Skills

Quark Xpress, Indesign, Photoshop, Acrobat, Word, Excel, Miles 33, Layout 8000, FTP, Telnet, Python, HTML, Flash.

Interests

Conference volunteering, open-mike poetry readings, website development, producing poetry chapbooks

Education

B.A., Mathematics, Oberlin College, 1986
Activities included cooking for co-op dorm, work in food service, work as film librarian for audiovisual department, summer job for Buildings and Grounds department, self-designed internship at company that sold computer animation for advertising


Work Experience

Layout and Prepress, CNC/Gatehouse Media, Needham, MA 1993-2009
Layout using Miles 33 database-driven ad management and page layout system, and taking into account restricted color positions, Pagination in Quark Xpress using custom in-house script extensions, Generation, inspection with Adobe Acrobat and sending of PDF files as part of a team on computer network using Mac and PC  and advertising database.
Mechanicals and photostats, display ad layout, quality control for regional newspaper group.
Met weekly and monthly deadlines. Inventoried missing ads on database using Telnet. Built entire classified ad sections. Laid out ad arrangement for weekly newspaper news and arts sections. Laid out monthly tabloids. Created infographic maps for real estate publication. Built pages in Quark Xpress,  imported ads from database, made PDF files and sent them via computer network to printing plant.

Layout artist, Taconic Newspapers, Millbrook, NY, 1987-1988
Mechanicals and photostats, display ad building for regional newspaper group.