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Marilyn S. Terry |
Updated: 8/26/10 |
| Long document expert (book, catalog, magazine design & production) Mac/PC |
| Email |
mmdesign201  earthlink.net |
| Location |
New York City, NY /Jersey City, NJ |
| Interested In |
Full-Time, Part-Time, Freelance, Temp to perm/contract |
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| About |
MARILYN SCHEYER TERRY
Jersey City, New Jersey 07302
201-230-4248
mmdesign201@earthlink.net
GRAPHIC DESIGNER, ART DIRECTOR, PROJECT MANAGER
Senior Designer | Art Director with 20 years of experience spanning employee & vendor management, client relations, training & development, design & production, project management, and computer & board skills. Mastery of leading design software including Adobe CS4 (InDesign, Illustrator, PhotoShop, Dreamweaver), PowerPoint and QuarkXPress. Strengths in translating complex material into easily digestible information. Adept at managing large, complex projects, spearheading creative development and managing customer relations.
CORE COMPETENCIES
· Creative Problem Solving
· Presentations
· Long Document Formatting
· Style Sheets
· Master Pages
· Photo Shoot Direction
· Photo Retouching
· Silhouetting
· Website Design
· HTML E-Mail Design
· Project Management
· Prepress Production
· Process Improvement
· Training Staff & Interns
· Branding & Identity
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Career Note Consultant and Freelance: November 2009 to May 2010. Full-time consultant, Arch Personal Care Products, South Plainfield, NJ, maternity leave assignment, sole graphic support for 9 person marketing & sales department. Produced all collateral including PPT presentations, ads, HTML e-mail, web banners, sell sheets and posters. Liaison to vendors, coordinated tradeshow materials and booths. Full-page ad in Cosmetics & Toiletries tied for first place in international On Target Ad Study. 2008–October 2009, Freelance Graphic Designer. Perform layout, design, and production for such clients as Benjamin Moore and a self-published author.
ECLIPSE MARKETING SERVICES. INC.
Morristown, New Jersey
2006-2008
Graphic Designer
Designed, laid out, and produced projects ranging from HTML e-mails and small bill insert booklets to advertisements, fliers, rate sheets, and channel line-ups for this advertising agency specializing in direct mail for the cable television industry.
* Re-engineered and streamlined design and production processes by introducing style sheets, master pages, templates, and libraries.
VARIOUS COMPANIES, Northern New Jersey
2005-2006
Graphic Designer
Working closely with temporary staffing companies The Boss Group, Creative Group, and Adecco, performed numerous assignments including document and collateral design and production.
* For Prudential Bank, created a Microsoft Word template from Quark documents using style sheets to enable client editing.
* For McGraw-Hill/The Grow Network, developed prototypes with style sheets for study guides and promotional materials that significantly improved the quality and speed of production.
* For ThorLabs, Inc., co-developed a 900 page catalog containing more than 10,000 products, from product photo shoots, retouching, and silhouetting to creation of detailed style sheets.
* For Toys "R" Us, performed layout of ad circulars using InDesign, InCopy, and PhotoShop.
* For the Girl Scout National Headquarters, supported Leader Magazine, a bilingual Asthma Patch booklet, and other in-house and public-facing books,
publications, and collateral.
ALPHA GRAPHICS, Wayne, New Jersey
2003-2005
Art Director & Design Specialist
Hired as one of this high-end quick print shop's first employees prior to its opening. Managed design and prepress workflow for multiple formats. Trained the owner and other employees in graphic design and production procedures. Developed logos, corporate identity packages, marketing collateral, and magazines. Supervised 3 part-time employees.
* Built the customer base using connections with previous freelance clients.
* Redesigned and produced a bi-monthly magazine for the New Jersey Golf Greens Keepers Association, interfacing with advertisers to maximize ad placement in the new design.
MULTI MEDIA DESIGN, Sparta, New Jersey
1993-2003
Principal & Founder
Launched and managed a full-service graphic design studio providing a broad range of design and production services for small and large companies, including document formatting, electronic prepress production, digital retouching, website design and production, PowerPoint presentations, corporate identity packages, and a variety of print products such as books, magazines, and newsletters. Drove new business development, sales, and marketing efforts. Built and managed a stable of freelancers to accommodate projects of all sizes. Trained employees on best practices in Adobe Creative Suite and QuarkXPress for both Mac and PC.
* Clients included American Advertising, Beat the Clock Corporate Communications, Chromatics Press, Cowles Business Media, Data Quest Systems, Ingersoll Rand, Minolta, Silver Burdett & Ginn (now Pearson Education), Waterloo Foundation for the Arts,
Information Services International, and others.
* Parlayed previous trade show activities into a project to provide production and design for the Chromatics Press book Color Bytes.
DIGIT MAGAZINE, Andover, New Jersey
1992-1997
Senior Designer & Production Manager
Headed magazine production and trade show section design for this small, independent magazine. Cultivated relationships with a broad range of advertisers and contributors including photographers, editors, proofreaders, and typesetters.
* Delivered high quality production and design for partnerships with 2 large trade shows, Grafix Trade Show Guide (now Photo Expo) and Folio Trade Show Guide, to launch Digit Magazine.
COUNTY COLLEGE OF MORRIS (CCM), Randolph, New Jersey
1989-2003
Art Director & Graphic Designer
Focusing on catalogs and special projects, designed and produced a wide range of college collateral including catalogs, brochures, billboards, and banners. Coordinated with printers and other vendors.
* Redesigned the college catalog 3 times during tenure to keep pace with evolving corporate image and changing student needs.
* Streamlined the catalog redesign process to save hours of production time and hundreds of dollars in costs, earning praise from the Department Head.
* Won numerous design awards from the National ouncil for Marketing & Public Relations, including District 1, 1st Place, 2002 (CCM catalog); District 1, 3rd Place, 2000 (CCM billboard and bus banner); National Paragon Award, 2nd Place, 1997 (CCM catalog); and District 1, 3rd Place, 1997 (CCM catalog).
FORMAL EDUCATION
Art – Concentration in Graphic Design
Thomas Edison State College, Trenton, New Jersey, B.A. candidate 3/2011
AA – Associate of Arts in Humanities – Concentration in Art, Graphic Design, and Advertising, County College of Morris (CCM), Randolph, New Jersey
ADDITIONAL TRAINING & DEVELOPMENT
HTML Certificate, Noble Desktop
Certificate in Computer Graphics for Designers & Illustrators (Mac), Montclair State University
Creating Newsletters People Will Read, Pagett Thompson Seminar
Web Design Courses, William Patterson University
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
Graphic Design Advisory Board, County College of Morris
Member, NAPP (National Association of PhotoShop Professionals)
Member, Graphic Artists Guild
Member, InDesign Users Group
TECHNICAL PROFICIENCIES
Adobe CS4 (InDesign, Illustrator, PhotoShop), Adobe Acrobat Professional, Adobe Type Manager Deluxe, Dreamweaver, Flash CS4, QuarkXpress, MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), Omni Page Pro, Adobe Type Manager Deluxe, Mac Font Suitcase, Image Scanning |
| Program Proficiency |
| Expert: |
CS4 Creative Suite (InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator), QuarK |
| Skilled: |
CS4 Dreamweaver, MS Office (word, excel, powerpoint) |
| Novice: |
CS4 Flash |
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| Other Skills |
| Prepress file preparation, style sheets, templates, photo retouching, |
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