ChristopherDLott.com

From Expert Level to 'Novice, but would like to learn more', below is a sliding scale of programs, software specialties and computer literacies.

Adobe Illustrator

Web Graphics/Design

Adobe Photoshop

Adobe InDesign

Mac IT Support

WYSIWYG Web Builder

Adobe Dreamweaver

Data Warehousing and Archiving

Print Pricing & Procurement

Handcoding

Flexi Sign Making Software

Pre-Press Production

Photo Restoration & Retouching

Photography

Lightware/Maya 3D

Microsoft Suite

Corel Draw Suite

Branding

Successfully helped several up and coming & established brands to heighten brand awareness and market share.

Creative Thinking

Able to take obscure ideas and put them into concrete designs through extensive research and experience. 20+ years in the design industry gives me the ability to draw on extensive knowledge to create almost anything.

Photo Retouching
and Restoration

Specializes in Fashion Retouching and Vintage Photo Restoration work. Photography upon request.

Layout & Design

Grabbing the attention of the reader is paramount. Effectively arranging the visual and textual items in a layout takes great skill by writing code, updating websites, designing layouts, editing website content, and making adjustments based on client feedback.

Print Production
Print Procurement & Pricing

Successfully scouts new and efficient sources for print work among growing list of resources while staying inside budgets. Able to solve hosts of printing issues with production, processing, scheduling, materials, and design.

Fashion Design
Illustration

Keen eye for detailed illustration and keylines for the Fashion Industry. Has extensive knowledge of fabric, trim, techpak design, and more.

Social Media
Marketing

Extensive experience in helping multiple brands expand their social media presence online in grow retail sales in upwards of 40% YoY.

Web Design/Coding

Expert in Web Design Principles and Best Practices,
knowledgeable in more than ten coding languages.

Office Management

Organized and uber effective executive-level support professional experienced in office administration, who doesn’t mind wearing a plethora of hats.

Customer Service

Highly personal individual maintains relationships effectively while equipping others with the skills and information to complete their day.

Data Warehousing
& Archiving

Able to responsibly create, organize, archive, preserve, describe and maintain digital content in a fashion where others can access the digital collections easily and effectively.

Mac IT

Mac Technical Support to advise on computer software and hardware issues for personal and organizations alike.

Angela Current
Blogger, Planner & Pet Fashions Creator
In the years since I started my business, I had worked with a couple other graphic designers that never had a grasp for my vision and always felt that I had to “settle” for what I received… Then I worked with Christopher Lott. He has amazing vision and imagination; grabbing hold of my vision instantly and going above and beyond in all areas. With only a single meeting, he knew instinctively what I wanted to achieve and built a site that created the feel that I had been seeking for no less than five years.
Christopher is easy to work with and adaptable; when needed to change direction midway he quickly moved on the new concept and completed everything in amazingly fast time. He would be an asset to any company with his easy going personality and incredible creativity.

Donald R. Payne
Former Minister; Evangelical United Methodist Church
Christopher did some outstanding graphic design work for me personally and also for my former church. He is enthusiastic, loves life, is very dedicated, and cares deeply about people. I highly recommend Christopher as a graphic designer/webmaster for any company that is looking for a sincere and careful graphic designer with an excellent grasp of graphic design work.

Helen McCurry-Mahoney
Partner; McCurry Creative Studios
Christopher has been the best asset to me while I have been building my new design business McCurry Creative Studios. Not only is he an fantastic designer, but he is a priceless go-to and wealth of knowledge when it comes to 'how-to's' and tutorials. He is always the first person I call when I can't get something just the way I want it for a design. Great with the clients and always willing to go the extra mile,
I know my work is always in great hands with Christopher.

Daniel Keltner
ITMS Manager at Intrust IT
Former Designer at Brown Publishing Group
When I worked with Christopher he was working for Brown Publishing as a sort of Jack-of-All-Trades. He managed their website in Joomla, designed new sites, designed ads for the newspapers, and even worked in pagination and pre-press. As many people know...most designers try to specialize in one area. Christopher was invaluable during his employment, having improved site visibility, and turning out a high number of ads that were high quality. While working with Christopher, I saw a passion for design, and for learning new elements and skills. Any employer should consider him a smart investment in their workplace.

Sign Technologies, Inc. (D.B.A. Signetics; Carved Impressions, & Real Stone Carving.com
Junior Design Associate/Web Manager
• Web designer and developer on multiple websites
and platforms including carvedimpressions.com and realstonecarving.com as well as Amazon, Etsy, and eBay.
• Head designer in charge of pet memorial products: makes sure all products are properly designed, created and ready for customer shipment in a timely manner.
• Design Department Team Member: Part
of a two-person team that designs custom headstones and memorials that are
sold to customers nation-wide.
• Also able to design and implement design abilities on large sign projects for our Redwood and HDU division on a continual basis with weekly projects for customers across the
nation.

June 2020 - Current
Dayton, OH

Carved Impressions

Carved Impressions is a great way to help grieving families memorialize their loved ones with a high quality headstone without breaking the bank. Most monument companies price their stones well beyond 5-7 times what the stone actually costs, but not Carved Impressions. they are able to sell directly from the quarries to the consumer to help keep costs down and help families get more for their money.

Headstone Art

From time to time, we have requests to create graphics for headstones that are one of a kind. As well, we often expand our repertoire to accommodate differing tastes in the marketplace. Below is a slideshow of some of the art I have created during my time so far at Signetics. You can also see these is a larger format in my oirtfilio here:
Headstone Art

Real Stone Carving

Part of the companies business is to produce and sell small memorial products on their own website and several other retail platforms. As part of being the web designer, I was able to design the inaugural site and a re-design within the first year and a half of the sites launch.

