SENIOR DIGITAL DESIGNER Experience 02/2012 Current Senior Digital Designer Company Name － City State Provided designs creative direction custom content Best Buy's Digital Weekly Ad. Worked leader following brand standards best practices exploring new designs. Designed vendor-paid premium ad space special promotions. Led weekly client meetings review assess content plans weekly ad. Built edited wireframes lay product, promotional messaging, video content best user experience. Directed product photo shoots on-set, without talent/models. Designed covers internal pages Best Buy's weekly newspaper ad buyer's guides. Directly managed, reviewed work of, mentored production artists. Worked closely internal project managers QC team ensure deadlines met final product launched functioning properly. Collaborated front-end developers new animations, designs, site functionality. Served backup front-end developer, working basic HTML CSS code. 07/2011 06/2011 Mac Operator/Prepress/Plating Specialist Company Name － City State Edited optimized client-provided digital art files produce high quality digital, lithographic flexographic print materials. Worked CSRs prepared customer pressroom proofs ensure accuracy image quality, color, text, layout. Operated maintained multiple plating machines software calibrations prepare plates range different sized lithographic presses substrates. Verified plates pressroom proofs quality accuracy sending press. 05/2011 11/2011 Production Artist/Graphic Designer Company Name － City State Partnered Best Buy Mobile marketing team design, refine produce in-store signage, weekly flyers, traditional digital billboards, quick-turn promotional materials. Produced print-ready art store grand openings special promotion flyers coupons. Designed icons representing brand promises used retail stores. Created concepts cover interior pages monthly Buyer's Guide catalog. Provided design production assistance presentation materials needed. 02/2010 07/2010 Freelance Production Artist Company Name － City State Designed created customized products using variety resources media meet customer specifications timelines. Prepared digital art files including reviewing text, checking image quality, fonts crop marks ensure print integrity projects using large-format flatbed roll-fed printers. Managed e-mail accounts FTP site incoming orders, downloaded artwork, wrote job tickets communicated directly customers regarding file issues project specifications. Created, programmed executed dielines digital cutter/router using variety software ensure precise cutting finished product. Provided graphic design services customers need artwork. 03/2009 12/2009 Production Artist Company Name － City State Effectively managed multiple projects timelines temporary permanent in-store POS signage; built final print ready files alignment Best Buy's brand strategy. Collaborated Art Directors Project Managers event special promotion signage. Ensured vendor-provided artwork fit current templates, brand standards style guides reviewing layout adjusting necessary maintaining integrity vendor's images. Preflighted files proper resolution, layout, specifications created hi-res PDFs according current standards send print vendor. Packaged sent files international print vendor translation approval; provided direction layout necessary comply international corporate standards. Built design mock ups presentation boards needed. 03/2008 03/2009 Digital Prepress Operator Company Name － City State Managed time workflows preflight process digital files direct-to-plate, direct-to-screen digital presses maintain productivity quality. Worked cross-functionally production artists, designers, job planners outside vendors troubleshoot prepare artwork production ensure high quality store signage. Performed color calibration adjustment large-format digital press; ensuring accurate reproduction Best Buy brand colors, Pantone process. Provided prepress/production support in-house press operators, designers, external vendors. Software Expertise Adobe Creative Suite (CC), Microsoft Office Suite, QuarkXpress, OmniGraffle Professional, Extensis Suitcase, SharePoint, LinoType Font Explorer. Education 2001 Bachelor Fine Art University Wisconsin － City Skills Adobe Creative Suite, photo, Ad, Art, backup, brand strategy, calibration, catalog, color, content, creative direction, CSS, client, direction, e-mail, FTP, graphic design, basic HTML, image, Explorer, layout, marketing, materials, meetings, messaging, Microsoft Office Suite, SharePoint, newspaper, developer, POS, prepress, press, printers, promotion, promotional materials, quality, QuarkXpress, quick, retail, router, translation, troubleshoot, video