Barbara Beck

Current

District Sales Manger, Corp. Avon Products, Inc. at Avon Products, Inc.
Graphic Designer/Fine Artist at Amalgamarts

Past

artist at artwanted.com
Tech Rep at America Online
Graphic Design Artist at Team Tech / Applied Theory

graphic designer at Golfsmith International, Inc.
Assistant Art Director at Harcourt
Graphic Artist/Production Artist at Alphagraphics
Graphic Designer at MidWeek Printing, Inc.

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Education

UNM Community College

Recommended

15 people have recommended Barbara

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Industry

Graphic Design

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Barbara Beck’s Summary

District Sales Manager @ Avon Products. I train and develop women and men how to build a home business, that simply put transforms their lives for a minimal investment. The company I work for transcends the corporate norm, by it's longevity and history of empowering women to be financially independent. It's values and standard of ethics are a beacon light to companies around the globe. My job is creating a sound financial path for representatives. Teaching them about a home business, with a proven track record despite severe economic challenges.
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DESIGN OBJECTIVE: As a Graphic Designer use my expertise in the creation and development of print media, publication design and layout. Creative problem solver, and can multi-task in a fast paced work environment. I ensure projects are top quality and completed on schedule. I 'm detail oriented, and can lead when necessary. Hard worker, people enjoy working with me and trust my design skills. Excellent communication skills with over 15 years graphic and illustration experience.

SKILL SET: Strong organizational & planning skills combined with the ability to coordinate the efforts of many to meet goals. Productive & efficient work habits without supervision. Self motivated, resourceful and calm during critical deadlines. A proven ability to bring projects from conception to completion. Extensive graphic design, desktop publishing experience with artistic design consultation in websites and software interfaces.
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Barbara Beck’s Specialties:

AVON DIVISION COMPUTER TRAINER.
Proficient in following Software Applications:
QuarkXPress, Adobe Illustrator,PhotoShop, InDesign, Dreamweaver, Adobe Acrobat Professional, MS Word, Powerpoint 2003, MS Publisher, Internet Competent. (MAC, WINDOWS )

Barbara Beck’s Experience

District Sales Manger, Corp. Avon Products, Inc.

Avon Products, Inc.

(Public Company; AVP; Cosmetics industry)

2003 — Present (6 years )

District Sales Manager for Avon Products, Inc. Two Time Circle of Excellence DSM, managed two districts at 2.5 million dollars with over 700 Representatives. Extensive mastery in Direct Selling and business development. Successfully doubled the district staff since arrival in Tucson 3/03. Strong leadership development and training in district. Extensive, creative use of email, internet and print media to assist Representatives in developing successful business practices. Division Computer Trainer & Core Mark Brand Guru. Event planning, execution and speaking on regular basis, with mini groups, large meetings and Citywide events.
Graphic Designer/Fine Artist

Amalgamarts

(Graphic Design industry)

1987 — Present (22 years )

Graphic Design Business/Freelance Artist – Worldwide 1987-2001
Illustrator for Steck-Vaughn English as a Second Language Series. Electronic Illustrations as well as hand drawn provided for publisher. Design of logos, brochures, business cards, posters, web graph-ics for many companies and individuals, in South Carolina, Texas, Arizona, New Mexico, Japan, Hawaii, & Saudi Arabia,
artist

artwanted.com

(Graphic Design industry)

2000 — 2008 (8 years )
Tech Rep

America Online

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

2001 — 2002 (1 year )

Tech Representative and Customer Saves consultant. Trained in PC diagnostics for customer care, extensive knowledge of Windows, LAN, modem and computer troubleshooting.
Graphic Design Artist

Team Tech / Applied Theory

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

November 1999 — April 2001 (1 year 6 months)

Responsible for all design of print media for internal marketing, advertising, etc. Designer of software interface graphics, web page design & conference kiosks. Thorough knowledge of creating illustrations and web graphics. Clients include IBM, Gartner Group, Miller Beer, Lotus, and Dell.
graphic designer

Golfsmith International, Inc.

(Public Company; 201-500 employees; Sports industry)

1997 — 1999 (2 years )

Art director for all photography, design, layout and production of Golfsmith's premiere business-to-business personalization catalog. Designer for all Lynx & Harvey Penick Golf products, packaging develop-ment, Accessory Catalog page designs & art direction using QuarkXPress, PhotoShop S Illustrator. Thorough knowledge of creating web graphics. Designer of Posters, brochures & marketing media. Artist logo 8t product development catalog production 8Z design, newspaper & magazine
Assistant Art Director

Harcourt

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Publishing industry)

November 1997 — June 1998 (8 months)

Steck-Vaughn Divison Austin, Texas. Responsible for finding & contracting illustrators & photographers as well as tracking illustrations, photos for the design & set up for a 6 book series in Adult English as a second language, Writing Dictionary. Designed the main cover for the series, contracted freelance artists, photographers. Worked as a liaison to the editorial & marketing department.
Graphic Artist/Production Artist

Alphagraphics

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Printing industry)

July 1997 — September 1997 (3 months)

Alphagraphics, Graphic Artist/Production – Albuquerque, NM USA, July 97-Sept.97
Prepress preparation of all artwork for camera-ready works. Business Packages & a variety print media designs required. Freelance Desktop Publishing & Internet Websites, Calligraphy, oil & watercolor painting & instruction, pen & ink illustration, greeting card designs, flyers, brochures, business cards, & Catalogs
Graphic Designer

MidWeek Printing, Inc.

(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Graphic Design industry)

August 1992 — October 1993 (1 year 3 months)

Graphic design artist for the many newspapers published each week or biweekly...Advertising desgin for Kraft Foods International, local companies, completely speced & produced all ads for several newspaper, from concept to camera-ready artwork to paste-up.
MidWeek Printing, Inc.
45-525 Luluku Rd.
Kaneohe, HI 96744

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Barbara Beck’s Interests:

macintosh, reading, collecting tea pots, painting, art, calligraphy, cosmetic artistry,blogs,

Barbara Beck’s Groups:

AVON LEADERS: Owner/Moderator Message Board
Focus on Successful Business Practices
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/AvonLeaders/

AVON LEADERS: Owner/Moderator Message Board
Leading Others to Succes | Invitation Only
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/CORNERSTONES

AMALGAMARTS: Unveiling the unspoken Artist
Yahoo Message Board
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/amalgamarts