Frank C. Irby    tel: 706.768.4060         eml: fourpaws3@yahoo.com


MAC TECHNICAL EXPERT / PREPRESS SPECIALIST / LOGO DESIGN
PRESS HELPER / SYSTEM MAINTENANCE / DATA VISUALIZATION

 

Profile:  Mac Systems Expert and Graphic Design Specialist with advanced training in troubleshooting,
system maintenance and disaster recovery.    Visual consultant for graphics, film, web development,
and printing industries.    Mixed media digital artist specializing in data visualization.

 

DreamScape Digital Studios               http://dreamscape.myartsonline.com/              June 2001

 

§       Website design, logo design, network design, database design, data visualization, web animation

§       Movie special effects, ads -promos for film & film production, film crew documentary,

product ads & information, ad flyers, news & mag ads, posters, web pages.

 

Work Experience

Macintosh Prepress:   Quark / Photoshop / Illustrator/ Filemaker pro / Applescript / Dreamweaver

Production Skills: 

§       Full production printing in the offset, flexo, large format, newspaper, and quick copy fields.

§       Output 4C+ film, Strip 4C proofs, Burn plates, plate 4/2 color web press.

§       Drum scanning, logo editing, file conversion, color correction, gradients, spot/CMYK,

color matching and image correction.

§       Large format printing, mounting and laminating for prototypes, exhibits and trade shows.

§       Design and production of product catalogs and POP brochures, banners, corporate reports.

§       Design and production of 5/3 color direct mail ads for retail dealers in bedding, furniture,

consumer electronics and international food markets.

§       Develop and maintain in-house rep-dealer database with job tracking and cost management.

helping increase client base from 130 to well over 360 dealers nationwide.

 

Technical Skills: 

§       Mac hardware-software installation, custom Mac lab developement, network dev-maintenance.

§       Mac troubleshooting, System diagnostics, disaster recovery, software integration,

networked relational databases.

§       Analyze production and trained new employees to manage job flow in a digital environment.

§       Dedicated production on a cross-platform network using the Onyx Graphics raster image

processing workstation and server with Agfa imagesetters and Scitex dept.

§       Operation and maintenance of the Xerox 8954 large format color plotter, and the Xikon DCP-1.

Work History

Community Newspapers Inc., (Northeast Georgian)       Cornelia, GA / June 2006 - December 2006

Retail Marketing Group Inc,       Alpharetta, GA / March 1996 - September 1998

Mac Temps Inc,                      Atlanta, GA / November 1994 - September 1995

Contract Graphic Design,         Atlanta, Ga / September 1995 - March 1996

Digicolor Express, (a division of National Color Graphics)      Atlanta, GA / August 1993 - July 1994

Education

Art Institute of Atlanta,        Fall Quarter 1995 - Spring Quarter 1996

Emphasis:  Computer Animation and Vector Modeling

 

Data-Tech Institute     Advanced Troubleshooting for the Macintosh       Atlanta, GA / November 18-19 1994

§       Specialized training focusing on hardware component failure, data recovery, hard drive

diagnostics, system optimization, cross-platform network configuration, and software debugging.

 

Southern College of Technology     Marietta, GA / September 1991 - June 1992

Emphasis:  Computer Science and Computer-Aided Design.

 

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