1. DESMOND STEWART
(803) 389-1694
dastewart00@gmail.com
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SUMMARY
Driven, passionate, customer focused and professional with nearly ten years of design experience
designing visual displays for large retailers. Self-motivated with strong desire to accomplish set
goals. Highly dependable with experience in various aspects of merchandise displays. Detail-
oriented with emphasis on precision and quality. Works well independently and as part of a team.
Good interpersonal skills. Loves fashion and arts of all kinds. Adapts quickly to new
environments. Very quick learner.
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EXPERIENCE
KOHL’S - Rock Hill, SC - Current
• Assisting customers on the sales floor
• Recovering merchandise from sales floor
• Unloading trucks and sorting merchandise
• Answering customer calls
• Folding down merchandise towers
• Folding down merchandise tables
• Hard tagging merchandise
• Assisting at the POS
INTERNATIONAL PAPER - Charlotte, NC
Preproduction Coordinator 2013
• Used Oracle WebCenter to centralize display information from multiple sites
• Coordinated integration of graphic design and structural design of visual merchandise
displays. Assuring color match and merchandise quality per specifications.
• Chaired preproduction meetings with Sales, Project Management, Graphic Designer, and
Structural Designer to assure agreement leading to final approval
• Collaborated with other company divisions and acted as a liaison between departments.
Made revisions to display designs using ArtiosCAD and Oracle WebCenter
Design Assistant 2005 – 2013
• Manually built merchandise displays
• Performed inventory for Cincinnati office – received products and tracked on Microsoft
Excel spreadsheets
Machine Operator 1997 – 2005
• Accurately operated material slitter machine, diecut presses, and material sample cutters
• Trained new employees on equipment
• Fork Lift and Walkie Stacker certified

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SKILLS INCLUDE:
• Drawing Illustrations
• ArtiosCAD
• Communication, verbal and written
• Customer Service
• Data Entry
• Fork Lift Certification
• Problem identification and resolution
EDUCATION AND TRAINING
• Course Work in Engineering Graphics- York Technical College, Rock Hill, SC
• Currently enrolled in Fashion and Retail Management- The Art Institute of Charlotte,
Charlotte, NC
• Dean’s List Winter 2014, President’s List Spring & Summer 2014,Dean’s List Fall 2014
COMPUTER SKILLS
• ArtiosCad, AutoCad, Microsoft Word, Outlook, Excel (basic).Adobe Photoshop, Adobe
Illustrator, InDesign, PowerPoint