Daniel DiRico
* ********* *****, *******, ** **053
(H) 856-***-**** . (C) 856-***-****
*********@*******.***
CAREER OBJECTIVE: Seeking position with a firm where knowledge and
experience are needed to ensure superior results, guaranteeing that company
goals and customer objectives are met.
Recent Experience and Accomplishments
United States Postal Service - Bellmawr, NJ (Nov 2010 to Jan 2011)
Mail Processing Clerk
Examined, sorted and routed mail and parcels by zip, state or class of
mail. Directed incoming and outgoing mail for distribution using the Postal
Automated Redirection System (PARS) postal sorters. Operated the following
Siemens automated sorting machines using specific routing schemes on
computer keyboard: Delivery Bar Code Sorter (DBCS), Input/Output Subsystems
(IOSS), Delivery Input/Output Subsystems (DIOSS) and Combined Input/Output
Subsystems (CIOSS).
Adjusted, resolved jams and made minor repairs on mail processing,
sorting and canceling machinery.
Sorted outgoing flats (magazines, catalogs, etc.) using Automated Flat
Sorting Machine (AFSM 100).
Was recommended by supervisors to human resources for future open positions
with USPS.
Access Direct Graphics/Color Graphics - Mt Laurel/Moorestown, NJ (1997 to
June 2010)
Prepress Technician
Stripped preflighted customer jobs on Mac platform for size, position,
color, font, art, etc. using Rampage imposition software in a web press
environment.
Created PDF, EPS and RTP files for workflow.
Proofed jobs by making bluelines, color keys, plotter proofs and
matchprints.
Plated jobs on Fuji Javelin 8800E CTP imagesetter.
Table stripped film, as well as operated darkroom camera.
Processed film, burned plates using Burgess light frames and Strobbe
Autoload platemakers.
Maintained and made minor repairs on all imagesetters and processors.
Bent plates for press using Strobbe bender.
RapidForms - Thorofare, NJ (1995 to 1997)
Prepress Technician
Typeset variety of jobs using Mac and Bedford systems in a sheetfed
environment, and output proofs and plates on imagesetters.
Film Stripper and Platemaker
Stripped negatives and made metal and photopolymer plates.
Operated crash and flex photopolymer platemakers.
Output film, shot boards in darkroom and processed film.
Burned plates using NuArc light frames, operated and maintained AGFA and
Fuji imagesetters and processors.
National Telephone Directory (Bell Atlantic) - Marlton, NJ (1993 to 1995)
Quality Assurance Representative
Processed business accounts from sales for advertising in Bell phone books.
Verified and proofed all customer yellow and white page advertising and
contracts for revenue, credit, advance payments, Bell standards and ethics,
copy, artwork, spelling and all printing specs.
Generated pay vouchers to sales reps. using BEACON (Bell Atlantic Contract
System).
Covered art desk and acted as liaison between sales reps. and Mac artists
to generate all yellow
page display ads.
Won awards for six months zero defects and nine months out of twelve.
Volt Information Sciences/Datacomp Corporation - Voorhees, NJ (1980-1993)
Display Ad Mac Artist
Designed and typeset yellow page display ads using various systems
including RADGRAF (Mac like system), DAMPS, Raycomp and Linotron as well as
processed proofs and galleys in darkroom using Log-E processor.
In-Column Ad Unit Leader
Responsible for coordinating all departmental functions relating to daily
ad shipment quotas for Southern New England Bell in-column yellow page ads
ensuring all directory deadlines were met.
Was selected to instruct supervisory personell from subsidiary Bell Tel.
branches in ad mark up and specing to facilitate a changeover from a
clerical and sales mode to a production oriented mode.
Graphic Precoder
Marked-up ads for layout, format, grammar, leading, type size, font and
color specs, and then photocomposed, proofread and edited finished galleys
and corrected errors online using VAX/VMS based DT/180 key to disk.
Software Experience
Adobe InDesign
Adobe Photoshop
Adobe Illustrator
Adobe Acrobat
MS Word
QuarkXPress
OpenOffice
WordPerfect
FTP and compression software
MAC and PC proficient
Additional Skills
Proficient in Spanish
Good foreign language skills
Received numerous certificates
of achievement awards for
quality work
Excellent typography and
proofreading skills
Education
Rutgers University
Major: Foreign Language
Burlington County College
Courses in graphic arts and
computer science