106 West Rose Eld Road, Apt A

Rosendale, Wisconsin 54974

(262) 370-0941
grosskreuzkim@gmail.com

CAREER SUMMARY

A Graphic Design professional with 20 years of experience in digital design, marketing and printing. Creative with a strong attention to detail. Excellent
communication, interpersonal, teamwork and problem solving skills, with an ability to use multiple software to create innovative and unique designs.


PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Bemis Company, Inc., Oshkosh, Wisconsin September 1, 2014 Current
Multinational company and a major supplier of flexible packaging used by leading food, consumer products, medical and pharmaceutical companies.
Preforming data entry and working closely with SMS and other departments to correctly enter data into the SAP system.

J. J. Keller & Associates Inc., Neenah, Wisconsin April, 2001 November, 2013
A privately held company that helps businesses deal with evolving regulations that affect their operations every day. One of the largest employers in
Wisconsin's Fox River Valley that employs over 1,200 associates and serving 300,000 customers, including more than 90% of the Fortune 1,000. Kellers
diverse product line includes publications, consulting, online management tools, and outsourced services.

Sales Graphic Design Specialist
Responsible for working with over 85 sales associates on layout and design of custom product materials, handling multiple work requests and projects,
and working with other support areas i.e., Sales Operations, Procurement, Estimating, Production Prepress, Marketing and Product development.

Worked in Sales Promotion helping to develop sales marketing pieces such as fliers, banners, brochures, posters, tabletops, tradeshow
banners and presentations.
Redraw logos and save as vector artwork in Adobe Illustrator.
Create logos, web headers and web ready graphics.
Managed and maintained equipment, color printers and large format plotters, along with ordering supplies.
Custom designed six 3point contact labels which became a stock product through Product Development and sold in the Full Line Catalog.
Successfully trained three new Graphic Designers within the department which ensured associates were able to work independently with a
thorough understanding of position responsibilities.

Attended trade shows, demonstrations and seminars to stay current with industry trends; researched and proposed training and seminar events
for department associates.

Piloted a new version of Adobe Illustrator, Indesign and Photoshop software prior to rollout companywide.

Created electronic diagrams for Drivers Vehicle Inspection Reports (DVIR) which customized reports for each customer and ensured a more
successful sale for sales associates.

Recommended collaboration with the KDS department; customized and implemented KellerScan log pages for an electronic logging system
that allowed customers to see an example of their custom product prior to purchase thereby increasing sales.

Established priorities and coordinated the work flow of graphic design projects meeting tight deadlines.
Helped plan events designed to encourage sales representatives to reach sales objectives which included research and purchasing of prizes,
planning the venue, helping to run the events and doing any needed graphic design.

Participated in two LEAN events, Handling and Storing Vendor Artwork and How an Estimate/Order Moves Through the Company, and
presented results at a LEAN report-out event.

Provided design materials for multiple internal events and campaigns such as the Car Pool Committee and the Take Your Child to Work event
which provided a professional image to each event thereby increasing associate participation.

o Participated in fundraising and acted as creative designer for Race for Miracles branding including designing the car wrap for the 2012
race car and apparel which became an annual event.

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Ripon Community Printers, Ripon Wisconsin 1993 - 2003
A privately held company with more than 235 employees and equipped with the latest technologies from pre-media through fulfillment and distribution.

Graphic Design and Prepress Specialist (1997 - 2003)
Responsible for creating and prepping electronic files, designing catalog pages and ads, working closely with job planning and presses, performed quality
checks and signed off on film and transitioning direct-to-plate.

Created ads and made design changes.
Setup and entered jobs into rampage for digital film and plates.

Proofed copy, and made final changes with the Sale Representative and/or customer.

Proofed plates for quality and preformed press checks for startup runs.

Preflight files for job planning which ensured projects ran smoothly, accurately and on-time with no mistakes.

Trained coworkers on Rampage software and helped create training materials which aided in the transition from computer to plate; attended
2001 Seattle, Washington Rampage seminar / training.

Designed and setup templates for saddle stitch and perfect bind pagination in conjunction with new Rampage software which allowed software
to run on existing machines.

Film Stripper (1994 - 1997)
Responsible for prepping plates and blue-line proofs, black plus color and four color process film; making blue-lines proofs and burned plates; performed
quality control reviews of co-workers film; and performed traditional paste-up on newspapers and ads.

EDUCATION
Fox Valley Technical College, Appleton, Wisconsin 2013-2016
Web Design and Development

Moraine Technical College, Fond du Lac, Wisconsin 1996
Training in IBM Windows software

Madison Area Technical College, Madison, Wisconsin 1993
Associate of Arts Degree in Commercial Advertising


TRAINING / SKILLS

Lynda.com 2012, 2013
Photoshop Seminars, Stephen Convention Center, Chicago Illinois 2008, 2012
The Pixel and Vector Conference, Chicago, Illinois 2007
Creative Suite Conference, Chicago, Illinois 2006
Mac Design Conference, Chicago, Illinois and Miami, Florida 2003, 2004, 2005
Trained required personnel to use software
Prepress Software - Rampage, Seattle Washington 2000
Implemented and set up software for direct to plate



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Adobe Photoshop
Adobe Illustrator
Adobe Indesign
Quark
Adobe Dreamweaver
Aptana Studio 3


Microsoft Word
Microsoft PowerPoint
Microsoft Access
Microsoft Excel
Visual Studio

IBM Computers
Macintosh Computers
Outlook
Pagemaker
SAP