Professional Profile

I am a graphics professional with over 20 years experience in the print and creative technology industry. Managing full scale creative tech-stack implementations; including storage, creative automation, creative technology roadmapping, and enterprise font management strategy. With an extensive background in production design, prepress, color management, brand identity, and creative troubleshooting; I am passionate about asset management, working with pixels, and fixing them when they do not do what we expect of them!


I take pride in my ability to work well under high-stress situations and am a fast learner of new concepts. I am an excellent communicator, skilled listener, and love working in a creative and challenging environment!


In addition, I am also an avid and passionate landscape photographer who always wishes to find more time behind the lens.


Education

Lansing Community College // Graphic Arts

Formal Training

Artwork Systems // Calibration & Color Management

Technical Skills

  • Adobe Creative Cloud

Photoshop

InDesign

Illustrator

Lightroom

Premier Pro

Media Encoder

Acrobat Pro DC

Creative Cloud Libraries

  • Enterprise Font Management

Monotype Fonts

Adobe Fonts

Universal Type Server


  • Color Management

CGS ORIS Color Tuner

Roland VersaWorks


  • Adobe AEM Assets

  • Adobe Workfront

  • Frame.io

  • Capture One Pro

  • ON1 Resize

  • Enfocus Switch

  • Apago PDF Enhancer

  • Signiant Media Shuttle

  • Archiware P5

  • Microsoft Office

  • Google Workspace

Expertise

  • Production Art & Design
    (Print / Packaging / Digital)

  • Color Management
    (Spot / CMYK / RGB)

  • Asset Management

  • Creative TechStack Roadmapping

  • Enterprise Backup/Archival

  • File Nomenclature Development

  • Complex Problem Solving

  • Brand Identity Standards

  • Workflow Solutioning

  • Enterprise Font Management Strategy

  • Creative Storage

  • Metadata Modeling

  • High-end Photo Retouching

Experience


Sr Analyst / Digital Marketing - Digital & Creative Solutions Lead

Whirlpool Corporation // Benton Harbor, Michigan
Sep 2021—Present


Deliver and support key tools and processes that are necessary to modernize content and experience generation capabilities for a world class internal agency.


  • Build and maintain a world class digital ecosystem to support the digital transformation of the company.

  • Partner with teams to develop technology strategy and solution roadmap, the technical design of solution architecture and the evaluation of short and long-term technology solutions.

  • Work and align with internal, external and global sponsors on key changes, priorities and strategies to meet business needs and drive business value.

  • Responsible for detailed requirements and ensuring those requirements can be translated into definable tasks for a development team.

  • Engage with multiple suppliers and maintain strong relationships.

  • Contribute to planning for operational activities supporting the business functions applications and infrastructure to establish sustainable plans for end user training / change management and to manage projects and enhancements through the value chain pipeline.

Graphic Specialist

Whirlpool Corporation // Benton Harbor, Michigan
Dec 2013—Sep 2021


Manage pre-production art-file preparation for all internal and external print, packaging and digital projects; including brand styling, font compliance, production best practices, and file integrity.


  • Run Flight Check on externally or internally provided files.

  • Responsible for linearization and color management of all output devices.

  • Produce Epson contract proofs from PDF-X4A.

  • Prepare comprehensive printed documentation for all outgoing files.

  • Fulfill file retrieval requests as needed.

  • Manage art file archiving for both internally and externally produced art files.

  • Copy externally-provided files to appropriate server.

  • Prepare low-resolution PDF files for printed literature for online accessibility.

Prepress Technician

Howard Printing Company // Portage, Michigan
Jul 2010—Dec 2013


  • Processed jobs from DTP applications from preflight to final output.

  • Create press ready layouts of 4 to 6 colors using preps.

  • Performed troubleshooting on problem files.

  • Proofed loose color and performed color corrections.

  • Xerox Docucolor 5000 operator.

  • Maintained all prepress equipment.

Prepress Manager

ImagiGrafx // Kalamazoo, Michigan
May 2008—Feb 2011


  • Manage department of graphic artists, and prepress operators.

  • Instituted new workflow in order to streamline production.

  • Trap and RIP files using OPI within an automated workflow.

  • Linearization and tone reproduction of all output devices.

  • Color management to ensure stability between proof and press.

  • Coordinate with customers on supplied graphics in a customer service role.

  • Current on all aspects of prepress by working regularly working in production.

  • Research new technologies.

Production Artist

Merchants Publishing Company // Kalamazoo, Michigan
May 2003—May 2008


  • Processed jobs from DTP applications from preflight to final output.

  • Composed images and created outlines.

  • Created press ready layouts from 4 to 6 colors using step and repeat software.

  • Performed troubleshooting on problem files.

  • Proofed loose color and performed color corrections.

  • Archive and catalog files.

  • Maintained all prepress equipment.

Photographer

e-tography.com // Kalamazoo, Michigan
2015–Present


Since as far back as I can remember, I have had a passion for the world of digital art. I also grew up in a family where my father was fascinated by the beauty of mountain landscapes! Somewhere along the way, those two worlds collided for me and I have dedicated my heart to travel, in search of finding dramatic natural landscapes to capture through the lens of digital photography. My hope is that I am able to present these images in an interesting and unique way.