Objective
Graphic designer with fifteen years of background experience in graphic design and other collateral materials. Experience knowledge of Adobe Suite and 3D Animation software including Motion Graphics. Interested in pursuing a position in the field of graphic design and production design.

Work Experience

Graphic Designer | Present
Lewisville, TX | Freelance
•    Designing a variety of design material brochures, posters, flyers, business cards, and branding.
•    Designing websites for personal clients and businesses.
•    Developing interactive projects and presentations for clients and businesses.

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Graphic Designer | May
Color Ad Inc. | Rancho Dominguez, CA | Full-Time Position
•    Design a variety of furniture and mattress ads, posters, hang tags, banners, inserts, and ROP ads.
•    Work closely with the art director and clients to complete project deadlines.
•    Design a variety of layouts and recreate the ads as close as possible to the final design.
•    Preflight projects for images, process colors, and bleeds before the printer receives the files.
•    Work extensively in Photoshop CS, Illustrator CS, Acrobat CS, and InDesign CS.

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Production Designer | October
Los Angeles Time | Los Angeles, CA | Full-Time Position
•    Design a variety of real estate, automobiles, and retail advertisement ads for the Los Angeles Times.
•    Create many templates in Multi-ad Creator for covers, inside pages, and inserts for the newspaper.
•    Work closely with the art director and clients to complete project deadlines.
•    Typesetting and placing images in the ad to meet layout specifications.
•    Work extensively in Content Server 7, Photoshop, Illustrator, Acrobat, and Multi-ad.

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Production Designer | April
Albertson’s | Fullerton, CA | Freelance Position
•    Design a variety of Albertsons newspaper ads, inserts, ROP ads, and other supermarket ads.
•    Create templates in QuarkXpress for covers and inside spread pages for the newspaper ads.
•    Design coupons, inserts, and mailers for weekly ads.
•    Responsible for designing and correcting multiple versions of different food chain ads.
•    Work extensively in WAM Base network, Photoshop, Illustrator, and QuarkXpress.

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Production Designer | August
Verizon Yellow Pages | Los Alamitos, CA | Freelance Position
•    Design a variety of ads for businesses, professional firms, and other services for the Yellow Pages.
•    Creating layouts and templates for different ads in QuarkXpress.
•    Convert files from Multi-Ad Creator and re-designing the ads in QuarkXpress.
•    Scanning line art, grayscale and color photographs, and color correcting.
•    Responsible for proofreading, and checking for spot colors, and images in the ads.
•    Work extensively in Visi Ad, Photoshop, Illustrator, QuarkXpress, and Multi-Ad.

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Desktop Publisher & Pre-Press Production | October
O’Neil Data Systems, Inc. | Los Angeles, CA | Full-Time Position
•    Composed a variety of covers and booklets to be printed on a web press and sheet feed press.
•    Checking and creating a variety of templates in Preps for different sizes of books and covers.
•    Creating postscript files and PDFs for pagination in Preps to be positioned correctly on the template.
•    Responsible for pre-press work before it gets printed.
•    Work on Xerox printing machines to check final proofs.
•    Work extensively in Acrobat, Photoshop, Illustrator, PageMaker, QuarkXPress and Preps.

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Graphic Designer | July
Pacific Trading Cards, Inc. | Seattle, WA | Full-Time Position
•    Design several trading cards, from die-cuts, laser cuts, and foil sets.
•    Creating overprint spot colors for several foils, etches, and holographic designs.
•    Setting up templates in QuarkXPress for output on film.
•    Responsible for checking color proofs for the final product.
•    Work extensively in Photoshop, Freehand, and QuarkXPress

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Education
Digital Arts: Computer Animation Major

Associate of Arts - AA September 2018 to 2023 May

College: Cerritos College | Norwalk, CA

Achieving my AA Degree in Graphic Design, Computer Animation and modeling, Printmaking, and Drawing and painting from Cerritos College. Learning the fundamentals of Adobe CS programs, freehand drawing, and other technical artistic skills.

Graphic Design Major

Associate of Arts - AA September 2014 to 2018 September
College: Cerritos College | Norwalk, CA

Achieving my AA Degree in graphic design. Learning the fundamentals and knowledge of Adobe CS and other desktop publishing software. Learning freehand drawing and other artistic skills and techniques.

Graphic Communications – September 1992 to May 1996

High School: Don Bosco Technical Institute | Rosemead, CA
Receiving my high school diploma in Graphic Communications from Don Bosco Technical Institute. Learning the fundamentals of Adobe CS, desktop publishing programs, offset lithography, sheet assembly, color proofs, plate-making, and pre-press. Designed cards, produced flyers, and created pamphlets and formal invitations for various school functions.