Plant Manager Technician

Stephen Caddick

** ******** ******

Seekonk, MA *2771

508-***-****

***************@*****.***

S&A Paramount Printing Co. (department downsized) January 1987 -

December 2008

* ****** **** ****, Lincoln, RI 02865 401-***-****

Pre-press Technician

Typesetting

Use variety of software programs on a Mac OS X platform including:

Quark Express 7, and 8, Acrobat 7, 8 and 9

Adobe Indesign, Photoshop and Illustrator, these are all part of an

Adobe "package" called CS2, CS3 is the newest version but is also

very similar.

Bar Code Pro 5 Microsoft Office 2008 (on the Mac)

OmniPage Pro X for OCR stuff.

Linotype's FontExplorer X for type management.

Extensive knowledge and experience in typesetting forms, brochures,

stationary, business cards and other printed materials.

Extensive experience with creating or working with customer PDF's,

tif's. eps's, jpg's and other files

digital platemaking

ECRM platemaker for polyester plates

Scan variety of materials: photos, B&W copy etc. on desktop scanner to

import into Quark documents

film stripping and conventional platemaking, both B&W and color

Organized and Maintained negative and plate files

digital copiers

Canon Image Runner 7138 (black and white)

Konica 1050 (black and white) and Konica 6500 (color)

proof reading

maintain equipment

polyester plate processor and chemistry

film processor and chemistry including silver recovery and

testing effluent and maintaining to state requirements

bindery

stitching, drilling, shrink wrapping, laminating, slitting,

collating, packaging etc.

Safety Committee Chairman

2001-2003 oversaw a variety of committee projects and delegated

specific tasks to members

Balfour Company (Company closed) September 1973 -

December 1986

East Street, North Attleboro, MA

Graphic Arts Technician / Leadman

Art Board skills included

Pasteup for mechanicals, created ink illustrations, did

calligraphy and other processes to reproduce a variety of

products.

Dark room technician for both film and paper to include multiple

working negatives for specialized line screen work.

Graphic arts camera, large format for both sheet film and paper

prints.

Film work for several processes including, printing, photo engraving,

silk screens. Including cutting amberlith and Rubylith materials for

specialized masking needs.

Set up and ran photo processing mini laboratory and equipment and

laminators.

Created process for curving type photographically for diplomas and

degree sheets.

Created process for reducing Diplomas and other degree sheets to

miniature size using film and acetate

Worked on World Series Trophy for 13 years in a row

Maintain all department photo equipment., processors and the

platemaker

Organized and Maintained department supplies and Ordered supplies

from several different suppliers

Trained employees for all department work processes

Leadman for five employees. Duties included organizing and delegating

work, solving work and personnel problems, answering questions.

References

Professional:

James Hughes - Supervisor at S&A

Office - 401-***-**** ext. 29

Kevin Foisey - Plant Manager at S&A

Office - 401-***-**** ext. 18

Nancy Riccitelli - Owner of S&A

Office - 401-***-****

Personal:

Jim Haas, Barrington, RI

Home - 401-***-****

Paul Poirier, Seekonk, MA

Home - 508-***-****

Rene Marion, Putnam, CT

Home - 860-***-****

Eddie Kebabjian, Albany, NY

Home - 518-***-****

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