SeaCat59

URL: [login to view URL] I have a full range of capabilities from artistic eye/mind/hand skills to digital graphic software applications to web markup language/scripting. In my capacity as Production Manager for Keck Garrett Advertising, I was responsible for overseeing and creating digital files for final production art in packaging and promotion for Nextel, Orange Glo International, Keebler and General Mills. For projects with Nextel and Orange Glo, I coordinated with the client, their business partners, KGA design/marketing and package/print vendors bringing design and production initiatives to final formats for implementation. My duties included image creation, compositing, color correction, retouching and preparation of Desktop Color Separation files for final production art. Additional responsibilities included archiving digital files of projects from development through finished art, creating a simple database to manage the large volumes of data; The set-up, calibration and operational maintenance of a variety of continuous tone, ink jet and electrostatic printing devices. I also have excellent skills at comping facsimiles. I am confident in my ability to apply myself with sage experience, as well as the enthusiasm of an apt student; with a sharp eye for detail and a dispassionate capacity to consideration. EDUCATION: 5/1984 Northern Illinois University US-Illinois-Dekalb Bachelor of Fine Arts - emphasis Illustration AFFILIATIONS: National Association of Photoshop Professionals Member 1998 - Present Graphic Artists Guild SOFTWARE: Application / Skill Level / Experience Adobe Photoshop CS (ver. 8) / Expert / 10 years Adobe Illustrator CS (ver. 11) /Expert / 10 years Adobe InDesign CS / Intermediate / 1 year Adobe GoLive CS / Beginner / 1 year Apple Hardware / Expert / 9 years Mac OS X Panther (ver. 10.3.x) current operating system Quark XPress / Intermediate / 6 years HTML, DHTML, CSS, JavaScript, PERL / Intermediate / 8 years Macromedia Flash / Beginner / 2 years REFERENCES: Available upon request