Candidates of the week - Overseas Candidate - India - Graphic Pre-Press Artist

15 July 2008

Graphic Pre Press Artist with 10+ years experience in Graphic Design, Imposition, Imagesetter, CTP, plate setters, step-&-repeat, image-management, digital-printing machines.

I have been granted a Class BN subclass 136 Skilled – Independent visa, on 23rd May 2008 for a period of 5 years by the Australian High Commission.  I plan to move to Australia by 5 August 2008.

Educational Qualification

Diploma in Printing Technology
Subjects:  Planning, Reproduction Photography, Surface Preparation, Press Work, Finishing, Quality Control, Estimating, Forwarding
Institute:    Institute of Printing Technology and Govt. Polytechnic.
Year of Passing:    June 1997
Completed 3 months course in desktop publishing
(PageMaker,   coral draw, Adobe InDesign, Quark Xpress, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator and Adobe Acrobat, flatbed scanner operation etc on windows platform)
Project work:    Production of a book scanner and DTP

A.I.S.S.C.E.
Subjects:    English, Maths, Physics, Chemistry, Biology
Institute:    Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya, Idukki DT
Year of Passing:    June 1994

A.I.S.C.E.
Subjects :    English, Malayalam, Maths, Science, Social Science
Institute:    Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya, Idukki DT
Year of Passing:    June 1992

Professional Experience

Senior Pre-Press Artist
Company:    Excel GRAPHICS, Cochin – 17, Kerala, India
Period of Service:    From 2007 May to till date
       
Job profile :    

  • High level of skill in graphic design software products, such as Photoshop, Corel Draw, Illustrator, QuarkXpress, Indesign for Designing Graphics & Artworks.

  • Prepare file for the whole graphics industry based around pre-press, reproduction and printing.

  • Design and set out books, flyers, folders, greeting cards, posters, calendars, cd's, logos, business cards for digital and offset print media.

  • Lay-outing and type setting of   Brochures, Magazines, posters, Office Forms Designing Graphics, Artworks.


Graphic Pre-Press Artist
Company:    Colortech, Cochin – 18, Kerala, India
Period of Service:    From 1999 April to March 2007

Job profile:    

  • Planning and creating artwork and related materials, using computers and other instruments.

  • Designing Graphics, Artworks

  • Design and set out books, flyers, folders, greeting cards, posters, calendars, cd's, logos, business cards, cinema spots plus a variety of other requirements for digital and offset print media. Lay-outing and type setting of   Brochures, Magazines, posters, Office Forms and continuous forms.

  • Working on computer screen-based equipment for scanning, color separation, color correction, retouching, masking, creative designing, combining, imposing process used to transfer images to printing plates.

  • Operating process Graphic Camera for reproducing images in negative or positive film.

  • Developing film manually or by film processor.

  • Printing proofs and checking quality

  • Using various software such as Corel draw, Adobe Photoshop, In Design, Illustrator and MS programs.

  • Produce film positives and negatives and Film outputting with an image setter Lino Quasar HQS (Heidelberg).

  • Design the different print and digital media on the computer, with these data print proofs and organize the print job with the printing department.


email:  shibuthomas5@rediffmail.com