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Relevant Skills

  • Proficient in Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Acrobat Professional), Quark Xpress, Microsoft Office, CorelDraw; familiar with Adobe Dreamweaver, Flash
  • Knowledgeable about sandblast and etch production.
  • Experienced with prepress and print production techniques, including color separation, spot colors, and offset printing.
  • Basic video editing and creation.
  • Languages: fluent in English and Korean (written and spoken)
  • Excellent communication and typing skills (85 wpm)
  • Knowledge of traditional and digital art

Work Experience

Independent Contractor, January 2007 – present

  • Al Kaly Shriners: lay out a 28-page monthly newsletter, design graphics and ads, edit photos, proofread and edit document.
  • Create web graphics, logos, postcards, flyers, posters, and other items as needed.
  • Make and sell designs for apparel, coffee mugs, stickers, and other items on CafePress.com.

Production Artist, Etching Industries/Etching Wines & Spirits, January 2010 – January 2012

  • Create in-house marketing material, such as flyers, catalogs, price sheets, email blasts, banners, business cards, and other promotional material.
  • Design and update website periodically with new products, Flash slideshows, and information.
  • Prepare and modify customer artwork according to production specifications.
  • Design custom labels and artwork for customers.

Independent Contractor, January 2008 – February 2009

Ingersoll-Rand

  • Drew technical illustrations for various products using IsoDraw and Adobe Illustrator.
  • Worked with engineers and publication team to create, proofread, and edit service manuals.

Ad Design

  • Created and redesigned ads to run in the Colorado Springs Gazette and other publications.

HDR, Inc.

  • Assisted in development and creation of InDesign and MS Word templates.
  • Collaborated with engineers to lay out and design books, brochures, and other publications.
  • Created graphics for use in publications, edited photographs and images.
  • Proofread publications, formatted text to fit allotted space.

 Graphic Artist, Signal Graphics, March 2007 – December 2007

  • Design: created logos, business cards, flyers, brochures, posters, and other materials on an as-needed basis.
  • Preflight and print production: Learned to use digital printers, large format printers, cutting tools, and book binding.
  • Desktop publishing: created camera-ready digital files of clients’ artwork, checked pre-production work on existing files, sent files to printing companies and followed up on orders.
  • Helped new business owners maintain client base by providing quality design work in a timely manner, as well as offering consistently good customer service to clients.
  • Interacted with clients to discuss clients’ graphic needs, kept clients up-to-date on progress and provided finished product before deadlines, followed up with clients when job was finished.

 Lead Designer, The Korea Daily, May 2006 – February 2007

  • Designed unique advertisements for each client; created graphics and oversaw production of two publications while meeting printers’ deadlines; delegated workload to assistant designers.
  • Layout design: mastered a new layout design program within a week to release the daily newspaper on schedule, performed layout design for designated sections of the newspaper.
  • Interacted with clients regularly as an accomplished customer service representative; discussed and executed new designs in a timely manner according to clients’ specifications.

Education

Northwestern University
Bachelor of Art