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Bringing Creative Ideas to Life! Lightning Tree Creative Media will iilluminate and communicate your creative ideas so that they come to life. We specialize in creative designs, development of marketing materials, and book publishing. We believe in fast turnaround on projects and exceptional customer service.
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Marketing Our team is gifted at bringing your creative ideas to reality. With combined experience of over 25 years, we understand your spoken and unspoken expectations for your
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Some of the creative projects we have had the privilege and opportunity to work on are magazines, book covers, editing
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Let Lightning Tree Creative Media bring your next project to life! Contact us at
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About the Team Keren has her degree in Business Communications and has been in the publishing industry for over 25 years. Her experience in the writing, editing and graphic design industry is extensive having worked with both publishers and many wanting to publish their own books. Her services range from ghost writing, editing, layout, and cover designs as well as designing and printing marketing materials. Keren also has professional experience in production of newsletters and brochures. Her attention to details and high standards of excellence will make your project come to life. Keren's Resume Contact Keren at: 303.550.8657
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Abby has been working in the graphic design industry for over 5 years and has a Bachelor’s Degree in Visual Communications with a concentration in graphic design from Colorado Technical University. She has experience with corporate identity development including logos, brochures, newsletters, and mailings. She also has knowledge and skill in promotional design including posters, magazines and advertisements. Her artistic and inventive file:///C|/Users/Keren/Documents/A%20Lightning%20Tree/LTCM/LTCM%20Web/about.html (1 of 2) [12/8/2008 6:22:00 PM]
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Want to Bring Your Creative Ideas to Life? We Can Do Just That! Lightning Tree Creative Media offers a wide range of services to help your business reach customers. Let our 30 years of expertise and creativity in designing corporate identities and logos, marketing materials, and books assist you in seeing the fulfillment of your ideas. We're fun and easy to work with, are serious about deadlines, and have your best interest at heart. We offer the following services:
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Corporate Identity Development Business Cards Logos Advertisements Website Development Newsletters Magazines Banners Post Cards Posters Flyers Brochures Editing Ghost Writing Book Covers Layout
Please visit our PORTFOLIO page to view some of our work. Keren's Resume Abby's Resume
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Contact Us Keren Kilgore 303.550.8657
[email protected] Abby Kilgore 303.524.4211
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Free Price Quotes! Simply email us with a description of your project, include your contact information, and we will get in touch with you promptly. Email:
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Book Services Portfolio Lightning Tree Creative Media offers a full range of services for book publishing including:
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ISBN assistance
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Preparing proposals for literary agencies
The following are book covers designed by Lightning Tree.
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STRENGTHS Creative, entrepreneurial, administrative, highly motivated, goal oriented, accurate, thorough and precise in attention to details. Excellent analytical and organizational skills. Major strengths are problem solving and completing multifaceted projects within time constraints allotted. Skilled in team building, public relations and communication. Truthful, loyal, and dependable. SKILLS SUMMARY MANAGEMENT Managed office staff. Interviewed, hired and trained new employees to levels of excellence and proficiency. Prepared proposals for corporate approval, developed office manuals with policies and procedures. MARKETING Created, designed, and wrote copy for brochures, flyers, and ads; created graphic designs for major projects such as book covers and magazines; negotiated and approved advertising contracts, set up distribution systems.
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Created direct mail campaigns and set up result tracking systems. EDITING & PUBLISHING Editor and ghost writer of several books, magazines, articles, a bimonthly booklet, and monthly audiotape distributed in the United States and twenty-five other countries internationally requiring excellent English skills and analytical thinking. Composed correspondence and fundraising letters. Contacted United States and International publishers, managed foreign translations, negotiated, and approved contracts. Edited articles published in a monthly column in New Zealand and Australian magazines. Represented company at publishing exhibits. DEVELOPMENT & PUBLIC RELATIONS Set up new name nurture series to handle 400 new names a month in a nonprofit environment. Designed and implemented telephone call system to develop large donors. Successfully managed complicated telephone inquiries, established relationships with other organizations in same field, met with major contributors around the United States in groups of twenty to one thousand, hosted visitors and guests.
PRODUCTION & GRAPHIC DESIGN Responsible for all aspects of print production from design and layout to approval of final product, printing, packaging, and bulk mailing. Director for several video projects, responsible for set design, and editing final product. Designed, edited, finish layout, and published full-color magazines, brochures, booklets, and books. Designed logos and various marketing materials. EVENT PLANNING Administrator for a catering company on Pier 66 in San Francisco. Handled many aspects of an event including office administration, event planning, staff management, and on-site logistics. Organized conference events and banquets including menu planning, sequence of events, hotel reservations, transportation, event video production, audio recording, and hosting visiting speakers. SOCIAL WORK Licensed professional therapeutic foster parent through the State of North Carolina. Involved in a Family Mentoring Program – responsible to work toward the preservation and reunification of families. Involved in therapeutic care for developmentally disabled youth. Facilitated monthly sibling therapy groups. Worked one-on-one with inmate wives and families; facilitated small therapy groups of inmate families at two California State Prisons.
