Lyn Thompson
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Objective: 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.
Experience:

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.

Samples

10/01-3/05
Charlotte, NC
8/99-10/01
Charlotte, NC

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.

Samples

2/98-1/99
Gastonia, NC

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.

Samples

2/97-2/98
Charlotte, NC

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.

Samples

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.
Application
Knowledge:
QuarkXPress 6.0
PageMaker 6.5
Photoshop CS
Go Live CS
Poser 6
Illustrator CS
Freehand 10
StreamLine 4
Adobe Acrobat 6
Painter 8
Operating Systems:
Mac OS 10.13
Windows XP
Education: Central Piedmont Community College
Associate Degree in Fine Art 1984