William C. Jacoby

William C. Jacoby Jr. Strada Ziduri Intre Vii, Nr. 19, Bloc A, Ap- Bucharest, Sector 2, Romania Phone: - • Email:-ABOUT Born and raised in Philadelphia, PA with over 30 years experience in the Graphic Arts. I have worked as an executive in the advertising department for the #1 company in the Fortune 500, as well as for small businesses and feel both types of companies have their benefits. As of September 2015, I relocated from the Philadelphia area to Bucharest, Romania, where I currently reside. I’m a team player with a positive outlook on life and a fantastic work ethic, that is looking for a telecommuting position for a progressive company. OBJECTIVE To secure a telecommuting position with a progressive company and to have the opportunity for advancement. EXPERIENCE FREELANCE GRAPHIC ARTIST FOR PRINT & WEB 9/18/2015 - PRESENT Content analysis & edits to the ChurchSupplier.com website, including, but not limited to, evaluating SEO content, updating and editing keywords and meta data, adding new products and content including images, image alt tags and copy, adding new pages and all content to those pages, building web banners, creating and editing Carousel/ Sliders and the images for the website, editing ShopSite templates, writing html 5 code, CSS and java scripts. Designing, scheduling and sending weekly email campaigns for the e-commerce site. Graphic Design and Prepress work for print, prepping customer supplied files for print and creating a final, print ready pdfs to be imposed, proofed and printed on press or in the copy center. NEIBAUER PRESS & CHURCHSUPPLIER.COM WARMINSTER, PA-/2003 - 9/18/2015 Overseeing the daily operations of the prepress department for the printing company Neibauer Press, as well as working with the CEO and marketing Team to continually update, maintain and edit the ChurchSupplier.com website. My duties included, content analysis & edits to the ChurchSupplier.com website, evaluating SEO content, updating and editing keywords and meta data, adding new products and content including photographing products, silhouetting the images, compressing, uploading and adding images to the ChurchSupplier.com website, adding image alt tags and copy. I also created new pages and all content on those pages, such as web banners and Carousel/Sliders. Editing ShopSite templates, html, CSS and java scripts. Designing, scheduling and sending responsive weekly email campaigns to over 10,000 subscribers of the ChurchSuplier.com mailing list. Graphic design & page assembly for computer to plate output from customer supplied files. Page impositions and plating jobs for multiple presses. Fingerprinting the presses and ensuring consistent color from proof to press through creating ICC profiles for each device. Working with our sales department and clients to ensure that all deadlines are met. Ordering supplies and research for new equipment. All software & application research and updates. PURSUED A FULL-TIME CAREER IN MUSIC 6/2001 - 10/2003 Became a BMI recording artist and pursued a full time career writing, recording and performing music. Together, my wife and myself, wrote, recorded and performed original music as a band called Afferent Cue. We have worked, recorded and produced with Grammy Award Winning producer, Glenn Barratt at Morning Star Studios and released a successful EP entitled, “Drinking With Hemingway”, which immediately received airplay on WXPN as well as a variety of other radio and internet stations. DIGITAL COLOR IMAGING INC. (DCI) PITTSBURGH, PA 11/1999 - 6/2001 Pre-press work, page assembly, scanning, film output, photo manipulation. Working hand in hand with multiple advertising agencies such as Marc USA, Bozell Kamstra and Mullen to provide press ready ads and deliver them as film, pdf or electronic files for use in magazines, newspapers, billboards, bus signs, etc. MAY COMPANY / KAUFMANNS PITTSBURGH, PA 3/1997 - 11/1999 Executive in the advertising department in charge of pre-press operations, training art department designers in use of QuarkXpress, prepping files for print at delivery to various outside printers, all color control in proofs matching merchandise. setting up color calibrations for all monitors and Iris proofers. Photo manipulation, color corrections, silhouetting and cloning. Going on press runs to approve final printed pieces. DUSAK GRAPHICS WARMINSTER, PA 11/1993 - 3/1997 Responsible for all color separations and scanning department operations as well as maintenance of Crosfield 656 scanner with E-unit. Maintaining the film processor, color manipulation using Photoshop. Page assembly and film output from QuarkXpress and Pagemaker. Worked with clients to achieve satisfaction and delivery of final product within specific time frames. INTERGRAFIX INC. FAIRLESS HILLS, PA 6/1991 - 11/1993 Responsible for all color separations and scanning department operations as well as maintenance of Crosfield 636 scanner with E-unit. Maintaining the film processor, color manipulation using Photoshop. Page assembly and film output from QuarkXpress and Pagemaker. Making color keys, matchprint and blueline proofs. Worked with clients to achieve satisfaction and delivery of final product within specific time frames. PENN COLOR HUNTINGDON, PA 6/1986 - 6/1991 Scanner operator in the color department running Hell 340, 341, 350, 401, 410, 3030 and P330 scanners. Assisted in the dot etching department making selective color corrections to film using dyes, masks cut on Ruby, shrinks and spreads. Assisted in the Opticopy department and proofing department making cromalins, matchprints, color keys and bluelines. Assisted in the Camera department shooting line shots. Maintaining the film processor. LEE ASSOCIATES PHILADELPHIA, PA 1/1982 - 6/1986 Scanner operator in the color department running a Linotype-Paul 4050 screen scanner. Assisted in the Proofing department making comeliness, color keys and bullion proofs. Assisted in the Camera department making line shots. SOFTWARE KNOWLEDGE InDesign CC - InDesign CC 2015 Illustrator 6 - Illustrator CC 2015 Photoshop 2.5 - Photoshop CC 2015 EFI ColorProof XF RIPS Xitron RIPS Harlequin RIPS Dreamweaver CC - Dreamweaver CC 2015 Adobe Acrobat 1.0 - Adobe Acrobat DC Colorblind Professional Pro Colorblind Edit QuarkXpress 3 - QuarkXpress 10 PageMaker 5 - PageMaker 6.5 Microsoft Word EFI ColorProof XF RIPS Xitron RIPS Harlequin RIPS Microsoft Publisher Microsoft Excel Xrite i1 Publish Pro 2 Profiling Software Colorblind Professional Microsoft Power Point Microsoft Publisher Microsoft Excel Colorblind Edit Colorblind Parachute Monoco Color Microsoft PowerPoint Preps 4.0 - Preps 7 Yummy FTP DropBox Suitcase - Suitcase Fusion 6 Pitstop Pro - PitStop Pro 13 StuffIt DropStuff WinZip Toast various versions OPERATING SYSTEMS Mac OS7 - El Capitan v10.11.4 Windows Vista Windows XP Windows NT Windows 2000 REFERENCES Gladly furnished upon request.