Eric Cressman

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Honey Brook, PA 19344

Home: 610-***-****

Cell: 484-***-****

Email abg4ez@r.postjobfree.com

Career Summary

The quotation I live my life by is “To thyne own self be true”. I am a realistic, someone who is practical, matter of

fact, reliable, steady during a crisis, modest, adept at avoiding attention, yet a leader by example.

Enthusiastic, detail-oriented professional with nearly 30 years experience in the printing industry who is a passionate

life long learner, well-rounded, organized project manager and subscriber to GTD techniques. Flexible and service-

oriented, offering a unique combination of creative and analytical skills to provide solutions for internal and external

clients. Proficient with Adobe Creative Suite CS5, Lightroom 3, Acrobat and Pitstop, as well as Quark Xpress 8 and

the Microsoft Office suite.

BuSineSS experienCe

BentleyRowland, Inc. 751 Pike Springs Road, Phoenixville, PA 19460

2005 2011

Electronic Pre-Press - Lead Technician

Bentley Graphic Communications 2005-2010.

Merged with Rowland Printing to create BentleyRowland in May, 2010 till Present.

Perform file preparation for press including color correction, image manipulation, retouching and

occasional scanning using Adobe Creative Suite CS5, QuarkXPress, and Pitstop on Mac and PC platforms.

Kodak Prinergy Connect - Rip and Trapping software, Preps Imposition, Epson, Canon and HP

contract and in-position proofers, and final output to Creo Trendsetter and Fuji Digital Platesetters.

Was trained by Kodak in Vancouver, Canada and part of the implementation team to set up the workflow.

Created and maintained all system backups and archives.

Color management and monitor calibration to insure consistent color from file prep through press run.

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Tursack, Inc. 701 Hemlock Road, Morgantown, PA 19543

1992 2005

Electronic Pre-Press

Started in the film era as a pre-press film stripper and proofer.

Promoted to Electronic Prepress and sent for design and page layout training.

Sent to Scitex training on multiple occasions for multiple hardware training certificates.

On the Brisque implementation team, and created all the training materials to set up the new workflow

and train my fellow pre-press co-workers.

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Eric Cressman

484-***-****

abg4ez@r.postjobfree.com

R&S Printers 924 Marchon Boulevard, Allentown, PA 18103

1991 1992

Pre-Press

Pre-press film stripper and proofer/Plater.

Indian Valley Printing 16 Harbor Place, Souderton, PA 18964

1988 1991

Pre-Press

Pre-press film stripper and proofer.

Color correction using dry dot etching.

Brown Printing Company 668 Gravel Pike, East Greenville, PA 18041

1987 1988

Pre-Press

Pre-press film stripper and proofer/Plater.

Nyce Printing Company 857 Main Street, Harleysville, PA 19438

1986 1987

Press

Press Operator on various small offset presses.

Bindery assistant.

Cressman Printing 107 Penn Street, Pennsburg, PA 18073

1986 1993

Part-time printing business - Owner

Sales, Design, Print, Outsourcing, Bindery, Billing and Delivery.

OrganizatiOnS

National Association of Photoshop Professionals

Wedding & Portrait Photographers International

eduCatiOn

Western Montgomery County Vocational Technical School - 1986 Graduate

Audio/Visual Communications - Design/Layout, Printing, Photography, Audio/Video Production

Limerick, PA

Upper Perkiomen High School - 1986 Graduate - General Studies

Pennsburg, PA

“Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, intelligent direction and

skillful execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives.”

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