Skills:
Prepress color management for offset process and spot color separations. Preflight management of digital files. Posting and updating to servers. File conversion, color correction and retouch work to digital photographic files as well as scanned transparencies. Trouble-shoot client files, prepare PDF comps and layouts for client revisions. Ad Trafficking, logging, preflighting and labeling ofadvertising assets. Font management and maintenance of archival databases and digital image libraries. Experience with EFI Fiery Command WorkStation RIP. Proficiency with QuarkXpress and AdobeCS on a MacOS platform. Advanced production proofing, knowledge of proofreading symbols and terminology. Pagination, digital darkroom, halftone scanning, compositor. File formatting for Web publication, simple XHTML coding, knowledge of AdobeFlash and of scripting languages. Branding & Logo design. Direct mail marketing and catalog production. ROP and POP display advertisements. A special facility with typography, design concepts and comp building, both mechanical and digital, with an artists eye for detail. Supervised operations for a music and video business with average daily gross profits of [] Recruited, hired, trained and scheduled a staff of 75 employees. Balanced daily accounts, handled bank deposits, initiated store security procedures, managed payroll accounting. Oversight of shipping and receiving logistics in a high-volume merchandise warehouse. Inventory control, loss-prevention management, and processing of pertinent daily reports for corporate review. Conflict resolution; liaison for management when disputes arose between employees and supervisors. Customer service representative. Product management. Director of merchandising and POP displays.