Sales Operator

Nathan Lang 347-***-****

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Summary Of 18 years color digital desktop and mac prepress and production work

Qualifications

QuarkXPress 8, Adobe CS 5 - InDesign, Illustrator and Photoshop,

Software Dreamweaver, Flash CS, HTML, MS Excel, Powerpoint, and Word

Objective An opportunity to improve bottom-line results in Digital production

Work History

09.11 - Present Freelance/Digital Print Prod. Work New York, NY

Digital QC/Mac Digital Operator Healthcare Digital Prepress/Production

• Currently freelancing with various Ad Agencies and Print Production houses.

Responsibilities include: Creating mechanicals, working with production teams

to intrepret press, print and web (duratrans) mechanicals. Creating resizes and

estimating project time/cost figures. Checking and preflighting files prior to

vendor outsourcing. Working with vendors to upload and troubleshoot files.

Working with Art teams to troubleshoot complex work which entails elaborate

diecuts, specialty printing, 6+ color printing, and OOH projects.

06.02 - 08.11 Draftfcb/Pipeline PS New York, NY

Digital QC/Mac Digital Operator Healthcare Digital Prepress/Production

• Responsibilities included working with AD’s, and production to crossover,

mechanicalize and get press-ready print materials: Detail Aids, Slim Jims,

Navigators, Brief-Summaries, PI’s as well as specialized work such as Convention

Panels, Duratrans, Box Wraps, etc. I was also responsible for digital QC Gen-

erating High and Lowres PDF’s for Client, Vendors and Pub Spec’s including

PDFX1A’s. Comping digital layouts for Mechanicalization based on Art and

Production specifications. Creating and checking layouts for print-ready vendor

specs. Checked and prep’d all digital files for Healthcare/Direct clients for release

to outside vendors and clients. Preflighting digital files, and where necessary

created varnish plates and traps. Prep’d PDF files for Adsend and print release;

this involved checking dielines/strikes, tabs, bleeds, images, and type for distri-

bution, and/or Disk. Preflighting and prep’d for Press, Healthcare file spec’s.

07.00 - 10.01 ACE Graphics New York, NY

Mac Digital Operator Digital Prepress/Production

Responsibilities included work on agency accounts: preflighting mac and pc

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files, preparing files for color, film and other digital output. Doing Photoshop

work, Type corrections, typesetting and composition work. Creating composed

mechanicals from Quark layout files. Creating Pub PS files (Time, Newsweek,

etc.) and generating High-resolution PDF files. Collecting jobs for output, and

burning files to CD, or WamNet or FTP transmission.

05.96 - 07.99 Empire Graphics/Beyond Pixels, Inc. New York, NY

Mac Digital Operator Digital Prepress/Production

I was responsible for a team of five, whose directive was to provide prepress

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services (from scanning to film proving) for a parent printing company. My

duties included: Supervising digital prepress operations, interviewing and train-

ing freelancers, performed job estimating and billing. Conferring with clients, on

file preparation issues and potential problems. Preflighting, trapping, ripping,

and imposing film for stripping and proving I was responsible for all mac digital

file preparation, preflighting and troubleshooting. Did all digital stripping from

production layouts (either manual or imposition) in various applications, and

made decisions on what type of work was sent to Scitex Star/Brisque station

operators. Wherever practical, I created manual frames on Brisque stations for

transfer to PS/2 Star stations for Full Auto Frame work or manual Frames work

for direct output to dolev plotters. I created traps for both Spot and 4, 5, and 6

color jobs and creating Spot and Overall varnishes, kickers etc. I archived, cata-

loged, and retrieved both native Mac and Scitex file pick-up work. Did day-to-day

system maintenance on Mac’s and PS/2 Star rips, and back-ups. Did daily density

and scale calibrations and ex-curve work. Q’C’d dolev film. Worked closely with

both Prep/Production for Special trap instructions, special stripping parameters,

kickers, and trained others.

03.93 - 03.96 Confort & Company, Inc. New York, NY

Mac Digital Operator Digital Prepress/Production

I was responsible for preflighting files; preparation, troubleshooting, ripping,

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and worked closely with clients on all phases of job including: Software support

(Quark, Photoshop, Illustrator, Freehand etc.) Film requirements for outside or

in-house printer specifications Performed job estimating and billing

Troubleshooting hardware/software related issues Worked with clients on file

transfers and troubleshot potential file problems online. Advised Account Team

on job direction, as it related to overall timeline, and worked closely prep depart-

ment on job by job basis. Consulted on hardware/software purchases. Generated

PS files from their native app’s with scans and color spec’d artwork, and manual

trapping. Troubleshot naive mac/pc and PS files.Created custom traps in layout

and illustration programs, using strokes,fills and overprinting techniques also

used TrapWise for more extensive, digital trapping.Output 8, and 12-up imposed

films from ps files for stripping. Estimated billing time on each job.and native

files that were output as film separations,were color proofed on an Kodak

Approval and Matchprint System. Imaged PS or native work to film imagesetters

and checked for: linescreen, screen angle, halftone calibration, density, resolu-

tion, registration,and proper plate separations. Color proofs were taken for color

print simulation. Prepared discs with custom communications software for sales

rep’s clients. Automated connection with all outside guests from both Mac/PC

platforms. Checked PS files. Downloaded them for high resolution output to

imagesetters. Served as liaison between clients, sales, designers, and printers.

Color Across America Seminars Desktop Color Design and Prepress

Scitex PS Star/Prisma/Brisque training

PostScript File Preflight AGA/Adobe By Example/Quark For Power Users

College of Albany Liberal Arts 1988

References are available upon request

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