Lynn Amacher
Farmer City, IL. 61842
amacher13@gmail.com
www.lynnamacher.net

Education:
Parkland College:
Associates Degree in Mass Communications: Visual Arts
Associates Degree in Mass Communications: Desktop Publishing
2006 Certified in Adobe InDesign at Heartland College

Employment Experience:

Aug. 1996 – Apr. 2010 Farmer City Journal
Phone: 309-928-2193
Title: Graphic Designer
I’m responsible for all ad design, page layout, creation of special sections, photography, scanning, computer repair, tech help for other offices, entering ad orders into Mactive. For the Farmer City Journal, LeRoy Journal and Heyworth Star.

Aug. 1997 - Dec. 1997 Parkland College
Phone: 217-351-2407
Title: Computer Lab Monitor
Responsibilities Include: Watching over the computer lab, helping people out with Macintosh, DOS, and Windows. Fixing some minor computer problems.

Oct. 1993 - Sept. 1997 Prairie Gardens/PGI Warehouse
Phone: 217-356-5590
Title: Sign Maker/Display Craftsman
Responsibilities Include: Design, materials purchasing, construction and installation of Display Props, sign and template creation and fabrication (laser printer & plotter), vinyl application, using various windows programs to make signs, data archiving digital sign and template files.

Jan. 1995 - May 1995 Mahomet Citizen
Phone: 217-586-2512
Title: intern
Responsibilities Include: Ad designs, scanning, tear sheets, laying out the paper and some minor repairs.

Computer Experience: Macintosh Classic and OSX, DOS, Windows; Software: Quark Xpress, Pagemaker, InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, Freehand, Dream Weaver, MS Word, Word Perfect, Excel, and have worked with several others. Computer network installation. I also have lot of experience with repairing computer both software and hardware. I have several years experience in repairing and colorizing photos, you can see samples here.

References:
References available upon request