Manager Quality Control

Ronald J. Lanam

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630-***-**** . ********@*****.***

premedia digital print & prepress specialist

( With over 20+ years experience in the digital print industry, I am a

highly skilled print professional with

emphasis on efficiencies and streamlined workflow solutions.

( Highly talented production operator with management chops and proven

leadership skills.

( Motivated, eager, and ready to take on my next prepress and workflow

challenges with self-starter management skills and capable of meeting

multiple priorities and deadlines.

experience

ABS Graphics, Inc., Addison IL

Premedia/VDP Manager 2006-2011

. Managed a 3-shift prepress and variable data print department with

emphasis on efficiencies, training

and quality utilizing a smooth, streamlined workflow.

. Expertise knowledge troubleshooting prepress

and press problems.

. Established procedures to reduce overtime and waste.

. Tasked with overseeing top accounts all while staying below budget.

. Implemented and reorganized workflows from Screens Trueflow to Kodak's

Prinergy PDF Workflow, using Kodak's Upfront as an engineering and layout

application resulting in seamless and reliable results.

. Created rules using Rules-Based Automation, eliminating touches and

enabling Prepress to be more efficient with seamless and reliable results.

. Set up Insite Prepress Portal for a direct link into automation, which

enabled customers to upload and approve proofs, thus resulting in less

interruptions to department.

. Implemented continuous training sessions with all staff

and customers on current technologies and creation

of PDF's, remote proofing utilizing Smart Review and Matchprint Virtual.

. Fingerprint conventional and digital presses using Gracol 2006 (G7) color

theory for all screenings and stocks.

Field Container, Elk Grove IL

Mac Operator-Workflow Administrator

. Electronic stripping in all graphic applications excelling in Adobe

Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Artpro and Nexus Edit.

. Created, managed and troubleshoot all Nexus raster and vector workflows.

. Established and maintained Nexus servers at Elk Grove plant, Laporte, IN

and W. Monroe LA. Also set up a workflow so all prepress could be done in

Elk Grove and sent lo-res imposed proxy files through a T1 line.

. Instrumental in fingerprinting presses to create correct curves for

different presses and different types of screening including Stochastic.

Rapid Impressions, Broadview IL

Prepress Manager

. Converted conventional prepress department to 95% digital with the

research, purchase and installation of Nexus front-end rip.

. Proficient in Creoscitex Trendsetter, and various proofing devices.

. Implemented workflows and procedures to

create flawless quality control and set up a more efficient network.

. Trained conventional employees into high-producing desktop and Preps

operators.

. Troubleshoot prepress and press problems, and engineered jobs to

eliminate problems before

they occur.

. Capable of managing all types of projects with very fast turnaround times

and created a team environment.

. Worked with pressroom on fingerprinting and profiles of press and output

devices for Staccato and Hexachrome.

Schawk Graphics, DesPlaines, IL

Hi-end Macintosh Operator

. Electronic stripping in all graphic software applications.

. Created Photoshop assemblies and performed color corrections on very high

profile accounts under

tight deadlines.

. Trapped and imposed files in all software applications.

. Fully knowledgeable on CTP for Creo Trendsetter equipment and rips, and

on Prinergy and PDF workflows.

Tukaiz Communications, Franklin Park, IL

Hi-end Postscript Operator-Mac and PC

. Duties included working with all graphics applications under stringent

deadlines.

. Proficient in all trapping software.

. Set up files through imposition software: DK+A Imposition, Preps, Native

Applications; output files through a wide variety of Imagesetters.

. Troubleshoot project files and equipment, and trained new employees in a

postscript environment.

Viking Graphics Inc., Chicago, IL

Screaming Color Inc., Itasca, IL

Four-Color Stripper

. Highly skilled, excelled in speed, and accurate,

effective techniques.

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