About
I am a graphic artist with marketing minor. I am a self taught photographer. I photograph interiors, details/products and narrative portraits to round off the visual experience.
I've being designing layouts since my late teens and currently am a communications coordinator which combined my graphic arts and marketing smarts.
Email
Facebook
Flickr
LinkedinContinuing education for Graphic Design, Creative Suite, Web Design at the following place:
New Horizons Education Center
Pacific Northwest College of Art
Portland Community College Online Course
Lynda.com
Education for Photography:
Pacific Northwest College of Art
Portland Community College Online Course
Newspace Center for Photography
Lynda.com
Education Cummulative GPA: 3.3
Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan 1997 - April 2001
Graphics & Imaging Marketing B.S.
H.S. 2-year Education for Employment Art & Design Career Skills
Experience
Communications Coordinator , Design / Build Remodeling Firm, Neil Kelly Portland, OR 2006-present
Design of brochures, newsletters, community ads direct mail pieces for company individual and designer/consultants.
Updated web site content, assisted with re-design of web site.
Produce monthly E-newsletter
Coordinated, designed,maintained monthly seminar presentations.
Residential Photo Styling and Photographer.
Design and purchase trade show graphics
Packaging Coordinator, Cenveo, Portland, OR 2005 - 2006
Liaison between sales and production in flexography pre-press.
Evaluation of artwork for modifying format for flexography.
Oversee production from receiving files to proofing and producing plates.
Customer Service, International 4C Book Printer August 2002 - 2003
C&C Offset Printing, Portland, OR.
Mediator between publisher to Hong Kong plant throught production process; quotation, proofs, and shipping.
Create spec labels for printed books.
Label Sales Service Associate, Medical Labels July 2001 - May 2002
Centurion Label Systems, Howell, MI.
Developed custom label catalogs for Hospitals.
Created customer proofs and performed prepress functions utilizing Adobe Illustrator.
Worked with Information Technology Department to create and automate label image database.
Assistant, Art & Design Career Course September 1999 - April 2001
Education for Employment, Kalamazoo, MI.
Assisted high school students in printing process applications, including computer layout
and design, and prepress operations on Macintosh platform.
Customer Service/Production Intern, Package Prepress Service
Southern Graphic Systems, Cincinnati Design Studio Newport, KY.
Documented Proctor & Gamble packaging job specifications and requirements into
Filemaker Pro.
Archive retrieval and modified file format utilizing Adobe Distiller of images for on-line
database for Borden Foods.
Customer Service Representative Intern, Color House May 1999 - August 1999
North American Color, Portage, MI.
Tracked and sent time sensitive shipments between the proofing cycles to clients.
Organized original artwork, negatives and/or photographs to be processed and input
specifications into database for clients such as; National Geographic Publications, Time Life
Publications and Lenox Collection.
High School Co-op, Commercial Printer June 1996- August 1998
Country Printing & Graphics, Vicksburg, MI.
Performed graphic design and layout utilizing QuarkXPress for local clientele.
Operated, maintained, and performed trouble shooting on offset press.
College Honors & Scholarship:
• Dean’s List Fall 1998 - Winter 1999
• Robert E. Caine Outstanding Student Award 2000
• Foundation of Flexographic Technical Association (FFTA)Scholarship 2000-2001
• National Scholarship Trust Fund of the Graphic Arts (NSTF)Scholarship 1999-2001
• Ann Arbor Graphic Arts Memorial Foundation
• Graphic Arts Society (GAS) 1997 - 2001
• Executive Board of GAS, Vice President 1999 - 2000
• Executive Board of GAS, Advertising 1998 - 1999
• Graphic Arts Technical Foundation(GATF)member 1999 - 2000
• Technical Assocation of Graphic Arts (TAGA)member