Karen L. Burton

Phone: (615) 692-9193 | Email: karensmacbook@comcast.net

Address: 6907 Riverwalk Blvd., Murfreesboro, TN 37130

Summary of Qualifications

Creative and highly qualified professional, demonstrating over 12 years of combined graphic design, typsetting, marketing, and office administration experience. Adept at proofreading and typesetting print media, developing effective marketing campaigns, and completing complex graphic design projects. Currently seeking a position in Graphic Design, Typesetting, Marketing, or Office Administration which will effectively utilize all acquired skills, abilities, and areas of expertise as follows:

Graphic Arts & Design (print & web) Typesetting/Proofreading Client/Vendor Relations

Social Media Marketing Quality Control/Assurance Digital Image Editing Plate Production

Color Separations (CMYK) Project Management Staff Training/Supervision Executive/Administrative Support

Education and Training

Middle Tennessee State University (MTSU) • Media Design & Business Administration (2007-Present)

Received honors every semester since fall of 2007

Anne Arundel Community College (AACC) • Communication Arts (2003-2007)

Received honors every semester (2003-2007)

Microsoft • Microsoft Certified Application Specialist (Word 2003/2007 & Excel 2003)

**Attended educational seminars on grammar, proofreading, technical writing and project management

Professional Profile

The Center for the Arts | Jun. 2009 – Jan. 2010

Executive Assistant |
Communications Manager

• Accountable for the layout, design and content of all programs, booklets, posters, flyers and other print and website media.
• Conducted Social Media marketing through Facebook, MySpace and company website.
• Prepared budgets, oversaw expenses, maintained executive and public calendars, maintained mailing lists, databases and other administrative tasks as requested.
• Implemented a box-office ticketing system as well as online ticket orders (e-commerce).

American Bank Note Company | Sept. 2008 – Jan. 2009

Level 4 Prepress Technician

• Directly responsible for layout and design of high security documents (birth certificates, stocks and bonds).
• Film output using traditional image setter/rip, as well as CTP/DTP.
• Performed traditional hand stripping of film, plate burning and blue lines.

Business Cards Tomorrow (BCT Nashville) | Jul. 2007 – Sept. 2008

Typesetter

• Tasked with layout and design of business cards, letterhead, envelopes and announcements.
• Created polyester plates (for thermo graphic presses), performed color separations (using only CMYK), and edited/improved customer-supplied art, signatures and more.
• High resolution scanning/clean up of customer supplied originals.

Poodles Doodles | Jul. 2006 – Present

Freelance Graphic Artist

• Created various commercial and non-commercial designs to include paint labels, dental directories, election materials, business cards, corporate identity/branding, brochures and more.

Born Printing Co., Inc. | Nov. 1997 – Jul. 2006

Office Manager | Graphic Designer | Typesetter

• Assumed responsibility for proofreading, layout, designing, typesetting while managing the administrative offices.
• Maintained customer/internal product inventories, created advanced spreadsheets
• Processed new and shipped completed orders using LTL, UPS, FED-EX etc.
• AR and Light AP to include payroll
• Executive/administrative duties as assigned to include calendar management and travel accomodations.

Technical Skills

Operating Systems

Proficient in both MAC (OS8-OSX), and PC (Windows 3.1-7)

Software (titles cross platform unless otherwise specified)

Office/Administrative Software		Creative Software
Microsoft Office Suite	1997-2007	Adobe Creative Suite	CS-CS4
MS Word (certified) MS Access MS Excel (certified) MS Publisher MS Power Point MS Outlook		Adobe Photoshop Adobe Illustrator Adobe Acrobat Adobe Indesign Dreamweaver
Peachtree Accounting	1997-2006	Quark Xpress	vs 4-8
Quickbooks Accounting	2003-2008	PageMaker	vs 5-6.5
		Macromedia Freehand	MX
		Harlequin RIP/Nexus RIP
		Preps
		WordPress
		Quickkeys
		Suitcase font manager

Equipment

• AGFA Image Setters
• Ricoh Aficio 2500 Color Copier with saddle stitch option
• Canon Color Image Runner C3080 with saddle stitch option
• Plate processors

Affiliations and Memberships

• Printing & Graphic Arts of the Mid-Atlantic (PGAMA)
• Printing Industry Association of the South (PIAS)
• Printing Industries of America & the Graphic Arts Technical Foundation (PIA/GATF)
• Tennessee Notary Public (commission expires in 2013)

Community Service | Volunteer Efforts

The Center for the Arts | Jun.2009-Present

Production Photographer | Production Videographer | Box Office Attendant | Photoshop CS4 Instructor

Online Portfolio | Websites

Portfolio:

YOU ARE HERE

Websites:

Poodles Doodles

KarenBurtonDesigns.net