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Sr. Production Designer | Retoucher

Engineering & Production

Senior Production Designer & Color Retoucher, with a proven track record for building expert mechanical artwork from approved creative comps while maintaining corporate brand guidelines. Able to mentor and raise the technical level of other production designers by establishing file preparation standards across many different media.

• Expert color correction and retouching skills.
• Expert pre press skills in all offset and digital mediums, enabling cost savings and keeping projects
   within budget.
• Expert knowledge of the adobe software used to generate mechanical builds.
• Extensive background working with internal and external clients.
• Proven track record for seeking continued education on building files and techniques that increase
   efficiency of production designers promoting speed and accuracy with in the department.
• Excellent design and typography skills when working with files while maintaining corporate    
   branding.
• Expert knowledge of the catalog building process. using the Easy Catalog plug in for Indesign
   to streamline processes and save cost in production and improve efficiencies.
• Powerful skills in working with a wide variety of vendors in the graphics industry.
• Extensive experience with press checks.

Handle the daily production design, retouching and pre-press workflow in the Oakley Creative Services Department. Scope of work in department includes product retouching and color correction of eyewear, goggles, clothing, shoes, backpacks and luggage. Assembly of digital mechanical files for national ads, B2B catalogs, POP, billboards, trade shows and window graphics for Oakley stores. Works with print producers and vendors to ensure that files are executed correctly in all media while maintaining corporate branding and staying with in budget. Career highlights at Oakley that have helped reduce file errors and reduce outside prep costs include:
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Spearheaded bringing the production of the AFA Catalogs in-house with a savings of over
$100, 000 in vendor production costs for Fall 2014, currently working on Spring 2015.
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Learned and then taught Easy Catalog to catalog production team to streamline and automate the
AFA Catalogs.
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Developed AFA Icon libraries to automate the insertion of the icons in to the AFA Catalogs.
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Managed and maintained Fiery & Oris color proofing system, by working with all vendors to ensure color profiles are up-to-date and accurate on the studio proofing system.
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Developed and wrote for the graphics department and outside agencies a thirty-six page File Prep
Standards manual to ensure consistent, accurate and print ready executable mechanical files, to avoid up charges by vendors.
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Conducted peer-training classes in Photoshop and InDesign to elevate the skill set of the designers & studio production team.
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Color correction of AFA seasonal apparel color palettes, so that CADS are color corrected for use in
AFA catalog.
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Executed press ready mechanical, color corrected and retouched storefront graphics for Sunglass Hut, Lenscrafters, N3L stores and Oakley stores.
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Developed and monitored Oakley’s master library of logos graphics and legal copy to minimize trademark errors and maintain the integrity of the Oakley brand.

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Luisa Monzon: Sr. Production Designer | Retoucher in Lake Forest, CA

Luisa Monzon

Laguna College of Art and Design

Platt College