PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Present
DGGD (Darlene Gist Graphic Design)
Graphic design • web design • print media • button pins
SUBCONTRACTOR / FREELANCE POSITIONS
2001 – 2013
LEGAL IMAGES • NY, NY – Litigation Trial Graphics/Presentations (Mac OSX, and PC when required) – Worked with teams of lawyers, witnesses, and trial directors preparing all necessary documents for trial openings, directs, and closings. Software used in these processes included: Powerpoint, Keynote, Photoshop, Illustrator, and Flash. All entailed working with templates, formatting, editing and animating call outs and graphics.
Assignments were with the following firms.
NEW YORK:
• Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy
• Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP
• Morgan Finnerty
PHOENIX, AZ:
• Osbourne & Maledon
WASHINGTON, DC:
• Finnegan Henderson Farabow
WORD WORLD • NY, NY – Promotion Presentations – PBS Kids (Mac OSX)
STERLING BRANDS • NY, NY – Quarterly video shoots of SVA (School of Visual Arts) design students
DOREMUS • NY, NY – Powerpoint Presentations (MAC)
OLIVE MEDIA • NY, NY – Presentation (MAC)
MEDIA COM • NY, NY – Production Presentations (PC)
SYNERGY GRAPHIX • NY, NY – Production Presentations (PC)
OGILVY & MATHER • NY, NY – Advertising Presentations – Project Disney (MAC OSX)
MARGEOTIS FERTITTA & POWELL • NY, NY – Advertising Sales, Promo Presentations (MAC OSX)
SUDLER & HENNESSEY • NY, NY – Healthcare Promo Presentations (Mac OSX/PC)
JUICE PHARMA • NY, NY – Pharmaceuticals Promotions Presentations (Mac OSX)
NEW YORK CITY BOARD OF EDUCATION – Designed 3 issues of “The New York Parent News”, published quarterly by The New York City Board of Education’s Office of Parent Partnerships in the Division of Funded and Community Resources, used as a voice for improving the quality of children’s education.
FULL-TIME EXPERIENCE
1996 – 2005 STERLING BRANDS 350 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10118
Production Presentation Artist (Powerpoint)
• Created high-quality presentations on a daily basis for packaging design company
• Scanned multitudes of images with applicable Photoshop retouching
• Printed and bound final presentation decks
• Photographed and retouched digital stills of various products for inclusion in presentations
• Utilized Canon printer for final output decks and Epson and Hp Plotters for large board mounts
• Produced live, in-house digital videos for new biz pitches which were edited in iMovie for laptop presentations
1996 – 1999
Desktop Publisher (QuarkXPress)
• Typed presentations and proposals for 35mm slide presentations • Created charts, graphs, and overheads for project finalization
• Scanned images, printed and bound final presentation decks
1988 – 1993 GCR PUBLISHING GROUP 1700 Broadway, New York, N.Y. 10019
Manager, Typesetting Department
• Managed the set-up of new, in-house typesetting department with staff of 2. Handled 65% of text input, and 90% after systems upgrade, for 24 publications: Country Decorating, New Body, American Woman, Venus Swimwear, Modern Hair, Cooking and Household Tips digests
• Produced camera-ready reproductions in-house, saving $30k in first three months of hire
• Devised structured work-flow system, prioritized and distributed work to staff
• Systems troubleshooter
• Trained editors on disk input and ASCII translations of DOS applications to new PTW system language
Equipment: Epson PC/Itek Graphix Laser Printer/Digitek 5000 Typesetter, RC Processor/PTW software Systems upgrade: MacQuadra 950. Software: MSWord 5.1, Quarks 3.1, Illustrator 3.2, Photoshop 2.5
Education
• Computer Resource Center, NYC (Courses in: Quark, Illustrator, Photoshop, 1993)
• SAMI (Sam Ash Music Institute), NYC (Intro to Macintosh computer 1992)
• Art Institute of Pittsburgh (A.A Interior Design 1975)