Candidates of the week - Overseas Candidate - India - Graphic Pre-Press Artist
Graphic Pre Press Artist with 10+ years experience in Graphic Design, Imposition, Imagesetter, CTP, plate setters, step-&-repeat, image-management, digital-printing machines.
I have been granted a Class BN subclass 136 Skilled – Independent visa, on 23rd May 2008 for a period of 5 years by the Australian High Commission. I plan to move to Australia by 5 August 2008.
Educational Qualification
Diploma in Printing Technology
Subjects: Planning, Reproduction Photography, Surface Preparation, Press Work, Finishing, Quality Control, Estimating, Forwarding
Institute: Institute of Printing Technology and Govt. Polytechnic.
Year of Passing: June 1997
Completed 3 months course in desktop publishing
(PageMaker, coral draw, Adobe InDesign, Quark Xpress, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator and Adobe Acrobat, flatbed scanner operation etc on windows platform)
Project work: Production of a book scanner and DTP
A.I.S.S.C.E.
Subjects: English, Maths, Physics, Chemistry, Biology
Institute: Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya, Idukki DT
Year of Passing: June 1994
A.I.S.C.E.
Subjects : English, Malayalam, Maths, Science, Social Science
Institute: Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya, Idukki DT
Year of Passing: June 1992
Professional Experience
Senior Pre-Press Artist
Company: Excel GRAPHICS, Cochin – 17, Kerala, India
Period of Service: From 2007 May to till date
Job profile :
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High level of skill in graphic design software products, such as Photoshop, Corel Draw, Illustrator, QuarkXpress, Indesign for Designing Graphics & Artworks.
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Prepare file for the whole graphics industry based around pre-press, reproduction and printing.
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Design and set out books, flyers, folders, greeting cards, posters, calendars, cd's, logos, business cards for digital and offset print media.
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Lay-outing and type setting of Brochures, Magazines, posters, Office Forms Designing Graphics, Artworks.
Graphic Pre-Press Artist
Company: Colortech, Cochin – 18, Kerala, India
Period of Service: From 1999 April to March 2007
Job profile:
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Planning and creating artwork and related materials, using computers and other instruments.
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Designing Graphics, Artworks
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Design and set out books, flyers, folders, greeting cards, posters, calendars, cd's, logos, business cards, cinema spots plus a variety of other requirements for digital and offset print media. Lay-outing and type setting of Brochures, Magazines, posters, Office Forms and continuous forms.
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Working on computer screen-based equipment for scanning, color separation, color correction, retouching, masking, creative designing, combining, imposing process used to transfer images to printing plates.
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Operating process Graphic Camera for reproducing images in negative or positive film.
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Developing film manually or by film processor.
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Printing proofs and checking quality
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Using various software such as Corel draw, Adobe Photoshop, In Design, Illustrator and MS programs.
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Produce film positives and negatives and Film outputting with an image setter Lino Quasar HQS (Heidelberg).
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Design the different print and digital media on the computer, with these data print proofs and organize the print job with the printing department.
email: shibuthomas5@rediffmail.com
