Pariah Burke Consulting & Training with Creative & Publishing Workflow Expert Pariah S. Burke | Informing & Empowering Creative Professionals™

Experience

Few train­ers or con­sul­tants can match my exten­sive expe­ri­ence. I have a very long resume, so here are just the salient highlights:

• An inter­na­tion­ally rec­og­nized expert on cre­ative soft­ware and cre­ative and pro­duc­tion workflows.
• An Adobe Community Professional.
• 10 years expe­ri­ence as a cre­ative soft­ware and work­flow trainer and consultant.
• 20+ years as a graphic designer and illustrator.
• Author or co-author of 5 crit­i­cally acclaimed cre­ative soft­ware books on Adobe InDesign, InCopy, Illustrator, Creative Suite, and QuarkXPress.
• A fre­quently pub­lished author­ity on graphic design, pub­lish­ing, InDesign, InCopy, QuarkXPress, Illustrator, Photoshop, Adobe Bridge, and Acrobat with arti­cles pub­lished in InDesign Magazine, Publish​.com, PDFZone​.com, InDesignSecrets​.com, CreativeLatitude​.com, CreativePro​.com, Designorati​.com, and Quark VS InDesign​.com; a speaker at var­i­ous venues and media, includ­ing the InDesign Conference, and; author or co-author of three books focus­ing on cre­ative tools and their use in mod­ern pro­fes­sional cre­ative and pub­lish­ing workflows.
• Professional graphic designer, pro­duc­tion man­ager, art direc­tor, and illus­tra­tor work­ing con­tin­u­ously in the full range of design, adver­tis­ing, pub­lish­ing, and pre-press work­flows since 1986.
• A favorite con­sul­tant to U.S. mil­i­tary and gov­ern­ment agen­cies’ cre­ative, pub­lish­ing, and foren­sic workflows.
• I under­stand the busi­ness con­cerns sur­round­ing cre­ative workflows.
• I have directly worked in, man­aged, and/or per­formed deep, immer­sive opti­miza­tions of the fol­low­ing types of workflows:
  • Magazine (print) publishing
  • Digital mag­a­zine publishing
  • eBook ePUB production
  • Newspaper pub­lish­ing
  • Catalog and direc­tory publishing
  • Online peri­od­i­cal publishing
  • Web design
  • Packaging
  • Direct mail
  • Technical book production
  • Advertising
  • Brand devel­op­ment
  • Identity design
  • Model and prod­uct photography
  • Pre-press
  • PDF eForm devel­op­ment and deployment
• 3 years as Adobe Technical Support in-house trainer, researcher, and tech­ni­cal lead for InDesign, InCopy, PageMaker, Acrobat, Photoshop, and Illustrator. I was also the in-house “QuarkXPress expert,” “font guru,” and “pub­lish­ing and pre-press guy.”

While other chil­dren dreamed of being fire fight­ers and astro­nauts, I only ever wanted to grow up to be a designer. I’ve been a stu­dent of design, illus­tra­tion, and pub­lish­ing since I was five years old. At age 14 I began free­lanc­ing as an illus­tra­tor while appren­tic­ing at a screen­print­ing plant. From there, I moved on to learn pre-PostScript lay­out and paste-up in pub­lish­ing and pre-press shops. When the Desktop Publishing Revolution began, I rode the crest with a Mac, Illustrator, and PageMaker. I’ve spent my entire career learn­ing and work­ing in the cre­ative fields.

I under­stand the processes and tools of cre­ative pro­fes­sions extremely well because I’ve been where you are–managing bud­gets, clients, dead­lines, and personnel–and where your cre­atives are–struggling to bal­ance cre­ativ­ity with pro­duc­tiv­ity. I’ve been a prin­ci­pal and a grunt, and every­one between. When you tell me your needs and goals, when you explain your work­flow, I will understand.

Adaptability

Because of my long and var­ied expe­ri­ence and my expo­sure to so many dif­fer­ent work­flows, I under­stand the major ele­ments of your work­flow already, and our con­ver­sa­tions prior to an on-site engage­ment will fill me in on the unique nuances. As a result of my 20 years of using the tools of the trade in my own cre­ative career, and because of my expe­ri­ences with Adobe and since, I am inti­mately famil­iar with the tools on which your work­flow depends.

All that knowl­edge and expe­ri­ence affords me an unusual agility. I can turn a train­ing class or work­flow con­sul­ta­tion on a dime, adapt­ing on the fly to new devel­op­ments, infor­ma­tion, and your team’s ideas, all the while ensur­ing that you see the max­i­mum return on your investment.

Clients

During 10 years of on-site, class­room, and remote train­ing and con­sult­ing I’ve had the priv­e­lage of teach­ing and help­ing many tal­ented men and women work­ing in amaz­ingly diverse work­flows. The fol­low­ing are just some of the com­pa­nies and agen­cies I’ve pre­vi­ously serviced.

• Actus Land Lease
• Banfield Pet Hospitals
• Bloom High School, ILL.
• Colorado Springs Utilities
• Comcast Sports Net
• Computer Sciences, Corp.
• Elon University
• FBI
• Federal Aviation Administration
• Flight Options, LLC
• General Tours
• GTECH Corp.
• Hanna Andersson
• Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Corp.
• Lousiana State University
• Multnomah County
• NASA
• National Temporal Bone Registry
• NAVSEA
• Neiman Marcus
• Nike
• Northrop Grumman
• Northwestern University
• Object 9
• PacifiCorp
• The Pepsi Co.
• Pier 1 Imports
• Prudential
• South Carolina Yacht Club
• St. Joseph County Public Library
• Stars and Stripes Newspaper
• Sumner County School
• Sun Styles Specialty Printing
• The Independent Weekly Newspaper
• The Library Video Company
• The Wassertstrom Company
• United States Attorney’s Office
• US Air Force
• US Army
• US Marine Corps.
• WalMart
• Washington State Insurance Commissioner
• Watermark Advertising
• Xcelsior Publishing Company