My Resume

Experience
Luxury Lane/Momo Baby
Easton, PA
Graphic Design Manager
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  • Responsible for all marketing collateral from concept to completion including catalogs, clothing hang tags, web banners and email blasts for e-commerce sites luxurylane.com and momobaby.com.
  • Manage design team to develop product designs for Momo Baby children’s shoes.
  • Fulfill role of primary production contact for outside vendors.
  • Maintain an in-depth understanding of all new product designs and serve as a liaison to factories in China.
  • Manage digital image library, process images for the web, retouch and color correct new photography.
Lorel Marketing Group
King of Prussia, PA
Desktop Production Manager/Senior Production Artist
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  • Promoted February 2010
  • Collaborated with Creative Director and Art Directors to implement designs, create and update templates and styling guidelines using Adobe Creative Suite and Quark XPress.
  • Supported Director of Desktop Publishing to lead team of production artists in fast-paced agency setting.
  • Assisted in training and development of production processes, such as database programs and translation workflows.
  • Managed quality control of supplied images, traffic new photography, and work with Prepress department on processing and image retouching for multiple accounts.
UBM Canon [Engel Publishing Partners]
Newtown, PA
Graphic Designer/Production Artist
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  • Designed monthly pharmaceutical publications of Med Ad News and R&D Directions magazines under guidance of Senior Art Director.
  • Produced promotional materials, direct marketing pieces, postcards, brochures, signage and logos for Engel Conferences.
The Daily Record Newspaper
Parsippany, NJ
Graphic Designer/Production Artist
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  • One of eight graphic artists in Creative Services Department at fast-paced Gannett newspaper.
  • Designed print ads using Adobe Creative Suite, Quark XPress and Multi-Ad Creator programs.
  • Pre-press production duties included troubleshooting materials for printing.
Education
Ithaca College
Roy H. Park School of Communications
Bachelor of Science
Major: Advertising and Public Relations
Minors: English and Writing
Ithaca College London Center

Spring 2002
Study Abroad with Internship

Skills

Macintosh O/S
Windows O/S
Microsoft Word
Microsoft Excel
Microsoft Powerpoint
Adobe CS3 and CS5
Quark XPress
WordPress Experience
Multi-Ad Creator
EasyCatalog (for Adobe InDesign)
Basic Audio and Video Production
Black/White and Color Photographic Processes

Freelance

Kinedyne Corporation
2011-2014
Freelance Graphic Designer

Atlantic Communications Group
December 2006-April 2007
Contract Graphic Designer

Activities

Northampton Community College Intro to Web Design
Fleischer Art Memorial Photography
The Banana Factory Introductory Glass Blowing