Rik Foerman, Graphic Designer
Professional Objective To gain a position as a graphic designer in a progressive company that specializes in document and/or web creation, design and development.
Work Experience the National Group, 2004-Present
Worked in a fast-paced environment as a member of the creative design team. Developed custom marketing pieces that accurately and effectively communicate to target audiences. Responsibilities also included preparing customers electronic files for offset, digital and wide-format printing using state-of-the-art technology.
Specific Duties
•	Prepare electronic files for offset, digital, and wide-format printing using state-of-the-art technology
•	Design, print, laminate, and mount wide-format jobs
•	Creative member of a graphic design team
•	Manage multiple projects with varying priorities and tight deadlines
•	Produce consistently accurate and creative work
•	Develop marketing pieces that accurately and effectively communicate to target audiences
•	2007 Addy® Award Winner
Work Experience Kinko’s Inc., 1997-2004
My primary duties at Kinko’s include creating a variety of desktop publishing projects in a fast-paced, professional environment and supervising the self-serve computer services area. These responsibilities require courtesy, knowledge, creative thinking, and experience. Software troubleshooting, hardware maintenance, and high-pressure problem solving are common on a daily basis. An intimate understanding of digital printing concepts is vital. My work is completed independently in a workplace that demands teamwork-mindedness and direct involvement and interest in the client’s needs.
Specific Duties Develop and Generate Corporate Identities
•	Assist customers in the development of their logo, business documents and forms
•	Generate presentation documents
•	Develop posters, signs, and motivational media
Create Customized Documents
•	Create document orders according to the customer’s specifications.
•	Design, produce and edit a wide range of documents, including (but not limited to) thermography, stationery, and four color document processing
•	Verify, review, and preflight customer documents
Oversee Printing Process
•	Complete and print customer order in a timely fashion
•	Create and oversee custom printing order for high volume outsourcing
Manage Computer Services
•	Lead development of in-store promotions and marketing
•	Maintain the document creation work area
•	Install and maintain PC and Macintosh self-serve computer rental workstations and printers including software bundles and updates
•	Instruct computer rental customers in creating and printing their custom made documents using their own ideas
•	Assist customers with applications, online services, digital outputs, high volume copies, oversize printing and/or other outsourcing requests
•	Help customers connect personal laptops to a docking workstation, installing print drivers, and assisting them in the printing of professional documents
Work Experience AliasGraphics, 1996-Present
AliasGraphics is my sole-proprietorship company. AliasGraphics specializes in developing graphical elements and interfaces for local web sites.
Specific Duties Web Creation
•	Assist customer to visualize their existing identity in a new medium
•	Design and develop graphical elements for web site
•	Assist in the implementation of graphic user interface (GUI) of a web site
Contracting
•	Contract services to local web design company
Software Proficiencies General Microsoft Office Suite, Adobe Creative Suite Publishing Adobe InDesign, Adobe PageMaker, QuarkXPress Graphic Design Macromedia FreeHand, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Streamline Preflighting Adobe Acrobat, Pitstop Pro Web Publishing Adobe GoLive