Resume
Objective:
A challenging position in graphics utilizing my experience and education, which offers an opportunity for advancement, allowing a healthy balance of work and home life.
Experience:
Evoke Creative Group • 4/10-Present
Lead Designer
- Design customer websites as well as marketing materials
- Create animations and motion graphics for web and video
- Build video editing computers that are sold through Titan Computers
Lyn Thompson Design • 10/07-4/10
Owner
- Freelance digital, graphic design and prepress solutions
Corporate Communication Solutions • 4/06-10/07
Graphic Designer
- Layout and design of several quarterly and bimonthly magazines
- Designed a newsletter for Palmetto Banker resulting in a Mercury Award
- Designing ads and promotional materials, pre-flighting and trouble-shooting customer supplied digital files
- Setting up and managing company email and web sites for the publications
- Created a digital subscription system for periodicals
- Create customer job archive
Lyn Thompson Design • 3/05-4/06
Owner
- Freelance digital, graphic design and prepress solutions
Knight Communications • 10/02-3/05
Graphic Designer
- Layout and design of several quarterly and bimonthly magazines such as The Carolina Fire Journal, The Griffon Newsletter for the 108th Army Reserve, and Carolina Youth Association
- Assisted in doubling ad revenue for company
- Improved efficiency of work flow; moving from physical page flats to digital files
- Created a web presence for company allowing customers to transmit files electronically
Creative Loafing • 8/99-10/02
Graphic Designer
- Designed advertisements, managing fonts
- Pre-flight and trouble-shoot customer supplied digital files
- Design and layout of classified sections
- Distillation of page flats to PDF format to be transmitted to printer
- Trained new designers and coordinated weekend production
Electra Color • 2/99-7/99
Prepress Tech
- Color Separation
- Color Keys and Comps
- Pre-flight and trouble-shoot customer supplied digital files
International Minute Press • 2/98-1/99
Graphic Designer / Prepress Tech
- Design, layout, ad assembly
- Scanning, color correction, color separation, image editing
- Pre-flight and trouble-shoot customer supplied digital files
- Output files to film; stripping and plate making
A&A Custom Design Screen Printing • 2/97-2/98
Graphic Designer / Prepress Tech
- Design for screen printed textiles
- Illustration
- Color separation and stripping
- Set up and maintenance of computer workstations
Advantage Printing and Graphics • 12/95 - 2/97
Graphic Designer / Prepress Tech
- Design, layout, typesetting
- Scanning, color correction, color separation, image editing
- Pre-flight and trouble-shoot customer supplied digital files
- Output files to film; stripping and plate making
- Upgrade and Maintain computer equipment
- Create customer job archive
Software Knowledge:
- Adobe Photoshop
- Adobe Illustrator
- Adobe Flash
- Quark XPress
- Adobe InDesign
- Adobe Dream Weaver
- Adobe Fireworks
- Adobe After Effects
- Joomla
- AS2 & AS3
- HTML & CSS
- PHP
- Microsoft Office
- MAC OS
- Windows XP, Vista & 7