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OBJECTIVETo contribute to your design/creative organization's success through the use ofmy extensive hands-on production art, project management and customer service experience. Following my resume are a few samples of my work.

QUALIFICATIONS12 years experience managing high-budget print production projects in the Financial, Food & Beverage, and Youth Education industries, including customer service, scheduling, budget management, production staff coordination, hands-on production art and press checks.

12 years extensive hands-on experience with production art in a high-pressure creative environment.

Part of the team of award winning design projects (San Antonio Addy Awards) while employed at Toolbox Studios, Inc.

Financial industry-specific: Design and production of print collateral for Banksand Credit Unions. Including custom check designs, catalogs, brochures, check package inserts, etc. This also included maintaining an electronic product manualfor Clarke American Check Printers and their largest client, Bank of America. Thoroughly knowledgeable in all aspects of print requirements for financialinstitution checks.

Responsibility for sign-off of critical on-site press checks including financialindustry, sportingevents (Cotton Bowl and Alamo Bowl), Client branding (stationery and brochures)and YouthEducation (publications).

PROJECT MANAGEMENTCustomer Service and Sales SkillsInteracted with clients and utilized excellent organizational skills to arrangeand coordinate production work for clients' printing needs (catalogs, POS, checkdesigns, etc.)Interpersonal and Teamwork SkillsExperience with project teamwork for Financial, Food & Beverage, Youth Education

and SportingEvent industries.Teaching ExperienceTrained coworkers on Adobe InDesign, Photoshop and Illustrator. Also training onposting files to online softproofing sites for client review.For 15 years I have trained designers on how to design and prepare images for custom check backgrounds so they pass ANSI requirements (the ability to pass checkimaging scans).

QUANTITIVE SKILLSAdobe InDesignAdobe Illustrator

Adobe PhotoshopQuark ExpressPress Check experienceMicrosoft Word

EMPLOYMENT HISTORYToolbox Studios - 1997-2010Senior Production ManagerContact - Robert Simons 210-225-8263 ext. 101Clarke American - 1990-1997

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Creative Department Designer/Production ArtistContact - Linda Roothame 210-697-8888The Roberts Group - 1986-1990Designer/Production ArtistContact - Claude Roberts 210-495-4332The PairTree Group - 1983-1986Production ArtistContact - Jed MillerRecorder Times - 1981-1983Production Artist

EDUCATIONIntroduction to Web Design, Online Course - Spring 2009Web Design IntroductionUniversity of Texas, San Antonio - 1982-1983Advertising and MarketingSan Antonio College - 1981-1982Advertising and MarketingBuffalo State University - 1979 - 1981Advertising and Marketing

PERSONAL ATTRIBUTESSolid hands on production and press check experience.High-energy with a tenacious drive toward achieving project perfection.

Ability to manage multiple tasks in a pressured environment.