604 Goldenview Drive,  Champaign, IL 61821

(217) 417-0575 james@jamesryanhamilton.com

Skilled production designer with over three years experience in print and web publishing. Expert in Adobe Creative Suite 3 and MacOS 10.5. Worked closely with others and individually. Praised for my communication and organization skills and my attention to detail. Worked under hourly, daily, and weekly deadlines. Has sent ads to publications and has received ads as a publisher. Personally completed hundreds of hands-on design projects and supervised others on hundreds more.

Illini Media Company, Production Coordinator, November 2006—December 2008

Parkland College, Graphic Artist, July 2006–September 2006

Publication Services, Typesetter/Illustrator, July 2005–July 2006

Graphic Design Expertise

1. •Kept Editorial staff of daily newspaper on deadline; in two months drop times moved from 1:30am to 10:50pm (deadline was 11pm).
   

2. •Provided first-level technical support for 200+ student workers; reducing the need to contact I.T. from five nights a week to a few nights each month.
   

3. •Asked by supervisor to led three sessions of classes on MacOS X, Adobe Illustrator, and Adobe InDesign; students were prepared to create digital illustrations after four hours of instruction.
   

4. •Praised by supervisors for providing clear agenda and well-written minutes of staff meetings; which reduced one weekly meeting from two hours to less than one hour.
   

5. •Chosen to establish a quality-control team for company’s print publications; print errors reduced 50% after first meeting, and to 10% of previous levels after a month.
   

6. •Improved and maintained communication between editorial staff, I.T., and management; reports of technical issues dropped from 5-6 a day per department to a few per week for all departments.
   

7. •Increased accessibility of archived photos and other materials by establishing digital archiving system; searching for archived material went from taking days to a few seconds.
   

8. •Maintained organization of paper and electronic files for production department; allowing sales reps and managers to confirm billing, run-date and other client information in a few seconds.
   

9. •Increased productivity in Ad department by establishing an email-tagging system; the status of an ad could be seen instantly on screen, when previously this information could take over an hour to determine.
   

Production Support Experience

1. •Expert in InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, Bridge, Acrobat, MacOS X, Apple Mail, and iLife suite.
   

2. •Experienced in QuarkXPesss, FrameMaker, ImageReady, Dreamweaver, Flash, Word, and Excel.
   

3. •Designed advertisements, invitations, programs, billboards, pamphlets, educational materials, books, magazine layouts, slide-shows, and web sites.
   

Associate in Applied Science, Parkland College, December 2004

Numerous courses in Graphic Design theory and software, Parkland College, 2002-2004

Intensive four-day Web Design workshop, University of Illinois FAST3, August 2008

Self-taught: Apple Training Series: iLife ’08, July 2008

Self-taught: Sam’s Teach Yourself JavaScript in 24 hours, December 2008

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