Professional Summary

Creative Services
• Excellent design skills in print and web including strong typography and color capabilities
• Editorial design expertise including layout, graphs, maps, feature pages, and pagination
• Thorough understanding of printing process, concept through production
• Strong proofreading and editing skills. Understand and respect copyright law
• Experience in graphic design, production, and prepress
• Expertise designing and maintaining production standards
• Skilled in digital design, photography, and video

Computer/Technical Skills
• Proficient with Macintosh (OS 9 thru OS 10.4.2) and Windows systems (ME thru XP).
• Software application expertise:
  Photoshop CS, ImageReady CS, Illustrator CS, InDesign CS, QuarkXPress 6.5, Dreamweaver MX 2004,
  Acrobat 7, MultiAd Creator, Flash MX, Freehand, PageMaker CS, Microsoft Office, Access, FileMaker Pro,
  iMovie 4, Final Cut.
• Well-versed in web publishing technologies including html, xhtml, css, asp, xml, dhtml, JavaScript, Flash,
  PDF, forms, dynamic sites, and search engine site optimization
• Computer expert in systems management, installation, troubleshooting, and training
• Adept at quickly becoming proficient using new software and hardware

Teamwork/Collaboration
• Successful at promoting teamwork and individual accountability by modeling professionalism,
  productivity, and interpersonal effectiveness
• Experienced with vendors, clients, printers, press checks, and photo shoots
• Effective committee member and team leader
• Skillful liaison, improving communication and building relationships

Management/Leadership
• Educated and experienced in supervisory and interpersonal relations
• Effective at staff procurement including temps, interns, freelancers in technical and creative areas
• Proficient at designing, evaluating, improving, and implementing processes and procedures
• Highly-effective in developing a positive and productive work environment
• Well-organized, analytical, adept at multi-project management
• Skilled at planning, implementation, and time management

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Professional Experience

Principal
the wright design • Sebastopol, CA • 1995-Present

Current Client List:
El Dorado County Fairgrounds, Placerville, CA:
   El Dorado County Fair, El Dorado County Wine Competition, Tasting A-Faire, more
American Cancer Society, Santa Rosa, CA
Cool Feed and Ranch Supply, Cool, CA
Eleanor Wasson, Author, Santa Cruz, CA
Institute of Reading Development, Novato, CA
Mountain Mandarin Festival, Auburn, CA
Mooredune Publications, Phoenix, AZ
North Coast Builders Exchange, Santa Rosa, CA
Pam Everson, DDS, Healdsburg, CA
Sebastopol Celtic Music Festival, Sebastopol, CA
Kate Wolf Memorial Festival, Laytonville, CA
The Tipsters Business Leads, Sonoma County, CA
University of California at Santa Cruz, CA

Creative Services Supervisor/Manager
The Press Democrat
A New York Times Pulitzer Prize winning newspaper
Santa Rosa, CA • 1996-2001

Supervised team of graphic designers, special section editors, illustrators, and pagination specialists.
Reconfigured team duties resulting in reduction of overtime by 14 percent of total hours.
Organized and implemented Creative and Ad Design Workshops for salespeople and new designers,
and Small Ads with Big Impact Workshop for clients. Pointperson to New York Times Creative Intranet.
Established an evaluation program for designers and page layout specialists.  
Invited to judge at CNAEA, CNAA, WCAA, and Redwood Empire Students in Journalism competitions.
Created Designer's Handbook to ease transition to team organization including procedures, tips, tutorials, and creative.
Designer of special projects for advertising director, retail, and classified managers.
Department liaison to find solutions to errors from sales to systems while improving communication and relationships.

Production Manager
Sebastopol Times & News - Lesher Communications, Inc.
Sebastopol, CA • 1990-1995

Macintosh expert - troubleshooting, training, software installation,
systems management for three newspapers.
Designed and implemented "West County Discoveries" section,
cutting production and printing costs by one third.
Co-chaired Annual Sebastopol Business Fair with the Chamber of Commerce
from inception through their fourth year.

Production Manager
Tahoe World Newspaper
Tahoe City, CA • March 1988-December 1990

Implemented Sierra Ski Times Magazine - a weekly skiing magazine for tourism.
Trained staff in the use of Macintosh software including QuarkXPress, PageMaker, and Freehand.

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Education

Sales and Marketing Certificate and Supervisory Management Certificate
Santa Rosa Junior College, Santa Rosa, CA - 2005

XML Web Developer Certificate and Project Management Certificate
Santa Rosa Junior College, Santa Rosa, CA - 2003

Web Graphic Design Career Certificate, HTML Content Developer Certificate,
and Dreamweaver Web Content Developer Certificate
Santa Rosa Junior College, Santa Rosa, CA - 2002

BA Degrees: Communication Arts: Graphic Design Emphasis
and Art: Photography Emphasis
Weber State College, Ogden, UT - 1986

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Recognitions

SRJC Academic Honors - Dean's Highest Honors 2002 - 2005 - cumulative GPA 3.98
1st Place (3) and 2nd Place (2) WFA Achievement Awards - 2004
1st Place award CNAEA Competition - Most Creative Use of Space - 2000
2nd place award CNAEA Competition - Most Creative Use of Space - 1999
TEAM award recipient Together Everyone Achieves More - Fall Quarter 1999
Named in New York Times Chairman's Award - September 1999
1st Place award CNAEA Competition - Most Creative Use of Space - 1997
Nominated Employee of the Year from a staff of over 1,000 at Lesher Communications, Inc. - 1992
2nd Place CNPA Better Newspapers Contest - Best Display Adverting - 1989
1st Place Color Photography - Ogden Photography Show - 1986

Memberships

Phi Theta Kappa International Honor Society
North Bay Multimedia Association
North Coast MacUser Group

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