MARC APPEZZATO

1027 Leesville Avenue

Rahway, NJ 07065
www.graphicspeak.com
Home 732-827-0120
Cell 732-216-8469
maf1261c@westpost.net

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY
Versatile, award-winning Graphic Designer with 12+ years
success ensuring exceptional artistic quality, exceeding
production/delivery goals and driving departmental
improvement through system changes and thorough training.
Broad expertise in design disciplines, encompassing
illustration, conceptual design, promotions, marketing,
brand management, Web design, image manipulation, color
separation and imposition schemes. Skilled in assessing
technical challenges and transforming creative ideas into
high-impact visual solutions for leading clients, such as
Walt Disney, Alcatel-Lucent, Motorola, Anheuser-Busch,
Emerson, Tyco Telecommunications and Reynolds & Reynolds.
Hold BS degree in Industrial Technology.
* Consistently demonstrate practical yet imaginative
approaches to service delivery, workflow optimization and
process improvement.
* Respected team leader with a demonstrated ability to
train and motivate on/offshore teams to exceed established
goals.
* Innovative artist and tenacious problem solver,
devising solutions that fully support clients, the bottom
line and long-range goals. Catalyst for continuous
improvement who readily adapts to evolving business and
growth challenges.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
FREELANCE GRAPHIC DESIGNER; 2009 - Present
1+ years
Clients: Schoendorf Electric, Tile-It and More, Samara
Palmer Organization, XPO Streetfighter, Inc.
Produce logos, branding, apparel and Web design for diverse
clientele.
IDEAL JACOBS CORPORATION, Maplewood, NJ; 2001 - 2009
Multi-national commercial screen printer; 8 years
Clients: Alcatel-Lucent, Motorola, Emerson, Tyco
Telecommunications
PREPRESS MANAGER AND GRAPHIC DESIGNER (2006 - 2009)
Led a 9-person on/offshore creative team (3 in China) for
this rapid-growth company producing commercially screen-
printed products for telecom industry clients. Provided
"hands-on" artistic vision/guidance and product fabrication.
Closely coordinated daily art flow with designers/production
departments and drove marketing campaigns for printed and
Web media.
KEY ACCOMPLISHMENTS:
* Met challenge of maximizing firm's visibility,
increasing productivity/efficiency, reducing costs and
delivering on schedule a high volume of major projects with
aggressive timelines.
* Innovated procedures/guidelines that reduced time spent
on each project by one day, enabling department to
consistently be 2 weeks ahead of schedule.
* Established multi-tiered review protocol for art, film
and data entry, raising accuracy from 90% to 96% and
reducing production losses.
* Spearheaded online presence by conceptualizing,
designing and maintaining company Website; regularly updated
site to reflect new technologies and products.
* Increased pricing accuracy 20% by evaluating drawings
and producing precise quotations and scheduling models.
* Created a comprehensive art library with standardized
forms and templates.
* Dramatically improved Chinese creative team's
productivity in less than 2 years, through extensive
training/mentoring.
* Documented design complexities in proprietary database,
slashing the time needed to order materials, create art and
schedule work through production departments.
* Promoted to Prepress Manager, due to outstanding
dedication and contributions.
GRAPHIC DESIGNER & PRODUCTION ARTIST (2004 - 2005) /
PRODUCTION ARTIST (2001 - 2003)
Undertook leadership role in preparing customer artwork for
screen printing. Trained employees on required software,
processes and procedures.
KEY ACCOMPLISHMENTS:
* Consistently achieved all quality, quantity and time
standards for artwork produced.
* Converted 3000 wireframe drawings to press-ready files;
conducted preflight testing.
* Overhauled shipping and stock storage floorplans,
greatly improving efficiency, tracking and management of
inventory levels and product shipments.
SELECTED WORKS:
* Ideal Jacobs Xiamen Corporation: Logo; PowerPoint
presentation highlighting production facility and filler
panel technology.
* Board game, "Ideal Challenge: The game of business
conquest" offered to customers as promotional item.
* A Sales Warrior's Global Excursions: Cover
* Our Voices-Generation to Generation, Temple Sharey
Tefilo-Israel: Cover, typography, image manipulation, page
icons and layout
* The Ideal Entrepreneur: Cover
* The Ideal Era: Cover, chapter art
VANTAGE CUSTOM CLASSICS, Avenel, NJ; 1997 - 2001
Nationally recognized identity apparel manufacturer; 4 years
Clients: Walt Disney, Anheuser-Busch, Reynolds and Reynolds
EMBROIDERY DESIGNER AND PRODUCTION ARTIST
Driving force in optimizing/transforming 20-person Art
Department translating logomarks into embroidery for top-
tier clients. Initiated changes in process and procedures to
improve production/quality and provided expert guidance on
advanced embroidery techniques and Internet/Intranet sites.
KEY ACCOMPLISHMENTS:
 * Realized goal of converting over 3000 preliminary
drawings to embroidery-ready artwork in under 4 years.
* Established art asset library, decreasing research time
and eliminating creation of art that had already been
produced.
* Expedited review, production and data entry by
standardizing fax/approval forms.
* Initiated and submitted company artwork to the National
EMB Honors Competition:
> Awarded 1st Place, 2001
> Honorable Mention, 2000
> 1st Place and Honorable Mention, 1999
SELECTED WORKS:
* "52 Pickup" - Themed jacket, hat and shirt competition
art based on a fictitious casino.
ADDITIONAL ACHIEVEMENTS
Successfully exhibited at Affordable Arts Fair, London,
2004.
Exhibited at Merck Union County Juried Art Show, The Arts
Guild of Rahway (2001) and The Best of Kean, Union Library
(1997).
Awarded Patent 6,059,071 for progressive sawhorse design
(2000).
TECHNICAL SKILLS
PLATFORMS: Macintosh, Windows
HARDWARE: Canon EOS Rebel, Oyo Liberator 1812, HP Laserjet
2300, 2500, 3525, 3600, 8150
SOFTWARE: Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, GoLive, MS
Office Suite, Entourage, Harlequin RIP Basic Knowledge:
Flash, QuarkXPress, Fireworks, CorelDraw
EDUCATION
Kean College of New Jersey, Union, NJ
B.S., Industrial Technology, 1997
Union County College, Cranford, NJ
A.A., 1995