Here are the Facts.

QUALIFICATIONS PROFILE 

Highly creative and multi-talented Graphic Designer with extensive experience in marketing, multimedia and print design. Exhibits extraordinary collaborative and interpersonal skills as a leading dynamic team player with well-developed written and verbal communication abilities to keep projects interesting, fresh and exciting. Outstanding skills with client and vendor relations while building and maintaining “win-win” partnerships. Passionate and inventive creator of innovative marketing strategies and campaigns; accustomed to performing in high pressure deadline-driven environments with an emphasis on working within budget requirements.

ACHIEVEMENTS

LEAD GRAPHICS ASSOCIATE
Meadwestvaco, Indianapolis, IN        
2006 – 2009

Successfully managed the daily work flow of creative projects, including creation of production schedules and status reports. Recognized for fulfilling all customer requirements by designing and preparing artwork proofs while supervising creative staff. Assured staff fair performance reviews. Shown to communicate all client inquiries throughout the department and company. Creating marketing materials for internal corporate use and vendor needs. Responsible for pre-press production, coordinating and setting up all templates for daily download orders, maintaining graphics library, quality control for the graphics department while coordinating film distribution for multiple design print centers.

 

COMPUTER GRAPHICS TECHNOLOGY INSTRUCTOR
IUPUI, Indianapolis, IN          
2002 – 2007

Instructor for collegiate students in graphic design, concept drawing and mechanical drawing courses. Facilitated and produced all lecture presentations, while creating and scheduling all class projects for 25 to 125 students per semester. Successfully introduced the newest information technologies for higher learning while providing the students a fun learning environment in a timely manner. Played a key role assisting mature students returning to an academic environment. Known for always being available to lead and assist students and instructors and with department projects. Actively worked with external creative resources to provide open learning environment for students.

 

DIRECTOR OF CREATIVE SERVICES / GRAPHIC DESIGNER
Freelance, Indianapolis, IN    
1996 – Present

YSG Design, a small full-service niche freelance graphic design practice located in Indianapolis. Manage corporate brand identity on all visual communications to ensure consistency while developing and implementing innovative collateral, packaging, point of purchase concepts that meet project time lines and financial parameters and in conjunction with the overall brand vision and image. A proven record of leadership skills with a positive attitude and high standard of quality control while being very detail oriented. Set up project budgets, purchases and invoice preparation. Designing various marketing materials for several advertising agencies and local businesses. All design work ranged from marketing research, creative ideas and design support. Managing budgets for print and electronic distribution of finish products. Able to adapt easily to agency tasks and work efficiently within specific guidelines. Companies include The Guyer Institute of Molecular Medicine, Print Authority, Cenveo (GAC), Herff Jones, Daley Concepts, DTH Design Group, Bentcil, National Federation of High Schools, Butler University, Pearson (Crahan) Fletcher England, Budget Car Sales, Lockhart Cadillac and Saturn Automotive Group.

 

ART SUPERVISOR
Graphic Arts Center (GAC), Indianapolis, IN
1998 – 2001

Created illustrations for collegiate books and training manuals in print and ePublications. Instrumental in transferring print formats to web formats and pre-press production. Standard operations included overseeing and coordinating the GAC freelance department. Set up project budgets, purchases and invoice preparation. Performed reviews on freelancers to adequately assigned them to each project. Other accomplishments ranged from art illustrations, image scanning, to photo retouch, page layout, copy-editing, and time management. Supervising all aspects of the workflow to and from freelancers with the internal art and page layout technicians was key to production and profitability.


GRAPHIC DESIGNER
Performance Press, Inc., Carmel, IN
1994 – 1998  

Electronic pre-press and design layout. Preflight and proof client files for final output for print. Troubleshooting files and computer program errors, scanning, typesetting, and paste-up. Use of Mac and PC platforms for the layout and design of client proposals as well as original mock-ups. Responsible for time management and budgeting for each shift. Liaison with client and CSR’s.

 

MAGAZINE DESIGNER / SUPERVISOR
Digital Arts, Indianapolis, IN   
1994 – 1995

Ad layout and design for Realtor magazines along with additional publications for distribution. Pre-press production, preflight all incoming client files, proofreading, typesetting, and copy editing all production work. Troubleshoot computer errors and software issues. Other job duties included employee supervision, execution of design concepts and manage projects and tasks to completion. Maintains organization of project management. Publisher liaison and coordinator.

 

GRAPHIC DESIGNER/SUPERVISOR
The Hendricks County Flyer, Plainfield, IN   
1992 – 1994

Design weekly advertisements, specialty covers and ad inserts. Other skills include proofing, copy editing, typesetting, coordinate newspaper layout with editor. Liaison with in-house CSRs.

 

COMPREHENSIVE SKILLS

Quark Xpress 7.0

Adobe Illustrator CS4

Adobe Photoshop CS4

Adobe InDesign CS4

Adobe Acrobat Professional

MS Word

MS Excel

MS Powerpoint

Web Page Development

Flash / HTML

DreamWeaver

EDUCATION

Indiana Wesleyan University   
Masters in Business Administration

Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis
Herron School of Art & Design     
Bachelor of Fine Arts in Visual Communications

 

Continuing Education Courses 

Microsoft Office, Adobe Creative Suite, Quark Xpress, and web development.
University seminars on teaching fundamentals, and computer technology training.

Certifications

Certified Postal Partner and Merlin Certified by USPS.