Resume
Content
Objective Skills
Attaining a design position where my skills and talent can work within a creative and collaborative team to solving marketing and design problems.
Increasing the recognition of a clients’ brand and image to their customers.
Tirelessly looking for new and exciting ways to promote and visualize the best assets of my clients, understanding their business, and pushing the envelope of design and marketing to best communication their message and content to the correct market. Marketing focused graphic design.
Extensive experience (12 years) with most graphic design and pre-press software. (Adobe Indesign CS4, Adobe Photoshop CS4, Adobe Illustrator CS4 and QuarkXpress 6.0) HTML, CSS Coding Knowledge of Microsoft Products (Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Outlook and Microsoft Powerpoint)
Education
Bachelor’s of Science - Visual Comm. Ferris State University-College of Business Big Rapids, Michigan College Prep Forest Hills Northern High School Grand Rapids, Michigan 2- Year Certification in Marketing & Design Kent Career Technical Center Grand Rapids, Michigan
Experience
Graphic Designer/Copywriter Vance Publishing Corp. Lincolnshire, Illinois December 2007 - Currently Working in a 3 person team, designing start-up publications and doing in-house creative services. Projects range from HTML e-blasts, full website design to postcards and full advertising campaigns. Marketing Director / Graphic Designer Vito’s Bistro Inc. Pittston, Pennsylvania September 2004 - December 2007 Acting as sole designer and marketing director, I started in at the ground floor. From designing an identity to coordinating delivery vehicle signage with a sign shop and local new paper ads. Graphic Designer OfficeMax Impress Scranton, Pennsylvania March 2004 - March 2007 I guided retail customers/clients through the basics of forming an identity through logo design to creating campaigns to best suit their business needs. I showcased the printing and promotional opportunities that OfficeMax as a retail store could offer them. I also aided the corporate outside sales force in selling OfficeMax Impress products and printing. Graphic Designer id Group Pittston, Pennsylvania June 2002-December 2002 Graphic Designer Eastern PA Business Journal Bethlehem, Pennsylvania March 2002-June 2002 Marketing Coordinator / Desktop Publisher Kent Intermediate School District Grand Rapids, Michigan October 1996-June 2001
Attaining a design position where my skills and talent can work within a creative and collaborative team to solving marketing and design problems.
Increasing the recognition of a clients’ brand and image to their customers.
Tirelessly looking for new and exciting ways to promote and visualize the best assets of my clients, understanding their business, and pushing the envelope of design and marketing to best communication their message and content to the correct market. Marketing focused graphic design.
Extensive experience (12 years) with most graphic design and pre-press software. (Adobe Indesign CS4, Adobe Photoshop CS4, Adobe Illustrator CS4 and QuarkXpress 6.0) HTML, CSS Coding Knowledge of Microsoft Products (Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Outlook and Microsoft Powerpoint)
Education
Bachelor’s of Science - Visual Comm. Ferris State University-College of Business Big Rapids, Michigan College Prep Forest Hills Northern High School Grand Rapids, Michigan 2- Year Certification in Marketing & Design Kent Career Technical Center Grand Rapids, Michigan
Experience
Graphic Designer/Copywriter Vance Publishing Corp. Lincolnshire, Illinois December 2007 - Currently Working in a 3 person team, designing start-up publications and doing in-house creative services. Projects range from HTML e-blasts, full website design to postcards and full advertising campaigns. Marketing Director / Graphic Designer Vito’s Bistro Inc. Pittston, Pennsylvania September 2004 - December 2007 Acting as sole designer and marketing director, I started in at the ground floor. From designing an identity to coordinating delivery vehicle signage with a sign shop and local new paper ads. Graphic Designer OfficeMax Impress Scranton, Pennsylvania March 2004 - March 2007 I guided retail customers/clients through the basics of forming an identity through logo design to creating campaigns to best suit their business needs. I showcased the printing and promotional opportunities that OfficeMax as a retail store could offer them. I also aided the corporate outside sales force in selling OfficeMax Impress products and printing. Graphic Designer id Group Pittston, Pennsylvania June 2002-December 2002 Graphic Designer Eastern PA Business Journal Bethlehem, Pennsylvania March 2002-June 2002 Marketing Coordinator / Desktop Publisher Kent Intermediate School District Grand Rapids, Michigan October 1996-June 2001
