Alan DiGravio
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Senior Print Production Manager/Senior Print Traffic Manager/Print Project
Manager
Managing work flow, budgets, vendors and expectations for over twenty years
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Senior Print Production & Traffic Manager, with extensive experience across
a wide range of marketing-industry categories, including Beverage, Auto,
Consumer Healthcare, Consumer Electronics, Beauty/Fragrance and Banking &
Financial Services.
RECENT PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Freelance Project Manager
2009-2010
GSW, New York City, NY
Accounts: Pharmaceuticals Pennsaid and Menveo
. Formulated production timelines and due dates for all project tasks
including creative
development, editorial fact-checking and proof-reading, approved layouts
into the art
studio and all client submissions including medical/legal reviews.
. Determined work-flow priorities through daily status meetings with
representatives of
all agency departments and distributed an updated step-by-step project hot
sheet.
. Supervised the electronic routing of manuscripts, layouts and mechanicals
via SharePoint
program within Acrobat Professional Software.
. Uploaded all materials to internal server including medical references,
art files, client supplied
materials, pdfs of clients submissions and spec sheets.
. Coordinated all communication from department to department and alerted
client to
the shipment of final files and printed materials.
. Scheduled all internal meetings and maintained colleague's calendars in
Microsoft Outlook.
Print Production/Traffic Manager
2005-2008
Publicis, New York City, NY
Accounts: Citibank, BMW, Kahl a, Armani Fragrances
. Acted as internal central point of contact to facilitate workflow of
print jobs from initial comps
to mechanicals to final proofs - responsible for all mandatory approvals.
. Worked closely with color vendors on all aspects of the pre-press
process, reviewed
print-quality proofs, released all final materials and purchased web and
sheet-fed printing.
. Determined specifications and schedules for run-of-book insertions,
outdoor postings,
point-of-sale units and magazine gatefolds with outside vendors and
publication contacts.
. Produced vendor purchase orders, media-release forms, client estimates
and approved internal
pre-billing and vendor invoices.
Broadcast Operations Specialist
2003-2005
Ogilvy & Mather, New York City, NY
Accounts: Mattel, Yahoo, Claritin, ONDCP
. Trafficked all network and local broadcast schedules for both television
and radio through the Donovan Data System.
. Assigned ISCIs to all new products, monitored close-captioning and veil-
encoding by tape
distribution house.
. Managed all shipments to networks, station tape libraries and integration
houses.