Stuart C. Hellinger

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Brooklyn, NY 11218-4046

Phone: 1-718-***-****

Email: acqm33@r.postjobfree.com

Objective: Production/Project Manager/Director or Director of Production Services with responsibility for the production of print, packaging, interactive, television and radio projects for challenging clients, all in a technological and cost efficient manner, and in a fulfilling environment.

General Skills:

Production: Estimating, researching, project planning, paper specification, vendor selection, art buying and planning, model/talent selection, purchasing of print items, embossing, debossing, foil stamping, specialty die cutting, mailing lists, direct mail items, premium items, retouching, interactive production, radio and television production, evaluation of vendors and systems, proof and press approvals. Electronic and conventional preparation/file release and/or conversion of print and interactive materials, composition, proofing methods, typography, retouching. Preparation of production, material delivery and release schedules.

Complete production of direct mail campaigns including personalized single wave mailings, multiple wave mailings with and without fulfillment, unique dimensional mailings, dimensional mailings with product samples/premiums, purchase/combination of mailing lists, seeding of mailing lists, arranging address verification and removal of duplicate addresses, making sure that all mailings comply with the most current postal regulations to take advantage of the maximum available discounted postal rates. Familiar with current US Postal Regulations and monitoring for regular updates.

Projects: B&W–12 color ROB newspaper/magazine/OOH ads, inserts, complex specialty items, catalogs, brochures, sales promotion materials, POP materials, direct mail promotional and personalized materials, corporate image materials, annual reports, packaging, stationery, premium items, dimensional mailers, web sites, banner ads, interactive projects, pharmaceutical inserts, labels, individual folding cartons, radio spots, television spots.

Administration: Staff supervision, including studio and traffic departments, staffing management and scheduling, manage work flow, production schedules and timelines, budget and cost control, quality control, production billing, client and customer contact, troubleshooting, systems development, file preparation and storage. Familiar with regulated industries (medical/pharmaceutical). Develop and maintain relationships with all vendors and other partners. Ability to keep up with new technologies and equipment to provide cost and time savings.

Art, Mechanical and File Preparation: Concept, design, layout, comps, type specing, scaling, paste-ups, shot selection, color correction, final file release preparation.

Software: Macintosh: Quark XPress, Adobe Creative Suite (InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, Acrobat), Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), miscellaneous other software.

PC: Quark XPress, Adobe Creative Suite (InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, Acrobat), ArtiosCAD, AutoCAD, Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, Project), WordPerfect Suite, miscellaneous other software.

Experience:

STRANGELANDE PRODUCTIONS, LTD., New York Metro Area 5/2008–Present

Production/Project Manager. Provides a full range of production, project and managerial services in all forms of media for various small businesses, consumer, business-to-business, healthcare ad agencies and corporations on an “as needed” basis. Available for both short-term and long-term assignments, from inception of a project through project completion, at any other point in a project, or

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as supplemental/temporary personnel. Handles scheduling, vendor selection, purchasing, estimating, cost control, quality control, art and file preparation and supervision of all aspects of each of ad, collateral, broadcast, interactive and direct mail projects.

BERNARD HODES GROUP, New York, NY 2/2008-5/2008

Production Manager. Managed production, art buying, retouching, estimating, budget and cost control, art and file preparation/release, and billing of collateral pieces, premium items, direct mail components, point of sale, interactive, web and out of home advertising, display/trade show materials, radio and television commercials, all for a recruitment marketing ad agency. Accounts included AIG Group, Atlantic Health Systems, City of New York Department of Corrections, City of New York Police Department and Cadet Corps, Echostar/Dish Network, Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey, North Shore Long Island Jewish Health System, Magellan Health Services, Novo Nordisk, Raytheon, Reckitt Benckiser, Star Tek, Tiffany and Company.

THE BRAVO GROUP, New York, NY 7/2007-11/2007

Production Manager on full-time freelance basis. Managed production, retouching, art and file preparation/release, estimating, budget and cost control, and billing of print ads, direct mail components, collateral pieces, point of sale and out of home advertising for a multi cultural ad agency. Accounts included AstraZeneca (Symbicort), Banco Popular, Chevron, Kraft Foods (Nabisco Chips Ahoy!), United States Postal Service, Wrigley’s (Eclipse and Orbit), Wyeth (Advil).

ARLINGTON PRESS, Lake Success, NY 7/2002–3/2007

Project/Technical Coordinator. Established standardized templates and manufacturing designs for package inserts, roll labels, individual folding cartons, mailing pieces and other specialty items for pharmaceutical products for a printer supplying a majority of the major companies in the pharmaceutical industry. Developed new product designs and methods for combining existing products to create new products to meet customer needs. Clients included Bristol-Myers Squibb, GlaxoSmithKline, Eisai, Eli Lilly, Pfizer, Sanofi-Aventis.

REGAN CAMPBELL WARD, New York, NY 7/1998–9/2001

Production Manager. Established and managed full procedures for production, trafficking, art and file preparation and release, estimating, and purchasing of interactive, ad, collateral materials and direct mail components at start-up healthcare agency. Created budget proposals that were instrumental in winning new business pitches. Revised and refined billing to client procedures to simplify and expedite billing to clients. Instituted cost control procedures in the purchase of materials allowing agency to handle various printing projects normally printed by clients. Supervised traffic and studio departments. Established vendor list for agency. Responsible for working with and establishing/maintaining good relationships with client directed vendors. Accounts included American Academy of Family Physicians, Bristol-Myers Squibb (Irbesartin, Pravachol), Dura Pharmaceuticals, The Gillette Company (Oral B), Johnson & Johnson Personal Products Company (Healthy Woman, K-Y, Monistat Dual-Pak, Uristat), Johnson & Johnson Advanced Wound Care, Knoll Pharmaceuticals (Synthroid), MediSense Products, Merck & Company (Primaxin, launch of Cancidas, MerckMedicus), Sound Shore Medical Center.

STRANGELANDE PRODUCTIONS, LTD., New York Metro Area 10/1988–7/1998

Print Production Consultant. Provided a full range of print production and managerial services for consumer, business-to-business, and healthcare ad agencies and corporations. Handled projects on an “as needed” basis, for long-term or short-term assignments, from inception of a project through project completion. Handled scheduling, vendor selection, purchasing, estimating, cost control, quality control, art and file preparation and supervision of all aspects of each of ad, collateral and direct mail projects. Clients included Bozell/Eskew, FCB Healthcare, Grey Healthcare, Lewis Gace Bozell, Osprey Communications, The Princeton Review, Sciens Worldwide.

Education: Baruch College, New York, NY Major: Advertising.