Wal-Mart #1463
Self Check Host, Service Desk Associate, Customer Service Manager (CSM)
• Customer Service Manager (CSM) highly adept to aide customers and associates alike in problem-solving issues as they arise.Financial liason between the cash office and all registers throughout the store for register set-up, change orders, check in/out of daily tills and daily audits.
• Self Check Host at Self Serve registers in charge of helping customers to successfully purchase their items. Also instumental in the security and maintenance of the Self Check area.
• Customer Service Desk Associate able to help customers return and exchange items, handle multiple types of money services, deal with complaints and customer concerns, and communicate with Customer Service management on daily front-end issues.

Sept 2017 - June 2020
Xenia, OH

RTR Bag NYC
Head Production and Graphic Designer
• Head Production and Graphic Designer for industry leading packaging design corporation with business in every major market in the world. Clients included Bloomingdales, Karl Lagerfeld, Barnery’s, Fred Segal, Macy’s and More!
• In charge of all design, production and proofing applications and guidelines for company; lead all proofing and revisions with the teams in China and India over vast network ov cloud comuputing.
• Produced and uploaded all designs for social media content and internal marketing for RTR Bag under direction of the Marketing Manager. Created multiple advertising campaigns and visual marketing guides to further enhance product placement.

Feb 2017 - Aug 2017
New York, New York

Attitudes In Dressing, Inc. (D.B.A. Body Wrappers/Angelo Luzio)
Print Manager/Art Director
• In charge of the print procurement and price quoting of all printed materials using outside vendors with a cost reduction of 37% during tenure.
• Significantly improved approval process to monitor progress through end stages of production.
• Supervised team of four to design, mock-up and monitor all proofs for approval process.
• In-charge of all internal and external marketing and packaging design company wide.
• Continually monitored processes to find better ways to cut down on time and cost to move the marketing materials to retailer/consumer in a timely manner.

Graphic Designer
• Sped up production as much as 200% as part of a three-person graphics team that did the layout, pagination, photo retouching, illustration and all final work for all consumer and retail catalogs.
• In charge of design of all packages, garment tags and other promotional materials as needed.
• Successfully streamlined and used cost-cutting measures for print procurement and price quoting of all printed materials with outside vendors. Saved company over $40,000 in first printing job.
• Created the photostudio’s independent rental website.

Office Manager
• Oversaw Design and Construction (Company’s General Contractor) of new 10-20 person office space in Fashion District of NYC.
• Orchestrated office move during a three day period to move office personnel and contents.
• Instituted new office accounting and financial record keeping for compliance purposes.
• Organized and implemented a new inventory system to eliminate waste and saw a 63% cost savings in office materials.

Jun 2011 - Jul 2016
New York, New York
•Feb 2015-Jul 2016

• Jun 2011-Jul 2016

• Jun 2011-Feb 2015

Premiere™ Merchandising
(Little Dancer/Premiere Poster)

This garment and merchandising poster coincided with the theatrical debut of the
Off-Broadway show "The Little Dancer" starring Tiler Peck. Body Wrappers/Angelo Luzio designed a companion garment to the show that was released in limited edition to stores nationwide.

Volume Catalog 122

This was the last full catalog I was in charge of before the end of tenure at Body Wrappers. It was always so fulfilling to complete such an endeavor. These catalogs were never less than 200 pages and included 12-15 sections and hundreds of sku's with photos, sketches, descriptions and more information about each item. Accompanying this was a US Price List, A Canadian Price List and a Sales Rep Price List that we always had more than 10,000 copies printed in which I was always in charge of the printing as well.

Liturgical Dance DVD

A first for Body Wrappers, this high-quality instructional dance DVD broke boundaries and records as it educated about the importance and the correct way to present Liturgical Dance in a church setting. All print design work as well as photo retouching was done by myself to create this eye-catching design.

Miscellaneous Packaging

Most of the packaging that Body Wrappers uses to this day are designs that have been created by me. This includes what you see above; The Men's Belt Package, The Mens ProSOCK packaging, and the Papillon Sole Saver Packaging.

Lit Catalog

We as a congregation helped a local organization called The Caring Place to serve a meal to the less fortunate in our community once a month in Xenia. This was one of our menus I designed to hang at the start of the line. Table menus were also printed.

Various Hangtags
& Clothing Tags

Many of the clothing tags and hangtags that I created for Body Wrappers can be seen above. Included are: The Tri-Me Tank, The Silk Chiffon Tag, The Urban/Tap Hangtag, The 5-Way Wrap/Dress, and two variations of the BWProwear Hangtag.

Website

Several of the key components of the current website was designed by me during my tenure at Profound UI back in 2012-13 as I was creating Flash videos for their Profound UI Product.

White Paper Advert

One of several White Papers I created for Profound Logic and profound UI that gave the fantastic reasons users should not only switch their old, out-dated green screens to new web based user interfaces, but why they should choose Profound UI to do so!

Full Color Magazine Ad

Profound UI needed a full color magazine ad to be able to fully convey the great software they were able to deliver to their clients; and to people who yet to be their clients. This is the ad I created for that purpose that ran in two different industry magazines.

Former Website

Our churches former website was the first that our church had and was an in-depth, all-inclusive look at what we had to offer our community. Read more about it here.

Caring Place Menu

Business Card

This business card was done as an ongoing project for the ministers and laypeople of the Evangelical United Methodist church so anyone representing the church could use this to help anyone that needed to reach the church, do so.