Sharon Hart

507 NW 22 Ave., Apt. 202, Portland, OR 97210 / tel: (626) 354-6185 / e-mail: sharon.hart@q.com

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.