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Lyn Thompson
lyn@lynland.com
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A challenging position in graphics utilizing my experience and education, which offers an opportunity for advancement with reasonable hours allowing a healthy balance of work and home life.
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Knight Communications
Graphic Designer
Job responsibilities include: layout, designing of several magazine and newspaper periodicals; Designing ads and promotional materials, pre-flighting and trouble-shooting customer supplied digital files; design cover art; update production methods to transfer PDF files to printer digitally; maintain and update production and office software and hardware; and maintain web pages for several publications; in addition to setting up and maintaing company email, and administrating the computer network and web servers; setting up a cross platform network.
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10/01-3/05
Charlotte, NC
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8/99-10/01
Charlotte, NC
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Creative Loafing
Graphic Designer
Job responsibilities include: designing advertisments, managing fonts, pre-flighting and trouble-shooting customer supplied digital files; design and layout of classified sections; distillation of page flats to PDF format to be transmitted to printer; training new designers and coordinating weekend production.
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2/98-1/99
Gastonia, NC
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International Minute Press
Graphic Designer / Prepress Tech
Job responsibilities included: design, layout, ad assembly, scanning, color correction, color separation, image editing, pre-flighting and trouble-shooting customer supplied digital files; outputting files to film; stripping and plate making; setting up a cross platform network.
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2/97-2/98
Charlotte, NC
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A&A Custom Design Screen Printing
Graphic Designer / Prepress Tech
Job responsibilities included: design; computer and traditional illustration; color separation for serigraphy; stripping; computer system set up and upgrade.
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12/95 - 2/97
Charlotte, NC |
Advantage Printing and Graphics
Graphic Designer / Prepress Tech
Job responsibilities included: design; typesetting; color separation; stripping; illustration; upgrading and maintaining computer equipment; organizing a customer job archive.
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Application
Knowledge:
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QuarkXPress 6.0
PageMaker 6.5
Photoshop CS
Go Live CS
Poser 6 |
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Illustrator CS
Freehand 10
StreamLine 4
Adobe Acrobat 6
Painter 8 |
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Operating Systems:
Mac OS 10.13
Windows XP |
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| Education: |
Central Piedmont Community College
Associate Degree in Fine Art 1984 |
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