August 2011
As part of the new Schawk Digital Team I completed Phase 1 of the web development training. Courses I completed included: XHTML and CSS. Javascript. JQuery. AJAX. Adobe CS5 InDesign-Photoshop-Illustrator-Flash Catalyst and Dreamweaver for Web Design.

January 2011
After conducting a talent survey of all their designers with experience in web development Schawk chose me to be one of the few first members of their newly formed digital team. As a member of the digital team I began advance training to broaden my expertise in web development and digital design.

November 2010
I was chosen out of a large pool of candidates to join the Schawk team working on the newly acquired True Value account. One other designer and I collaborated in setting up the page templates and graphic styles for the entire production. I also worked with the creative director to develop new creative concepts for the True Value circular ads.

March of 2009
I was selected to represent Schawk Retail Marketing in a presentation to potential client Toys R Us. Due to my expertise in the Universal Ad program I was asked to give a demonstration and explain the workflow my team and I developed for the Kmart SuperCenter account.

August 2008
While working at Schawk Retail Marketing I was promoted to the Kmart SuperCenter account. The existing team was in the midst of transitioning to a new program, Universal Ad. My teammates and I quickly learned the new software and utilized it to develop an even more efficient workflow. We were able to reduce the number of people on the account from 4 to 3. I quickly became the resident expert user of the Universal Ad program and helped improve the performance of the account.

December 2007
As a production artist at the Quarasan design firm I worked on the creation of textbook layouts. A teammate and I collaborated on the creative design for each of the many different page types in the book. As the project continued I supervised several other production artists who were added to help. I quickly oriented them to the page specifications and took a leadership role in completing the project.