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Sharon Hart 2005 Ivar Ave., Apt. 17, Los Angeles, CA 90068 / tel: (323) 467-4737 / e-mail:

Objective: Graphic Design/Production Artist Position Skills: Adobe CS4 Suite including PhotoShop, Illustrator, Flash and Dreamweaver; Fireworks, QuarkXpress, InDesign, Multi-Ad Creator, FreeHand, Digital camera, Scanner and Digital clean-up, Photo Manipulation, File conversions, web design utilizing html and css style sheets Experience:Administrative Assistant – Rider Levett Bucknall – Los Angeles, CA, May 2004 to August 2008 (relocated) Portland, OR, September 2008 to Present Administrative and marketing duties including preparing professional Proposals and photographic reports using InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator and Acrobat, created company invitations and flyers as well as file manipulation and ftp blueprint site downloads. Production Designer - Brown Advertising Agency, Thousand Oaks, CA, December 2002 to May 2004 Design Auto Ads for the LA Times, Daily News and Ventura Star. Create art & headlines, manipulate & color correct photos and produce layouts to clients’ specifications using Multi-Ad Creator, Illustrator and PhotoShop. Production Artist - Vertis Inc., Van Nuys, CA, June 2001 to August 2002 Designed Auto, Retail, Recruitment and Real estate ads for such clients as LA Times, Daily Breeze and Daily News using Multi-Ad Creator and QuarkXpress. Headline, illustration and logo creation using Illustrator. Photo manipulation and color correction using PhotoShop. Coded ad fields for interactive use on company web page. Graphic Artist - TradeNet Publishing, Gardner, KS, March 2000 to April 2001 Graphic layout and design for promotional products according to clients’ specifications. Recreated logos and images and converted to EPS format. Pantone spot, four color process matching and color separation. Scanned, cleaned and applied color correction to art and photos. Set copy and chose font matches. Set charts in Illustrator to proportion and exported in EPS format.

Production / Writer - Kaw Valley Independent Newspaper, Lawrence, KS, April 1998 to January 2000 Newspaper layout and mock-up with production staff. Loaded text, graphics, and ads in QuarkXpress. Wrote articles on music, news and lectures. Sold and designed ads, compiled, organized and formatted a bi-weekly calendar of community events. Technical Writer / Production Artist - Artek Inc., Shawnee, KS, June 1997 to March 1998 Writing and layout for instructional safety manuals using PageMaker, WordScan and PhotoShop. Education: English Literature Major, Western Civilization Minor, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, 1995-1999 Currently enrolled in Web Design and Flash at Pacific Northwest College of Art (PNCA) in Portland, Oregon.