Mary Stuart Minor (917) 532-7050 •
[email protected]PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Pre-Press Design Wizard
Pre-Press Designer experienced in all current industry standard software including Adobe InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, Acrobat, QuarkXPress, Microsoft Word, PowerPoint; knowledge of HTML, DreamWeaver, FireWorks. Currently pursuing a Certificate in Digital Publishing. 15 years experience in the advertising agency environment in direct mail, pharmaceutical, consumer and business-to-business.
Freelance Graphic Designer/Pre-Press Production Specialist
Minor Masterpieces, NY, NY 5/11–11/12
• Quality control of English and Spanish direct mail pieces to ensure adherence to client and
United States Postal requirements.
• Edit and manage pre-press of posters, out-of-home, banners and magazine advertisements ensuring they match Rivet/client specifications
• Retouch images per Art Director/Client request
• Optimize images for use in e-mail or Powerpoint
• Assist Art Directors in developing layouts for letters and brochures
• Update, maintain and organize server with new images as needed
• Prepare comps of envelopes, letters and specialty direct mail pieces for client presentations
• Develop die lines for specialty direct mail pieces
• Assist Art Directors in solving issues with PhotoShop, Illustrator and InDesign.
Client: Rivet Global
Graphic Designer/Pre-Press Artist
Momentum Worldwide/WME2 NY, NY 4/07–4/11
• Maintained one-person design studio whilst fielding numerous requests daily from
Client and account executives for information, images, PDFs, comps and magazine tip-ins
• Reduced project costs by retouching images to extend beauty images to fit magazine
ad sizes and add, remove or enhance type on product images.
• Developed web banners in various sizes utilizing admats as source material.
• Converted print ad mechanicals to PNG-24 files for use in iPad editions of magazines.
• Reorganized server to optimize workflow for Art Directors and studio personnel.
• Collaborated with Art Directors and Account Executives to complete creative projects.
• Attended account and creative team meetings.
• Created mechanicals for magazine advertisements and special inserts.
• Managed pre-press of all sizes of print advertisements and collateral.
• Maintained archive of and catalogued retouched art and completed creative projects.
• Designed and edited PowerPoint presentations.
Clients
Revlon – Almay – American Express – Bacardi – Bombay Sappfire Gin – Verizon
Freelance Graphic Designer/Production Artist
Minor Masterpieces, NY, NY 4/04–4/07
• Create mechanicals of and edit advertisements, mailers and collateral of all sizes.
• Perform preflighting/troubleshooting of mechanicals.
• Design and edit PowerPoint presentations.
• Create vector files from PhotoShop scans
• Transcribe interviews, lectures and meetings.
• Reconstruct InDesign documents in Microsoft Word for use by account people.
Clients
The Sloan Group – Estee Lauder – Tourneau – Gotham – Rapp Collins – Saatchi & Saatchi
Wishbone – Suddler & Hennessey – Masius – Polo Ralph Lauren
Graphic Designer/Production Artist
Cliff Freeman & Partners, NY, NY 6/00–4/04
• Edited and pre-flighted all sizes of print advertisements and collateral.
• Collaborated with Art Directors and Account Executives to complete creative assignments.
• Assisted Art Directors in creation of comps by compositing photographs, photo retouching
and creating vector art from raster images.
• Created the studio’s first searchable database of archived jobs.
Clients
TBS – Fox Sports – Ben & Jerry’s – Budget Rent a Car – Mohegan Sun Casino
Studio Manager/Production Artist
Health Science Comm., NY, NY 6/97– 10/99
• Supervised agency graphics production studio.
• Reduced studio costs by acquiring and learning a software application called ChemDraw, giving the studio capability to generate perpetually in-demand chemical structure diagrams digitally.
• Oversaw production of materials for medical meetings.
• Created and edited PowerPoint presentations and annotated handouts.
• Performed routine maintenance on Macintosh computers and Canon color copier.
Clients
Bristol-Myers Squibb – Glaxo SmithKline – Schering-Plough – Novartis
Education
Pratt Institute, New York, NY
Major: Graphic Design
Associate of Occupational Studies-Graphic Design
Additional Coursework
• Currently pursuing a Certificate in Digital Publishing
Classes, lectures and conferences
• The InDesign Seminar Tour
• New York InDesign Users Group
• Noble Desktop
• New York Mac Users Group
Professional Affiliations
• American Institute of Graphic Arts
• National Association of Photoshop Professionals
• NY InDesign User Group
• Pratt Institute Alumni Association