Professional Resume: Phyllis Jean Beaty

MAGNOLIA STUDIO Guerneville, CA, October 1997 to Present

Founder and Design Director: Design company specializing in Adobe Certified InDesign CS5 book production and template design, pre-press composition, copy editing, proofreading, writing and print project coordination. Products include: software manuals, textbooks and curriculum, tradebooks, poetry, fiction, photography, cookbooks, new-age self-help books, product packaging, monthly tabloid newspapers, monthly and annual newsletters, wholesale and retail catalogues, promotional and corporate brochures, annual reports, corporate identity, business cards, letterhead/envelope packages, CD packaging, music promotional advertising, banners, posters, flyers, postcards and alternative print advertising.

Award Winning Book Design: MP3 and the Digital Music Revolution, Top Floor Publishing.

SOLAR WORKS Sebastopol, CA, January 2004 to May 2004

Office Manager/Advertising/Marketing: Coordinating office activities with primary responsibilities including accounting, shipping, scheduling, public relations, marketing, and advertising design for this solar installation contractor. Created various print advertising campaigns as well as news coverage, press releases and fact sheets to illustrate how Solar Works excelled in customer satisfaction over all other solar contractors in Sonoma County.

BASSIGNANI'S NURSERY Sebastopol, CA, April 2003 to January 2004

Nursery Clerk: Retail sales position utilizing gardening skills and knowledge about the unique Sonoma Co. growing environment. Creating and planting designer baskets and pottery with indoor and outdoor plants for the home decorator and landscape designers. Customizing plant purchases to client needs and budgets.

TECHART INTERNATIONAL San Francisco, CA, June 1997 to October 1997

Production Coordinator: Coordinating office activities in the production department of this Japanese translation graphic design company. Primary responsibilities include producing linotronic film from client-supplied files, creating job estimates, invoicing, assisting staff with production overloads, handling client problems and scheduling equipment maintenance. Secondary responsibilities include production layout, template and specification design and troubleshooting.

IDG BOOKS WORLDWIDE, INC. Foster City, CA, January 1996 to May 1997

Supervisor of Quality Control, February 1997 to May 1997: Supervising quality control in the Production Department of this software book publisher. Primary responsibilities include template and specification production of new designs from artist prototypes, updating current designs to improve production efficiency, coordination of quality control for final electronic files and blueline proofs. Supervising quality control for design, style, layout, and blueline issues for the IDG Books Discover Series.

Production Project Coordinator, January 1996 to February 1997: Pre-press coordination and tracking of computer manuals. Primary responsibilities include tracking manuscript, figures, electronic files and pages from editorial through production. Also responsible for meeting tight schedule deadlines and coordinating pre-press film proofing.

Award Winning Books: Official Kai's Power Tools Studio Secrets, Caligari TrueSpace2 Bible, and MacWorld MacSecrets 4th Edition.

LIGATURE, INC. Boston, MA, September 1992 to December 1995

Senior Production Specialist: Electronic production of elementary and high school textbooks for this educational publisher. Primary responsibilities include template production, annotated text and design specifications, instructing Production Specialists in template operation, production of electronic page layouts, coordination of quality control for final electronic files, and final stripping dummies. Extensive experience in flat-checking and 32-page press-runs.

THE LOCAL Music, Entertainment and Pub Magazine Boston, MA, October 1991 to March 1993

Publisher and Co-Founder: Electronic production and design of 48-page monthly entertainment magazine. Responsibilities include photography coordination, writer's assignments, design and production of advertising and text pages, promotion and advertising sales.

FREELANCE GRAPHIC DESIGN AND PRODUCTION Boston, MA, January 1985 to September 1992

Graphic Designer and Production Specialist: Electronic and conventional design and page makeup of textbook publications, periodicals, journals, promotional materials, direct mail advertising, textbooks, trade books and trade book covers for many Boston area publishers. Responsibilities include text edit inputing, photo research and tracking, art editing, stripping dummies, type specifications, four-color corrections, cromalin and flat approvals, and web press runs.

BOSTON FREELANCE CLIENTS:

Beacon Press
The Book Department
Compset, Inc.
Houghton Mifflin, Inc.
Intentional Educations
Ligature, Inc.
Morgan-Grampian Publishing Co.
Prentice Hall
Publicom, Inc.
Silver, Burdett, and Ginn

GRAPHIC DESIGN AND TECHNICAL ILLUSTRATION Dallas, Texas and Yuma, Arizona, Sept. 1978 to Nov. 1984

Conventional design of logos, typestyle fonts and impact-package engineering for Xerox 610 MemoryWriters. Layout and design of circuit board wiring plans for Rockwell International radio communication manufacturer. Conventional production and design of magazine editorials and advertising for newspapers. Design of silkscreen artwork.

EDUCATION

Santa Rosa Junior College, Santa Rosa, California, 2009-2012
Adobe InDesign Certification May 2011

Mountain View Community College, Dallas, Texas:
Psychology, Art and Photography 1979-1981

Irving High School, Irving, Texas:
Graduated 1979

REFERENCES

Compensation requirements and professional references provided upon request.