Elfranko Wessels
New York, NY
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What kind of job are you looking for?
I am looking for full-time work as a print production manager or production artist. I am very experienced in print production, with more than 10 years of experience. Specializing in educational publishing means that I have had to have proficiency in showing kids everything from cartography to mathematics to cookbooks to advertising to biological drawings, etc.... 
Posted @ 07:37AM, August 13, 2007
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Work history
Graphic Designer
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graphic designer
How would you describe your time at Spring O'Brien?
Work with Creative Director, from developing concepts to finalizing finished product, in all aspects of commercial real estate advertising. Present design alternatives to client, respond to criticism to flesh out and fine-tune designs. Material includes boards, mailers, magazine and newspaper ads, HTML pages, invites to open houses and other events, brochures, 3-D stand-alones, and other advertising material. Creative process includes message development as well as design, including doing photo research, photo editing and color correction, type setting and manipulation. Other responsibilities include making mock-ups, finalizing files for printers, file management, archiving, and version tracking....
Production Artist
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production artist
How would you describe your time at Creative Curriculum Initiat...?
Development, design and production of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt project that included Student Editions, Teachers Editions, Workbooks, Parent Guides and assorted promotional materials. Lead production team in developing design ideas into working templates. Extensive art- and photo-editing, and general production work....
Production Manager
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production manager
How would you describe your time at Princeton Review?
* Responsible for production of four- and two-color textbooks and tests for Grades K-12, and accompanying promotional and marketing material.
* Work with designers and content editors to adopt templates to production needs; make templates usable for production department.
* Partake in planning and roll-out of new and ongoing educational material, from conception through design, template creation, layout and production, to dealing with printers, translators and other vendors, to facilitating shipping and delivery.
* Facilitate material to and from vendors; provide guidance to vendors to ensure quality and timely deliverables.
* Communicate with other departments, including Editorial and Production Editorial, Art, Sales, Online, Manufacturing and Account Management, to ensure that deliverables are met ahead of or on schedules, other departments' needs are understood and met on a timely basis.
* Analyze workflow with an eye to maximize use of employees' particular talent and abilities; keeping abreast of developments in technology, and implementation of appropriate technologies to workflow....
Production Artist
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graphic designer
• production artist
How would you describe your time at AQUENT?
Design and production for a variety of clients, including advertising, corporate, educational. Material produced include magazine and newspaper ads, brochures, booklets, presentation boards, etc. Clients include MetLife, JPMorgan, College Board, Silver Editions, Columbia University Press.
Graphic Designer
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graphic designer
• production artist
How would you describe your time at Bill Smith Studios?
Design, production of biology, science, social studies school textbooks for grades K-8. Create templates and spec sheets; pour and correct layout; oversee and train interns to scan and manage art; communicate art specs and changes to illustrators. Bill Smith Studios clients include McGraw-Hill, SRA, Scholastic, Harcourt, Steck-Vaughn....
Graphic Designer
tags:
graphic designer
• production artist
How would you describe your time at Inkwell Publishing Solutions?
Design, production of math school textbooks for grades K-8. Create templates and spec sheets; pour and correct layout; manage art scanning, alteration and correction; flightcheck and produce electronic files for printer. Inkwell clients include McGraw-Hill, Scott Foresman.
Education
Philosphy
How would you describe your time at Columbia University?
BA in Philosophy; GPA: 3.4
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