Lindsay Kurz: Skills

Lindsay P. Kurz
SKILLS

Computer Skills

Layout & Print Production

Three years experience with catalog layout and design, pre-press file management and on-press quality control.
Involved in planning and brainstorming of catalog development.
Experience with managing production process of catalog: Coordinate work schedules of photography, merchant and marketing departments, arrange onpress dates with Quad Graphics printers, and oversee paper purchasing for catalog.
Familiar with prepress and onpress aspects of printing. Manage catalog process and execute all prepress prep. of document.
Conduct 3 - 5 day long press runs at Quad Graphics printing facilities to oversee color and printing of catalogs.
Experience designing press kits, posters, corporate identity materials, advertisements and logos.

Website Design

Four years experience as freelance web designer
Involved in navigational design, visual design, building and managing websites
Responsibilities at UncommonGoods include updating homepage on weekly basis, designing and building new pages for the website, working with engineer to design visual aspects of new functions and dealing with graphics and photos for web.
Redesigned UncommonGoods e-newsletter. Increased sales through email three fold.
Clients include: Smithsonian National Postal Museum, Cornell Univeristy Statler Hotel intranet and artist Beth Ames Swartz.

Photography Skills

Basic darkroom printing
Photo editing for web
Familiar with multimedia slideshow assembly programs, such as ProShow Gold. Most recently created a slideshow, over 30 minutes, combining edited photographs, music, text and special effects.

Video Skills

Non-linear (digital) video editing, Adobe Premiere
Linear video editing
Operational knowledge of video camera for ENG and EFP production
Lighting and audio skills, interviewing skills, scene composition, voice-overs, shooting quality footage
Created a 4 minute music video, four 1 1/2 minute news packages and two 30 second commercials for school project.