Skillsets

• Excellent hand drawing skills from concept art to final product creation
• Software proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite, including Photoshop, Illustrator, Acrobat, Dreamweaver, InDesign, Flash, as well as Quark Xpress
• Design and use proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite, including Word, Excel, Outlook and PowerPoint.
• Aptitude with hand crafting books, brochures, and fliers

Objective

Seeking a Graphic Designer position in which my advertising and design experience will positively contribute to the Employment Development Department's mission of enhancing California's economic growth and prosperity.

Education

Experience

• Utilizing individual research of trade publications and company subscribed databases to augment team collaboration in concept, development and final production of new client assignments.
• Processing multiple concept thumbnails and roughs into final deliverable products in both electronic files and hard copies under tight timeframes.
• Producing finalized material for press through technical troubleshooting, font and graphic file inclusion. Balancing and prioritizing multiple client project workloads to meet and exceed media space deadlines.
• Interpreting and applying agency design standards to all projects to effectively convey the desired impact and message to a specifically targted audience.

Accomplishments

• Researched, conceptualized, designed and produced a logo, website, brand direction and launch party for a new client, the San Francisco Climate Challenge that is still fully in effect 9 years later.
• Launched a website and user interface redesign for a smartphone servicing shop Apple N Berry by integrating retail sales, repair and upgrade services into a simple and consistent user experience, effectively doubling revenue within a year's time.
• Introduced Sprint Wireless' new foray into healthcare services by working with my Creative Director in developing business-to-business mail brochures and print fliers.
• 100% history of on-time final deadline delivery, meeting or exceeding expected delivery date.

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