Christopher McCabe: Design Engineer in Portland, OR

Responsible for many design aspects of cab systems in relation to the Freightliner and Western Star trucks. Duties include bracket design for reinforcements, troubleshooting issues through FEA tests, generative shape design, part design, and isometric drawing creation for newly designed parts. I also create arrangements and component collections through a international database parts library. Currently using CATIA V5 Release 19.

Responsibilities included pre-flighting electronic files from clients for flexo printing. This comprised of color correction, manual trapping, revising copy, creating clipping paths for image extrusion, and evaluation of dot densities before printing. This was a contract position to handle a heavy flow of work that needed to be resolved before the new year.

Employed as a graphic designer in the creation and press setup of electronic files for flexography printing. My responsibilities include creating press ready art work from client sketch ups and direction. I also update files to new layouts, make revisions to older files, and verify files that come from outside vendors are press ready and up to our specifications.

Responsible for tasks such as transfer, pre-flight, and re-assembly of a client’s digital files. Also took steps to ensure that a project was thoroughly prepared for the specific press, and that all color, text, images, and related specifications were achieved. Tasks included color correction, image manipulation, typesetting, and design decision making, creating high resolution proofs for client approval through file imposition.

Employed as an electronic pre-press operator, and was responsible for transfer, pre-flight, and re-assembly of client’s digital files following the company standard order of procedures. Tasks included color correction, image manipulation, typesetting, and design decision making.