ALSO AVAILABLE FOR ANTHONY CRISOSTOMO FREELANCE WORK! Reservoir, Victoria 3073 Australian Citizen 0424 182 436 Own transport & willing to travel! [email protected] www.github.com/ascdesignstudio www.ascdesignstudio.com Please check all my folio links on the last page! :) Summary I specialise in: Graphic Designer & Prepress Operates with urgency & delivers a Logos • Marketing Collaterals • Web Specialist with over 13 years strong performance. Design • Catalogue & Book Design • experience in print design. Excellent communications skills and Corporate Design • Prepress • Mail Merge Highly creative with online and print organised. • Typography • Illustration • Image layouts. Can work independently or Correction • Branding • Advertisement Great Analytical & Problem Solving collaboratively. Concepts • UI / UX Design Skills, fast learner, self-starter. I can ADAPT. SOFTWARE SKILLS PROFICIENT Adobe Acrobat • Bridge • Illustrator • InDesign • Photoshop SKILLSET HTML • EMMET • CSS • BOOTSTRAP • SASS • COMPASS • JQUERY • JAVASCRIPT X-FACTORS Comfortable using the CLI • Sublime Text or any text editor • Mac or Windows User • Good Presentation Skills Can use Content Management Systems (Basic Wordpress) • Intermediate MS Word & Excel • Minor troubleshoot software & hardware Professional experience JUNIOR FRONT END WEB DEVELOPER @ Taguchi Marketing • Feb 2017 – present • Melbourne • Industry: Digital Marketing Builds, proofs, schedules & delivers Integrates the supplied creative assets Taguchi Marketing is a Melbourne-based email campaigns on behalf of clients. & graphics to emails. software development company that has Builds the EDMS using special Encodes email customised templates developed and distributed the Taguchi software, the Taguchi Digital as required using html and css, & Digital Marketing Platform since 2008. Marketing Platform. some javascript for personalisation, Taguchi® enables you to easily create one-to-one messages through email, SMS, Assists in the development of email ensuring emails are all compliant to all mail clients. landing pages and web forms. Using the templates using photoshop, tasks same efficiency principle as the email Smart include but are not limited to slicing Troubleshoots, updates html & css Template. exporting jpegs, gifs, and gif issues encountered by clients with their animations if needed. email templates & web forms. GRAPHIC DESIGNER @ Data Direct Australia • June 2010 – September 2016 • Preston, Victoria • Industry: Mailing, Printing Creates print portfolios to assist recommendations, presents concepts the marketing department in the & ideas in the form of visual mock- In May 2013, Data Direct Australia promotion of variable data / ups & layouts. acquired BLS Printing, I took on an additional role as a Prepress Designer. image, & digital colour printing by Sets up letters, artwork templates I received in-house training, & my designing marketing collateral such according to Australia Post contributions are as follows: as personalised booklets, brochures guidelines; creates interactive pdf & postcards. forms, designed and built new Learned the offset printing workflow Prepares artwork in accordance with company website (unpublished) and using Prinergy. Australia Post guidelines; created micro sites for other services. Pre-flights & adjusts artwork if required, interactive pdf forms, designed Integrated variable data software ensures accurate colour output, creates impositions with Preps and outputs JDF & built a new company website (uDirect, uPlan, uProduce) with files for the platesetter. (unpublished) & microsites. InDesign & Photoshop, we printed Supplies pdf proofs or hardcopy proofs Designs in-house stationery in line high quality personalised mailing with the Epson Proofer. with the company’s brand, from pieces in a short amount of time. Operated the CTP Kodak Imagesetter & business cards, letterheads, to Operated finishing equipment (e.g. output plates for offset printing, can do informational brochures, company Digicut 2500) & Xerox Digital minor troubleshooting. tenders, signage, & forms. Colour Printers Takes client design briefs & makes PAGE 1 OF 3 PUBLICATION DESIGNER @ Koolivoo • June 2008 – Dec. 2009 • Cairns, QLD • Industry: Tourism, Publishing, Marketing Designed cover and inside layouts Integrated XML files into Adobe coordinated with printers in Europe for travel brochures, proposals & InDesign templates, this enabled and Asia; print runs varied from presentations, & online forms. instant importation of graphics, 5,000 to 50,000 copies. Provided pdf proofs to clients, photos, and text in any language. Created digital versions of printed retouched and adjusted artwork when Managed all print aspects of publications, enabling users to view needed, archived image library and