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Career PortfolioDeani Ryder
Contents
• Introduction
• Education
• Career P.E.A.K.S.
• Professional Experience
• Samples
Introduction
Hello, my name is Deani Ryder. I am currently working on my bachelor’s degree in Business with a minor in Marketing, anticipated to graduate in May 2013. I have 15 years of experience in the graphic design industry. I am seeking a career change to work in the field of marketing while utilizing my graphic design skills. I have extensive experience dealing with clients and managing multiple creative projects at once. I have produced quality work on a consistent level with a strong attention to detail in a deadline driven environment. I can work independently and manage own priorities or function in a team environment. I have excellent communication, organization, time management skills. I am a team player who is creative, enthusiastic and likes to get things done.
Education
Keystone College | La Plume | PABachelor of Science | Business
(Anticipated) May 2013
Minor in Marketing
Current GPA: 3.93
Luzerne County Community College
Nanticoke | PAAssociate in Applied Science | Graphic Design
May 1992
Career P.E.A.K.S.
• Personal Characteristics That Add Value:
• People Skills – Maintain sound working relationships with co-workers, including peers, employees and other team members.
• Reliable – Getting the job done.
• Excellent Work Ethic – Set of values based on morals of hard work and commitment.
• Experience:
• Graphic Artist with over 15 years of experience in the graphic design industry seeks career in marketing.
• Extensive experience dealing with clients and managing multiple creative projects at once.
Career P.E.A.K.S.
• Accomplishments:
• Acted as a consultant in design, production and communications with internal and external customers to develop ad layout & content for publication.
• Served as a liaison for team members to ensure other artists understood graphic bulletins, updates, rules & regulations & techniques used in Adobe Illustrator CS for better productivity.
• Worked with fellow team members to coordinate and monitor workflows and represented the Graphics department in sales management meetings.
• Coordinated art assist needs between sales offices as needed to cover manpower shortages.
Career P.E.A.K.S.
• Knowledge:
• Graphic artist for over 15 years with knowledge of ad layout, color, typography, readability, photo corrections, and clean-up to produce desired results to ensure customer satisfaction.
• Partial list of business courses completed: Advertising & Sales, Strategic Marketing, Financial and Managerial Accounting, Statistics, Economics, Organizational Behavior, Employment Law, Global Issues, and Business Ethics.
• Customer Service – Services to a client before, during and after a purchase, enhancing the level of customer satisfaction.
• Ability to Communicate.
Career P.E.A.K.S.
• Skills:
• Adaptability – Easily adapt to changing conditions.
• Comprehensive – Learn effectively and retain job knowledge.
• Self-Managed – Take initiative.
• Computer Skills - Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Quark Xpress, Adobe Acrobat, Adobe Font Folio, Microsoft Office, and other mainstream desktop design programs.
• Customer Service Skills - Extensive experience dealing with clients acting as a consultant in design, production and communications. Worked with sales to help meet the needs of the client.
• Multitasking Skills - Ability to manage multiple creative projects at once with a strong attention to detail in a deadline driven environment.
Professional Experience
• Graphic Artist | Dex One | Dunmore | PA
• 1992-2010
• Designed, composed and revised sold | speculative advertisements in a team environment for the Embarq & AT&T Yellow Pages, also working with sales and additional graphics offices.
• Assisted pagination support with urgent ads that were holding book production, provided advice on design and prepress concerns, volunteered for projects and special assignments.
• Performed technical tasks with contemporary knowledge of ad layout, color, typography, readability, photo corrections, file compression, vectorization & clean-up to produce desired results to ensure customer satisfaction.
Professional Experience
• Generated design concepts for the composition of creative and impactful speculative advertising.
• Reproduced customer’s logos & designs in addition to my own original designs.
• Trained new hires on departmental workflow to meet company standards before sending them in their team environment.
• Trained team members on new computer programs.
• Attended various seminars: cost containment measures, harassment in the workplace, methods of conflict & resolution.
• Maintained a 98.5% or higher accuracy to cut the cost of claims.
Professional Experience
• Technical Writer | Graphic Artist | Bucilla Corporation | Hazelton | PA
• 1991-1992
• Composed instructions, charts and graphs for a variety of needlecraft kits to be distributed globally.
• Reproduced artist’s designs, originally using standard paste-up and layout techniques, later using computer software for reproduction.
• Attended technical artist|writer seminar.
Top Right: Package Design.Bottom Right:Handmade Cards.
Samples
Above: Flyer for a local car club.
Left: Composed instructions, charts and various graphs for a variety of needlecraft kits to be distributed globally.Below: Iron-On design with chart.
Above: Class assignment to work directly with the photographer. My responsibilities were to design several different ad layouts for a brand of my choice. I created the thumbnails, top left. The photographer and I then decided on the best ad layout, top center. The photographer then used my layout to recreate the advertisement.
Samples
Above: Assignment to create a magazine cover.
Top Right: Still life drawing, pencil.Bottom Right: Painting, acrylic.
Samples
• Samples of speculative ads to appear here.