Owner / Creative Director

Posted on: 2011-03-17

EDUCATION:          West Seneca West Senior High School, West Seneca, N.Y

                                                -New York State Regents Diploma received:  June 1987

                                               - Major: Graphic Arts, French

                                                 Potter Road Educational Center, West Seneca, N.Y.

                                                - Certificate of Completion received:  June 1987

                                                - Major: Graphic Communications

                                     Erie Community College, Orchard Park, N.Y.

                                                 - Certificate of Completion received:   July 1988

                                                 - Major: Illustration

REVELENT

COURSEWORK:          Illustrations using color pencils, drawing pencils, conte, charcoal

                                                and Graphic design using airbrush, silk screening and caligraphy

TECHNICAL

EXPERIENCE:      Compugraphic 7200 Headliner, Goodkin Lucy, Artograph Lucy,

                                            Nu-Arc Xenon Platemaker, Compugraphic MCS-8216 Typesetter,

                                            Nu-Arc Horizontal Process Camera

WORK

EXPERIENCE:              Clever Girl Design Studio, Buffalo, NY

                                           - Owner / Creative Director – responsible for the day to day duties

                                            of running a Graphic Design business. Responsible for final

                                           approval of all projects coming in and going out.  

                                            Home Instead Senior Care, Williamsville, NY

                                           - Caregiver – responsible for the day to day care of senior citizens

                                             in their own home. Including errands, meal prep and light house-

                                            keeping

                                             Santoro Signs, Inc., Cheektowaga, N.Y.

                                           -Secretary/Graphic Designer - responsible for general office duties

                                           including  filing, typing and answering phones, also responsible for

                                          designing and printing out color and black and white sign designs

                                         -Experience with - Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel \'97, Corel Draw

                                        Version 9, My Mail List, Windows XP

                                         American Color, Inc., Cheektowaga, N.Y.

                                         -Colorizer - responsible for coloring scanned artwork, building and

                                            sending to plate finished products

                                        -Experience with - Adobe Photoshop, Quark X Press

                             Feature Services, West Seneca, N.Y.

                            -Scanner/Colorizer -  responsible for scanning all original artwork, coloring

                            scanned artwork, building and sending to plate all finished products

                           -Experience with: ISDN 4 Sight System, Adobe Photoshop, Quark X Press,

                           Colorizr, Quickscan 8000 on the Pro Imager 800, shipping printed

                           reproductions to perspective syndicates, pagination and sizing original

                           artwork down to suitable size