RESUME
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
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Creating and developing new designs and visual concepts, across a broad spectrum of styles
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Updating websites and using templates and style sheets to create editorial layouts/spreads
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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
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Planned and produced dynamic, engaging daily and long-term visual journalism, including high-visibility covers, section fronts and special projects
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Collaborated and facilitated effective communication with advertising reps to continually improve our publications’ content-driven visual presentation and client visions
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Created and designed daily, weekly, and special section templates
OWNER • GRAPHIQUEST • CURRENT
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Designed logos and conceptualized posters and invitations
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Created concepts and artwork for consumer package goods
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Developed pop culture-related artwork for t-shirts
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Designed and developed custom board games
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Coded and designed a trivia/challenges program about retro video games
Skills
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Creative Direction
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Typography
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Page Layout
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Project Management
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Detail Oriented
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Flexible
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Fast & Proficient
Areas of Expertise
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Adobe Photoshop
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Adobe InDesign
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Adobe Illustrator
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Quark Xpress
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Microsoft Office
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Web Design
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Mac/OS & PC/Windows
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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.