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Profile

First and fore-most I love designing and my goal is to use all of my crafts and skills to build a long-term relationship with a great company. With over 12 years of experience I have met many challenges but I also welcome the opportunity to learn new skills.

Experience

MAGAZINE LAYOUT/DESIGNER • new view media • 3/17 – CURRENT

  • Creating and developing new designs and visual concepts, across a broad spectrum of styles

  • Updating websites and using templates and style sheets to create editorial layouts/spreads

  • Building 4-color newspaper and magazine ads, brochures, postcards, logos, adverts and exhibition graphics; color-correcting images for press, and pre-flighting artwork

SENIOR GRAPHIC artist • north jersey media group • 3/07 – 3/17

  • Planned and produced dynamic, engaging daily and long-term visual journalism, including high-visibility covers, section fronts and special projects

  • Collaborated and facilitated effective communication with advertising reps to continually improve our publications’ content-driven visual presentation and client visions

  • Created and designed daily, weekly, and special section templates

OWNER • GRAPHIQUEST • CURRENT

  • Designed logos and conceptualized posters and invitations

  • Created concepts and artwork for consumer package goods

  • Developed pop culture-related artwork for t-shirts

  • Designed and developed custom board games

  • Coded and designed a trivia/challenges program about retro video games

Skills
  • Creative Direction

  • Typography

  • Page Layout

  • Project Management

  • Detail Oriented

  • Flexible

  • Fast & Proficient

Areas of Expertise
  • Adobe Photoshop

  • Adobe InDesign

  • Adobe Illustrator

  • Quark Xpress

  • Microsoft Office

  • Web Design

  • Mac/OS & PC/Windows

  • Visual Basic

Education
Gibbs College of Livingston, NJ

2003-2006, Associates Degree in Visual Communications

During my college career I maintained a 3.8 GPA​ and made the Dean's list for 3 semesters.

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