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EMPLOYMENT HISTORY 2007, Present Lightning Tree Creative Mediaf Owner, graphic designer, editor, ghostwriter 1977-Present, Lifechangers Editor, Graphic Designer 2006-2006, Rachel's Challenge Event Coordinator 2005-2006, Shiloh Place Ministries Communications Coordinator 2002-2005, Family Group Therapeutic Professional Foster Parent 1996-2002, Youth Homes, Charlotte, NC Professional Family Mentor 1997-1999, Love INC, Charlotte, NC Executive Director 1996-1997, Derek Prince Ministries, Charlotte, NC Director of Development, Conference Coordinator 1985 - 1987, Moveable Feast Catering Co., San Francisco, CA Office Administrator for Off-premise corporate party planners 1984-1985, Michael Imfeld Law Office, Inc., San Rafael, CA Legal Secretary & Assistant, Office Manager 1982-1984, Gage & Tucker Law Firm, Kansas City, MO Legal Secretary to Senior Partner VOLUNTEER Treasurer, Board Member, Centerforce, Inc., San Quentin, CA Centerforce administrated visitor centers for all California State Prisons and Youth Facilities with over 2,000,000 prison visitors every year. Founder, Enabling Wives of the Incarcerated (EWI). Facilitated support groups at San Quentin and Folsom State Prisons in California. Volunteer at Correctional Institute for Women in Raleigh, NC Lay Ministry Coordinator for Crossroads Fellowship, Raleigh, NC.
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Food pantry, women’s prison, inner city projects, nursing homes Small Group Facilitator, Youth Homes, Inc., Charlotte, NC Home Group Facilitator, Crossroads Fellowship and St. Giles Presbyterian Church ACHIEVEMENTS Award of Excellence, Evangelical Press Association EDUCATION University of Phoenix –Management and Communications Montreat Anderson College, NC – General Ed & Business North Carolina State University – English: Writing and Editing; Social Work West Valley Community College, CA – Legal Secretarial Science Broward Community College, FL – Magazine and Newspaper Writing/Production PERSONAL INTERESTS Family, motorcycles, movies, reading, hiking, and golf PERSONAL MISSION STATEMENT To illuminate and communicate truth with grace, to worship God and enjoy His creation.
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EXPERIENCE Over 5 years of freelance experience with graphic design, layout &illustration. Some of which came from the company’s listed below.
High Plains Transmission, 2008 Website development (www.highplainstranmission.com), assisted with brochure production.
Adrian & Associates Real Estate Group, 2007 - current Part of their team as their sole graphic designer (project based). Design and layout marketing tools to promote business. Flyer, brochure, postcard, logo, business card, etc.
Rachel’s Challenge, Non-Profit School Safety Program, 2006 - current Graphic design and layout of the following: full magazine cover to cover, 10 promotional poster designs, fundraising brochure, product poster, order forms; Worked with printers on pricing, proofing and delivery of products
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Book layout and editing. Graphic Designer of promotional flyer.
Finished Dreams Restoration, LLC Graphic designer for postcard advertisement; Worked with printers on pricing, proofing and delivery of products Restaurant Manager, May 2006 – September 2006 Rigatoni’s Family Restaurant at Coral Beach Resort, Myrtle Beach, SC Manager of front of the house and all front of the house employees, customer service, opening and closing responsibilities, cash register balancing, nightly deposits, provided daily menu advertisements for customers Customer Service Representative, October 2005 – February 2006 Coastal Federal Bank, Myrtle Beach, SC Assisted customers with all banking needs, assisted with opening and closing duties for several branches, processed transactions accurately and quickly to banks standards, sold bank products to customers
SKILLS Excellent abilities with Adobe Suite products such as InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop & DreamWeaver. Proficient with Microsoft Office products including Word, Excel, Access and PowerPoint. Organization, multi-tasking, ability to work with a team, customer service & customer correspondence experience.
EDUCATION Colorado Technical University, Greenwood Village, CO BS of Visual Communications, May 2007 – present (7 evening classes remaining) Central Piedmont Community College, Charlotte, NC Advertising and Graphic Design Program, 2001 – 2003
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