Manager Years Experience
Resume:
Rakesh Swarup Agrawal
Iselin, NJ 08830
Phone: 732-***-****
Cell: 413-***-****
Email: ******.******.*******@*****.***
Synopsis:
Print Production by Offset; Digital; Letterpress or Silkscreen,
Print Specifications and Delivery Adherence,
Evaluation of Print Vendors and their Print Quality,
Product Management,
Client Services and Coordination,
Time Management,
Cost Effectiveness,
Print Distribution by Postal Mail and Courier,
Direct Mail,
Procurement and Vendor's Cost Negotiation,
Contract's specifications and its adherence etc.
Professional experience:
Current:
Assistant in Williams Lea, Inc. at digital print production site of Goldman
Sachs head office at 200 West Street, New York.
Joined March 08, 2010.
Dealing with miscellaneous work at present including digital print
production including dealing with clients.
Most Recent:
Printing Specialist (Production & Circulation Manager),
Public Affairs Section, American Embassy, New Delhi, India.
January 03, 1989 to August 14, 2009.
Joined as Production Assistant on January 03, 1989.
Promoted to the post of Printing Specialist in February 1996.
Given additional responsibility of Circulation Manager in December 1996.
. Supervised, coordinated and carried out production, mailing and
distribution of all print products and publications, whether in-house or
from contracted vendors. Products vary from invitation cards, books,
journals, posters to the US Embassy's flagship publication, SPAN
magazine.
. Maintained liaison with various contracted printing press and courier
agencies and supervised the jobs at various levels, in on the job in
printing press and from office. Was responsible to write specifications
and terms of contracts, maintain contract terms and quality as per
requirements, give receiving report to different contracts worth half
million dollars per years.
. Supervised 13 in-house offset and digital printing, warehousing and
distribution staff. Maintained independent section having offset and
digital machines, address printer, plate maker and various binding
equipments, mailing equipments.
. Advised, coordinate and received electronic files, designs with editorial
and art departments;
. Made layout corrections and adjustments for in-house digital printing and
outside vendor's jobs. Made last moment required simple designs as per
clients requirements.
. Worked as Circulation Manager for SPAN magazine for circulation and
promotion of it. Looked after its economics, money receipts, address data
base, address change and non-receipt complaints. Plan and implement its
promotional activities for SPAN magazine like organizing and
participating in book fairs, university fairs, direct mail solicitations,
advertisements.
. Maintained liaison with other sections like Procurement and Financial
Management for sections requirements and for outside vendors
requirements.
. Maintained high-level contacts with local Police Department, Press
Registrar office, and Post offices for various requirements of US Embassy
publications.
. Prepared and maintained annual budget for Printing and Distribution
section.
Jobs functions performed:
. Advised on technicality, economy and cost effectiveness, time frame,
suitability of designs while working with clients and designers to
foresee that final print product will be as per the client requirements.
Suggesting the product estimated cost, distribution cost and ease in
distributions to make product more viable. Added value to product by
suggesting variations within the same budget thus further enhancing the
product. Selected paper, printing method, vendor, distribution method as
per product requirements, cost effectiveness and timeliness. The
projects were completed by digital printing, offset printing, letterpress
printing or silkscreen printing.
. Found new vendors, evaluated their equipments and print quality,
negotiated rates, compared their cost effectiveness and timeliness with
existence vendors, thus proving new or existing vendors to be more cost
effective within the required quality standards and delivery schedules.
. Written job specifications, print and delivery schedules, and quality
requirements for procurement of print products. Checked proofs, color
corrections, final print sheet on printing machine before giving print
OK, maintained contractual obligations and delivery schedules. Approved
or disapproved quality of print products and print distributions.
Accepted materials and approved invoices as per contracted rates or
purchase orders.
. Worked with vendors, suppliers, contractors for best long term trade
relationships to provide benefit and advantages to the office.
. Managed products from concept to distribution stage, worked with clients
for product management as per their quality requirements, costs and
delivery schedules.
. Kept updated of Indian postal and couriers rules, their geographical
preferences.
. For in-house digital and offset printing press, corrected designed file
layouts on design/graphic software, scanned originals, checked printing
and binding etc.
. Managed circulation of magazine and promote its selling by direct mail,
book and university fairs.
Skill and Experience:
29 years experience in all types of print production by offset,
letterpress, silkscreen, or digital.
12 years experience in Direct mail production and procurements and its
operations.
12 years experience in mass print distributions by postal mail and courier,
its cost effectiveness and delivery schedules, bulk rates, packing
instructions, etc.
20 years experience in computers and office software, emails, internet
etc..
5 years working knowledge of many design and graphic software, digital
printing machines.
20 years experience in project management, vendor's cost negotiations,
contract negotiations, writing specifications and terms of contracts.
Good written and verbal communications skill for the job.
Ability to maintain project cost details and their analysis.
Special Achievements:
. Received many awards, recognitions and commendation letters in 20 years
of service. Received special immigrant visa to migrate to US due to my
excellent working.
. Saved approximately half million dollars of US government money in last
10 years.
Reason to leave the job:
Honorably resigned to migrated to USA.
Past Experiences:
1. August 1986-January 1989
Centre for Cultural Resources and Training (autonomous institution under
Ministry of Human Resource Development, Department of Culture, Government
of India) as Copy Editor Production). Supervised and coordinated all
production aspects of CCRT publications, including administrative and
distribution related aspects.
2. July 1982-August 1986
Production Assistant, National Book Trust of India (autonomous institution
under Ministry of Human Resource Development, Department of Education,
Government of India). Supervised numerous book fair-related publicity
material and book productions. Job included various administrative
responsibilities such as voucher clearance.
3. June 1980-July 1982
Production Manager, Rajbandhu Industrial Company, New Delhi. Job
requirement was to independently manage medium-size printing press
containing various offset printing and binding machines.
4. July 1977-June 1980
Worked both full time and part time in various capacities at Mehta Offset
Works, Tata McGraw Hill Publishing Co. and Repro Offset. These were
summer/part jobs which I did while doing Diploma in Printing Technology and
Diploma in Book Publishing.
Academic and technical qualifications:
. Graduation in Commerce, Delhi University, India, 1975
. Three years full time diploma in Printing Technology, Delhi Board of
Technical Education, New Delhi, India, 1980
. Two-year Postgraduate Diploma (evening) in Book Publishing, Delhi
University, India. 1980
. One-year part time Diploma in Public Relations, Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan,
New Delhi, India. 1986
. Has sufficient knowledge of graphic software like CorelDraw, QuarkXpress,
Adobe package CS 2/3, office software like Word, Excel, Outlook etc.
. Has kept updated in latest printing machines and processing software,
digital machines and binding equipments.
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