Virtual Resume…
Beth
McCrindle
Graphic Designer and More, Can Wear Many Hats!
bmccrindle@gmail.com
3576 Nile St., San Diego, CA 92104
619-282-1951
Seeking to re-invent my life, Part II.
Would like to settle into something stable until retirement, tired of bouncing around (not always by choice). I have 17 years experience as a graphic designer in the printing and publishing industry, plus 4 years in marketing support for a multinational electronics firm as Senior Graphic Designer/Assistant to the Marketing Services Director. In 2006, I started a web-based business with sites selling custom flash drives, other USB peripherals and variety giftware. Barely profitable after a year and with my savings exhausted, had to give it up. Now attending night classes to obtain a technician certificate in Geographic Information Systems software (ArcView). Looking for the right full time position, also available for freelance or contract work.
Ideal: a casual but busy atmosphere, short commute (I live in North Park) or telecommute. I can work on Mac or PC platform. I excel at producing printed media and I am a Photoshop pro. I have been using InDesign for the past year and I'm very comfortable with it. I can write and edit copy, have excellent communication skills, am conscientious, detail-oriented and a quick study. Expertise in QuarkXpress, Photoshop, Illustrator, Acrobat; MS Office applications. I can design and prep graphics for web. Digital samples available on request. You can view my somewhat dated portfolio here at bmcgrafix.com, including my cover designs from my work for Marcoa Publishing.
WORK HISTORY
Dec. 2007-Nov. 2008: Graphic Design Assistant, San Diego County Registrar of Voters, GIS/Document Services. Election year temp. Designed and produced a series of posters (including all photography) as a guide for election supply inventory and packing, for which I received a letter of commendation and bonus from Deborah Seiler, ROV. Redesigned Poll Worker Election Manual, designed or revised posters, forms, PowerPoint presentations, miscellaneous training materials, and babysat photocopiers (no job too small!).
Sept. 2006-Oct. 2007: Set up B&B Distributors, LLC, dba Flash-Drives-Plus.com (USB peripherals) and DigitalEddie.com (variety giftware). Handled sales and communication with manufacturers and clients. Designed graphics and wrote content for web sites and ads. Assisted clients with logo design for custom orders. Did some Google/Yahoo pay-per-click bid management and keyword list/ad creation for SEO (search engine optimization).
Oct. 2002-Sept. 2006: Steren Electronics International, LLC, San Diego, CA. Assistant to the Marketing Services Director and Senior Graphic Designer. Produced projects for three subsidiary companies, supervised projects/graphics staff in Steren's Shanghai office, and tracked general production for the seven companies in the Steren Group. I designed catalogs, brochures, direct mail, manuals, packaging, display ads, posters, trade show displays, etc. and arranged for printing and delivery on schedule.
1999-2002: Marcoa Publishing, Inc., San Diego, CA. Senior (Level III) Graphic Designer. Served as Art Director on several projects, producing a variety of Chamber of Commerce publications, real estate guides and military installation newcomer guides. Designed covers and editorial layout, taking publications from concept through press. Worked with regional editors or Public Affairs officers, coordinating text, graphic elements, advertisements and database. Also designed comps for prospective clients, media kits, CD jackets/labels, advertisements.
1997-1999: Hart Publishers, Inc., Escondido, CA. Graphic Designer; Ad design, marketing materials, editorial & cover design for directories and guidebooks. QuarkXpress, Photoshop, Illustrator.
1988-1997: Inkwell Printing Company, Escondido, CA. Graphic Designer; logos, business & personal stationery, newsletters, flyers, brochures, forms etc. as well as traditional paste-up, camera, stripping and plating. Pagemaker, Photoshop, Illustrator, some Freehand.
1986-1988: Freelance work.
1985-1986: North Coast Publishers, Encinitas, CA. Pre-press artist, night crew lead, entailed delegating workload, building newspaper pages and ads, final QC and sending pages to camera.
EDUCATION
2004: Seminars; Color Management by Adobe, Apple and Gretag Macbeth, Adobe Photoshop Conference by CompuMaster.
2001: Foundation College, San Diego, CA. Certification in Web Design. 180-hour Web Design course covering Flash and Dreamweaver. I do not retain any HTML/site-building expertise, never used these skills in the course of my employment history.
1994-96: Palomar
College, San Marcos, CA. Completed ROP courses/Certificates in Mac Basics,
QuarkXpress, Pagemaker, Illustrator and Photoshop. Seminars on Powerpoint
& Freehand.
1983-84: A.A.
Fine Art, Phoenix Community College, Phoenix AZ. Emphasis on Sculpture,
Design, Painting, Drawing, Art History.
1980-81: University
of Arizona, Tucson, AZ. One semester as Engineering Major.
1979-80: Prairie
State College, Chicago Heights, Ill. Enrolled as Business Major, 4.0 GPA
1978-79: Southern
Illinois University, Carbondale, Ill. Studied Sculpture, Biology, English
Literature
1978: Graduate of Bloom Township High School, Chicago Heights, Ill. National Merit Scholar
REFERENCES
S. D. County
ROV: Nellie Munoz, GIS Analyst, 858-694-3473; Nicole Alejandre, Chief
Deputy Election Services, 858-495-5492
Laura Paglia,
Marketing Director, Steren Electronics, 858-546-5044
Rikki Lee,
Project Director, Zipline Performance Group, 303-736-2858
Patricia Cross,
Art Director, Marcoa Publishing Inc., 858-530-3399
Frank &
Zee Trutta, Owner/Operators, Inkwell Printing Co., 760-743-8681
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