Sharon Hart

2005 Ivar Ave., Apt. 17, Los Angeles, CA 90068 / tel: (323) 467-4737 / e-mail:

Objective: Graphic Design/Production Artist Position

Skills: Adobe CS4 Suite including PhotoShop, Illustrator, Flash and

Dreamweaver; Fireworks, QuarkXpress, InDesign, Multi-Ad Creator,
FreeHand, Digital camera, Scanner and Digital clean-up, Photo
Manipulation, File conversions, web design utilizing html and css
style sheets

Experience:Administrative Assistant – Rider Levett Bucknall – Los

Angeles, CA, May 2004 to August 2008 (relocated) Portland,
OR, September 2008 to Present
Administrative and marketing duties including preparing
professional Proposals and photographic reports using
InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator and Acrobat, created
company invitations and flyers as well as file manipulation
and ftp blueprint site downloads.

Production Designer - Brown Advertising Agency,

Thousand Oaks, CA,
December 2002 to May 2004
Design Auto Ads for the LA Times, Daily News and Ventura
Star. Create art & headlines, manipulate & color correct photos and
produce layouts to clients’ specifications using Multi-Ad
Creator, Illustrator and PhotoShop.

Production Artist - Vertis Inc., Van Nuys, CA, June 2001 to

August 2002
Designed Auto, Retail, Recruitment and Real estate ads for
such clients as
LA Times, Daily Breeze and Daily News using Multi-Ad Creator
and QuarkXpress. Headline, illustration and logo creation
using Illustrator. Photo manipulation and color correction
using PhotoShop. Coded ad fields for interactive use on
company web page.

Graphic Artist - TradeNet Publishing, Gardner, KS, March

2000 to April 2001
Graphic layout and design for promotional products according
to clients’
specifications. Recreated logos and images and converted to
EPS format. Pantone spot, four color process matching and
color separation. Scanned, cleaned and applied color
correction to art and photos. Set copy and chose font
matches. Set charts in Illustrator to proportion and exported
in EPS format.
 Production / Writer - Kaw Valley Independent Newspaper,
Lawrence, KS, April 1998 to January 2000
Newspaper layout and mock-up with production staff. Loaded
text, graphics, and ads in QuarkXpress. Wrote articles on
music, news and lectures. Sold and designed ads, compiled,
organized and formatted a bi-weekly calendar of community
events.

Technical Writer / Production Artist - Artek Inc., Shawnee,

KS, June 1997 to March 1998
Writing and layout for instructional safety manuals using
PageMaker, WordScan and PhotoShop.

Education: English Literature Major, Western Civilization Minor, University of

Kansas,
Lawrence, Kansas, 1995-1999

Currently enrolled in Web Design and Flash at Pacific Northwest

College of Art (PNCA) in Portland, Oregon.