Candidate of the week - Pre-Press/Digital Printer, Brisbane

August 2009 – Present Kwik Kopy Eagle Farm
Graphic Designer / Typesetter / Pre-press / Digital Print Operator
• Graphic design and all pre-press duties for high volume digital print facility
• Full colour digital press operator, wide format vinyl and canvass printing
• Client relations, design breifs and presentations

August 2006 – December 2008 W estminster Printing
Pre-press Operator / Typesetter / Graphic Designer
• Pre-press operator for large offset printing company
• Complete processing of jobs from typesetting/design, photo correction, colour
management, imposition, CTP/film to plate, RIP workflows,
1-6 colour press, PMS/CMYK conversions, PDF technologies, die-cuts, UV varnishes, font management, file management, Mac & PC
• Client relations, CTP maintenance, observational knowledge of profile calibration procedures from press through to RIP, plate and proofing
• Team player and also worked unsupervised as primary night shift operator

June 2006 – July 2006 Jumbo Aerial Photography
Aerial and Commercial Photographer
• Contract aerial photographer for real estate, commercial, signage and various advertising media
• Extensive photo manipulation and colour correction (photoshop), graphic design, file management, client relations

March 2005 – March 2006 E ssai Films
‘Jack Kain’ (Television Pilot – Retail Release March 2007)
• Head Producer and Director under contract for Jack Kain Enterprises
• Co-ordinated all facets of producing and directing a low budget TV Pilot (50 minutes) including budgets, scheduling, casting, hiring crew, creative treatments, photography and finally acquisition, editing and DVD authoring

November 2004 W arner Roadshow Pictures
‘See No Evil’ (35mm Feature Film) – Griffith University Internship
• Assistant to award winning ‘Director of Photography’ (Ben Nott A.C.S)
• Digital SLR stills photography, photo retouching and correction, digital prints for grade comparisons (entailed monitor/software/printer profile calibrations), colour management, graphic design, desktop publishing
• Liaising with other key crew members and cast on various issues surrounding digital photography and colour management

2001 - 2003 Foundation Healthcare
Bulimba Medical Centre & Inala Medical Centre
• 2nd in charge, acting Practice Manager
• Reception, data entry and office management duties
• Customer service, phones, patient relations, complaint resolution
• Database and digital records maintenance, weekly and monthly financial and
statistical reporting to Head Office, stock inventory and management


Skills

2009 Productivity Partners
Certificate IV in IT - Web Design
• Website architecture, design and all facets of client relations, project management and technical protocols relating to building a successful website.

2002 – 2004 G riffith Film School
Bachelor of Digital Media Production (Film, Media & TV)
• Major in Digital Media (video production, film production, digital design,
non-linear editing, screen industry practice, screen writing, editing, colour grading, DVD authoring)

1998 – 2001 Qld. University of Technology
Bachelor of Music (Performance)
• Major: Piano, Minor: Science

1992 – 1996 Browns Plains State High Senior Certificate
• Overall Position: 3
• Highest achiever in Biology, Chemistry, Physics and Music



Education

Graphic Design & Print Production
6 years experience as a graphic designer for print, web and video applications.
Accurate and efficient typesetter for newsletters, annual reports, technical manuals etc. 4 years experience in offsett and digital pre-press roles: proofing,
colour management, printing impositions, RIP workflows and general server
management. Industry trained digital and wide format print operator, including
calibration and troubleshooting.

Photography
Film and Digital, various experience including aerial, weddings, web content and various applications for film content and digital post-production, including photo restoration and retouching.

Film
5 years freelance experience in many facets of film production: producing, directing, camera work, editing, liasing with composers, fx and compositing teams, etc: an overall film production all-rounder with appreciation for various
roles and the facets of each department as a cohesive system.

Editing
Linear and non-linear systems, experience in SD and HD formats, EDL acquisition, compression technology for CD-rom, DVD and web formats (Quicktime, Windows Media, etc.)

DVD Authoring
Highly experienced within DVD Studio Pro, menu design, transcoding MPEG2
via compressor along with proven technical knowledge surrounding MPEG2,
AIFF and DOLBY audio as relating to current DVD format system.


Software
Advanced:
Adobe CS4
InDesign
Photoshop
Illustrator
Acrobat/Pitstop
Quark
Freeheand
Microsoft Office
Final Cut Studio
Adobe Premier

Intermeditate:
Dreamweaver
Fireworks
(Mac OSX and PC
platforms)
Touch Typing
80wpm
98% accuracy


email.  jjasonv@hotmail.com