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Niki Wehling
Sacramento, CA

OBJECTIVE:
Obtain a position in design utilizing my experience in graphic design, offset printing, and management.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:
Graphics Creation -
Adobe InDesign, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Image Ready, Adobe Illustrator, QuarkXPress, PageMaker, GIF builder, Freehand, Flash, Macromedia Director

Programming -
Cold Fusion, HTML, CSS, Dynamic HTML, Java Script, VBScript, Active Server Pages

Internet -
Internet Explorer 2.01 and above, Netscape 3.0 and above, Internet search engines and submissions, and website layouts

EDUCATION:
BS Graphic Design - California State University, Sacramento
(1996 - 1999)

Art and Graphic courses - American River College
(1993 - 1996)

EXPERIENCE:
AlphaGraphics, Roseville – Design Specialist
(4/2004 to 1/2005)

Design print ready material such as logos, brochures, business cards, letterhead, envelopes, posters, invitations, and newsletters. Design print products for offset, digital, and large format printing. Applications used for completing these projects are Adobe InDesign, Adobe Illustrator and Adobe Photoshop. QuarkXPress, Adobe PageMaker and Microsoft Publisher also used on a daily basis. Additional training and experience in bindery work, such as cutting, folding, laminating, and electronic printing. Required to provide price quotes and estimates for new and existing customers. Customer service and front counter assistance required daily as well. Work proficiently on a Mac and PC platform everyday. Digitally and Design Certified.

Lumens Lighting - Production Designer
(2/2004 to 4/2004)

Performed retail product analysis to build contemporary lighting inventory. Data entry of retail product using Retail Pro. Delivered graphical representation of retail product, and offer photo editing of artwork.

Harmon Homes Magazine - Graphic Designer
(4/2003 to 1/2004)

Provided typesetting and creative layout expertise on Real Estate listings in Harmon Homes Magazine, using Quark Express. Also responsible for proofreading, and posting proofs online for client review and corrections, while meeting strict and critical deadlines. Graphic creation using Adobe Photoshop and/or Illustrator. All work done on Mac OS 9.

ESS Group, Inc. - Graphic Designer/Creative Director
(9/2002 to 1/2003)

As Creative Director, I was responsible for new graphic design concepts and maintenance for new and existing clients. Also programmed with HTML, Active Server Pages, and learned PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor.

Jel Productions, Inc. - Production Manager
(12/2000 to 3/2002)

As a Production Manager I was responsible for and directly managed six production engineers, assigned them to projects, maintained their schedules, reviewed their billable hours, evaluated their performance, reviewed their skills to ensure they met project skill requirements, and added and updated the production process. Additionally responsible for maintaining quality assurance among the production engineers I managed, which included adherence to all Jel Standards, adherence to browser versions and statistics, and HTML versioning requirements.

Jel Productions, Inc. - Production Engineer
(4/2000 to 12/2000)

As a Production Engineer I was responsible for ColdFusion, JavaScript, and HTML programming on many customer web sites. Also designed user interfaces to these sites, built graphics for them using Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Image Ready, GIF builder and others. I maintained them in production and made all necessary daily updates.

IRIS, Inc. - Website Designer
(6/1999 to 4/2000)

As a Website Designer I was responsible for day-to-day graphic upkeep and creation for new and existing clients. Also programmed Active Server Pages and HTML.

Casey's Hallmark - Designer
(8/1999 to present)

As a Designer for Hallmark, I am responsible for producing a quarterly newsletter, which involves layout and editing, image sizing and placement, color selection, typesetting, and sending to printer.

SacWeb, Inc. - Graphic Designer
(4/1997 to 6/1999)

As a Graphic Designer I created and updated graphics for client web sites, organized office projects, and assisted in graphic ideas and web site layouts.

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