g race |g eissinger
2944 76th Avenue | Oakland, CA 94605 | grace.geissinger@gmail.com | 510.798.3448
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Hire Grace. Here’s why! Career History| Graphic Design cont’d
Talented graphic designer with 8 years experience in print Graphic Designer | Assistant Manager
design who is highly motivated, creative, and versatile. UPS Retail Store – Fort Mill, South Carolina | 2006 – 2007
Exceptional interpersonal skills with team members and • Assistant Manager duties included:
subordinates. Accomplished at incorporating the desires of the handling customer concerns about design and shipping projects |
client with a superior design solution. Seeking a company that picked-up and delivered customer | opening and closing store |
demands high-quality design to go beyond client’s expectations.
ordering supplies and inventory control | prioritized and organized
Software/Hardware | Specialized customer orders | handled currency for bank deposit, sales, and
refund purposes.
• Adobe Photoshop (CS4) • Logo design
• Adobe Illustrator (CS4) • Page layout design • Graphic design included:
• Adobe InDesign (CS4) • Promotional design typesetting | brochures | business cards | logos | newsletters |
• Corel Draw Suite 4 • Film/pre-press operation promotional item design.
• QuarkXpress • Oversized signage • Leadership skills in training colleagues and promoting goal
• MS Office Suite 2007 • Commercial/wide-format printer setting with colleagues.
Freelance Graphic Designer
Career History| Graphic Design Charlotte, North Carolina | 2003 – 2006
Executive Assistant | Traffic Coordinator | Graphic Designer • Freelanced design projects from conception to print through developing
Lakeshore Media – Fort Mill, South Carolina | 2007 – 2009
clients’ rough draft ideas into clear communicative design proposals that
• Managed media placement in television and radio campaigns for our principal would market their business, products and services.
clients.
• Executive assistance to President and Media Buyer: • Design projects included:
brochures | logos | newsletters | promotional item design | typesetting |
assembling market research presentations | designing media calendars | organizing,
postcards | PowerPoint presentations
compiling quarterly media buys | calendar/schedule management | coordinating
on/off site meetings and events Graphic Artist
• Designed print media: ID Plates - Charlotte, North Carolina | 2001 – 2003
outdoor billboards | logos | promotional items | newspaper ad’s • Graphic design included for awards and signage industry:
• Simultaneous functioned as traffic coordinator, graphic designer, and executive proofing grammar and design errors | image and file compression |
assistant. expediting revisions for clients approval | manipulating photos | re-
• Trained colleague and wrote manual on position’s duties, prior to leaving the drawing logos | proofs with full design details of final production
company piece | processed film for pre-press operations using a laser writer
| daily/weekly data backups archiving art files | independently
Production Artist operated the 4-color transfer process | trained in dark room.
Homes and Land Magazine – Charlotte, North Carolina | 2007 – 2009
• Trained and taught in graphic design skills without prior
• Designed page layouts for real estate agents and listings in two publications education.
Homes and Land of Metro Charlotte, and Estates & Homes
• Production tasks included: Key Strengths
design conceptions | proofing grammar and design errors | image and file • Adaptability to be self-taught in new software/hardware;
compression | expediting revisions for clients approval | manipulating photos | re- conserving supervision time.
drawing logos | assisting clients on use of our internal website to upload listings, • Capacity to successfully implement and revise processes for
photos | designed, and maintained our complimentary client’s websites after increased productivity and sales.
publication was printed • Providing detailed administrative support and creative design
• Creating layouts that produced profitable results for real estate agents listings, solutions for senior management and clients.
while supporting sales staff by having direct contact with clients giving the staff References
focus toward gaining new clients for the magazines.
• References are available upon request
grace|geissinger | 510.798.3448 | grace.geissinger@gmail.com