ARNOLD JIRON acrjka@r.postjobfree.com ARNOLD JIRON@LINKEDIN

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Summary

Art Director, Graphic Designer and Composition Manager. 21 years’ experience in office management, book keeping, customer service, sales and administration with broad experience in hardware, software and publishing. Enthusiastic team leader with strong communication, interpersonal and organizational skills. Capable of managing multiple projects while meeting deadlines and objectives. Demonstrated ability to initiate program ideas, problem solve and implement initiatives. Professional Experience

Chicago Tribune Media Group, Chicago IL 1994-2015

Composition Manager

• Direct daily operation of department, analyzing workflow, establishing priorities, developing standards and setting deadlines.

• Responsible for the Chicago Tribune’s Carquick.com suite of products which included: Carquick.com mobile and internet sites, QR code driven ad placement in Saturday and Sunday Tribune Newspapers, Friday QR code photo ad insertions in Red Eye, Thursday QR code photo ad insertions in Hoy Spanish language paper (trans lated), publication of weekly photo-data upload to cars.com. Launched and staffed now defunct Silicon Prairie, Job Finder and Carquick.com 4-color magazines.

• Recruit, hire, train and supervise staff.

• Maintained low employee turnover and high customer satisfaction.

• Develop computer information resources, providing for data security and control, strategic computing and disaster recovery.

• Meet with Department heads, managers, supervisors, vendors and others, to solicit cooperation and resolve problems.

• Assign and review the work of systems analysts, programmers and other computer-related workers developing and building teams.

• Coordinating the work and activities of others.

• Communicating with supervisors, peers and subordinates.

• Performing administrative activities.

Technology

Excellent proficiency in InDesign, PhotoShop, Illustrator, Acrobat/Distiller, Quark Xpress & Quark Publishing System, Apple Macin- tosh OS/X, computer servers, desktop publishing software, video kiosk ad creation, file servers, FTP program software, cloud based software, system back-up software, graphic editor software, Microsoft Office and personal computers. Repaired and maintained 7 Macs, 1 MySql database and 2 Quark Publishing System servers. EDUCATION

Bachelor’s Degree, Bachelor of Fine Arts

University of Colorado, Boulder, CO