|  American
Wholesale Thermographers
Lorton, Virginia
November 2002 - April 2003
American Wholesale Thermographers
(AWT) is a nationally recognized printing corporation that
serves the printing trade on a wholesale basis. Basically,
if you were to go to any FedEx-Kinko's, Alphagraphics, Sir
Speedy, or anywhere else you wanted to get some customized
printing projects done that requires you to come back another
day, it's because they're sourcing it to an AWT branch.
AWT is a printing company that specializes in specialty
projects; printing onto unusual stocks, rare colors, powder
coating, raised-type printing, etc. I worked there in their
pre-press department, doing several tasks, from preparing
client-provided camera-ready artwork, scanning, to the actual
typesetting of requested materials. Business cards were
easily 50% of the workload, in the Northern Virginia branch,
but we also did other projects such as stationery, invitations,
and customized projects. This was also a second-shift position,
which meant that I started my shift in the afternoon, and
often left in the middle of the night.
I
left AWT in April 2003, because the hours were too difficult
to adapt to. Furthermore, in order to advance my career
as a designer, I had to leave Virginia to find work, and
an opportunity arose which brought me to Atlanta, Georgia.
Duties:
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Responsible for handling of customer emails, ensuring
the correct receival of camera-ready artwork and other
client-provided materials.
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Scanning of lasers and other provided materials to be
used in layout of requested projects.
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Typesetting of business cards, letterheads, stationery
and other printed projects.
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Managed the data entry of all accountable jobs for every
single night, so that concise and approximate records
could be kept for efficient referral and repeat orders.
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Enforced integrity of materials of corporations, and
that any created materials adhered to brand guidelines
to various companies and institutions.
Accomplishments:
Computers
and software:
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Windows 2000 primary platform
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Macintosh G4 OS 8.7.2 secondary usage
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ADOBE - PageMaker (8.0), Photoshop (7.0), Illustrator
(10), Acrobat/Distiller (5.0)
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Corel Draw
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QuarkXPress
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