My career path started through a part time work study job in college in the Macintosh Lab. I’m dating myself by saying this, but it was brand new, and it wasn’t very popular at the time. I spent my allotted hours learning how to draw on a 9-inch screen with a mouse shaped like a bar of soap.
From there, a crazy introduction into the world of high stress, deadline intense copying editing and page layout began at my first full time job at a daily newspaper. Since I didn’t know this wasn’t a normal work environment, I loved it. In fact, I loved it so much I moved on to a larger newspaper, and was promoted through the ranks to manage a Pre-Press department in the throes of converting to full digital work flow.
After a cross country move, I honed my Illustrator, Photoshop and InDesign skills working for a small commercial print house, then at a quick printer, and after that a niche-publishing firm. Briefly, I took a trip to the dark side working Customer Service for a national manufacturer of presentation products before returning to my roots in the Pre-Press department to pre-flight files and provide marketing and web support.
Equally well versed in whacking mountains back into molehills using either Photoshop or a telephone, I’m as comfortable with pixels as I am with direct customer contact.