Prepress Operator / Production Artist
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Proficient in high-volume studio and production environments with critical delivery deadlines for final artwork, maintaining focus under exacting circumstances. Provide expert layout and production assistance for food, beverage, and pharma packaging, managing complex graphics, illustration, and photography. Use latest software to identify creative solutions for complicated layouts while adhering to client style guides. Assist with inventory, distribution, and print coordination.
Organized, creative, and resourceful, with appetite for continuous learning, mastering trends, and taking on challenges. Communicate effectively with coworkers and clients, demonstrating dynamic team spirit and positive, outgoing approach.
SGS & CO (TORONTO), Toronto, ON 2016 - 2022
Built and laid out packaging artwork for print and digital production. Provided colleagues with training on art creation, auto trapping, and 3D asset creation for e-commerce. Assisted with data asset management.
Participated in team brainstorming sessions, devising and sharing new strategies.
Introduced tools used by other plants into workflow, accelerating asset management and reducing rework.
CCL LABEL (TORONTO), Toronto, ON 2008 - 2016
Established and managed master artwork color libraries, assets, and dieline templates. Set up, updated, and maintained color profile libraries for Hewlett-Packard (HP) Indigo digital workflow. Created press sheet impositions and step repeat layouts for lithographic (Litho) and flexographic (Flexo), or both. Performed internal quality control (QC) and ensured client service / standard operating procedures (CSP / SOP) were kept current and followed.
Introduced Microsoft (MS) Windows software emulator, reducing costs and streamlining workflow.
Prepared Flexo / digital templates for variable printing, collaborating with information technology (IT) and graphics to program data into readable format for layouts. Minimized overhead using existing dielines in new templates.
Photography, Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly Ryerson University), Chang School of Continuing Education, Toronto, ON
Communication Design, Ontario College of Art and Design (OCAD), Toronto, ON
Graphic Design and Desktop Publishing, George Brown College, Toronto, ON
