
Owner, SL Design
West Palm Beach, Florida Area

Owner, SL Design
West Palm Beach, Florida Area
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Professional Training & Coaching industry)
April 2007 — Present (2 years 8 months)
Gove-Siebold Group trains Fortune 500 sales teams how to increase sales through mental toughness training. We also facilitate the world famous Bill Gove Speech Workshop, a 61-year old program that trains people in professional public speaking skills.
(Graphic Design industry)
June 2005 — Present (4 years 6 months)
SL Design specializes in graphic, web and print design, as well as advertising specialties and print brokering.
(Self-Employed; E-Learning industry)
2008 — 2009 (1 year )
(Partnership; 1-10 employees; Education Management industry)
March 2005 — August 2006 (1 year 6 months)
Magazine and book design. Educational literature layout and design. Media Buyer. Conference support. A/V support.
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Printing industry)
October 1999 — December 2004 (5 years 3 months)
Responsible for all pre-press production tasks including design and layout, creative preparation of printing materials, scanning and retouching and preflight of customer files. Prepared files for variable and on-demand printing. Created and maintained Key Customers for online ordering, document management and archival services. Trained and supervised assistant graphic artists, scheduled and coordinated multiple projects under strict daily deadlines. Maintained workstations with OS 9, and OS 10.3, Windows 2000 and XP. Kept current working knowledge of graphics software to edit, preflight, fix and prepare customer files for printing. Implemented and maintained pier to pier printing from all workstations. Operated and maintained Command Work Station (mail merge/freeform/Doc Server) and Open Rip Direct to plate, imposition and scan-to-plate originals. Performed color calibrations on equipment. Operated HP5000ps poster machine, responsible for ordering supplies, maintenance and calibration.
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Events Services industry)
January 1988 — September 1999 (11 years 9 months)
Event Management: Designed and produced all support materials (programs, forms, trophies, awards) as needed to run successful tournament events, workshop clinics and fundrasing galas. Worked closely with event managers and coordinators, caterers, decorators, support staff; coordinated with volunteers to obtain auction items and sell ads for event program. Provided advertising specialty services, created and produced original designs for promotional items including T-shirts, tote bags, lapel pins, etc. Maintained database for mailing lists and ad sales. Art Director/Managing Editor: design and layout of bimonthly bulletin, training manuals, member handbooks, display ads, marketing/promotional materials and merchandise. Clients included United States Croquet Association, Gallagher, MAS International, The Croquet Foundation of America.
1979 — 1983
South Florida Web Design Professionals Meetup Group