Margaret Aquino

Experience Graphic Design Artist

Wading River, NY 11792

Objective

Seeking a position with an organization that enables the contribution of my skills and expertise to develop increased productivity and growth for the company.

Experience

Mars Graphics
Wading River, NY 1988 - Present
Freelance Graphic Designer/Print Buyer

Highly motivated prepress designer with extensive knowledge of PageMaker, Quark, Illustrator, Word,
Excel, Photoshop, Creative Suite and Acrobat Professional, knowledge of Dreamweaver 8 using both MAC/Windows platforms.

* Extensive knowledge of current graphic design & printing technologies as well as print production and purchasing experience with outside suppliers in the print industry.

* 4 color design and print production experience includes but is not limited to brochures, publications, folders, stationery, postcards, booklets, catalogs, posters, magazine ads and all aspects of print production. Customer base consists of print brokers, print manufacturers and corporate businesses.

Short Run Forms, Inc.
Bohemia, NY September 2004 – November 2007
Graphic Designer/Print Production Manager

* Initiated the creation and expansion of a busy and successful prepress art department within the company increasing substantial customer sales and profits. Developed new marketing ideas for increased productivity. Resolved issues and questions for a customer base of over 1000.

* Supervisory duties include overseeing operations of prepress department. Managed company employee estimators inquiries for prepress pricing and complexity of incoming jobs. Educated company estimators and customers of job implementation and print production costs. Interacted with all levels of employees and customers providing understanding and satisfactory results. Consultant for special print purchasing projects. Extensive knowledge of Spot and CMYK color prepress and design for sheet fed and web presses. Basic and advanced design production projects, transforming and composing layouts to print ready files in a deadline driven environment.

Sir Speedy Printing
Bohemia, NY * Hauppauge, NY * Ronkonkoma, NY 1986 - 1991
Production Manager/ Graphic Artist

* Duties included paste up, typesetting, bindery, supply ordering and print scheduling.

Retail 1975 – 1984
Retail cashier and customer service for A & S Dept. Stores and Several Mid Island Dept. Stores.

Education

SUNY Suffolk, Farmingdale, New York and SUNY Suffolk, Riverhead, NY
Member of Graphic Design Advisory Board SUNY Suffolk Eastern Campus

References

Available upon request

Work Examples

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