Candidate of the week: Graphic Artist/Finished Artist Prepress, Sydney

Summary
Fifteen years of experience as a Graphic Prepress Operator with a wide range of skills from layout, point of sale packaging, troubleshooting and on the job training in the printing industry.

Successfully completed a one year course in Graphic Design, Desktop Publishing and Printing which I undertook to broaden my skills and enliven my creativity. With encouragement for having real promise I am keen for the opportunity to further my career in this industry. Although I have limited experience with design, I believe my enthusiasm, natural talent, fast learning ability and excitement for creativity would make me a valuable employee.


Skills
Finished Artist/Prepress
As a Senior Prepress Operator I brought coordination to the department and gave valued support to the supervisor, helping the department to become more efficient. My positive personality kept up morale in the department when the company was failing.

My experience in the print industry has taught me to become proactive in voicing opinions and creating solutions to problematic layouts for the final product.

With my interest in learning new skills and the enjoyment of a challenge, I was often selected to be one of the first employee’s to be trained on new software and equipment. One of these situations was when my past employer installed a cutting table for packaging, including software, and I became the senior operator. My tasks were training other employee’s and having an active role in the creating of Point of Sale packaging. This led to me having the knowledge to create carton designs of my own.

I am a self-motivated and reliable employee, able to work independently as well as being a conscientious and dependable part of a team. I have good time management and personal organisation skills.

15 years experience in the print industry, has led me to develop a wide range of technical skills.

Workflow systems
Screen Trueflow and AGFA Apogee - includes Preps and Pandora
Esko Packaging software
ArtiosCAD carton plotter software, Plato carton imposition software, Kongsberg XE10 cutting table, xe-guide software for the cutting table.
PC / Mac OS Platform
Adobe InDesign CS
Adobe Illustrator CS
Adobe Photoshop CS
QuarkXpress


Employment History
Locographics Pty Ltd/ Pacific Plus April – November 2010
Graphic Reproduction
Duties – Responsible for the manipulation and colour correction of images for a variety of magazines which included Virgin Blue and Weight Watchers.
Reported to a senior graphic reproducer for direction and finalisation of edits to images, as well as receiving instructions from designers and editors of each magazine.

Chippendale Printing 1996 - 2010
Senior Prepress & Packaging operator 2008 – 2010
Duties – Responsible for solving problematic jobs and those with unusual printing conditions for offset and packaging print.
Supported employees with a major change in the workflow system from Trueflow to AGFA. Troubleshooting issues which prevented a job from printing.
Creating, under direction, and redrawing of knife lines with CAD software for Point of Sale packaging which included the operation of a cutting table. Training employee’s in the use of this software and equipment.

Prepress operator 1996 - 2008
After completing the four years apprenticeship, my skills developed to a high standard. These skills include colour specification for offset printing, trapping, an eye for detail and resolving issues that arose from the design to final print.


Education
July - Dec. 2011 Jan. - June 2011 1996 - 2000
Printing & Graphic Arts (Graphic Prepress) Printing & Graphic Arts (Desktop Publishing) Printing & Graphic Arts (Trade Certificate)
Cert. III - Ultimo TAFE Cert. II – Ultimo TAFE Cert. IV - Ultimo TAFE



email.  pstarky@bigpond.net.au