs. Assembly work in Quark Xpress and InDesign of catalogs.Clients included Gump's, North Face, JanSport, CamelBak, allposters.com and art.com.

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  Sony Computer Entertainment America LLC

  • QA Tester

    • 2002 - 2003

    Video game Q.A. tester through temp agency (Nelson Staffing). Test video games for the Playstation / PS2 platform for bugs and format requirements. Enter bug reports in database using Filemaker Pro on PCs running Windows.

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  XYZ Graphics

  • San Francisco, CA

  • Pre-Press Analog Proofer

    • 2001 - 2002
    • San Francisco, CA

    Analog proofing for pre-press house with mainly advertising clients. Waterproofs, CMYK color separations. bluelines. Operation and maintenance of vacuum frames, laminator and wash-off machines. FTP with Adsend. Create image masks in Adobe Photoshop.

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  Versus Books (Empire 21 Publishing)

  • Alameda, CA

  • Freelance Production Artist

    • Jun 2001 - Sep 2001
    • Alameda, CA

    Freelance graphic production and production art - graphic production at publishers responsible for creating quality video game strategy guides. Aided in production and correction of quark files (including resolving prepress issues, text corrections, correcting table layouts), generating PDFs to send to printer. Image corrections in Photoshop. Also created sell sheets to advertise planned titles to buyers.