MINI-BIOGRAPHY

Ana's ideal position is one where she can make a positive difference for the customers and the company’s bottom line with her skills and talents. She enjoys a challenge and the ability to turn problems into opportunities. She is creative, motivated and enthusiastic. She is always seeking new opportunities to enhance her coaching, presentation, and facilitation skills. Ana loves to share information and knowledge with her colleagues and co-workers. 

EXPERIENCE

Creates life-like graphite portraits of people and pets. Beautifully rendered and ready to frame portraits. Gets an amazing likeness of subject.  Created on acid free paper with 2B graphite. Sizes vary.

Creates "eye-catching" professional websites that are informative and easy to navigate. Not only are the websites created but are also beautifully designed by a professional graphic designer. Ana is a webmaster and a web designer.

Provide superior service to customer needs in a wide range of service; setting up new Phone lines for customers; coordinate phone service transfer from one location to another; review phone bill and make necessary adjustments to customer’s bill; trouble shoot customer calls and making recommendations that meet customer needs; selling various products to clients, i.e. Smart Touch, Long Distance Plan, Maintenance Services, Cellular Products and Services; and High Speed Sympatico Internet Service. Also look after repair issues, customer complaints, sooth irate customers. Extensive daily use of computer systems using a Windows based program.

Teaching freehand illustration (drawing the fashion model) to full-time first year design student. This is an introductory half-course. Duties also include teaching computer design techniques to full-time final year design students. The course is a full course concentrating on layout, design and marketing techniques using a Mac computer.

Self Employed Illustrator / Registered Graphic Designer duties include: Web design, illustrations (various media), creating posters, brochures, handouts, logo creation, corporate identity packages, annual reports, newsletters and bulletins. Duties also include creating slide presentations on an IBM based computer and outputting onto slide film for 35mm slides or for electronic presentations. These include word slides, computer illustrations, diagrams, using a scanner and photo-manipulation software.

Creating slide presentations on an IBM based computer and outputting onto slide film for 35mm slides. These include word slides, computer illustrations, diagrams, using a scanner and photo-manipulation software. Duties also include working on a MAC based computer (as a back up for the other artist) creating illustrations, posters, brochures, handouts, newsletters and bulletins. I also backed up the photographer as needed.

Design and layout of magazines, picking and sizing photographs, commissioning illustrations, specification of type and colour, designing and assembling ads and special promotional projects, illustration, in-house forms, coordination of art department, paste-up, ordering supplies and printing, hiring other artists, and troubleshooting.

Design to camera ready of advertisements, brochures, business cards, promotionals, small publications, posters, flyers, and handouts. Duties also included: stat camera work, and minor typesetting. This was a temporary position to help with seasonal overflow.

Complete design and layout of magazine from concept to finished art. Duties also included occasional ad design and mechanicals.

Graphic design, paste-up, mechanicals, layouts, stats (PMTs), illustration, colour separation, mock ups, type specification, border designs, ordering supplies and printing, couriers, and troubleshooting.

Freelance Artist duties (for several clients) include: logo design, business card / letterhead / envelope design, mechanicals, paste-ups, illustrations, portraits, publication revamping and layout.

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