Kasyan Servetsky

Summary

I am a prepress specialist from Ukraine with 31 years of direct professional experience in the publishing industry. Till April 2021 I have been working for the “Business” monthly where I occupied myself with color correction, retouching, and development of scripts and scripted plug-ins for InDesign and other Adobe products. Currently, I work for “Metodika” publishers — a small publishing house specializing in foreign languages textbooks.

Tools of Trade

Adobe InDesign, Adobe Acrobat, Kodak Preps, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Quark Xpress, ExtendScript Toolkit, Visual Studio Code, Active Page Item Developer Toolkit, Script Debugger, Visual Basic 6.

Programming Languages

JavaScript, AppleScript, Visual Basic

Basic Specialties

Layout design, color correction, retouching

Development of scripts and scripted plug-ins for InDesign, scripts for Photoshop, Bridge, Illustrator and Enfocus Power Switch (scripts attached to configurator's that run from Power Switch as part of a flow)

Development of interactive courses on the All-Ukrainian Online School platform using Open edX

Professional Experience

1995 – 2001 “Osvita” Publishers — publishing house specializing in production textbooks for schools — Layout designer

2002 – 2021  “Business” weekly — the leading economic periodical in Ukraine — Prepress specialist

2021 – up to now “Metodika” publishers — Designer.

Education

1990–1995 Printing department of the Kiev Polytechnic Institute (Kiev, Ukraine ) — Graphic designer and illustrator