With 33 years of experience in the graphic design industry, I have had the opportunity to work in many diverse design environments. Starting as one of 2 designers in an in-house corporate art department, I switched to a product design company including 9 other designers and then at a printing company offering complete agency services from concept through production, printing and fulfillment. In between, I took a 3 year hiatus to become a corporate expatriate in Paris, France.

I resumed my career as a product designer with a client base that included Cracker Barrel, Tuesday Morning, and Burlington.

Specialties: Creativity, speed, and accuracy in design on a Mac using all relevant applications. Product concept, development and detailed specifications for factories in USA and China.

Applications: Adobe Creative Suite, including Dreamweaver and Acrobat, and Microsoft Office.
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• Manage all aspects of product design from original concepts using Photoshop for 3-dimensional modelling and storyboards for sales staff, to final art, design and specifications for manufacturing.
• Brand Management of individual product lines.
• Maintain open communication with factories to assist in successful manufacture of all products to be produced.
• Product photography, merchandising assistance and marketing materials for each completed line.
• Maintain time-tracking system and scheduling of multiple simultaneous product lines as well as asset management of a continually increasing product photo library for sales staff and retail applications.
  

• Manage a creative department providing creative concepts, design and layout as well as pre-press and production in a very fast-paced environment.
• Work directly with customer base on a range of design projects including catalogs, magazines, annual reports and brochures, print ads, packaging, direct mail, logo design, and other marketing collateral.
• Provide asset management of a continually growing client file library.
• Maintain time-tracking system for billable hours.
• Work closely with production manager to schedule creative time.
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• Provide creative concepts and comprehensive illustrated storyboards for approval by the account managers of each product line.
• Produce complete design of product, including art for silkscreening, painting and final specifications for manufacturing. Product design for the Cigar Aficionado gift line as well as additional product design on accounts that included the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, Warner Brothers, Coca-Cola, and Harley-Davidson.
• Design print advertising of the product lines.
• Met with suppliers and toured facilities in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Thailand and China.
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• Coordination of an eight-person team, text editing, design, and production of monthly newsletter.
  Learned to speak French in three months, completely conversant in six months.
  
  • Design and production of a monthly newsletter
  • Design and production of the bi-annual auction catalog
  • Structured timelines to meet press deadlines.
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• Concept and production of print collateral in an in-house department environment.