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Peachtree City, GA. E-mail
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Joseph F Hynson
Manager with more than nineteen years of experience in the printing and
packaging industry that has strong ability to implement procedures creating
positive production efficiencies impacting the bottom line is seeking a
position as a sales representative, production manager, plant manager,
prepress or pressroom manager.
JOB HISTORY:
2008-2010 Color Graphic Solutions
Peachtree City, GA.
Sales Rep, Plant Manager, Estimator, Prepress
. Worked for a year and a half unpaid building and selling investors on
opening business, only ran operation for six months before investors
pulled out.
. Worked with consultant to build comprehensive business plan.
. Built a packaging and commercial printing company from ground up.
. Inspected all equipment before purchasing for operation.
. Configured, purchased, and installed all prepress, press, and finishing
equipment.
. Built all estimating tools, estimated all jobs, laid out and completed
all prepress on every job ran
. Grew all company relationships and responsible for all company sales.
. Leveraged relationships to become a Unisource certified vendor.
. Provided all operating support for all jobs.
. Quality controlled all jobs, from prepress, press, die cutter, folder,
and folder gluer.
. Managed all jobs from start to finish.
. Still have opportunities at over 5 million dollars worth of business.
Built sales from 0 to $300,000 a year and was close to closing business
that would have brought nearly 3 million in sales by the end of next
year. Company was growing in both packaging and commercial sales with
only one sales rep.
2006-2008 Allstate Packaging Opelika, Al.
Plant Manager
. Managed ninety five employees across a three shift operation.
. Managed prepress, pressroom, die cutting, and gluing departments.
. Scheduled production for all three shifts, all three departments with an
on time rate of nearly ninety eight percent of the time.
. Responsible for the plant's P&L statement.
. Conducted analyses to justify major capital projects.
. Managed Safety Program, insured OSHA and EPA compliance resulting in less
than a one percent accident rate in two and a half years.
. Identified root cause of quality issues for the entire plant. Implemented
corrective actions to ensure quality issues were resolved.
. Developed efficiency module utilizing technology to increase product
production resulting in a reduction in work force by sixty percent.
. Conducted forecast analysis to project product sales and expenses to
strategically reallocate resources to accomplish goals.
. Coordinated plant for American Institute of Baking certification which
enabled sales force to obtain an additional two million dollars worth of
sales.
. Complied with all Federal regulations and record keeping requirements.
. Developed relationships with key customers to increase sales.
. Conducted cost analysis to identify and eliminate company's negative
profit margin.
. Took company from needing $900,000 a month in sales to needing $500,000 a
month to break even.
2005-2006 Wallace Graphics Stone Mountain, Ga.
Digital Prepress Manager / Digital Print Manager
. Developed and implemented operating procedures to eliminate
inefficiencies in production increasing productivity and decreasing
waste.
. Scheduled production for a three shift department with a ninety nine
percent on time rate.
. Worked on variable data projects to produce best product and trained
employees on procedures for handling data to print.
. Trained employees on existing workflow to decrease quality issues.
. Developed safety procedures for department to ensure compliance with EPA
and OSHA regulations.
. Worked with mail house to develop inexpensive solutions for variable
data.
. Brought overall department overhead down to allow sales force to charge
customer less for prepress charges without impacting profit on projects.
2002-2005 Cenveo Atlanta, Ga.
Digital Prepress Manager / Digital Print Manager / Plant Manager
. Managed twelve direct reports and seventy five non direct reports.
. Scheduled production for three shifts and three departments with an on
time rate of nearly one hundred percent.
. Developed variable data solutions to handle customer's needs, without
purchasing any additional software.
. Developed efficiency module utilizing technology to increase product
production resulting in a reduction in work force by forty five percent.
. Analyzed and set pricing for department's products.
. Managed Safety Program for department. Ensured OSHA and EPA compliance
-no accidents for over four years.
. Compiled with all Federal regulations and record keeping requirements as
a GPO print provider.
. Identified root cause of quality issues for the entire plant. Implemented
corrective actions for to ensure all quality issues were resolved.
. Conducted cost analysis to identify and eliminate company's negative
profit margin. Took company from $150,000 monthly loss to $100,000 plus
monthly profit.
1994 - 2002 Stevens Graphics
Atlanta, Ga.
Night Shift Supervisor
. Managed night-shift prepress department of seven union employees and
assisted in managing pressroom department of thirty union employees.
. Scheduled production for one shift two departments.
. Developed procedures and trained employees on new technology. Beta tested
several products to create best solutions for handling company's
production.
. Worked with the war on waste team to save company thirteen plus million
dollars in waste.
. Developed layouts to solve bindery issues which lead to improved
efficiency in both the pressroom and bindery resulting in nearly thirty
million dollars in reduced waste.
. Developed an efficiency module to coordinate production efforts across
departments and throughout the corporation.
Education
2000- 2005 Clayton State College and State University
Morrow, Ga.
. Degree in Information Technology
October 1998 - February 1999 USTRAIN.COM
Atlanta, Ga.
. Certification Training for MCSE (NT Server, NT Workstation, IIS, TCP/IP)
February 1996 Macintosh OS Training
Atlanta, Ga.
SOFTWARE QUALIFICATIONS
. (Microsoft) Win XP, Windows Server, MS Office Suite, IIS, Imail,
Exchange; Crystal reports
. (Macintosh) OSX, and OSX Server; Quark Express, CS3 suite, Preps; Pitstop
Pro, Acrobat; Distiller; Rampage, Delta and Signa stations, Prinergy
ripping stations.
. (Unix) Sun, Brisque 4.0 & 5.0, Linux;