Stanley Payne

• Manage daily operations of sign shop.

• Contact vendors to purchase supplies, track orders, and retain bids.

• Collaborate with various departments throughout casino

• Develop, design, lay out and produce a variety of banners and signs.

• Adhere to corporate brand guidelines when preparing graphic materials.

• Accurately select gauges and types of sheet metal and non-metallic material.

• Assess work for errors or compliance issues and make corrections and modifications.

• Setting-up, operating, adjusting, and maintaining printing equipment, laminators, sheer cutters, and laser engravers.

• Create schematics of design, components, and assembly procedures.

• Operate hand and power tools to complete repairs.

• Install new systems, replacement parts and components to maintain proper operation.

• Used FlexiSign, Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign to create images and layouts.

• Developed creative design for email blasts, print materials, brochures, catalogs, posters and other promotional materials
• Created digital image files for use in digital and traditional printing methods.
• Met with customers to present mockups and collect information for adjustments.
• Employed design fundamentals when selecting typography, composition, layout, and color in design work.

• Selected printing format and layout, prepared text and images for final print run and set up presses.

• Communicated printing project requirements verbally and in writing with clients and staff members to verify clarity and full customer satisfaction.

• Analyzed and solved digital file issues and software and hardware challenges associated with prepress and printing.

• Designed and artistically configured prepress projects using layout programs, including Photoshop, QuarkXpress and Illustrator.

• Managed hard copy and electronic art and data files, verifying file availability to correct staff members or clients when required.

• Created and formatted newsletters, promotional documents and other projects based on design ideas or rough samples proposed by clients.

• Selected colors and themes while adding functionality to create new designs.

• Generated digital image files for use in digital and traditional printing.

• Submitted design ideas to plan projects with customers and managers.