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CREAM ADVERTISING PTY LTD

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
October 2000 to October 2004

SENIOR ART DIRECTOR / GRAPHIC DESIGNER

Clients: Porter’s Liquors, Getronics, Wholesale Kitchens, Sydney Kitchens, Freedom Kitchens, Chesterton International, Leda Holdings, Hordern, Tim Green Commercial, Salter Associates, Skye Pacific, Getronics, Roderick, Surf Toyota and Hyundai cororate

Mentored two junior designers (from 2003)
Managed creative department workflow
Created concepts for client print materials and print and television advertising
Was direct client contact for Porter’s Liquors, Wholesale Kitchens, Freedom Kitchens and Sydney Kitchens, some of our most important accounts
Art directed, designed and produced projects, and prepared files for prepress using Indesign, Photoshop, Illustrator and Quark
Directed photoshoots for some commercial property clients and Porter s Liquors
Proofread and copy-edited all projects
Performed press checks
Transmitted ads electronically using Quickcuts, a service automating pdf creation and ftp to media
Determined network, software and hardware needs
Trained staff in production standards, software and operating system usage
Created archiving structure for client work, from server to back up
Maintained creative department Macs – acted as IT help desk, installed system and other software, diagnosed and corrected problems on individual Macs and created and maintained databases for software inventory, font and image libraries in Filemaker
Trained staff in production standards, software and operating system usage
Streamlined, fixed and maintained font library in Adobe Type Manager

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