Jason Kivela

617 Rethke Ave.

Madison, WI 53714

608-239-2671

email: Jason@jasonkivela.com

Objective: Technical, Design or Desktop Publishing position.

Qualifications

Six years of publishing experience in book and journal design, page layout, project coordination, and electronic publishing.

Education

University of Wisconsin – Platteville Aug. 96 – May 00

Bachelor of Arts in Communications Technologies Management with an emphasis in Photography and a minor in Fine Arts.

Computer Skills

Operating Systems: Mac OS X, Mac OS 9, Windows 3.1 to XP

Programs: Photoshop CS2, Image Ready 7, Illustrator CS2, InDesign CS2, Acrobat 7, QuarkXPress 4.11 & 6.0, MS Office

Programming Languages: XHTML, CSS, SGML, XML, XSLT, GREP, AppleScript

Experience

Publication Technologies Specialist, Sep. 04 – present
Apex Publishing, LLC

Conducted research and development on products, technologies, and workflows for the Production Department.

Improved or stream lined work flows or processes and provided reports and analysis to managers and employees.

Wrote and distributed training materials and documentation.

Traveled to India to meet with the facilities there and to help train them on new and existing procedures.

Developed procedures, workflows, typesetting procedures, documentation and templates for customers as a part of consulting projects as well as for internal projects.

Publication Technologies Specialist, April 04 – Sep. 04
Impressions Book and Journal Services, Inc.

see above

Intranet Technical Advisor and Web Master, Nov. 01 – Sep. 04
Impressions Book and Journal Services, Inc.

Developed a company intranet with the assistance of the Intranet Coordinator.

Brought seven departmental intranets into a complete site.

Oversaw the committee tasked to create the Intranet.

Maintained the updates and evolution of the Intranet.

Handled complaints and requests from users of the company website, both internal and external.

Updated web site content as needed.

Hand coded HTML for web site.

Page Layout Specialist, Nov. 02 – April 04
Impressions Book and Journal Services, Inc.

Handled page layout, art, and table placement of books while meeting project deadlines.

Designed and paged books, journals, and encyclopedias.

Developed procedures and techniques for page layout and design, and shared them with coworkers.

Electronic Publishing Specialist, Dec. 00 – Nov. 02
Impressions Book and Journal Services, Inc.

Developed electronic publishing solutions for unique and special projects.

Wrote documentation for internal departments, as well as customers and vendors for work with XML, SGML, MS Word and scripts.

Wrote and developed scripts in XSLT and GREP.

Developed CSS and HTML solutions for web based publishing and ebook projects.

Designed and scripted interactive CDs that were published as part of print books.

Electronic Publishing Training Organizer, Aug. 01 – Nov. 02
Impressions Book and Journal Services, Inc.

Organized the first concentrated effort to train employees of the Electronic Publishing department.

Liaisoned with others in the department to document the skills that should be general knowledge for all department members.

Expanded on the documentation and designed the training materials to be easy to read by employees.

Set up a training schedule and hand distributed and posted the documentation on the company’s intranet site.

Project Coordinator Assistant, May 00 – Dec. 00
Impressions Book and Journal Services, Inc.

Handled project startup on books and journals to begin their flow into the composition, art, and editorial departments.

Organized all image and manuscript flow between the editorial, art, and composition departments.

Filled in for project coordinators when they were away.

Handled billing of projects.

Handled customer complaints.

Additional Interests

Webmaster, May 04 – May 05
Mercury Players Theatre and Stage Q Theatre

Design, update and troubleshoot the web sites for two community theater groups.

Set Designer, May 01 – present
Mercury Players Theatre and Broom Street Theatre

Design, create and organize the creation of sets for two community theater groups.

Graphic Designer, Jan. 04 – present
Stage Q Theatre

Design publicity, organize publicity meetings, manage publicity related resources and consult with the Board of Directors, directors and producers on publicity for a community theater group.