Christopher Dollar

Graphic Designer

Renton, WA, USA

Work Experience

Creative Circle

Sr. Graphic Designer

• Sears Home Services, Sr. Graphic Designer
- Lead designer for Sears Home Warranty 2016 rebranding
- Designer for SHS marketing materials (including but not limited to coupons, direct mailers, trade show collateral, etc)
August 2015 - Present Seattle, Washington, United States

The Creative Group

Graphic Designer / Pre-Press Production / Web Designer

• Deloitte Digital - Production Designer
- This project focused on rebranding Motorola products to Zebra. The team was responsible for everything from technical manuals to marketing materials and even wiping logos off product photos and replacing them with Zebra logos.

• Pacific Market International - Graphic Designer / PrePress Production
- Assisted in the 2015 redesign of the Aladdin brand for US, Canada, Europe, Middle East, and Asia. Also performed prepress checks for Aladdin, Stanley, and Starbucks packaging and on-product prints.

• Wizards of the Coast - Web Production / Designer
- Designed static banners then resize them in many different dimensions and delivered them in multiple file types (png / jpeg / tif / psd). Total web ads produced were around 100 banners based on the 7 different designs.
April 2014 - August 2015 Washington, United States

Seattle Weekly

Production Manager / Graphic Designer / Web Designer

* Responsible for all weekly print editions and web marketing campaigns from concept to pre-press.

• Designs and lays out advertising material utilizing various forms of media including photography and computer aided design. Re-works and corrects advertisements after proofing is completed by the client.

• Led the training to transition to our current production program for newspaper layout.

• Directly responsible for creating Seattle Weekly’s Voracious Tasting & Food Awards 2013 advertising and marketing campaign for one of Seattle’s largest local event.
- 12 Weeks of Print Ads: Circulation of 65,000 issues each week to over 2,000 distribution sites
- Web campaign was viewed more than 2.5 million times per month
- Reached out to more than 24,700 email promotions subscribers and 37,000 Facebook and Twitter fans.

• Facilitation of meetings between Editorial and Sales staffs for layout of the paper.
• Manages multiple projects under tight deadlines while ensuring timely completion of projects, with a limited budget.
• Ensures Publisher has all required materials to make tight deadline.
November 2012 - April 2014 Seattle, Washington, United States

U.S. Navy

Graphic Designer / Journalist / Photographer

• Led 19 Public Affairs Office employees in the publications of more than 12 weekly and three special edition Penny Press newspapers.

• Directly responsible for creating and cataloging the 2010-2011 Deployment Cruise Book for Lincoln, Carrier Air Wing 2, Destroyer Squadron 9 and Carrier Strike Group 9 staff, distributed to over 6000 employees (a total of 352 pages).

• Devoted more than 1,000 hours maintaining print shop machinery and printers during Lincoln’s deployment in the Arabian Gulf. Trained more than 15 employees on print shop maintenance and equipment, saving the command more than $30,000 in outside printing services.

• Facilitated private tours for distinguished visitors while providing the Fleet with a news release and two video segments during LA Navy Week 2011. This brought 40,000 members of the general public onboard for tours of the ship, in which I
earned a Flag Letter of Accommodation.

• Assisted with journalism and photography pieces for the Base newspaper.

• Took more than 5,000 professional quality photographs for ATRC events, reenlistments, award ceremonies, class photos, promotion ceremonies, 500 officer photographs and passport pictures for military and their dependents.

• Dedicated efforts and provided superior products while saving the command more than $50,000 in contract costs.
November 2006 - November 2012 Everett, Washington, United States

Education

Western Carolina University

Bachelor of Fine Arts

August 2000 - May 2005 Cullowhee, North Carolina, United States

Defense Information School

Certification as Basic Mass Communication Specialist

January 2007 - July 2007 Baltimore, Maryland, United States

Awards

Department Of Defense

2nd Place VIAP Awards/Layout and Design

2011

Department Of Defense

3rd Place VIAP Awards/Digital Art

2011

Chief Of Information/DoD

1st Place Tabloid Newspaper

2010

Skills

Adobe Illustrator, Pagemaker, Quark Express, Adobe Indesign, Adobe Photoshop, Microsoft Office,