Jaylin Benford — Graphic Designer at CAE Inc
Jaylin Benford
Graphic Designer
Chattanooga | United States
Skills
- Marketing Communications
- Machine Learning
- Robotic Process Automation
- Advertising
- Technical Product Marketing
Interests
Drawing
Kayaking
Hiking
Video games
Providing unsolicited commentary while my wife watches her favorite shows.
Industries
No information
Work experience
CAE Inc
Mx Courseware Designer | 10/2022 - Current
Chattanooga Times Free Press
Graphic Designer | 01/2024 - Current
• 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
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MX Training Courseware Designer | 10/2022 - Current
• 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.
Vincent Printing
Lead Production Artist | 06/2022 - 10/2022
• 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.
InterSign Corp
Production Artist | 01/2019 - 06/2022
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.
Intersign
Production Artist | 01/2019 - 06/2022
• 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
Goldbond Worldwide, Inc
Digital Production Artist | 09/2015 - 10/2018
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.
Gold Bond
Digital Production Artist | 09/2015 - 10/2018
• 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
Vector Printing
Digital Printing AND Prepress Technician | 06/2014 - 09/2015
• 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
