Photoshop, Adobe Creative Suite and Electronic
Prepress specialist and manager with over 20 years experience in the design, printing
and photography industry. Expertise includes design, retouching and color
correcting, and trapping. Successful in making images print accurately and
consistently, using any substrate, device, press or
ink type.
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have worked in flexography, lithography, letterpress, rotary silkscreen, gravure,
and digital printing. I am an expert in Photoshop and Illustrator and have done
color correction and image manipulation for such clients as Proctor &
Gamble, National Geographic, Godiva, Bath & Body Works, BMG Columbia House,
National Wildlife, Hershey and Aeropostal. I have
designed promotional pieces used as calling cards for prospective clients. I
created these pieces from design to the finished printed product, including
photo shoots, color manipulation, color correction and art layout.
BLUE LABEL PACKAGING COMPANY, Lancaster, OH 2020
– Current
Electronic Prepress Technician
Adjust customer-supplied artwork for reproduction on digital presses.
VALLEY FORGE
FLAG COMPANY, Reading, PA 2014
– 2020
Marketing Communications Assistant
Create company product catalogs and newsletters. Produce
graphics for catalogs, advertisements, brochures and reports with Adobe
Creative Suite. Create custom flag designs. Create email blasts for internal
and external customers. Work with outside vendors for print and packaging.
Photograph hi-res images at both the company and home-based studios. Retouch,
color correct and manipulate digital photos for use in catalogs, web
advertising, and client-use such as Bed, Bath & Beyond. Maintain database
and product updates.
CHAPEL CABIN
SHOP, Valley Forge, PA Feb
2014 – Nov 2014
Assistant Manager – Retail Shop
Weekend
manager. Responsible for a staff of 20.
Produce
graphics for advertisements with Adobe Creative Suite. Proficient at Mac Square
register system: Create bar codes, scan bar codes, build icon snapshots, add
inventory, control inventory, ring and charge. Support IT. Online
sales and web development. Coordinate exterior sources and volunteers
for critical projects such as interior space and retail area redesign.
Prepare
and serve both hot and cold foods per sanitary protocol from a menu of over 25
items.
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Member of Cabin Shop Committee responsible for changing the future
direction of the shop.
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Food Safety Management Certified.
DiGi Idyllicons, Royersford, PA Current
Freelance Graphics Artist, Digital Photography, Color Correction and
Retouching Expert, and Prepress Technician
Freelance in conventional
mixed media, photography, and computer graphics as a premedia specialist.
Premedia: Work primarily as a 4-color process designer, retoucher, color
correction, and color management expert. Design, analyze, manipulate, retouch
and color correct customer-supplied 4-color process electronic art for
flexographic, offset and gravure printing processes. Trap, create intricate
silhouettes and masks, as well as clone and combine images. Color
manage all images.
Conventional mixed media:
Work in mixed media, including water color, colored inks, colored pencil,
Russian lacquer style art, bead embroidery, bead weaving and tapestries.
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Many prepress
awards for excellence and best of show for printed pieces represented at the
Flexographic Trade Association.
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Many fine art
Best of Show and First Place awards.
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Grand Prize for
hand-painted ornaments at the Smithsonian Institute, Washington, D.C., where
they were exhibited during the Christmas season.
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Featured in major periodicals such as Family Circle, Delaware Today,
ArtSpeak, and many other local publications.
Vertis
Communications, Exton, PA 2008-2012
Color Correction and Retouching Specialist
Manage print jobs at the
pre-press level. 4-color process retouching and color correction, and color
management. Analyze, manipulate, retouch and color correct customer-supplied
4-color process electronic art for digital, flexographic, offset and gravure
printing processes. Create intricate silhouettes and masks, as well as clone
and combine images. Color manage all images.
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Awards for
excellence and best of show for printed pieces represented at the Flexographic
Trade Association 2012.
National
Envelope, Exton, PA 2000-2008
Lead
Esko & Artpro Electronic Prepress Artist
Coordinate and manage print
jobs at the pre-press level coordinating the duties (approx. 10 people) of
pre-press, press room, operations, client customer
service and sales, reporting directly to company executives including the
General Manager.
Analyze,
manipulate and correct customer-supplied 4-color process electronic art for digital,
flexographic and offset printing processes. Develop and maintain color
management profiles for the output of digital proofs which accurately depict
press-printed work using a variety of inks, substrates and printing processes.
Create, read and analyze 4-color process control strips printed on every job
and proof to determine repeatability. Design promotional pieces created from
start to finish, including photo shoots, color manipulation and correction, and
art layout using personal digital photos and artwork to be used as calling
cards for prospective clients. Make digital flexo
plates and checking plate accuracy using advanced software and hardware.
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Postal Partner
Certified
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Awards for
excellence and 2nd place for printed pieces represented at the
Flexographic Trade Association 2007.
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Standardized and
automated systems that were still being performed manually. Resulted in easier
second-checking procedures, reduced finishing times by hours and eliminated
downtime on press.
National Label, Lafayette
Hill, PA 1999-2000
Lead
Barco Electronic Prepress Artist
Manipulate
client-supplied electronic artwork for the following printing processes:
flexographic, letterpress, small and large offset, rotary silkscreen, flat silkscreen,
gravure. Analyze and correct 4-color process and halftone images for all
printing processes and substrate types.
Report directly to the Operations Manager.
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Standardized and
automated systems that were being performed manually. Resulted in easier
second-checking procedures, reduced finishing times and eliminated downtime on
press.
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Implemented
color correction techniques for adjusting color images for each printing method
that resulted in all customer images matching consistently on all presses.
Created 0 downtime on press and 0 returns by customers.
Military
U.S. Army Reserves
Military Intelligence, Russian interpreter and interrogator. Honorable
discharge with a rank of Specialist E-5.
B.S., Economics/Finance with Russian Language Minor, West
Chester University, West Chester PA.
Russian
Certification, Defense Language Institute, Presidio of Monterey, Monterey CA.
Interrogator
Training, Military Intelligence, Fort Huachuca AZ.
Peking
Chinese Language Studies, Inlingua School of Languages, Philadelphia PA.
The Power of Color: John
Paul Caponigro, New York NY.
Professional Retouching
Strategies: Katrin Eismann, Chris Tarantino, Carrie Beene, Andrew
Matusik, New York NY.
Portrait and Beauty
Retouching Techniques: Helene DeLillo, New York NY.
Advanced color management
training using BestColor (EFI) software and Gretag Macbeth Profile Maker
software and hardware.
Implementing Color
Management, G.A.T.F., Sewickley PA.
Company-sponsored
seminars and classes for Esko and Macintosh equipment and software updates.
Photoshop
for Prepress, R.I.T., Rochester NY.
Software:
Adobe CC, both Mac and PC
formats
Working knowledge of Esko Artpro prepress, graphics,
step & repeat and platemaking software
X-Rite color management
software
ParallelÕs Desktop, Quicken,
Bead Creator Pro bead pattern software
Hardware and Equipment:
Mac, PC compatibles
Epson, HP, and Canon color
printers.
X-Rite color management
software,
Plate
makers, mounters and measurement devices.