Koolivoo’s projects, from file upload, and flick through the brochures on- backed up all files. corrections, and client approval; I line. PREPRESS DESIGNER @ Ramco Printing • June 2007 – June 2008 • Cairns, QLD • Industry: Printing, Publishing, Signage Designed artwork for signs, receipts, typeface, image restoration, Performed mail merge on projects greeting cards, book covers, stickers, assembly, retraced & converted such as invitations and labels to corflutes, business cards, and other artwork into vector format. ensure a quick turn-around time. marketing materials, also prepared Set up & created “Hot Folders” for Ganged and set-up pdf files for artwork for vinyl cutting using Job Automation, using Fiery Rip business cards, flyers, and posters Flexisign Software. Software, pdf files are dragged and using an imposition plug-in software Prepared and set up files for print, dropped, files are automatically (pdf Snake). made adjustments on colour, imposed, & are ready for print. PREPRESS DESIGNER @ Creative Page Online • May 2006 – Feb. 2007 • Pasay, Philippines • Industry: Online Printing, Marketing Processed client files through and Photoshop actions, pre-press file Sent digital pdf proofs to clients Uprinting’s Job Management Software preparation such as placing correct and tracked their orders online, called IMS (Internal Management bleed and crop marks, die-lines, also offered file troubleshooting and System); reviewed various file image and colour correction to ensure technical support through email and formats and in addition made print ready artworks. phone. recommendations for digital or offset Traced and converted pixel based For digital print jobs, created printing on select orders. artwork into vector format. impositions for artwork with Preps Used graphic design techniques software. such as desktop publishing, layout, SENIOR GRAPHIC DESIGNER @ De La Salle University Press • June 2005 – May 2006 • Pasay, Philippines • Industry: Printing, Publishing Provided Art Direction and guided and layout for printed material such artwork of all job orders and projects, staff designers for projects of the as business cards, posters, signs, also performed troubleshooting on Publishing and Printing Division, I stickers, flyers, catalogues, forms and customer / client files. trained them in pre-press, proper informational brochures. Co-evaluated print orders and made page set-up, template creation for Designed cover spreads for textbooks, recommendations for art direction, faster output, finalising cover spread trade books, annual reports and paper stock, choices of full or spot files and image enhancements or journals. colour, and ideal quantity. adjustments plus colour correction. Created high quality pdf files for Produced and designed graphics final printing, checked and finalised LAYOUT ARTIST @ De la Salle University Press • Feb. 2004 – Jun. 2005 • Pasay, Philippines • Industry: Printing, Publishing Designed cover spreads and the Designed and produced posters, administrative tasks as assigned by overall content layout of a book. signs, stickers, and tickets for major the Editor-in-Chief. Scanned, retouched and incorporated events such as book fairs and book Archived, backed-up, and maintained photos and illustrations for all launchings. an accurate filing system for all projects. Entered corrections made by editors projects. and proofreaders, performed other PAGE 2 OF 3 GRAPHIC ARTIST @ Scana Keating Graphics, Inc. • Nov. 2003 – Feb. 2004 • Malabon, Philippines • Industry: Printing, Packaging Retouched images & finalised artwork Created impositions for the proofing Worked closely with the Quality of jobs for Large Format, Flexographic machine and for the digital printers. Control Inspector and Digital Term or Rotogravure Printing. Handled pre-press, layout and Leader to ensure product schedules Traced scanned images and assembly for the artwork files are met. converted it into vector artwork with provided by the clients. Adobe Illustrator. ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT & INFORMATION DESK OFFICER LIBRARY SUPPORT STAFF @ Univ. of Technology, Sydney • Jan. 2002 – Apr. 2003 • Sydney, NSW • Industry: Education @ Univ. of Technology, Sydney Apr. 2003 – Jul. 2003 • Sydney, NSW Administrative and clerical duties, Assisted students during the first Industry: Education assisted students complete various few weeks of spring and autumn aspects of enrolment, answering semester, answering general Sorting, shelving and mending of general enquiries, advising students enquiries such as class schedules/ books. on completing statistical information timetables, room locations, and Assists patrons in locating and and HECS information. campus locations. retrieving library materials Answered questions and provided