Boris Zizek

108 Fellows Court, Unit E | Elmhurst, IL 60126

Phone: 708/ 691-3903
bzizek75@gmail.com
A well-trained, creative, energetic professional who takes pride in, and gains s
atisfaction from, the quality of his work. Possesses a great attitude, impeccabl
e attention to details, and a strong desire to succeed.
Education:
Columbia College Chicago, Chicago, IL
• Bachelor of Arts | Graphic Design.
Experience:
4/05-3/09 Prepress Technician/Imaging Specialist, Solar Communications, Inc. Nap
erville, IL
• Involved in both digital prepress and imaging (plating). Responsibilities include
all aspects of pre press production for client work from color manipulation (wor
king with such tools as levels optimization, curves, etc.), page layout, clippin
g paths, type setting, and any graphic design needs. Solar provides offset, shee
t fed, and flexographic printing. I perform my prepress tasks for all three prin
t applications we do as well as imposition and plate for all. Ranging from Maxi
m, Playstation magazine wraps to small product information postcards. Working cl
osely with our costumer service representatives to accurately execute all of our
client needs is too a daily facet.
4/02-10/04 Graphics Application Specialist, Minolta Business Solutions, Chicago,
IL
• Responsibilities involved pre-sale and post-sale support of Minolta’s business product
s (Blk/Wht & Color digital copier/printers). Coordinating and scheduling the net
working of our products to new and current customers. Implementing the various s
oftware utilities that come along w/ the product line to servers or individual w
orkstations. Outside of training, application and technical support, I am respon
sible for creating and maintaining all in-house sales marketing collateral for t
he branch.
2/00-4/02 Pre Press Technician, Infocomm, Chicago, IL
• Outputting client files for film and RC paper to our image setters, responsible fo
r maintaining the Agfa imagesetters when necessary. I was also regularly involve
d in a variety of prepress and production design tasks.
11/98-2/00 Freelance Graphic Artist, Chicago, IL & NW Suburbs
• I’ve accomplished miscellaneous design freelance accounts in business with such compan
ies as Hewitt Associates, ADP, Askesis Development Group, Design Resource Center
, and the Walgreen Corporation. Among these companies tasks ranged from creative
design, conceptualizing ideas following particular specs to work between, carry
ing it then forward to a finished proof. To doing production design such as reto
uching, clipping paths and color correcting images in preparation for prepress,
along with proofreading/editing tasks.
8/96-9/98 Graphic Designer, NobleQuest Inc., Chicago, IL
• Developed all sales & marketing graphics including design for trade show display.
Produced and refurbished corporate identity for inside clients. Designed the com
pany’s esthetic appearance for their web site, including all layout and images. I al
so created all of the graphics and color schemes for a Kiosk interface supportin
g NobleQuest custom, customer surveys.
Software Skills:
Operating Systems - PC Windows 00, XP, NT | Mac OS X v10.5
• Creative Suite 3 (Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Acrobat 8 w/ Enfocus Pit
stop 7)
• QuarkXPress 6.5, 7
• Extensis Suitcase Fusion
• Heidelberg SignaStation 9
Plating Hardware: Screen Imagesetter with a Kodak processing line | Heidelberg P
rosetter with a Raptor Pro 85S processor | Flexo – Dupont Cyrel 2000 ECLF (plate exp
osing), CDI Spark 4260 (imagesetter), Cyrel Fast TD4260 (processor).
Plates: Web Offset and Sheetfed (Kodak, Fuji & Agfa) | Flexographic (DFM & DFH p
hotopolymer 42†x 60†)
Workflows: Odystar Trap PDF workflow & Nexus Proofing workflow

References upon Request