Drawing

Kayaking

Hiking

Video games

Providing unsolicited commentary while my wife watches her favorite shows.

Graphic Designer

Creative & Design

Experienced Illustrator/Designer with a demonstrated history of working in the graphic design and printing industries. Skilled in Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, Pre-press Operations, Illustration, and Digital Printing.

Mx Courseware Designer

•   Creating covers and page layouts for the daily newspaper, monthly magazines, and quarterlies.
•   Designing digital and print ads for internal and clients.
•   Creating pitch decks, spec ads, and marketing presentations
•   Updating the company's social media presence and assisting in developing marketing challenges.
•   Coordinating with various departments to ensure the production of the daily newspaper runs smoothly.

CAE	Remote

•   Designed and edited graphics, diagrams, and electrical/mechanical schematics.
•   Collaborated with Subject Matter Experts (SME), Managers, Designers, and QA personnel to create
high-quality courseware in a fast-paced environment
•   Managed & tracked project progress using project management software (Airtable).
•   Reliably adhered to organizational processes, brand guidelines, and project specs to meet project goals.

MX Training Courseware Designer

•   Developed, simplified, documented, and implemented new or improved workflow processes.
•   Responsible for preparing customer art files for output on various digital presses.
•   Managed and trained a small team of production artists while acting as a liaison between the office and production.
•   Designed billboards, transit graphics, and other OOH advertising materials.

Lead Production Artist

Partnered with local businesses and franchisees
to develop marketing materials, managing the process from prepress to a final review.
Handled over 100+ unique client production
requests, taking templates created by marketing and bringing them to life.
Assisted in streamlining several inefficient
development processes resulting in savings of an average of $200K per month.
Trained several new hires on the entirety of the prepress process.
Utilized tools such as Adobe Illustrator, and Photoshop to ensure that we receive 100%
satisfaction from every client.

Production Artist

•   Increased production efficiency by 15% in 3 months, reducing costs and boosting profits.
•   Simplified the onboarding and training process for new production artists by creating a training manual and reference guides.
•   Participated in Marketing brainstorming sessions and conducted consumer research to develop new products
and streams of revenue.
•   Created templates, virtual proofs, social media graphics and e-commerce mockups.
•   Designed, typeset and produced ADA compliant hotel signage using industry standard software

Designed and developed 10+ new and unique
items based on complex client needs ranging from mugs to golf towels.
Managed the design and development of materials
for in-house events, expansion branding, and advertising catalogs.
Acted as a catalyst to ensure that the team met all
project completion goals, reaching 97% customer
satisfaction.
Finalized all press runs to ensure 100% accuracy and ensuring that the work met company quality standards.

Digital Production Artist

•   Managed the design and development of marketing materials and graphics for in-house events.
•   Created custom product mock-ups and templates for internal and external clients.
•   Acted as a catalyst to ensure that the team met all project completion goals, reaching 97% customer
satisfaction.
•   Worked with brands like Disney, American Airlines, & State Farm to ensure artwork met brand guidelines and specifications.
•   Responsible for training 2nd shift production artist & tracking progress.
•   Performed color correction using adobe creative suite such as Photoshop, Illustrator and Lightroom

•   Increased production output by 30% in 4 months, allowing for additional projects to be completed.
•   Created artwork/designs for both large and small format printing including but limited to; banners, yard signs,
and window graphics.


•   Operated and maintained large and small format digital printers.
•   Performed quality checks on customer-submitted artwork to improve accuracy.
•   Performed color correction using adobe Creative Suite such as Photoshop, Illustrator and Lightroom


Skills
Skills: Adobe Creative Suite, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Lightroom, Adobe Photoshop, Canva, CorelDRAW, Graphic
Design, Marketing, PowerPoint/Keynote/Slides, Word/Pages/Docs

Digital Printing AND Prepress Technician

Jaylin Benford is a Graphic Designer at CAE Inc in Chattanooga, Tennessee. View their experience, skills and work history on Malakye — the professional…

Jaylin Benford — Graphic Designer at CAE Inc

Jaylin Benford

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Savannah College of Art and Design

Chattanooga State Technical Community College

Savannah College of Art and Design