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| Over twenty-five years of graphic arts work in a variety of establishments has left me with an extensive background of experience. From print shops to publishing to t-shirt designs to the internet and digital age, my career began in the 'cut and paste' era and I have worked to adapt those skills to the electronic age, where techniques and methods of production are in daily constant change. | |
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| September 2007 - Present The Times-News- Creative Services Manager |
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| This position requires management of a nine person staff. Responsibilities include delegating special projects and assuring department workflow proceeds smoothly. Additional responsibilities include conducting timely personnel reviews, back-tracking problem files and jobs to determine cause and possible solutions, writing reprimands as needed, scheduling staff time off, motivating staff through regular meetings to openly discuss pertinent office issues and viable solutions. | |
| September 2005 - September 2007 The Times-News - Special Graphics Projects Coordinator |
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| This position requires creativity in concept, design and execution of graphics for special in-house projects for all departments. Additionally, I am responsible for design and pagination of special printed products. Further responsibilities include managing graphics department in the event of the department head's absence. | |
| July 2001 - June 2005 Graphic Web, Inc. - Graphic Artist |
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| Principally this positon required that I output customers jobs to film, generally through an imposing program, for printing on either a community web press or heatset web press. Also, this company owns and publishes itsĒ own regional real estate magazine for which I design all the ads as well as the look and content of the magazine and itsĒ editorial pieces. | |
| March 1998 - July 2001 Olan Mills, Inc. - Digital Information Technician |
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| Work involves converting digital information from a multitude of programs submitted by clients and outputting into a readable format for mainframe. Daily use of MS Word, MS Works, MS Access, and MS Excel on the PC platform and ClarisWorks, Appleworks, QuarkXpress and Adobe Pagemaker on the MacIntosh platform. | |
| October 1997 - February 1998 Daily Citizen News - Graphic Artist |
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| Work constituted developing graphics on a daily basis for visual identity to accompany stories. Also developed advertisements and ad campaign speculations. Worked exclusively with MacIntosh platform using QuarkXpress and Photoshop programs. | |
| October 1995 - October 1997 Quality Shopper - Graphic Artist |
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| Weekly publication required daily deadlines for advertising production, creating ad campaigns to present to potential advertisers and meeting print deadlines for weekly publishing. Worked exclusively in a MacIntosh environment using QuarkXpress and Photoshop programs. | |
| December 1992 - September 1995 Military Newspapers of Virginia - Graphic Artist |
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| Seven weekly and two monthly publications published by this company required strict adherence to deadlines. Responsibilities included ad design, pagination of publications, scanning of photographs, outputting to imagesetter and copy writing. Production end was exclusively in a MacIntosh environment making use of QuarkXpress, Photoshop, Pagemaker, Illustrator and Freehand. | |
| November 1989 - December 1992 The Island Trader and The Islands' Nautical Scene - Art Director |
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| The Island Trader is a weekly classifieds publication and The Islands' Nautical Scene is editorial in nature. My responsibilities as Art Director included overseeing ad production, developing the visual identity of the publications and creating marketing campaigns. The publications were initially a cut and paste process until I integrated full pagination with the MacIntosh using QuarkXpress. | |
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2007 - North Carolina Press Association |
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| Commendations Employee of the Month - The Times-News, September 2007 Employee of the Month - The Times-News, January 2006 Customer Service Award - The Times-News, October 2005 Customer Service Award - The Times-News, March 2007 Volunteer of the Quarter - The Times-News, January-March 2007 |
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| Digital Portfolio This online portfolio is a small collection of graphics which are representative of my work. To view my online portfolio please click here. |
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| References are available upon request. | |
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