Chris's Resumé
12 Years Graphic Design & Prepress experience; Scanning, Color Correction, Photoshop Compositing and Effects, Applescripting Automation; Database creation
Clipper Magazine, 3708 Hempland Road, Mountville, PA 17554
1997-present
Graphic Designer/PrePress Specialist
Using Quark, Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign to develop layouts for full color advertising. Scan & color correct images for 4 color press printing, special effects, composites. Worked with layout artist to realize their concepts for ads and collaborate to come up with ad concepts they could not visualize withoug Photoshop. Create & recreate logos in Illustrator. Do the "impossible" in Photoshop, under pressure of time constraints or clients. Prepare Postscript files, PDF files for output, preflight files. Transmission of file to printers. Work under pressure of outputting 1000s of pages before deadline, working on 4 file problems at once, troubleshoot computers to ensure correct output settings of PDFs.
Created scripts to automatic creation and checking of advertisements in InDesign for Graphic Artists in the production department. Includes things like converting all spot/RGB colors to CMYK, check for TrueType font usage, text formats, image size checking, object ungrouping, preference resetting, and an easy to use auto-updating mechanism.
Created scripts to automatically process huge amounts of Quark files into PostScript files for output. Created a new program on OS X to automatically watch folders and print InDesign files to Postscript and then convert into PDFs.
Created large relational database to track file transmission to printers. Features include automatic time and user info stamping, duplicate page checking, reporting, page resending checking. Scripts to automate various functions like data entry and reporting
Created an integrated system to automatically send pages FTP to the printers and track transmission.
Freelance
1995-present, clients include
- Hawaii International Auto Show (tv commercials)
- Liberty Productions (tv commercials)
- Comcast Golf Shots (golf tv magazine show intro)
- Synergy Media Network (in-restaurant tv still ads)
- PA Retailer's Association (bi-monthly 2 color 16 page newsletter, various artwork and flyers)
- The Host Hotel (3 dimensional foil embossed menus)
- PA Medical Director's Association (quarterly newsletter)
- Candy distributor (1 page full color product flyers)
Created concept and design and execution of auto show commercials (Stock Car Fan Fest, Hawaii Auto Show) from scratch. Using Lightwave, After Effects, Peak audio programs. Delivered broadcast ready commercials.
See the animation page in the video section for video samples, 2D art for graphic art. Not all clients above are represented.
